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rodeodance

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Thu May-04-06 06:15 PM
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Wolf is on the Kenndy story again.

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napi21

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Thu May-04-06 06:16 PM
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1. Yea, I know. MIGHT get a Kennedy for DUI!

BIG problem in the US ya know!!!!!

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Tom Joad

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Thu May-04-06 06:17 PM
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7. Everyone should be accountable. Yes, DUI's kill tens of thousands

each year.
Bastards who drive drunk should go to jail.

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niyad

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Thu May-04-06 06:18 PM
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9. earlier stories said alcohol wasn't involved, right?

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rodeodance

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Thu May-04-06 06:22 PM
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13. yes, and Kennedy's office issued a statement saying no ETOH

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Cooley Hurd

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Thu May-04-06 06:21 PM
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12. No argument there, HOWEVER...

Is it more important than the DSM? The wiretapping of honest Americans? Torturing of innocents?:shrug:

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Tom Joad

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Thu May-04-06 06:29 PM
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22. those other things are very important, and i wish they were discussed

more at DU. Or in congress, especially.

Seems like the only topic really getting any traction here is colbert, and defending colbert, and more about colbert, past clips of colbert... it was a funny thing he did, but gosh, it wasn't that big a deal.

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Cooley Hurd

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Thu May-04-06 06:39 PM
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28. Colbert's monologue WAS a big deal...

Edited on Thu May-04-06 06:39 PM by Cooley Hurd

It was one of the sparse times in which the MonkeyMurder has been called on his crimes to his stupid monkey face!

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Greeby

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Thu May-04-06 06:16 PM
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2. I'm guessing the Freepers now have a talking point....

...to eclipse Chappaquiddick :eyes:

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babylonsister

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Thu May-04-06 06:16 PM
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3. Beating a dead horse there. No one got hurt, no one else involved,

he's again avoiding the real bad news.

Hey, Wolf, how 'bout them repugs/hookers/limos, hmmm?

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Tom Joad

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Thu May-04-06 06:24 PM
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16. Remember Bill Janklow? Another reckless bastard.

He had many run-ins with the law for speeding. But since he was important, he was let go each time. Until he killed someone.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/22/janklow.sentencing/

Should it too have been a non-story? Nothing to see here... move on... no one hurt, just a few laws broken, privilege evoked...

I don't know exactly what happened in the kennedy thing, but there should have been a sobriety test. I would say the same of any congressperson.

I have had friends get the death penalty due to drunk driving... they were victims of same, not the drinkers.

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AX10

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Thu May-04-06 06:27 PM
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20. I agree that the police should have issued a sobriety test...

if they had reason to believe that alcohol was involved. If the police didn't do so, even if they believed alcohol was involved, then then that is the problem of the police.

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slaveplanet

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Thu May-04-06 06:49 PM
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34. He can't be impeded

Edited on Thu May-04-06 07:02 PM by slaveplanet

nor arrested, unless he committed a felony.
otherwise the police would have a problem with the constitution.

That's why next best thing is to have the media allege that he was drunk, and sentence him to ministry of information punditry.

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babylonsister

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Thu May-04-06 06:29 PM
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21. I agree, if he's guilty of this, and was given a sobriety test to

prove conclusively that he was drunk, he should be responsible enough to accept the consequences. However, no tests were given, it's now too late to test him, and they're making mountains out of nothing, solely imo because he's a Kennnedy and a Dem.

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Tom Joad

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Thu May-04-06 06:37 PM
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26. Certainly there is an agenda on some people's part.

But like i said, everyone should be accountable.

Actually, even if it had turned out different, i would think the consequences if he had been proved to impaired would most appropiately have been just taking away a drivers license for a period of time. Not jail time, just take them away from cars.

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Jacobin

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Thu May-04-06 06:42 PM
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31. What? No harm no foul?

Drunk drivers kill people.

NO PASSES for drunk drivers regardless of political affiliation

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babylonsister

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Thu May-04-06 07:41 PM
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40. See post 21. nt

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eleny

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Thu May-04-06 06:17 PM
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4. Hoping to wash out Rumsfeld's and W's dramas of today

As if they can make the basic problems go away.

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Dr Fate

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Thu May-04-06 06:17 PM
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5. Didnt Bush & Laura & Cheney all have DUIs? Why yes. They did. n/t

n/t

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Island Blue

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Thu May-04-06 06:42 PM
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33. Cheney has a SUI.

