Moral: If you’re a Kennedy, don’t drive
May 5th, 2006 ~ Political circusSen. Patrick Kennedy says he wasn’t drunk when he nearly missed a Capitol police cruiser, crashed into a barricade and then got out staggering and talking about being late for a Senate vote at about 3 a.m. Thursday morning. The Capitol police officers couldn’t perform a breathalyzer test on him before an officer or two showed up and shooed them away.
But Kennedy wasn’t drunk, he says. It was just the pills. And he didn’t get special treatment — so I’m sure we could all count on Capitol police officers to just be great guys under those kinds of circumstances. Thank goodness we got that all cleared up. (Read about it here.)
This is the problem with being a public figure, it seems. In order to not look like you’re misbehaving, you have to constantly cop the Stupid Defense, and hope everyone buys it and then forgets. Because if you believe Kennedy’s excuse, you have to say that someone in a position of great authority in legislature is mixing a prescription drug for stomach problems with prescription sleeping pills, and then getting so disoriented that he gets into his car and drives off in the wee hours thinking that he’s “late for a vote.” Good grief, he coulda killed somebody!
Boy, that Kennedy Curse — that thing has a shelf-life, brother!
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May 6th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
You know, my parents and I laughed over this today! My first reaction: Boy, the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree!
May 9th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
I think it’s sad that addiction runs so strongly through that family, and what a horrible cross to bear.
He deserves prayers and pity. And Thanks be to God no one was hurt.
May 9th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
And maybe I did sound like I was being too hard on him. But at the time I wrote that, Kennedy was trying to blow a little smoke and get everyone to just move along. I think he has admitted now that he has a problem, which changes things.
November 19th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
It seems to me that people in the “limelight” get off far too easy. All they have to do is say: “Gosh, I got an illness”, then check themselves into a “rehab” center for a week or two and that’s it. What happened to personal responsibilty and paying the consequences for their actions? The average Joe Schmoe would never get off so easily.
Yes, we should offer our prayers for these people, and perhaps our pity, but that should not take the place of personal responsibility and paying for their actions or stupidity.
“Abouna” Gregori