lonereb,

I believe your moniker says more about where you are from as well as your feelings and beliefs regarding Blacks.

Obama says he regrets 'Polish death camp' remark

The truth be;

"Americans regret their 2008 vote, vow not to make the same mistake again this year."

OBAMA: Now admit to the world that Mexico did absolutely nothing to fight Nazi Germany during WW2.

More Russians died in WW2 than Mexicans living in Mexico at that time. Around 25 million.

But Poland suffered the most casualties in WW2 percentage wise.

smart Americans regret every bush vote. If Jeb hadn't given his brother Florida, monkey boy bush would never have gotten to the white house, we wouldn't have invaded the wrong country after 9/11 to the tune of $10 billion a week for 10 years, the horrible tax cuts would never have happened and the economy would still be in great shape, if not completely out of debt by now, as was projected when clinton left office.

Well trying to figure out that "lonereb", because that could mean a lot, is that rebel? Midwest, Chicago, blacks...your a racist polack!

Still just one more example of foot in mouth ignorance.

*A Right Winger's Response* Get a rope!

*Everyone else's* Apology Accepted.

This article is therefore also inaccurate by claiming that Karski had been in a "Death Camp" when reality he was in a "Durchgangslager (transistion camp).

Yeah I bet the Nazi's never killed anyone there. *rolls eyes*

Yeah well I don't buy it. This Polack lived in the midwest and I know just how racist blacks in the Chicago area are.

Oh the irony just drips off this post. Are you really this dense?

Still just one more example of foot in mouth ignorance.

No competition to the guy below who I quoted for you. :)

1. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."—Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

2. "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."—Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

3. "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"—Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

4. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."—Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004

5. "Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican."—declining to answer reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001

6. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.''—Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001

7. "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense."—Washington, D.C., April 18, 2006

8. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005

9. "I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle. He's bigger than that."—discussing former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as quoted by the Sun newspaper, June 27, 2007

10. "And so, General, I want to thank you for your service. And I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq."—meeting with Army Gen. Ray Odierno, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2008

11. "We ought to make the pie higher."—South Carolina Republican debate, Feb. 15, 2000

12. "There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again."—Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

13. "And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it."—speaking on National Public Radio, Jan. 29, 2007

14. "We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers."—Houston, Sept. 6, 2000

15. "It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet."—Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

16. "One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."—U.S. News & World Report, Jan. 3, 2000

17. "People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you."—Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002

18. "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."—CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000

19. "I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend."—on the prospect of visiting Denmark, Washington, D.C., June 29, 2005

20. "I think it's really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to—the beauty of playing baseball."—Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 2006

21. "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."—LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

22. "You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president. No president wants to be a war president, but I am one."—Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 26, 2006

23. "There's a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' "—Boston, Oct. 3, 2000

24. "They misunderestimated me."—Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

25. "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."—Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008

Just another painful example of incompetence on the part of our present ruler. Most probably he did not know where Poland was before receiving presidential briefings and traveling to Europe after his election. Remember , in not one of the 57 states he claimed to have visited while campaigning was he ask about Poland, so it's just not on his mind.

Warsaw has been waging a campaign for years against phrases such as "Polish death camps" or "Polish concentration camps" to refer to Auschwitz, Treblinka and other German killing sites. The language deeply offends Polish sensitivities because Poles not only had no role in running the camps, but were considered racially inferior by the Germans and were themselves murdered in them in huge numbers.

The Polish are trying to rewrite history if they are trying to avoid responsibility for the death camps. Poles were rabidly anti-semitic long before the war and eagerly collaborated with the Nazis. It was no accident that a huge proportion of Jews were murdered in Poland and that the worst death camps were located there.

Readabook........do you live in Skokie IL......do you wear a Yamulka, have you ever told a Polack joke (bet you have, most Jews I know have told some to me, they seem to relish in it)?

