Patrick Kennedy thinks ‘Marcia’ Coakley is great

I was born and raised in Rhode Island, and I couldn’t picture living anywhere else. Unfortunately, I’m mystified by some of the decisions made by my fellow voters. One of those, is the decision to keep sending Patrick Kennedy back to Congress every two years. Kennedy is no stranger to embarrassing incidents, and he experienced another one yesterday while attending a rally for Martha Coakley, who is running for the senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy.

“If you think there’s magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that, like Scott Brown,” Kennedy said. “If you don’t, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole … then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president’s in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that.”

(Curiously, Kennedy mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as “Marcia,” not “Martha.”)

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