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May 06, 2006

Slinko to Mayo

 

 

Looks as if the Apple didn’t fall far from… the other apple. Patrick Kennedy isn’t quite ready apparently to admit what his problem is, only that he has one. Apparently, it was nobler in his mind to accept responsibility for being a prescription drug addict than it is to do so for being a drunk driver and alcoholic.

 

To the rest of us, keeping his story straight from one day to the next would be nobler, but no matter. Despite Patty’s misgivings, he did demonstrate he is better than his father in at least one sense: He didn’t decide to aim his car and hit the gas pedal near a large body of water (even though he was just as cowardly about admitting what really happened as said man-slaughtering pappy).

 

Fluke, I am your father: It’s long been thought that Ted did his deed at Chappaquiddick (sad that I actually spelled that correctly) partly because he thought someone other than a Kennedy should die. Then again, maybe he was just sleep-drinking and sleep-driving; we do know in the very least he was sleeping around. Too bad he didn’t find a lawyer clever enough to concoct that excuse for him. But no matter, he’s a Kennedy so he got off…twice. Cynthia McKinney must be stewing in her juices.

 

One wonders if in fact Patrick’s root problem rather than being alcohol is dear old dad. But unlike his overfed, oversexed, and oversaturated pate, the very unsaintly Patrick is at least going away… for awhile… again.

 

Keep throwing it against the wall Patrick, maybe one day it will stick.

 

 

Posted by Martin at May 6, 2006 01:35 PM

Comments

There is a lot more to this story that will surely come out. Now I'm hearing there was a woman with him when he crashed his car. How convenient. She says "He wasn't drinking". How come we didn't hear about her when this happened? Did the police drive her home also???

You don't take Ambien and Phenergan for pain.

He had no memory .... He remebers everything ... which is it????

Those drunken Kennedys

Posted by: Debbie at May 6, 2006 02:10 PM

He's a Kennedy...of course he was drunk. That is what they do. They play on their yachts, look down on the little people, push security guards, and drive drunk. Just be thankful that he didn't drive off a bridge and kill a girl like his drunk daddy.

Posted by: Shawn at May 6, 2006 02:21 PM

Now having the woman with him while he crashed his car does at least sound plausible for a Kennedy. But on the Ambien and Phenergan front, I bet the joke e-mails are flying around hospital networks across this country about that absurd claim of his.

"Just be thankful that he didn't drive off a bridge and kill a girl like his drunk daddy."

He's still young; he'll either do that or crash his plane trying. But thank heaven he isn't a Hilton.

Posted by: Martin at May 6, 2006 02:29 PM