Durbin Says He Was "Misunderstood" - (the "almost" apology? - not good enough; resign!)

MENS NEWS DAILY.COM ^ | JUNE 18, 2005 | SHER ZIEVE

[CHARLITE]

"It’s time for you to leave the Senate, Sir. You have become a fomenter of anti-American rhetoric and propaganda and are no longer a credible or viable leader."

[Eagles Talon IV]

EVERY ONE OF US MUST CONTACT OUR REPRESENTITIVES AND DICKIE DURBINS OFFICE AND DEMAND HE RESIGN. DO NOT LET UP!!

[sofaman]

Durbin Says He Was "Misunderstood"....

Rightttttt! My tochus was misunderstood. You were heard loud and clearm, Senator. You told the world exactly what you, and your party, think of this country and what you and your party think of our troops. Ted Kennedy did this once before and he got a pass.

It is my fervent hope, that you are not allowed to weasel out of this one.

[rodguy911]

I forgot who said it on talk radio yesterday but Durbin is acting like a man who stepped in a cow pie, quickly shook his foot off and promptly steeped into another and another.
Pretty soon he will be full of....

[FreePaul]

If you clarified your statement by saying that you're sorry that Senator Durbin is "a fomenter of anti-American rhetoric and propaganda and are no longer a credible or viable leader" you could, with a wink, say that you apologized for your statement. That's pretty much the typical Democrat "apology."

[sofaman]

ROFLMAO....terrific analogy...

[Publius6961]

Durbin Says He Was "Misunderstood" - (the "almost" apology? - not good enough; resign!)

There is nothing to misunderstand.

Even a Jr. High School Debate Team can grasp the concept of "Guilt by Association".

This snake should resign simply because of inferior IQ!

[prognostigaator]

From an article in FR today via CNN ...

"But inside this complex, they found something even more sinister -- four Iraqis who were handcuffed, their hands and feet bound with steel cuffs. They're now being taken away for medical treatment, one being borne away on a stretcher."

And the AC was turned off......

[raccoonradio]

He's just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh Lord, please don't let him be misunderstood...
Resign now, Sen. Turban!

[Domangart]

I WAS MISUNDERSTOOD

I always use this excuse when I say what I mean.

[zencat]

I forgot who said it on talk radio yesterday but Durbin is acting like a man who stepped in a cow pie, quickly shook his foot off and promptly steeped into another and another.

I believe that was Rush, except that he called it bags of excrement.

[CharlieChan]

Beyond the apparent, one thing about such rants by Democrats AND Republicans AND the press is that when they compare their target (in this case Bush), to the likes of HITLER, STALIN, POL POT, or even ATTILA----they never, and I mean NEVER mention a guy named MAO.

MAO murdered millions, some say more than Stalin. But his name is not used. I remember Connie Chung a few years ago naming the names--but no MAO.

Possible answer: CORPORATE AMERICA does not want to "insult" the lucrative Communist China market. Viacom-CBS, GE-NBC, DISNEY-ABC, NEWSCORP-FOX, et al. Hells bells Microsoft, Yahoo, & Google are filtering words like DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM, VOTING, etc to please their RED PARTNERS.

[zencat]

EVERY ONE OF US MUST CONTACT OUR REPRESENTITIVES AND DICKIE DURBINS OFFICE AND DEMAND HE RESIGN. DO NOT LET UP!!

Amen. For the 9th Congressional District in Missouri that is Rep. Kenny Hulshof, and Senators Kit Bond and Jim Talent. I've written all three letters. I contribute to all their campaigns and always get a response.

[Arnold Zephel]

[Marauder]

stepped in a cow pie, quickly shook his foot off

Sounds like that city boy is in the process of discovering that those meadow muffins don't make good stepping stones :)

[Joe 6-pack]

"I have learned from my statement that historical parallels can be misused and misunderstood. I sincerely regret if what I said caused anyone to misunderstand my true feelings."

Truly a man of the people. It is clear to me from this that Senator Durbin will not only understand, but be fully sympathetic toward my calls for him to be tarred and feathered.

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Dear Senator Durbin:

Please review the following photographs. You have placed the American soldier on equal footing with the monsters who did these things, so please do not gloss over or ignore them:

Now Senator Durbin, do you really believe that anything done by our servicemen at Guantanamo, or Abu Ghraib is remotely tantamount to the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis? If you don't believe this to be true, why would you deliberately lie about such things? Are your lies the result of ignorance, or something more insidious?

To me, the act of comparing American Soldiers to nazis is incomprehensible, and although I know far better than to expect the truth from you regarding your reasoning, I would suggest that there is no reason you could provide that does not call into serious question your fitness for continued service as a member of the US Senate. Only your full and unqualified retraction of your remarks can preserve any dignity you may have ever had.

You are a coward and precisely the lowly type of person that John Stuart Mill had in mind when he wrote:

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Sincerely,

Just Another American (you will no doubt ignore)

[rodguy911]

Thanks, it just seemed so appropriate!

[rodguy911]

I traveled over 3,000 miles last week and heard "everybody" after a while it was all a blur... probably was Rush.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. the cat is already out of the bag .. so it's time for Durbin TO RESIGN.

[ops33]

I agree with everything this author says except his referring to our military members as "kids." I know he does not mean any disrespect and doesn't mean children but rather young men and women, but it does sound a little condesending to me. They are adult men and women doing a job that many older and more experienced citizens would crack under the pressure, strain, separation from family, training, discipline, living conditions, etc.