People, these camps were located in Poland, but not because the Polish wanted them, the Nazis did it for logistical reasons, what is so difficult to understand about that. So, yes, it is understandable that Obama referred to them as "Polish death camps" because of their location, while it is also understandable that he did not mean to indicate Polish responsibility in their operation. C'mon mouth breathers, connect the dots.

How do you connect dots.

Roadhouse Blues

People, these camps were located in Poland, but not because the Polish wanted them, the Nazis did it for logistical reasons, what is so difficult to understand about that. ...... C'mon mouth breathers, connect the dots.

Roadhouse - they may not wanted the Nazi's according to you, but they allowed them one way or the other, you cannot change the truth.

It is pretty clear that those that allowed it to happen, did condone it through their lack of action. Does the shoe fit you? Or are you just talking and doing nothing. Connect the dots.

Billy.....: "Roadhouse - they may not wanted the Nazi's according to you, but they allowed them one way or the other, you cannot change the truth."

.............Sure, they ALLOWED it, the same way the British and French allowed the Nazis to drive them into the sea at Dunqurque (Dunkirk if you prefer), the same way the French allowed the Nazis to occupy Paris, the same way the British allowed the Nazis to bomb London, do you think you can understand that?

Hell Off Wheels, I'll have my 8-year old grandson send you a crayon and instructions for connecting the dots.

ACK! NOT another open-mic mistake!

Jeff - that list was awesome! Thanks for the memories and the laughs!!!

How dare any of you obvious Obama haters say a word? Your forefathers made everything you have possible by committing as yet unaddressed genocide and ethnic cleansing. You people really should get your karmic comeuppance.

I'm glad Obama apologized in a thoughtful direct manner. That seems appropriate. I'm sure it was unintentional and quite frankly, Obama was simply reading a script on a teleprompter that someone else wrote for him. No slight on Obama's teleprompter habit, that's just the way things are. Every president has several speech writers.

However, what's odd is the delay it took to respond. After days of tepid responses form the White House Press Secretary, I'm glad they finally did something appropriate. Maybe Obama was too busy with his six fund raisers yesterday, or maybe he was focusing like a laser beam on the economy (NOT), and finally just had time now to sign a letter that someone prepared for him.

And regarding verbal gaffs, this guy gets quite a pass from the Media, something never afforded to a republican. Even Joe Biden, a complete buffoon, is never ridiculed for his completely asinine comments. Dan Quayle was mocked and ridiculed for tell a student he misspelled "potato" because it was misspelled on the card the Teacher prepared for him. Instead of focusing on the teacher, the media and Hollywood carried on for weeks, even featuring a scene on Murphy Brown where a dump truck unloaded a pile of Potatoes at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

So, yes, a verbal gaff. Not an issue, it happens. But the oddly slow response and the complete pass by the media is disturbing. There's an incredibly disgusting and clearly visible set of double standards practiced by the media regarding coverage of Democrats and Republicans. Thank goodness the country is becoming more aware of this.

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It is pretty clear that those that allowed it to happen, did condone it through their lack of action

So it's pretty clear that if a woman stops fighting the rapist, that she is condoning herself being raped?

At some point in time, it becomes about survival moreso than anything else. Not everyone likes the idea of going down in a blaze of glory, screaming defiance into the eyes of the demon come to take you...

John, and all the other detractors for that matter, I'd sure like to see you do better. You clearly have no idea what the President of the United States has on his desk every day. You have no idea. What a bunch of pitiful backseat drivers and Sunday Quarterbacks. Best President we've had in decades! Quite possibly the best since Lincoln. Pretty soon, people are going to get past all the dazzle of the GOP and recognize the manure for what it is....

He's only the best president we've had in decades IF you are one of his blind supporters. What makes his gaffes more excusable than any other POTUS? Face it--you either love him and believe him to be the best thing since sliced bread, or you're a realist who sees that the guy has flaws and isn't the Messiah. There isn't one POTUS in American history who has/had a perfect track record.

