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Senator Slams Constituents Who Criticized His Flip-Flop
CNS News ^ | 4-28-05 | Susan Jones

Posted on 04/28/2005 10:58:19 AM PDT by FlyLow

Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) is making headlines for describing a conservative Christian group as the "antichrist," a comment he now says he regrets.

During an interview with a Colorado Springs TV station on Tuesday, Salazar said, "From my point of view, they [Focus on the Family] are the antichrist of the world."

Among other things, Salazar accused the group of organizing a protest at his family's Dairy Queen. But Focus on the Family said the protest was actually staged by a Denver church.

On Wednesday, press reports quoted Salazar as saying that he meant to describe Focus on the Family's approach as "un-Christian, meaning self-serving and selfish."

"I spoke about Jim Dobson and his efforts and used the term 'the anti-Christ,"' Salazar reportedly said in a written statement from his office. "I regret having used that term."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: antitheist; dobson; flipflop; focusonthefamily; salazar; ussenate

1 posted on 04/28/2005 10:58:20 AM PDT by FlyLow
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To: FlyLow

One term wonder..


2 posted on 04/28/2005 10:59:06 AM PDT by ken5050 (The Dem party is as dead as the NHL)
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To: FlyLow

What? There's such a thing as SECULAR ice cream? I'm very religious about my ice cream selection.

Mr. Salazar sounds as though he's not sure about what day of the week it is.


3 posted on 04/28/2005 11:01:47 AM PDT by RexBeach ("I can see it now. You and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you." -Groucho Marx)
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To: FlyLow
This is actually good.

We could have been stuck with RINO, sodomite-supporting Pete Coors, but instead we get to let the DemonRats show their true colors for this term.

We need to let the DemonRat party self destruct and then put a true conservative in office next term.
4 posted on 04/28/2005 11:02:39 AM PDT by politicket (We now live in a society where "tolerance" is celebrated at the expense of moral correctness.)
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To: ken5050

>>One term wonder..<<

From your pen to God's ears.


5 posted on 04/28/2005 11:05:57 AM PDT by American Quilter
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To: FlyLow

Too bad he ran against "beer man" or we would not have elected him. James Dobson and Focus on the Family simply urged to contact your Senator to ask him to call for a vote in the Senate on judicial nominees, and indicated that Salazar was involoved in the "mischief" of obstructionism.


6 posted on 04/28/2005 11:09:05 AM PDT by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: FlyLow
Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.)

There is no reason for an apology. His comments are merely an integral part of the Democrap Party - namely, living the POLITICS OF FEAR, DIVISION, and HATRED!
7 posted on 04/28/2005 11:12:50 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: RexBeach

I always give thanks to The One upstairs for a bowl of really good ice cream. If it were not for God giving us cows on earth, we'd not have such a yummy summer treat.


8 posted on 04/28/2005 11:13:43 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: FlyLow

This guy is derranged.


9 posted on 04/28/2005 11:27:59 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

"This guy is derranged."

This guy is a one-termer because he lost all his Christian support.


10 posted on 04/28/2005 11:29:41 AM PDT by DarthVader (Liberal Democrat = Fat, drunk and stupid is a hell of a way to go through life)
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To: RSmithOpt

You betcha! God made ice cream to help us smile.


11 posted on 04/28/2005 11:31:58 AM PDT by RexBeach ("I can see it now. You and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you." -Groucho Marx)
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To: DarthVader

can't see why he would have Christian support anyway. Maybe because the Christians couldn't bring themselves to vote for a beer magnate.


12 posted on 04/28/2005 11:45:13 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: ken5050

"One term wonder.."

You wouldn't like to make a small wager on that would you?
How many one term Senators can you name. Carol Mosley Braun is the only one I can come up with and she ain't from Colorado. Never happen. Two termer? Probably. That is the norm in recent Colorado history.


13 posted on 04/28/2005 11:48:45 AM PDT by Bar-Face
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To: Bar-Face
Carol Mosley Braun should have been a lifetime Senator, given the loyalty of her constituency in a state that loves sending incumbents back to Washington.

But she was a loudmouth idiot that made IL look stupid.

Salazar is doing the same stuff right now, and Coloradans don't seem as married to incumbents in the first place as their cohorts in the land of Lincoln.

14 posted on 04/28/2005 12:36:58 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Brilliant

I'm sure a lot of people didn't vote for the Beer Guy precisely because the guy peddles poison.

Although I wouldn't have voted for Salazr, I wouldn't have voted for Beer Guy either.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if we went to a parliamentary form of Government...


15 posted on 04/28/2005 12:39:48 PM PDT by Guillermo (Vote for Pedro)
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To: RexBeach

And He gave us many more things to help us smile. Saw a perfect huge rainbow yesterday outside Raleigh, NC. I was staring at it directly (in the center seeing both ends clearly) as God had placed it right in front of me. Wasn't there went I went in to grab a sub, but BANG!, it was when I walked out.


16 posted on 04/28/2005 1:05:53 PM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: FlyLow

Epitome of..

Surgeons prefer operating on politicians because of the simplicity. They have two moving parts, the sphincter and the mouth and they are interchangeable.


17 posted on 04/28/2005 1:08:16 PM PDT by IamConservative (To worry is to misuse your imagination.)
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To: Brilliant

"Maybe because the Christians couldn't bring themselves to vote for a beer magnate."

The beer magnate is a real Christian too. That's what people get for making judgements on perceptions instead of reality.


18 posted on 04/28/2005 1:17:13 PM PDT by DarthVader (Liberal Democrat = Fat, drunk and stupid is a hell of a way to go through life)
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