Shooting Under the Influence.

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highplainsdem

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Thu May-04-06 06:17 PM
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6. ho ho ho ho ho media ho Leslie

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dogday

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Thu May-04-06 06:18 PM
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8. If they thought he was drunk, they

should of demanded a test.. CNN does not even have the official report mind you, all this is innuendo and speculation as they did with McKinney... I can't believe people would fall for this a second time.....

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rodeodance

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Thu May-04-06 06:20 PM
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11. this guest said the officer thought he dedected the smell of ETOH umm,

where did he did that info from? speculation at this point.

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dogday

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Thu May-04-06 06:26 PM
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19. The smell of what???

::shrug:

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rodeodance

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Thu May-04-06 06:18 PM
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10. this quest is speculating TOO much. He should shut up.

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rodeodance

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Thu May-04-06 06:23 PM
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14. Fox is on it.

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rodeodance

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Thu May-04-06 06:24 PM
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17. said he had been in a drug tx before college and openly talks of bi-polar

diagnosis he has.

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Tom Joad

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Thu May-04-06 06:26 PM
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18. He can hire a designated driver.

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AX10

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Thu May-04-06 06:24 PM
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15. It was up to the police on the scene to issue a sobriety test if...

they believed there was alcohol involved.

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Jack Rabbit

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Thu May-04-06 06:32 PM
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23. So charge a congressman with drunk driving already.

And then tell me how many lives in Iraq that will save or how that's going to prevent a nuclear strike on Iran.

Maybe to interest the idiots at CNN they should understand this: It won't even help find a missing blond teenage girl in South Carolina.

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Tom Joad

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Thu May-04-06 06:39 PM
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29. We should also hold Kennedy accountable if he is not supporting

impeachment of bush/cheney. A far more serious lapse of judgement.

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Jack Rabbit

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Thu May-04-06 06:50 PM
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36. I don't know whether he is or isn't

And if this were about one of Tom DeLay's crooked water carriers insted of a member of the Kennedy clan, I'd feel the same way.

OK, this may be worth a few seconds of air time. OTOH, we already know more about this than is necessary. CNN is supposedly a national network broadcasting world and national news. Why are they devoting so much time to missing teenagers, a sensational murder or congressmen caught driving when they shouldn't be?

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Tom Joad

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Thu May-04-06 07:19 PM
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39. I fully agree that this story, that does i think merit some discussion

will probably be overblown for the next few months. Way out of proportion.

Like the Halloway story, a very tragic one indeed. But it is a very local story, with consequences only for her family and friends.

comapared to illegal wars, and a president that deserves impeachment and being run out of office, it is trivial.

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OzarkDem

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Thu May-04-06 06:34 PM
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24. Looks like there's nothing to it

A car accident, late at night after Congress had recessed at MIDNIGHT? Sounds like a long day at work.
If officers thought he was drunk they would have done a field sobriety test.

Let's talk about anything but raising the minimum wage, health care reform or ending the war in Iraq.

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spanone

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Thu May-04-06 06:36 PM
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25. The media eats Kennedys. It's a national embarassment.

They salivate at the thought of reminding us that the Kennedys are the disfuntional First family.

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dogday

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Thu May-04-06 07:01 PM
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37. They are not any more

The bushies are passing them by in word and deed.....

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Halliburton

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Thu May-04-06 06:37 PM
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27. they are reporting on nothing but speculation

nothing is confirmed. he could've fell asleep at the wheel for all we know!

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dogday

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Thu May-04-06 08:10 PM
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41. Exactly, they don't have the official report

because the Capitol police will not release it yet... Everything talked about is conjecture....

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Jacobin

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Thu May-04-06 06:41 PM
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30. Drunk Driving Is Dangerous and a Crime

I don't care if its fucking Ghandi.

He should have been subject to an alcohol test and if drunk should have been arrested.

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leftchick

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Thu May-04-06 06:42 PM
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32. has he mentioned Repukes getting paid with Prostitutes yet?

I didn't think so.

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Cooley Hurd

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Thu May-04-06 06:50 PM
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35. Paid with prostitutes? That's a new currency!

I still get paid with boring money...:rofl: :hi:

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leftchick

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Thu May-04-06 07:01 PM
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38. yeah me too!

boring! :hi:

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Hubert Flottz

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Thu May-04-06 08:19 PM
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42. Dick Cheney shot a man in the face and the cops didn't test him...

for booze.

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