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Kerry Kennedy just the latest JFK clan member to fall apart - Yet another sad chapter in bizarre Kennedy family behavior

Posted on Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 08:16 AM

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Spare me another chapter in the increasingly sad and dysfunctional Kennedy saga.

Alas, Kerry Kennedy’s arrest and bizarre behavior following a traffic accident writes another chapter in the continuing Kennedy saga. She was considered a rock compared to some of her siblings.

She had written a well-received book on Catholicism and seemed deeply involved in her human rights work and charitable foundation and in raising her three daghters. Now that has all changed.

A mother of three, the 52-year old was driving erratically and charged with driving while impaired with drugs when she crashed into a tractor trailer in Westchester, north of new York City. She was also charged with leaving the scene of an accident.

NBC reports that Kennedy was found passed out at the wheel of her Lexus when police arrived.

Her arrest will set the Kennedy newshounds off into a frenzy, of course.

Coming soon after the suicide of Mary Kennedy, Bobby’s wife, the clan are beginning to seem more like a soap opera than ever.

Because she is Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ex-wife and he has a real shot at the White House in 2016, there will be massive coverage.

Brendan Behan once remarked that ”genius doesn’t come in litters” and the Kennedy dynasty beyond JFK and his brothers and sisters has taken on a surreal “Jersey Shore” like quality with weekly updates of the clan’s misadventures.

It is the children of Ethel and Robert who appear to be having the most problems. Most of the eleven barely knew their father, and wife Ethel had, understandably, a very tough time coping with her brood after her husband was so cruelly snatched away. Suicides, drug abuse, and drinking have all featured prominently in the children’s life stories.

Kerry was close to Mary Kennedy and stuck up for her after her recent suicide despite her siblings closing ranks around Bobby Junior.

Did that fact contribute to her bizarre behavior I wonder? When it is the Kennedys one can never be sure.

Be sure of one thing today though. Andrew Cuomo is counting his blessings the couple are divorced and he is not heading into 2016 with a huge liability at his side

As for Kerry we should wait for the full story to unfold. A spokesman for Kennedy stated "Kerry Kennedy voluntarily took breathalyzer, blood and urine tests -- all of which showed no drugs or alcohol whatsoever in her system "The charges were filed before the test results were available."

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DaisyBright | Jul 14, 2012, 11:03 AM EDT

"Kerry was close to Mary Kennedy and stuck up for her after her recent suicide despite her siblings closing ranks around Bobby Junior." Stuck up for her? Hardly. Threw her under the bus to defend her brother's boorish behavior is more like it.

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carrickcourt | Jul 14, 2012, 10:55 AM EDT

Frankly my dear I don't give a damn.

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dickmac | Jul 14, 2012, 10:55 AM EDT

Sad stuff for sure. The publiciity will be the worst part. Too bad. But the "curse" continues.

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handsome68 | Jul 14, 2012, 10:36 AM EDT

When I was attending Iona College back in 1964, I remember seeing Bobby K. He was being held up by his buttocks, or so it seemed, by secret service agents. His car, with its top down, was coming up the hill. RFK's and my eyes locked for an unforgettable instant. That man, with his face so prematurely lined, looked so, well, -- haunted. I say mass media, Hollywood, and everyone should leave the Kennedys alone.

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hunter933 | Jul 14, 2012, 10:36 AM EDT

It was just an unsuccessful whack. Car accidents are hard to plan. A suicide in a barn with a rope would have been too suspicious so soon.

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twinklingblue | Jul 14, 2012, 10:30 AM EDT

The Kennedy's have the power/money to change the facts in all the crimes they commit.Bullying a hospital to change facts about a son "taking his infant out for air," suicides, driving over bridges, and inadvertently killing a woman, and making that go away, and being elected senator, I could go on and on. Drinking is a major force in their lives, they should finally be smart enough to figure it out. Paying off the Catholic Church,after divorces, and getting annullmnents from women with whom they have had children? Who can admire this family with the exception of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg? The grandfather was a criminal and a bully, not a good guy.

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Nicopernicus | Jul 14, 2012, 10:23 AM EDT

You Know? It would be really nice If the Irish /American association could get beyond the fascination with the Kennedy nonsense...There is nothing mystical about a family so mired in dysfunction no matter who to blame.

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donal1951 | Jul 14, 2012, 10:15 AM EDT

Give her the benefit of the doubt, let the courts decide if she was impaired.

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TisEyerish | Jul 14, 2012, 10:12 AM EDT

I wish the entire Kennedy clan would just disappear into an abyss. I'm so sick of hearing about their dysfunction. What is it they say about the sins of the father being visited on his progeny? Let's not forget that the family fortune was made by bootlegging during Prohibition...seems they are paying back for it in spades.

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racallahan | Jul 14, 2012, 10:11 AM EDT

Paying for the sins of the father. Old Joe's Karma!

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