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John Podesta apologizes for Jonestown quote
Politico ^ | 12/18/13 | JONATHAN ALLEN

Posted on 12/18/2013 8:57:42 AM PST by Nachum

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To: No One Special

Oh, I don’t think that Podesta thought into it that deeply. He was just ripping on Republicans and got called on being stupid.

They obviously could care less.


61 posted on 12/18/2013 11:03:52 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Navy Patriot

I’m fascinated by the entire Peoples’ Temple story—it is truly hideous and spooky. I’m in my early 40s so was too young to remember the news of Jonestown and knew nothing of this until recently when I decided to research the story—I was so amazed to learn that Jim Jones was appointed by Moscone to the San Francisco Housing Authority.

I work in SF—I have a coworker (a black guy) who was invited to a Peoples’ Temple service when it was still in SF in the 1970s, and he went up the front steps with his friend and then declined, turned back, and went home after he saw Jim Jones standing there with those sunglasses and two bodyguards. He said no preacher should have bodyguards and he disliked the looks on their faces. . .he told me he’d be dead in Guyana had he joined that “church” and is grateful his instincts told him to stay away. . .


62 posted on 12/18/2013 11:26:05 AM PST by olivia3boys
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63 posted on 12/18/2013 11:39:39 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: olivia3boys
I lived through the People's Temple era, and knew Leo Ryan personally.

BOTH cured me of any leftist sympathies, and contributed to my philosophy that leftists are simply evil liars and thieves.

64 posted on 12/18/2013 11:43:23 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Nachum

Podman Podesta is bring Clinton-style class back to the WH.


65 posted on 12/18/2013 11:46:31 AM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: Nachum

Yep this is Podesta on autopilot.


66 posted on 12/18/2013 11:47:30 AM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I bet a lot of them have family who died at Jonestown and have not forgotten.

You would be wrong, just promise 'em free stuff and they'll remember that Reagan Republicans did all the murders at Jonestown, and vote Rat.

It was Republican remote mind control, ya know.

67 posted on 12/18/2013 11:50:24 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Nachum

Non-apology.

Permits the snark attack on tea party opposition to the President’s agenda to stand as “cult like”.

Calls for dictatorship above all else.

FUJP


68 posted on 12/18/2013 11:51:49 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Nachum

He will have to leave.


69 posted on 12/18/2013 12:41:31 PM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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"In an old interview, my snark got in front of my judgment. I apologize to Speaker Boehner, whom I have always respected,” he wrote."

He dumped the snark.. no problem. Normally it would mean the end but he's a liberal, number one, and number two he dumped it on the liberals' political opponents.

70 posted on 12/19/2013 12:31:11 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Nachum

He’s apologizing for smearing Jim Jones, right?


71 posted on 12/19/2013 1:13:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
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