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Brownback to pitch proposal apologizing for slavery
The Boston Globe ^ | October 16, 2007 | Jenn Abelson

Posted on 10/16/2007 7:08:55 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican trying to inject new life into his beleaguered presidential campaign, plans to offer a resolution this week for Congress to apologize for slavery and segregation.

Brownback, of Kansas, told The Boston Globe's editorial board yesterday he will join an unnamed Democrat in sponsoring the proposal. He said he expects a tough fight on the resolution, even though it will not include any call for reparations.

"They were federal policies," he said. "They were wrong. The only way for us to move forward . . . is at the end of day acknowledging those, taking ownership for it, and asking for forgiveness."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; brownback; candidate; dhimmi; dhimwhit; doofus; fred; fredthompson2008; immigration; lefty; libs; rino; slavery; switchback
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

“Brownback to pitch proposal apologizing for slavery”

First Tommy Thompson, Second will be Brownback.

Any takers on who is going to be third out?


61 posted on 10/16/2007 7:41:28 PM PDT by Grunthor (http://franz.org/quiz.htm)
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To: Cicero

Hillary probably showed him his FBI file, and played a few taped phone conversations for him as well.


62 posted on 10/16/2007 7:42:21 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

It’s painful to watch. When I was in high school our social studies teacher was always running stupid films on the projector. Like “A Visit to Sarah Lee”, or other nonsense. The best part was when we would play it backwards, and watch the “happy consumer” take the bite of pie out of his mouth, and put it back in the pie. This is what is happening to the Republican Party. We are watching the sausage being unmade, from end to beginning. It’s not pretty.


63 posted on 10/16/2007 7:42:55 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness ( Bumper sticker idea: Hillary/Obama Nation '08. Let the desolation begin)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Looser


64 posted on 10/16/2007 7:43:27 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: puroresu
They’re the first party in history to pander to the people who vote against them.

That's the new plan, initiated by Bush in 2002.

65 posted on 10/16/2007 7:43:58 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Sam Brownback :

Voted YES on killing a bill for trade sanctions if China sells weapons.

Voted YES on granting normal trade relations status to Vietnam.

Voted YES on permanent normal trade relations with China.


66 posted on 10/16/2007 7:43:58 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Rudy McRomneyson = KENNEDY wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Grunthor
Any takers on who is going to be third out?

I'm betting Huckabee.

67 posted on 10/16/2007 7:44:01 PM PDT by antinomian (Show me a robber baron and I'll show you a pocket full of senators.)
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To: antinomian

“I’m betting Huckabee.”

I was thinking Tancredo.


68 posted on 10/16/2007 7:44:37 PM PDT by Grunthor (http://franz.org/quiz.htm)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Brownbag is obviously in the cups again.


69 posted on 10/16/2007 7:44:43 PM PDT by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

And Brownback is out of the race.


70 posted on 10/16/2007 7:48:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
PS: In this case, “sold” and “sowed” are synonymous.
71 posted on 10/16/2007 7:48:47 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: dennisw

But even though he is nuts he has the drive energy and ambition to get into the US Senate and rule over your sorry a$$ and mine too.

As a Kansan, I apologize for having helped vote him into the Senate. Never again, though.


72 posted on 10/16/2007 7:49:35 PM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: rdl6989
Put a fork in him, he’s done.

This is what wanting to be President does to a weak man.

It makes him a pandering fool.

This kind of thinking disqualifies Brownback for the Senate, even.

73 posted on 10/16/2007 7:49:37 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Brownbacks three religious affiliations are at wiki-pedia. The guy is confused same as I have had to reluctantly conclude about George Bush——>>>>

Religious views
Brownback told Rolling Stone that he had moved from mainline Protestantism to evangelicalism before his 2002 conversion to Catholicism, and that in 1994 he became involved with The Fellowship, a conservative Christian U.S. political organization.


74 posted on 10/16/2007 7:50:27 PM PDT by dennisw (France needs a new kind of immigrant — one who is "selected, not endured" - Nicholas Sarkozy)
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To: traditional1
 
 
Among thinking people it will be, but as for the vacuum skulls, umm no effect......
 
 

75 posted on 10/16/2007 7:51:57 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Dear Senator Brownback:

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

76 posted on 10/16/2007 7:52:11 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
When will modern Italians apologize for throwing Christians to the lions? If they won't apologize, I guess we all know what that means! Italians still approve of slaughtering Christians! Am I right or am I right?

I nominate Brownback for this year's Insufferable Political Idiot award.

77 posted on 10/16/2007 7:52:40 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Where the hell do we keep getting these out of touch, scumbag senators?

*&*%!

78 posted on 10/16/2007 7:52:54 PM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: Sig Sauer P220
As a Kansan, I apologize for having helped vote him into the Senate. Never again, though.

Who was the alternative? Elections are almost always a choice between two evils.

The late great Sam Francis once said "we have two political parties, the stupid party and the evil party. And what we fear most is bipartisanship."

79 posted on 10/16/2007 7:54:02 PM PDT by antinomian (Show me a robber baron and I'll show you a pocket full of senators.)
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To: Sig Sauer P220

Kansas is as middle America as you can get, why do Kansans vote for this idiot. Same reason I voted Mel Martinez here in FL. He was better than the moonbat democrat


80 posted on 10/16/2007 7:54:44 PM PDT by dennisw (France needs a new kind of immigrant — one who is "selected, not endured" - Nicholas Sarkozy)
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