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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

WOW !!! First time looking at that site. I need a shower. What foul mouthed venom they get away with posting.


61 posted on 10/23/2007 9:30:42 AM PDT by stratboy
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To: rface

rface,
Thanks a lot, after clicking on your link I now am wiping my entire body down with a sanitizer.

The language over there is quite, well, different than here.


62 posted on 10/23/2007 9:31:47 AM PDT by mmanager (Fred is choosing the field for battle and he likes the view.)
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To: tennteacher
Did the House join hands to sing “Kumbayah”?


63 posted on 10/23/2007 9:31:51 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: rface
Well, good on him, a small step toward the Democrat Party becoming American again.
64 posted on 10/23/2007 9:32:14 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: rface
"I hope that with this apology, I return to being as insignificant as I should be," he concluded though a voice cracking with emotion.

I really think he misspoke. Liberals aren't very good on the precise meaning of words. What he really meant is that he wants to duck out of the line of fire, lie low, and stay unnoticed until this affair blows over. Like all politicians, he likes to be seen, maybe, but admired for doing something good, not for screwing up and saying something stupid and self-destructive.

What's really funny about it, of course, is that "insignificant" is unintentionally exactly the right word for him. He didn't mean it, but it fits just right.

I, too, checked to see if this was Scrappleface or some other satirical web site. No, he's just a stupid liberal, with a habit of bending words to fit, who panicked and used the wrong word about himself. Worse yet, it was unintentionally exactly the right word.

65 posted on 10/23/2007 9:32:46 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: rface
Dear Mr. Stark;

Please resign.

Thank you.

< signed >

A. Bustard.

66 posted on 10/23/2007 9:33:08 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: roses of sharon

Yeah, but they usually do one step forward, eight steps back.


67 posted on 10/23/2007 9:33:32 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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To: NRA1995
Just read some of it; one DUmmie said he must have gotten a call from Dick Cheney about apologizing or going duck-hunting with the VP.

Now that was pretty funny. I thought they were pretty devoid of humor over there...

68 posted on 10/23/2007 9:34:52 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: rface

A Democrat apologizing? Stanley Cup playoffs in Hell!


69 posted on 10/23/2007 9:34:55 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("Just 3 hours a day with Rudy Guiliani is all I ask" -- Sean Hannity is on!)
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To: mewzilla
“Rep. Pete Stark Apologizes For Suggesting Bush Enjoys Troop Deaths in Iraq”

“Suggesting”? Hell, he didn’t suggest a thing, he came right out and said it.

70 posted on 10/23/2007 9:35:12 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: Bush gal in LA
He should return to the ‘’Loony Bin’’ which is where he should be, and where he belongs!

They won't take him - he drives the schizos nuts.
71 posted on 10/23/2007 9:36:53 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: rface

after reading their remarks, it makes me more and more determined to NOT LET A LIB BACK in the white house.

They are loons!


72 posted on 10/23/2007 9:37:08 AM PDT by JFC
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To: TChris

Send Grandy an email reminding him of his promise:

grandyandandy@630wmal.com


73 posted on 10/23/2007 9:37:24 AM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have .chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: rface
DUmmies React in HORROR!!!

Some days I think that FR & DU are opposite sides of the same coin. Threads like that remind me that we are most certainly not.

74 posted on 10/23/2007 9:37:51 AM PDT by TankerKC (You don't have to believe everything you think.)
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To: rface
""I hope that with this apology, I return to being as insignificant as I should be," he concluded..."

No problem there, Congress"man" Stark!

75 posted on 10/23/2007 9:37:56 AM PDT by Redbob (WWJBD - "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: rface

I’m impressed that he said: “whom I’ve offended” rather than “who may have been offended.”


76 posted on 10/23/2007 9:38:11 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: rface

Ping for safe viewing later.


77 posted on 10/23/2007 9:38:32 AM PDT by doodad
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To: jveritas; FARS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; knighthawk; Marine_Uncle; SandRat; Steel Wolf; CAP; ...

Don’t want you to miss this ping.


78 posted on 10/23/2007 9:39:15 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (RUN Paul - a man proudly putting al Qaeda's interest ahead of America's.)
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To: rface
I return to being as insignificant as I should be

No problem there, however, your words are significant and I am sure you will hear them over and over when it comes time for your reelection. And if there are any Americans left in your Congressional District then you should get tossed out on yor ear, finally. After all 34 years is more than enough time to serve in the public sector.

79 posted on 10/23/2007 9:39:41 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Beckwith

What was his promise?


80 posted on 10/23/2007 9:40:03 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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