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Democrat Pete STARK APOLOGIZES to PRESIDENT and TROOPS
MSNBC ^ | Oct 23, 2007 | Mike Viqueira

Posted on 10/23/2007 9:03:19 AM PDT by rface

Embattled Democrat Pete Stark has just publicly apologized to "the president and his family."

He took the floor after his fellow Democrats successfully killed a motion to censure him in the wake of his remarks last Thursday asserting that American troops were fighting in Iraq to have their "heads blown off for the president's amusement."

"I want to apologize to my colleagues, many of whom I have offended," Stark began. He then apologized to "the president and his family" and "the troops."

"I hope that with this apology, I return to being as insignificant as I should be," he concluded though a voice cracking with emotion.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 110th; apology; appropriategroveling; deeplysaddened; democratparty; eatitpete; fortneystark; petestark; starkravingmad
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To: rface
Post #10 pretty much sums up their entire debate vocabulary.

I had to laugh at the term "Wellstoning", as they believe evil FReepers had Paul Wellstone killed in his plane crash.

There aren't enough mental institutions to hold the DUmmies, unfortunately. Hopefully they will be stoned on election day and forget to vote.

161 posted on 10/23/2007 10:58:56 AM PDT by Sender (You are the weapon. What you hold in your hand is just a tool.)
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162 posted on 10/23/2007 11:04:17 AM PDT by Califreak (Duncan Hunter-no clothespin necessary!)
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To: Sender

Hopefully they will be stoned on election day and forget to vote.

Or show up a day late,,,It is a Leap Year


163 posted on 10/23/2007 11:04:27 AM PDT by silentreignofheroes (When the Last Two Prophets are taken, there will be no Tommorrow!)
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To: Right Cal Gal

An opponent would have no chance in Stark’s district. Its all queer, all Lib and all Donk.


164 posted on 10/23/2007 11:07:23 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: Right Cal Gal

...Senator Kennedy?


165 posted on 10/23/2007 11:12:31 AM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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To: DGHoodini

As opposed to this person?

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/10/kucinich_had_a_ufo_encounter_according_to_friend_shirley_maclaine.php

But... we aren’t surprised... are we?


166 posted on 10/23/2007 11:13:00 AM PDT by AliVeritas (150 Muslim scholars write to the pope re: submission? Call the crusade)
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To: roses of sharon
Well, good on him, a small step toward the Democrat Party becoming American again.

Sorry, but those marxist clowns aren't fit to be American.

They never have been and never will be!
167 posted on 10/23/2007 11:13:09 AM PDT by snuffy smiff (the lesser of two evils... ... is still evil)
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To: Albion Wilde

Maybe Stark was crying because it hit him that he’ll never be offered the VP slot on the ticket in 2008?


168 posted on 10/23/2007 11:13:27 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Right Cal Gal
I’m also thinking the RNC in that district is splicing together campaign commercials as we speak.

San Fransisco has an RNC office? Who knew?

169 posted on 10/23/2007 11:14:28 AM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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To: xc1427; TChris
...if you make the cheeseburger, then I would pay for the ingredients!!!

I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a cheeseburger today...

170 posted on 10/23/2007 11:18:16 AM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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To: holdonnow

Ping


171 posted on 10/23/2007 11:21:12 AM PDT by AliVeritas (150 Muslim scholars write to the pope re: submission? Call the crusade)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

“DUmmies React in HORROR!!!”

A VERY good day indeed. I have spent the past hour reading through DUmmie postings. They run from claiming that Dick Cheney “got to his family” (unlikely) to Nancy Pelosi is now in possesion of his testicles (highly likely). A favorite is also lamenting what a wonderful time the “wingnuts” are going to have with it. But believe me, they ain’t liking it one bit. Loads-o-Fun to read, lemme tellya.


172 posted on 10/23/2007 11:21:23 AM PDT by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: rface

I just reviewed the DU thread and I have good news:

Some of them over there must believe in God, because they keep insisting Bush and Cheney are going to Hell.

All is apparently not lost. It’s instructive to see BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) in action. Some posters show some ability to frame a logical argument, but not many. Not a fact, or a piece of evidence to be found there backing up their assertions.

Oh, and a lot of F-bombs.


173 posted on 10/23/2007 11:30:28 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Ah, thank you! I was wondering how the Kos Kiddies were handling the affair. With their usual aplomb, as it turns out. It's dawning on some of the brighter bulbs in a very dim cluster that - mirabile dictu! - they aren't in charge of the Democratic party after all and that Pelosi, et al, used them and tossed them like a soggy Kleenex. Such drama! Such angst! Such weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth! It's turning into a pretty good day.
174 posted on 10/23/2007 11:34:55 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: rface

This jackass should have faced CENSURE at the very very least for his outburst! Amazing congress has no issue censuring a black woman who said they were a bunch of small penised white men, but this guy claims our troops are dying for the Presidents Amusement, and he gets nothing..

Oh yea, the democrats are a party of principles and patriots (Rolling Eyes).

LIke the old saying goes, give an idiot a rope and enough time and he’ll eventually hang himself. Dems hang themselves daily, and america is watching... You are showing yourselves once and for all to be the cowards, and traitors that you are.


175 posted on 10/23/2007 11:35:55 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Girlene; lilycicero; jazusamo

Ping, just for fun.


176 posted on 10/23/2007 11:39:53 AM PDT by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.com)
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To: rface
what a buffoon

"I hope that with this apology, I return to being as insignificant as I should be," he concluded though a voice cracking with emotion.

177 posted on 10/23/2007 11:40:18 AM PDT by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: rface
I hope that with this apology, I return to being as insignificant as I should be

LOL You knucklehead. Just resign then. According to you nobody would miss you.

178 posted on 10/23/2007 11:45:36 AM PDT by abigailsmybaby (I was born with nothing. So far I have most of it left.)
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To: rface
Pretty good link to DU. Sometimes it's just so difficult to keep from getting a handle over there and throwing some gasoline on those flames. ~Sigh~ But then I consider the results of such childish behavior: They'd probably invade FR and flood us out in tears.
179 posted on 10/23/2007 11:45:41 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: phrogphlyer
As one of the troops, I would personally like to reject this 'apology.'

Mr. Stark, in your speech from the floor of the House, you used the military in a most vile manner to try to score political points for an entirely unrelated socialist program. To do this any time would be wrong, but to do so while we are at war is unforgivable.

And then you apologize first to your colleagues you have offended? Including the troops at the end only as an afterthought? Not good enough. Try again, jackass.

First off, I want to thank you for serving in our military! It's brave men and women like you who serve to protect me and all Americans. I don't blame you for the way you feel about his apology.

I lost 3 uncles in the Bataan Death March, my dad was wounded, and my other uncle was in the Navy in WW2. Another uncle fought in the Korean War. In WW1 my grandfather was gut shot and gased with Mustard Gas. I think that gives me the right to speak for them all, and that is why I called him a scumbag and will NOT accept his phony apology!

The problem with liberals is that they've told the same lie about the war for so long that they now believe it. I refuse to believe that as many people are opposed to what we're doing in Iraq as the RATS claim. The funny thing is that the liberal media keeps feeding them wrong information about the polls and the number of people who are against it. It's no wonder their approval rating is down to 11%.

180 posted on 10/23/2007 11:50:53 AM PDT by NRA2BFree (Some elected people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them!!!)
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