Poland is a very antisemitic place as is most of Europe. More people were killed in Poland than at any other death camp. Poland HAD the biggest population of jewish citizens. It was a death camp and its too bad Polish feel differently and want to hide the truth. Poland should be apologizing to humanity for what happened too there own people who happened to be the wrong religion and had the wrong color hair as in Polish are blond and blue eyed and Nazi Germany and Poland were partners in trying to create the blue eyed blond super race.

So I could care less what Poland has to say...It was a death camp and why skirt around it. It was on POLISH LAND ..Gee how many Jewish people live in Poland now NOT VERY MANY.

So yes Obama is wrong for apologizing to the Poland. He is not wrong for saying what has been said all along. Polish people just don't like Obama

This is just an excuse for the predominatly american polish who are catholic too find yet another excuse to dislike the president because the catholic church is mad about having to provide birth control.

Oh the catholic church also doesn't admit its wrong doing and antisemitc belief system that helped Nazi Germany justify the POLISH DEATH CAMPS during world war II so why should Poland.

And many history books call them Polish death camps because thats where there were and why the places existed...Poland just needs to apologize to the Jewish Community..Its long overdo

And a great many Polish people ended up in it.

Ashamed of President Obama? If Romney is elected, you will really know shame...and regrets!

The Nazi's considered the Poles subhuman, so I doubt there was a whole lot of collaboration.

@readabook:
so... is it Oswiecim i Brzezinka? or Auschwitz-Birekenau?...
Rogoznica? ...oops that was Gross-Rosen; in Silesia, part of Germany at the time... strange how the Poles, who had been invaded by the Nazis in September, 1939, could have built a concentration camp on what had been German territory for about 700 years.
Strange how the Nation of Israel and Yad Veshem lists non-Jewish Poles in Poland at the top of "Righteous Among the Nations"
How strange it is that the Nazi command structure laid the plans and oversaw the entire operation of Konzentrationslagern throughout the Reich.

Strange how the American Jewish Committee published the following statement:

The American Jewish Committee wishes to express appreciation to Poland for hosting the commemorative event to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and gratitude to Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski for his eloquent and stirring words at the ceremony.

I'm a non-Jewish American, living in Poland for several years now, and that after over 2 decades in Germany.

Maybe you should read this book "Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz" written by Jan Tomasz Gross...

Here is a few links that talk about the terrible treatment Holocaust survivors recieved at the hands of Polish citizens...http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1706315,00.html

Or another link that talks about this issue

http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/06/poland_and_anti-semitism

@ Readabook-Poles collaborated with Nazis too create a blonde haired blue-eyed race?

Where to begin? This is the first time I have ever heard of this conspiracy theory

Nazis considered Slavs to be sub-human. Maybe fit for labor, but not equals--I think events confirm that fact as thousands of Poles died in the camps.

Oh and by the way--this Polish-American and her family are have dark hair and brown eyes. Northern Poles tend to be fairer because of the proximity to Scandinavia (a history of Nordic invaders). My family came from the south.

I am also not Catholic (Grandpa gave it up long ago), I'm not anti-semitic and I support Obama.

Your blanket statements about what Poles are and are not make you sound like a xenophobic crazy person.

... I wonder why it says, over the entrance to Auschwitz: "Arbeit Macht Frei" and not "prace uwalnia"...

@readabook-I have read your links and they mostly seem to be about the post-war behavior in a raped and demoralized country. And Gross's take seems to be controversial even within the Jewish community. There is nothing about a Nazi-Polish plan to make a blue-eyed race.

I have no doubt that anti-semitism was thick in Poland as well as all of Europe. But you seem to have a dislike of Poles that extends to convicting them of conspiracies--when most of the crimes discussed stem from fear and desperation.

The Nazi's considered the Poles subhuman, so I doubt there was a whole lot of collaboration.

