"It is pathetic when Tom Daschle will not debate John Thune and then sends this staff person to slink around in the shadows and tape John Thune when Thune is the one who shows up for these events."
The residents there must be deeply saddened.
No one should ever apologize for speaking the truth.
I PRAY DascHole loses!
Jeez, if you talk about Rats, you gotta use words they understand.
I fully recognize that I am not the 'moderate/swing' voter that is all important to elected officials, but I have to wonder how such a person would react to what I would have liked to hear.
How would the mushy middle react if Thune had said, "I will apologize for one of my staffers calling Daschle a Chickens**t when Daschle stops acting like a chickens**t and debates me."
Would that play as crass among the middle, or would middle America like to hear blunt honesty?
He should have called him a little McGreevey.
"...Thune campaign manager Dick Wadhams..."
He should have said: "Your boss is such a coward that the best he could do is send some dickwad from his staff!"
Passing thoughts:
1) Act grown-up in front of the cameras, dude.
2) This is probably the only way the Thune campaign could get the media to notice that Tiny Tom didn't show up, so maybe it is a decent strategy
3) of course, he's absolutely right.
4) how dare the Daschle campaign send a cameraman? How dare they? Not only do they skip out on the event to avoid stating their own views, but they decide to use footage from it to attack Thune in the future. That really is chickens***.
Thune should say, "I do apologize that my aide used an obscenity. That was unseemly, and does not contribute to the public discourse. He should simply have stated that Senator Daschle was behaving like a chicken, a spineless, simpering, whimpering, craven coward, a frightened little girl -- and left it at that. Thank you."
Dan
I looked up the military definition of chickens#!t by historian Paul Fussell that Stephen Ambrose used in "Band of Brothers" and Citizen Soldiers".
"Chickens#!t refers to behahior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. Chickens#!t is so-called-instead of horse or bull or elephant s#!t-because it is small minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously"
Applying the above definition, Daschele may be chicken for not debating, but I don't think he is being chickens#!t. However, if you substitute "South Dakota" or "senate" for "military", then it is clear the definition does fit in many areas.
Since when? It's the other national pastime.
I think if I was in Mr. Wadhams' position I would have kept the barnyard epithet to myself and gone for one more feline.
These folks need one of those raffle boards with one chicken and a bunch of squares marked Thune or Daschle. The winner is the square with the first or most "poop".
I could have used a more appropriate term, but then it wouldn't be read in South Dakota.
MOM! THAT MAN SAID SOMETHING MEAN TO ME!!!
Maybe Little Tommy Daschle can introduce legislation forming a "sensitive" National Football League, for those who are too "offended" by all the violence in the real NFL, since he appears to abhor violence in any form, including verbal.
A 4 year old had the perfect answer.
"Holy shit, a talking chicken!"
ROTFL! Shoulda called him a little banty rooster....except that a banty rooster has more b**ls.