Family prescription values!

There are only a few things in life as certain as death and taxes, and I'd like to offer an addition:

No matter what the scandal, a Kennedy always gets a pass.

The funniest aspect of the latest Kennedy smash-em-up is the media focus on what Patrick Kennedy's drugs were prescribed for -- as if that makes any difference. The radio reports I've been hearing aren't mentioning the failure of police to perform a field sobriety test; all they're talking about is why he needed the medication!

If I break a leg or have surgery and they give me morphine for the pain, does that entitle me to get behind the wheel of a car? If I took my morphine and then smashed my car into a wall, why should anyone give a rat's ass why I was given the morphine?

Aren't these two different issues? Why the focus on something that's totally irrelevant?

The Kennedy family fortune came from selling prescription alcohol through pharmacies during Prohibition, and even today, alcohol is considered to have medical value. But let's assume someone involved an automobile accident claimed that he had been drinking on the advice of his physician. Would he get a pass?

(That depends on his family, I guess. . .)

posted by Eric on 05.05.06 at 12:18 PM





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Every state I've lived in has included OTC and prescription drugs that impair your driving in the "DUI" section. Not in the sense that you're never allowed to drive with them, but if you're impaired, and you still drive, it's the same as a drunk driving DUI.

So I really would fail to see the point that the media's trying to make. I bet they wouldn't be talking the same way if it was Bush or Cheney, eh?

silvermine   ·  May 5, 2006 06:52 PM


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