There was collaboration. Not as much as in France but there was. Every time there's an occupation someone collaborates. It's human nature. There were even a small number Jews who collaborated with Nazis in the Ghetto to improve their living conditions. Sad as it is it's true.

One of those jews that collaborated was named George Soros. Or at least that's his name now.

Waaa waaa waaa... the Nazis considered the Poles subhuman. It's not [their] fault.

The Nazis considered all non-Aryans subhuman. The Poles were antisemitic long before the Nazis came in. They collaborated, assisted, facilitated and enabled the Nazis to murder millions.

Yes, this is what Mr. President Obama meant.

@readabook and firethemall- There is a reason that Poland had the largest population of Jewish people before and during WWII. If either of you would do any research or really know your world history, then you would truly know that the Jewish people were always welcomed in Poland. Hence, the large numbers of Jewish people living there. They had always been free to practice their Faith for hundreds of years. That is why many Jews moved to Poland long before WWII. This is one of the reasons why Hitler hated Poland.

I know right! When he wins the elections maybe he get his victory speech right.

The White House website has publications that are full of errors. One is that he credits Hispanics with being 11% of the US military, then claims that there are 1.33 million Hispanics in the military. The entire active US military is around 1.5 million.

Maybe it is because Mr. Obama and his "speech" writers cannot get their figures straight. And just think how Mr. Obama spins the economy and unemployment records.

Examples:

1. During the 2008 Presidential election campaign: "Let's see now, I have visited 57 States and 1 left to go.....".

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

2. Or maybe the Olympic date with Jesse Owens participation:

"They were U.S. Olympians in 1938, with Jesse Owens," said the president, "Think about that -- 1938 -- '48, excuse me. I'm sorry. I'm making them even older."

So what was it Mr. President: 1938 or 1948? The answer: neither! Flag: illegal shift….time shift, that is.

It was the Berlin Olympics of 1936 where Jesse Owens won four gold medals.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/obama-olympic-oops-090118867.html

Maybe he should apologize to the American people about his Treyvon Martin comments WITHOUT knowing the facts of the case and sparking RACIAL CONTROVERSY between the American people.

No one cares. Cultic persuasion is rampant with the Obama followers. They just do not know it yet.

This doesn't seem like that much of a slip-up. He didn't say that Poland committed the attrocities. He called the camp Polish because it was in Poland. ...and then he explained his mistake and apologized. I have a hard time believing anyone was really emotionally damaged by that. I told this story to my Holocaust survivor grandpa, and he just chuckled. He has always called Amersfoort a Dutch prison camp, because it was in the Netherlands. It is just a slight misnomer, not a serious insult.

I was. I'm Polish. I lived with the ethnic crap coming out of the mouths of northern Blacks all my life and I don't believe he is the least bit sorry.

@ Readabook-Poles collaborated with Nazis too create a blonde haired blue-eyed race?

Where to begin? This is the first time I have ever heard of this conspiracy theory

Nazis considered Slavs to be sub-human. Maybe fit for labor, but not equals--I think events confirm that fact as thousands of Poles died in the camps.

Oh and by the way--this Polish-American and her family are have dark hair and brown eyes. Northern Poles tend to be fairer because of the proximity to Scandinavia (a history of Nordic invaders). My family came from the south.

I am also not Catholic (Grandpa gave it up long ago), I'm not anti-semitic and I support Obama.

Your blanket statements about what Poles are and are not make you sound like a xenophobic crazy person.

From the comments I've seen out of you so far, that does not surprise me. I think you'd be offended by anything the president seen. Also, the fact that you used this terminology

I lived with the ethnic crap coming out of the mouths of northern Blacks all my life

makes you unqualified to decide what is politically correct.

caselyjane ------ Why do lonereb 's comments describing his personal experiences as a Pole make him " unqualified to decide what is politically correct"? Could your insensitivity to the plight of others be clouding your judgement.

