Pete Stark - apologizes

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But I'm sure he supports the troops. Far be it for me to question his patriotism. :roll:

EDIT - Congressman Stark has aplogized. Good for him. :thumbsup:
 

randym431

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Sometimes I think all sanity is lost. Then, someone like this guy gives me hope everyone has not been taken over by the pod people.

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Pabster

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Stark is a national disgrace. :thumbsdown: :| :thumbsdown:

I wonder if Reid and Pelosi and company will sign a letter asking for his resignation?
 

Craig234

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Pete Stark is an outstanding congressman, one of the best. He's my Congressman; I've talked with him a number of times and visited his office in Washington.

He is very well educated and founded a decent sized bank. During the Vietnam war, he put a huge peace sign on the side of the building, and he ran for Congress largely because of that issue, and has been there ever since.

He's a vet, and he's against the terrible use of the military - the misuse - by the Bush administrations, and I was proud to watch him tell high school kids he hoped that they would not enlist under the current president.

He's a pit dog, and the chickenhawks don't like that. He has a mouth on him to them - and the right can criticize it only if they show me they equally condemned Cheney's 'go F yourself'. (I'll criticize both of them for the profanity).

He's also a specialist in the politics of health care, and every year introduces a bill for a constitutional amendment for the right of every American to health care.

He values democracy - he regularly holds townhall meetings to meet the citizens and answer questions.

I don't think his comment here about Bush's amusement is literally accurate, but I think it accurately reflects the level of Bush's concern about the troops - about zero. We learned what we need to know about Bush's respect for other when he accepted the jump ahead of 500 others on a waiting list for a national guard spot in the states, to avoid going to a war he was in favor of for others to battle in, putting someone else from the list into harm's way.

Stark has been named 'most liberal member of Congress', and that's a good thing IMO.

Excellent Congressman.
 

Exterous

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Originally posted by: randym431
Sometimes I think all sanity is lost. Then, someone like this guy gives me hope everyone has not been taken over by the pod people.

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Don't worry, its only a matter of time before he is....replaced

Man, sometimes I think Clancy had the right idea in Executive Orders
 

Jaskalas

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Tell it like it really is.... eh? With such vile vitriol it?s a curiosity that blood has not been spilled among us.
 
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Originally posted by: Craig234
Pete Stark is an outstanding congressman, one of the best. He's my Congressman; I've talked with him a number of times and visited his office in Washington.

He is very well educated and founded a decent sized bank. During the Vietnam war, he put a huge peace sign on the side of the building, and he ran for Congress largely because of that issue, and has been there ever since.

He's a vet, and he's against the terrible use of the military - the misuse - by the Bush administrations, and I was proud to watch him tell high school kids he hoped that they would not enlist under the current president.

He's a pit dog, and the chickenhawks don't like that. He has a mouth on him to them - and the right can criticize it only if they show me they equally condemned Cheney's 'go F yourself'. (I'll criticize both of them for the profanity).

He's also a specialist in the politics of health care, and every year introduces a bill for a constitutional amendment for the right of every American to health care.

He values democracy - he regularly holds townhall meetings to meet the citizens and answer questions.

I don't think his comment here about Bush's amusement is literally accurate, but I think it accurately reflects the level of Bush's concern about the troops - about zero. We learned what we need to know about Bush's respect for other when he accepted the jump ahead of 500 others on a waiting list for a national guard spot in the states, to avoid going to a war he was in favor of for others to battle in, putting someone else from the list into harm's way.

Stark has been named 'most liberal member of Congress', and that's a good thing IMO.

Excellent Congressman.
Intelligent? Excellent? He sounds like he's drunk or high:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGaNR9dVPM&eurl
 

Craig234

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Originally posted by: Jaskalas
Tell it like it really is.... eh? With such vile vitriol it?s a curiosity that blood has not been spilled among us.

And you look at the recent righty comments and threads on the democrats - Nancy Pelosi is titled in the thread topic a 'piece of shit' (POS); in this thread, Stark is a "douche".

The always vapid Pabster has been fond lately of calling any democrat he doesn't like a "national disgrace" (I guess having one name to call them keeps it simple).

Haven't seen word one from you about that, of course, in your usual partisan double standard.
 

sandorski

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The Neo-Cons/Republicans are melting faster than Arctic sea ice. This guy's words are becoming the Mainstream view on US Streets.
 

umbrella39

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Originally posted by: Tab
HA! I LOL'd! :D

It's fun to see all the conservatives get riled up ;)

Exactly. You have to really love Bush big time for these comments to hurt. The desperate scavenge for umbrage material continues another day. :D
 

Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
His comments didnt upset me... they were just plain stupid.
After 7 years of Bush one would think we'd have gotten use to stupid comments and I think we have, we just haven't gotten over our tendency to demonstrate disengenious outrage whenever given the chance.
 

Lemon law

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Although said in somewhat frustration, Pete Stark spoke 100% the truth. But its an old old argument. You can have guns or butter and not both.

And we can see which GWB has chosen. When will this insanity end?