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Part of Bill Clinton's charm is that he was always getting into trouble for some of his laughable antics. That's ok, you can fool around with an intern or make some stupid gaff during a speech about a "surplus" that only exists thanks to a Dot. Com bubble that hadn't burst yet. We'll forgive you so long as the stock market keeps reaching new highs and my retirement fund keeps growing. Oh, and I can buy SUV's because gas is cheap and credit keeps flowing.

That's fine, Bill When people aren't able to sleep at night because they are worried that they're going to lose everything they've built during the past few decades, misbehaving politicians aren't funny any more. The antics of a drunk silver-spoon congressman trying to drive up the capitol steps in his convertible Mustang 6 hours after that day's session closed just aren't that amusing. Getting into a fist fight with a bishop over theological views isn't just fodder an episode of "South Park" when your seeing the empty store fronts in your home town.

Staff Photo by Matt Stone. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. Patrick Kennedy, D-R. William Delahunt, D-Mass. Patrick Kennedy, R. Ted Kennedy, Mass. Edward M. Patrick Joseph Kennedy was born in , the youngest of four children. At age 22, he gathered his savings as well as loans from his mother and three sisters and bought a run down saloon in the Haymarket area of Boston.

Before he reached 30, he was able to buy a second tavern across the street from the East Boston ship yards. He became a partner in the old Maverick House at Maverick Square, East Boston and in , opened his own liquor importation business, P. Kennedy and Co. In , he was elected, to the State Senate, a feat made possible by the fact that Irish immigrants out numbered Yankees for the first time that year.

He served three terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. In , he married Mary Augusta Hickey, the daughter of a prosperous businessman. He has been open about mental health issues, including being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

He has served in Congress since , and was the youngest member of his family — the best-known of America's political dynasties — to win elective office, beginning his legislative career at age 21 in the Rhode Island Assembly.

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