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Ambassador ‘Embarrassed’ to Be From Texas After Learning of Obama Speech Controversy
NBC Dallas ^ | Sept. 8, 2009

Posted on 09/08/2009 9:00:08 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

"I'm befuddled. There are few moments in my life where I'm embarrassed to say I'm from Texas, this was one of them," U.S. Trade Representative and former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk said. "I think that some of those that have been the most ungracious and discourteous five years from now will be embarrassed by their behavior. But right now, I guess the best we can do is be embarrassed for them."

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To: Free ThinkerNY
...I'm embarrassed to say I'm from Texas...

Not nearly as embarrassed as we are to have him telling people he is from Texas.

41 posted on 09/08/2009 9:28:58 PM PDT by FreePaul
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To: Free ThinkerNY

We are embarrassed that Ron Kirk is from Texas!


42 posted on 09/08/2009 9:33:28 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

he practiced law until 1981 when he left to work in the office of then-Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen

In 1994, Kirk worked for then-Texas Governor Ann Richards as Secretary of State of Texas

His nomination ran into further controversy when it was revealed that he owed $9,975 in back taxes

43 posted on 09/08/2009 9:35:16 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The Idiot should really be embarrassed about working for the Anti-American, Racist, Communist, Terrorist Loving OBOZO! and also for being Stupid enough to still be a DEMORAT! TEXANS ought to disown Him and run him outa the Republic on a Rail..:-)


44 posted on 09/08/2009 9:35:43 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Texas doesn’t claim Kirk any more than the Marines claim Murtha.


45 posted on 09/08/2009 9:37:35 PM PDT by Eaker (If you have a problem and If explosives are an option then explosives are THE answer.)
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To: doc1019

Well, they’re easy to forget. :)


46 posted on 09/08/2009 9:41:06 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. -- James Madison)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I am embarrassed to know that Kirk is from Texas.


47 posted on 09/08/2009 9:41:56 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The “I’m embarrassed to be from Texas” rant is copyrighted, and cannot be used without the express written consent of The Dixie Chicks.


48 posted on 09/08/2009 9:43:46 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (No health care reform without TORT reform!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

yet another magic negro folks once thought was conservative..lol

let’s see:

Colin (not the catch the train guy, the other one)

Watts (couldn’t make up his large brain about Obama)

Condi (pro choice and other tidbits)

Steele (identity panderer and whatnot)

Nagin (yep onnce long ago in another galaxy called New Orleans pre Katrina he was a Republican)

on the bright side, I doubt Jesse Peterson, Tom Sowell or Clarence Thomas will ever disappoint me


49 posted on 09/08/2009 9:50:32 PM PDT by wardaddy (Bro has stumbled mightily but the media will rebuild him....)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"I'm befuddled. There are few moments in my life where I'm embarrassed to say I'm from Texas, this was one of them," U.S. Trade Representative and former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk said."

Sir, may I be one of the first to suggest that you relocate to some other place more to your liking. Texas wishes the best for you. The truth is, you've been taking up space and well...not paying your taxes. TEXAS has almost $10,000. worth of embarrassment because your tax returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007 were reviewed by the Senate Finance Committee as part of the vetting process for the Trade Rep position you now hold and, gosh sir, they found that you failed to report some income. Actually, sir it was $37,750 in honoraries collected for 16 speaking engagements at Austin College over those three years. Turns out that in one year, you even deducted honoraries from four events as charitable donations though you hadn't reported them as income.

You also deducted too much for the cost of tickets to see the Mavericks. You reported the entire $17,382 as business expenses, remember? Is it coming back to you now, Sir?

TEXAS, sir, is a little embarrassed too. Maybe you could tell people you're from another place like, umm, Hawaii or even maybe another country, say like Indonesia? Most of us here in Texas like to pay our taxes and you make us look bad. One bright point is that Obama has really low standards up there in D.C. We think you will fit right in. Best wishes. Oh, and don't let the screen door hit you on your way out...

50 posted on 09/08/2009 9:55:55 PM PDT by scottiemom ("As a Texas public school teacher, I would highly recommend private school")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

There are pimples on my ass with more intellectual and moral gravity than ron kirk.


51 posted on 09/08/2009 9:56:02 PM PDT by FreeRadical (I am not a Right Wing Extremist. I am an American.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m happy to be from Texas. I’m also happy that my 5-year-old didn’t have to watch Obama’s speech.


52 posted on 09/08/2009 9:56:08 PM PDT by RaiderRose (Obama has cured my husband's political apathy.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Is it just me or do others feel that the main accomplishment of the Obama Administration is going to be to drive a very wide wedge between blacks and other races and ignite race wars that won’t end for years and years?


53 posted on 09/08/2009 10:12:12 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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To: lonster

” Hello folks. meet the newest dixie chick. “

My thoughts exactly.
Doubt there will be much said about this nationally but I don’t doubt there will be an uproar on local Texas talk radio.

Hope he sold his place here and plans to stay away.


54 posted on 09/08/2009 10:14:04 PM PDT by sawmill trash (Not ALL liberals are rude and arrogant ... some are arrogant and rude)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m embarrassed that useful idiot leftists get elected in Texas’ largest cities. Fortunately, we who live in the smaller ones still fight communism.

- JP


55 posted on 09/08/2009 10:24:39 PM PDT by Josh Painter ("Government cannot make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise." - Sarah Heath Palin)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Ron Kirk had better reserve his embarrassment for his own stupidity and blindness. Kirk is the kind of worthless enabler who would stand by poopooing 0bama's critics while 0bama used the public school system to build his own Hitler, er, 0bama Youth.

Screw off, Kirk.

56 posted on 09/08/2009 10:30:42 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

SOB should never return to Texas. What a gutless wonder.


57 posted on 09/08/2009 10:47:24 PM PDT by Brucifer (Proud member of the Double Secret Reloading Underground.)
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To: kcvl

Damn....I see a pattern here.


58 posted on 09/08/2009 10:49:29 PM PDT by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: kcvl

Thanks for the picture! I remember who he is now after seeing the picture and the controversy, one of many she had.


59 posted on 09/08/2009 11:11:55 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If he is so “embarrassed” he can “do the right thing” and never come back to Texas.

We don’t need him or any more idiot 0bamaworshiping Corruptocrats here.


60 posted on 09/08/2009 11:12:07 PM PDT by Nahanni
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