Put Away the Booze

Does this increasingly erratic Senator make sense to anyone these days?


(Boston Herald)

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy [related, bio], intensifying his attacks on President Bush [related, bio], yesterday accused Bush of letting Osama bin Laden slip away while focusing instead on a bungled war in Iraq.
``It isn't the local Iraqis that are a threat to me in Boston,'' Kennedy told Herald editors and reporters. ``It's al-Qaeda that is the threat to us here.''
Added the senator: ``It is unfortunate and tragic we haven't been able to apprehend him after all this period of time.''
Kennedy noted pointedly that in Bush's 2004 State of the Union address, the president mentioned bin Laden more than a dozen times - but not even once in this year's address.