He is unqualified to judge what is politically correct because he makes sweeping generalizations about "Northern Blacks."

in case you missed it, there is some, um, subtle racism there.

You apparently did not have family that lived in Poland during this time. You have no idea of what you are talking about and need to just learn history or talk to those that have gone through it before making a fool of yourself!

Myers, seems you need to take up learning history, because that's exactly what happened. Some Polish people were more than complicit to let up knowing where Jews were, because when the Jews were kicked out, sometimes they would luck out and get the property. There's stories of Jews being killed when they came back after World War II, because the Poles didn't want to give up what they had received during the war.

There's also stories of Polish people saving Jewish lives during the war as well, but when you see a spade, you call it a spade. There were terrible acts on both sides of the war, and no country that participated was truly innocent (destruction of Dresden, firebombing of Tokyo, etc).

Before you start calling people fools, you need a history lesson yourself.

Enlighten us, Myers....what are you talking about?

When the war began and the Soviets invaded Poland - yes, on September 17, 1939 - the Jews of the then eastern Polish cities now in Lithuania, Belarus, & Ukraine greeted the Red Army and collaborated with the communist invaders. Poles were taken to Soviet gulags with the complicity of Jews, many of whom were communists. Indeed, many of the commissars (political officers) in the Red Army and the Cheka/NKVD/Smersh were ethnic Jews who imprisoned and murdered Poles. The Katyn Forest Massacre of 25,700 Polish Army officers was their most notorious deed.

If Jews had it so BAD in Poland since, at least, the 11th century A.D., why did they stay. Why did so many immigrate there from the inquisitions and the pogroms in the West? As for Poland's partitions in the latter part of the 18th century, Jews were rather indifferent to what was happening to their host country and nation. Some, actually, collaborated with the invaders - Prussia, Russia, & Austria - because their own allegiance was convertible to whom ever was in power because that's what was lucrative for them. When Poland was reborn on November 11, 1918, there was room for Jews in Polish society to be sure and they decided to stay in Poland. Most Jews were successful surgeons, physicians, lawyers, professors, publishers, bankers, accountants, and businessmen, etc. Some were members of Poland's Sejm (parliament) and others were high-ranking military officers, including being advisers to Poland's leader at the time, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski who made overt oppressive anti-Semitism (most often occurring in what is now Ukraine & Belarus) punishable under the law. Jews prospered, but some, such as those who collaborated with the invading Soviets in 1939, took advantage of Poles, especially when it came to loans, buying on credit, and Jewish tavern owners allowed their addicted customers to unwittingly run up the tab and then they charged huge interest rates for the money owed. This is what angered people - the quarrel was economic, not religious.

Despite unsettled business from before the war, there were multitudes of Polish-Jewish friendships/acquaintances. The Polish Armia Krajowa (Home Army) had a law, for the duration of the war, forbidding any szmalcownik (treacherous profiteer) from betraying Jews to the Germans under penalty of death. Yes, there were relatively few anti-Jewish collaborators who sold out their neighbors, but there were, also, Jewish Kapo collaborators in the ghettos and camps and some of those Kapos even persecuted Poles who were internees alongside Jews. Poles, on the other hand, had an underground railroad and safe-haven network under the cryptonym of Zegota which saved tens of thousands of Jews who were more than 10% of the Polish pre-war population and, due to Semitic characteristics (and, often, refusal to shave and wear inconspicuous clothes) difficult to hide, even in rectories, monasteries, and convents. Jews were, also, welcome as members of the Home Army and half the team responsible for the assassination of the SS "Executioner of Warsaw" Franz Kutschera in front of Gestapo Headquarters were of Jewish heritage.

The whole story - much, much morethan I have written - needs to be known, and those virulently anti-Polish Jewish Zionists who paint Polish history with a crude wide brush, using only one color, need to move out of the way and allow for the whole truth about the Holocaust/Polocaust to be taught in the schools. The chief Jewish distortionist in all of this is Elie Wiesel and then others of his ilk.

