Posted on 06/21/2005 6:31:19 PM PDT by generationfixit
Give me a few minutes with him and I'll give him something to really cry about.
“Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line,” the Illinois Democrat said. “To them I extend my heartfelt apologies.”
His voice quaking and tears welling in his eyes, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate also apologized to any soldiers who felt insulted by his remarks.
translation: Censure and latest polls say I lost 632,142 votes over my bone head remarks.
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Durbinladen's actions on the Senate floor were an act of sabotage against our military.
Apology NOT ACCEPTED Saboteur
Stop Dick Turbinladen Durbin before he aids our enemy again!
DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!!!!Contact your REPS
Tell them to prosecute this saboteur!!
Link to contact your representative
ABC CBS NBC CNN its all the SAME, Propaganda.
Might as well call them all AmeriJazerra.
Show them how much Gravitas Hugh Bris has. Vote with your remote! Shut down the Alphabet channels.
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Earlier in the day, however, Daley came down hard on his friend.
"I think it is a disgrace," the mayor declared when asked about Durbin's comments last week. "He is a good friend of mine, but I think it is a disgrace to say that any man or woman in the military acts like that."
Daley's son, Patrick, recently enlisted in the U.S. Army and now is in training.
"I believe our men and women in the military have a lot of common sense and passion and heart," the mayor said.
`So disrespectful'
"Read the history of the Holocaust," Daley said. "Nothing can compare with the Holocaust. . . . It is so disrespectful for all the victims of the Holocaust. You are talking about 6 million people intentionally killed. . . .
"How many did [Stalin] kill?" Daley asked rhetorically. "Twenty-two million. Then you take what took place in Cambodia, and we are trying to [compare] incidents in Guantanamo Bay, where nobody has been killed, no one has been seriously injured, to that?"
Excerpt
Durbin yields to onslaught, apologizes in full
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0506220275jun22,1,1195477.story?coll=chi-news-hed
He only cried because he thinks he may have lost the Jewish VOTE!
Notice he doesn't first apologize to our men and women in uniform but to the victims of the Holocaust:
"Mr. President, it is very clear that even though I thought I had said something that clarified the situation, to many people it was still unclear. I'm sorry if anything that I said caused any offense or pain to those who have such bitter memories of the Holocaust, the greatest moral tragedy of our time. Nothing, nothing should ever be said to demean or diminish that moral tragedy."
"I'm also sorry if anything I said in any way cast a negative light on our fine men and women in the military. I went to Iraq just a few months ago with Senator Harry Reid and a bipartisan Senate delegation. When you look in the eyes of the soldiers you see your son and daughter. They are the best. I never, ever intended any disrespect for them."
"Some may believe that my remarks crossed line. To them, I extend my heartfelt apologies."
Excerpt from
Durbin's statement
The following statement was released by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's office June 21, 2005, and is presented here without editing.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050621durbinstatement,1,71574.htmlstory?coll=chi-news-hed
If Durbin had come right out and apologized after he was first criticized then... maybe his apology would have been sincere. But his apology was forced by the Democrats who are trying to distance themselves from this political disaster. We know that he did not apologize because of the Republicans. So the apology was forced.
I don't buy it and I sent off my flaming e-mail letting him know that I want him gone from ever making any decision that would put our Armed Forces in harms way. I want him removed from office period. I sent the e-mail via: http://durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Have we forgotten??
DURBIN’S JOKE – WHAT’S THE PROBLEM HERE?
April 21, 2005
My colleague and sometime golf partner Rudy Bush’s story today reports that Sen. Dick Durbin is under fire for a joke he told Wednesday at the dedication of the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield:
Durbin's gaffe came as he related an old yarn that the late Chicago federal Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz often told about how his Jewish immigrant parents came to give him Lincoln's name. They had presumed the 16th president was Jewish, Marovitz used to say, because his name was Abraham and he was shot in the temple.
Excerpt from
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ericzorn/weblog/archives/2005/04/durbinas_joke_a.html
Well put, vs. Thanks for posting those.
Ping -this is it!
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