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Kennedy warns of potential violence
Providence Journal ^ | 09/27/2009 | Steve Peoples

Posted on 09/27/2009 11:41:15 AM PDT by got_moab?

Drawing on his family’s violent past, the Democratic congressman told roughly 75 people gathered at a private health-care forum Saturday morning that opponents of Democrat-backed health-care legislation had gone too far. He cited, as an example, 10,000 signs distributed at a recent Washington protest that read, “Bury ObamaCare with Kennedy.”

Patrick Kennedy is the last member of his storied family to hold federal office. His father, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, died one month ago after battling a brain tumor. His uncles, former President John F. Kennedy and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, were assassinated.

“My family’s seen it up close too much with assassinations and violence in political life. It’s a terrible thing when people think that in order to get their point across they have to go to the edge of violent rhetoric and attack people personally,” Kennedy told the nurses, union officials and AARP members finishing their breakfasts at the invitation-only event in the Providence Marriott hotel. “It’s fine for people to debate the issue and attack the issue, but when they go and stoop to the level of the vitriolic rhetoric that we’ve seen this debate turn up, it’s very, I think, dangerous to the fabric of our country.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kennedy; obamacare
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To: RWGinger; got_moab?; MadelineZapeezda
"10,000 posters saying “ Bury Obamacare with kennedy”? "

Then, according to the MSM, every single participant was carrying the very same sign....

61 posted on 09/27/2009 4:50:37 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: SuperLuminal

Now that would be funny if it weren’t typically sad of MSM
well and the lying Kennedy( imagine that a Kennedy lying)

Unless a lying Dems can provide proof they and kennedy and all dems are LYING


62 posted on 09/27/2009 5:25:27 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: Williams

Oh, I don’t know about 10,000 of them, but there were a bunch of those “Bury Obamacare with Kennedy” signs, but they certainly didn’t bother me! I thought it was a PERFECT comment!


63 posted on 09/27/2009 5:35:29 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: USNBandit
Since the protest march the left has insisted that those signs said “Bury Obama with Kennedy.”

Our Deacon asked about that last week, when he found out we'd been at the Rally. We assured him that the signs did NOT say that, and when we told him what they DID say, he said he could agree with that!

64 posted on 09/27/2009 5:37:31 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: RWGinger
10,000 posters saying “ Bury Obamacare with kennedy”?

Did he link a source for that?

Notice how there is no link to a picture to back the claim up. Also note that there is no name of a group that handed out such signs. And, needless to say, notice how all the violent signs by lib protesters get no mention by the author.

65 posted on 09/28/2009 8:39:29 PM PDT by torchthemummy (No Obama: Not Because He's Black But Because He's Red)
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To: Man50D

Yeah they attack someone with a sign like that. Look at the G-20. When the government leftists don’t’ get there way then they go after people with tear gas and military weapons. But that is OK.


66 posted on 09/28/2009 9:58:25 PM PDT by Revel
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To: got_moab?
BTTT for later.
67 posted on 09/29/2009 2:59:24 AM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: got_moab?

I hate it when dead politicians speak.


68 posted on 09/29/2009 7:03:38 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: got_moab?

Any mention of the violent left-wing anarchists in Pittsburg last week? Didn’t think so.


69 posted on 09/29/2009 7:05:05 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: torchthemummy

You are exactly right.
It is very scary that media requires no accountability from Dems.

I just hope most people see through this


70 posted on 09/29/2009 7:11:24 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: got_moab?
He continued: “George Wallace didn’t need a gun to pull a trigger. We just need to be mindful of the wisdom of people … who have been through these ugly periods in American history. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

Has anyone called Pat to let him know that Wallace was a democrat white separatist who was shot?

71 posted on 09/29/2009 10:18:50 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: got_moab?
Thank goodness the Left didn't talk smack about Reagan and their happiness
over his death.
72 posted on 09/29/2009 10:20:51 PM PDT by MaxMax (Um, Ah, hmm, um, er, ah, achoo, er, um, sneeze, er, BUSH'S FAULT)
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To: Yorlik803
Funny how when the Right has a march, we dont burn cars and break windows,
but we get called terrorists,

When the left Marches, they need police protection from the business owners.

73 posted on 09/29/2009 10:23:45 PM PDT by MaxMax (Um, Ah, hmm, um, er, ah, achoo, er, um, sneeze, er, BUSH'S FAULT)
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