Don,

So you're a "Birther." Why am I not surprised.

Like I said to "dobi" and "John Bayner,": "My suggestion to both of you is to stay in school. And do some traveling to other countries as tourists, you might learn something about the world and the people around you."

don is probably so dumb he would call Seal an african-american.

If I gave him a world map, I doubt he could point Kenya on it.

Sure he could. It's just east of that 57th state.

I'll wager Kenyans are more versed in the history of the world than isolationist Americans.

Fool!!!

Yeah, whatever. Time to move on and to steal a very popular refrain used by liberals and democrats in a past election campaign:

"It's the economy stupid!"

These two comments in response to a cogent and coherent comment on the opposing visions for the future of our country are clear demonstrations of the cause of the downfall of the USA as a world power. If myers and deerslayer have their way the US will no longer be the shining example of democracy for the world.

dls you want an American history lesson try looking up the Know-nothing party in American politics. and their friends the KKK. then read the KKK's platform and you will find that Catholics are third after the Blacks and Jews on their list of enemies. And for a long time at the beginning of the last century this country was very happy to discriminate against Catholics and slavs. And I remember being older than you when a US Congressman got up in the House of Representatives. He ranted for quite awhile on the dangers of those Mongoloid East European Papists and the house applauded.So intruth I believe people like you would be happy to discriminate against me. I think your type has just been underground waiting for the chance.

dis:

Very simply and effectively, you have told it as it is. Thank you.

wow... myers really told you...lol

wow dls... i guess myers really told you... lol

Most of us don't hate him because he's black. We would have happily supported Herman Cain had he become the Republican nominee, which obviously would have required he have a better knowledge of foreign affairs. We don't even hate him per se, other than his arrogance. What we really hate are his policies.

dls you sound as though you have just enough collage to presume the value of your own intellect but not enough to realize that wisdom is understanding how little you know.

Excuse me, but the word Slavic, being a proper noun, is capitalized.

WOW dls. About the only thing you didn't call the Republicans is "infidels". You're a little over the top with your sermon and fear mongering there.

It's a book written for Fox news minions who can't think for themselves, better go get a copy before they run out.

Not only that, John, the 'facts' in it have been shown to not actually be facts. But that won't get in the way of the uneducated right wingers who post here.

So much disrespect against the American President and the Polish people being posted here. Some of you people are overreacting to an official, public apology. As if you haven't ever had a public slip of the tongue in your entire life, eh? This is a matter of semantics. Would there be such a racially indignified reaction had President Obama, instead of saying the, 'Polish death camp,' had said, "the death camp filled with Poles"?

Depending on the cultural linguistics, the interpretation of the spoken can vary widely according to what ethnic you belong to, that make the translation from concisely-worded English phrases to your own mother tongue...

Obama supporters should never allow facts or logic to get in the way of supporting their hero.

edmundburkeson, given your remark about facts or logic getting in the way, it raises the legitimate question: Who do YOU support, and WHY?

Like you have such a profound comments history.

You obviously are a child. At the time the congressman was ranting about the dangers of the Mongoloid East European Papist the Secreatary of State was Polish.

if you mean Albright, she's Czech.

No, the Dems are the enemy

rcsdinthehills: Nobody among Poles is being ridiculous because the question is about the precision of language for posterity's sake. If an imprecise phrase is repeated, soon it becomes truth for the next generation who will unwittingly call it history, ignorant of the fact that their knowledge is actually twistory - twisted history. Language carries weight, for none of us will be alive in the future to answer or explain the stupid, all too often appearing phrase, especially in speech: "Do you know what I mean?". Mean what you say, or write, and no one will ever need to guess. A feeling of certainty is a good one because one knows, even after generations have passed, that due to precise language, one is in touch with the truth of the time period in question.

