Patrick Kennedy rebuffs Sarah Palin’s words

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By BRETT COUGHLIN | 1/10/11 10:03 PM EST

Patrick Kennedy, who lost two uncles to assassins’ bullets, says there’s an obvious connection between the violent rhetoric of today’s politics and the massacre in Tucson.

“When Sarah Palin puts targets on people’s districts? Or you have 10,000 signs on the mall during the healthcare battle saying ‘Bury Obamacare with Kennedy’? When the vitriol and the rhetoric is so violent, we have to connect consequences to that.” said Kennedy, who left congress two weeks ago after serving eight terms representing Rhode Island.



Saturday’s tragedy touches on both elements of Kennedy’s new mission in life — helping someone after they’ve been afflicted by a brain injury and ensuring universal access to mental health services, which might have prevented Jared Lee Loughner’s apparent paroxysm of madness.

In lengthy interviews with POLITICO, Kennedy talked about both Giffords and Loughner.

He called Giffords a “very compassionate person, with a generous spirit. She was always asking about me and how I was doing,” in the time just after his father’s death.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47407.html#ixzz1AioqmTs7

[Le Taz Hot]

1. Watching TV was so disgusting yesterday.

Nothing but apologists. Even Whoopi Goldberg gave that bat-shit crazy Sarah Palin a pass. What that means is that NOTHING will change and only the shooter will be held accountable.

[6000eliot]

I heard the reporter on ABC actually SAY that this isn't the Republicans' fault

He said it directly.

[lonestarnot]

2. Now back to stealing the rest of what America has left.