I am NEVER driving with the Kennedys!

[Bronko]

They are the epitome of what is wrong with American politics. This is not party specific, this encompasses every party. The sense of entitlement that families like the Kennedy's exhibit is appalling. People like this think (and apparently are) above the law. The have absolutely no sense of their actions and the consequences that come from these actions. Their entire life they have been given everything they want, usually costing them nothing. Between poitical junkets, scholarships, trips, gifts attributed to "friends"...the list goes on. For a family as troubled and as tragically flawed as they are (between tragic death, murder, rapes overdoses, DUI's and substance abuse) you would think they would circle the wagons and address these issues. Instead, the binge drinking, glad handing and grandstanding continues.

Why should one of them clean-up, go sober or attempt to set a positive example? They will get re-elcted anyway. Screw the constituents. If I want to knock back a dozen Bombay Sapphire martinis and careen into a retaining wall thats my choice.

I have very little respect for any politicians these days....can you tell?

[spence]

Assuming Kennedy was DUI, then issue has more to do with dependence than entitlement.

It's not like the poor or middle class have any problems getting caught driving while drunk, again and again...

-spence

[Bronko]

I am talking about the family as a whole, not the poor and middle class in our country. This is just the latest in a litany of DUI's. (Teddy's wife alone has a dozen) I think the fact that many of them are hoplessly dependent upon drugs and alcohol goes without saying.

The gross sense of entitlement and the half century orgy on the taxpayer's dime are different issues entirely.

[BigFish]

The Kennedy's SUCK! Anyone who puts them on a lofty perch needs to have their head examined!! They are just a disfunctional bunch of misfits with alot of dough and political clout leftover from the early days....they just live off of the used to be's!

[spence]

Originally Posted by Bronko

This is just the latest in a litany of DUI's. (Teddy's wife alone has a dozen) I think the fact that many of them are hoplessly dependent upon drugs and alcohol goes without saying.

Could be a genetic dependence...

Where did you hear his wife has 12 DUI's?

-spence

[Bronko]

Sources that work a certain corridor of a certain highway in a certain town. Pulled over constantly.

She has been convicted 4 times and has a 2 year suspended sentence hanging over her. She also was or is on probabtion for two years. Last March she was found passed out in a gutter downtown.

[spence]

4 DUI convictions is a nice record...she should be proud

I'm not a Kennedy fan by the way

-spence

[Bronko]

Originally Posted by spence

4 DUI convictions is a nice record...she should be proud

I'm not a Kennedy fan by the way

-spence

Not a fan either.

I thought I had sworn of politics since the fish have arrived, but that family and families like that in both parties drive me crazy.

["uffah!!"]

Originally Posted by Bronko

They are the epitome of what is wrong with American politics. This is not party specific, this encompasses every party. The sense of entitlement that families like the Kennedy's exhibit is appalling. People like this think (and apparently are) above the law. The have absolutely no sense of their actions and the consequences that come from these actions. Their entire life they have been given everything they want, usually costing them nothing. Between poitical junkets, scholarships, trips, gifts attributed to "friends"...the list goes on. For a family as troubled and as tragically flawed as they are (between tragic death, murder, rapes overdoses, DUI's and substance abuse) you would think they would circle the wagons and address these issues. Instead, the binge drinking, glad handing and grandstanding continues.

Why should one of them clean-up, go sober or attempt to set a positive example? They will get re-elcted anyway. Screw the constituents. If I want to knock back a dozen Bombay Sapphire martinis and careen into a retaining wall thats my choice.

I have very little respect for any politicians these days....can you tell?

I FEEL THE SAME WAY!!!!!!