executed for treason, and I'd happily pull the switch myself.
--- In [email protected], Eric Dondero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Libertarians like Jeff Daeill, Guy McClendon and Paul Ireland have
said far worse about Bush in the past. Where's the apologies from
them? I'm no fan of Democrats. But I gotta admit this guys got some
class, apologizing for his remarks.
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> Official Apologizes For Saying Bush Should Be Shot Between Eyes
POSTED: 2:27 pm EDT June 1, 2006
> UPDATED: 10:25 am EDT June 2, 2006
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> NEW YORK -- State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized
Thursday for a "beyond dumb" remark about a fellow Democrat putting "a
bullet between the president's eyes."
> Hevesi called a mea culpa press conference hours after putting his
foot in his mouth at the Queens College commencement.
> "I apologize to the president of the United States" and to the
fellow state politician, Sen. Charles Schumer, Hevesi said. "I am not
a person of violence.
> "I am apologizing as abjectly as I can. There is no excuse for it.
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> At the news conference, a contrite Hevesi repeated what he recalled
saying in the speech. The comptroller said he was merely trying to
convey that Schumer has strength and courage to stand up to the
president on major policy issues.
> According to a videotape of the speech, Hevesi said:
> "The man who, how do I phrase this diplomatically, who will put a
bullet between the president's eyes if he could get away with it. The
toughest senator, the best representative. A great, great member of
the Congress of the United States."
> Hevesi said he hadn't been in touch with the White House but he
hoped his apology reached President Bush.
> Hevesi, a longtime professor of government and politics at Queens
College before becoming comptroller, also referred to his comments as
"remarkably stupid" and "incredibly moronic."
> "I do speak extemporaneously," he said. "And I've never said
anything like this."
> Schumer spokeswoman Risa Heller said the senator was satisfied with
Hevesi's apology.
> "Comptroller Hevesi was trying to make a point," Heller said. "He
went way too far, and it was inappropriate and wrong. He has
apologized to both the senator and the president, and we believe that
ends the matter."
> A White House spokesman did not immediately return a telephone
message seeking comment Thursday. But at least one Republican seized
on Hevesi's words.
> "Threats against the president are no joke, and this incident raises
real concerns about Alan Hevesi's fitness to hold public office," GOP
Comptroller nominee J. Christopher Callaghan said during his
acceptance speech at the Republican state convention in Hempstead, N.Y.
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