You mean Biden the Dan Quayle of the Dems

annpearson:

And of course, you would know this. And I'm sure the Lord will listen and respond appropriately to your request for delivery as you call one of his own a disrespectful name. Silly girl!

carolyn ------ Isn't calling someone " Silly " , disrespectful? Better watch out you may be judged by the standards you use to judge others.

Me thinks you have a H... O. for the folks in Southside Chicago, lonereb..Poor lonereb. That must be a heavy load of hatred you carry for those groups. It will eat you alive. Dump it and get on with your life; lighten your load.

Definition of REGRET

transitive verb

1
a : to mourn the loss or death of b : to miss very much

2
: to be very sorry for <regrets his mistakes>

And as far as the teleprompter goes, are you kidding me? I thought you didn't want Bush brought up?

administrators wife

I regret your ignorance; however it's not my fault.

Regret never assumes the burden of responsibility, legally or otherwise. That is why businesses and politicians use the term.

One never says I apologize that your family member or friend died unless they are assuming guilt; they regret they died.

To say "I regret my mistake" is a wimp idiots way of saying "Oops, but it's not my fault, too bad so sad"

Either purchase a worthful dictionary or don't attempt to interject your own ignorance into the one you have.

Obama has had many opportunities to stand up and be a man; taking responsibility for his own words, actions and leadership.

However, that never seems to be the case with him. Obama can, does and will find fault with everyone else, Bush, Congress, Republican, Democrats the United States as a nation and will apologize to anyone and everyone including foreign terrorists for everyone else but himself.

Exactly when if ever will this little girl stand up and take responsibility for his own actions, words and leadership.

Sadly the answer is probably never. He's a tool not leader. I'm an old Marine Sergeant, if he was my 1st Lue, I'd just say, sweetheart you just stay right here and we'll come and get you when it's over, it's safer for all of us that way.

Holy LMAO!!

John - "Worthful" ISN'T a word. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA! Using a made up word in the same sentence with the word dictionary is the DEFINITION of irony. Hahahahahahaha!!

FYI -He said he regrets his error. By stating he made an error he is assuming responsibility.

Your post is just idiotic. Have you ever heard the president speak extemporaneously?? I have. He's great.

Sammy

Buy a dictionary you moron or just Google it.

Sammy

It's because of ignorant morons such as yourself that there is a traitor in the White House; who has violated the US Constitution on numerous occasions, ordering execution of a US citizen without due process, declaring an Executive Order were the President can assume control of any business if he so fits, accepting and passing a law which allows the military to detain (i.e. imprison) any citizen the government or it's representatives desire without having to divulge the reason for imprisonment.

You are too incompetent and ignorant to be trusted with a vote.

If someone recognizes and apologises for their error, I forget about it right away, no matter whose side they're on. If they try to tell me that they were right all along (Paul Revere story, coughcoughcough), that's when I start my eye-rolling.

rerere.

Your remarks and the wording you chose risks making other fine Libertarians appear like malicious, adolescent morons. Please prove to us that you're not.

Currently, you sound like a Tea Party, high school drop-out, a right-wing troll. Are you?

I graduated High School and do not support the right in any way. I think someone is offended I made fun of their God...

Ron Paul 2012

RON PAUL 2012

And beleive me, thats all he knows to do is Apologize! Its called a poor excuse.

Bush dont owe us an apology for the start of the wars it isnt his fault dictators in forgien countries want to run over other small countries. and if any of you remember the Twin towers didnt blow up on their own those in iraq and Afganistan attacked them just as the Japenese did Pearl Harbor on Dec 7 1941 back then our citizens had patriotism to volenter or stand behind our fighting men unlike you cowards that keep putting them down

So well said Dean2082. Really. You told us. Er sumthin. *rolls eyes*

PS- Most of us who don't back the warS that President Bush started, support the TROOPS 100%. We stand behind our fighting men AND women who serve our country. But we do not blame President Obama for every wrong the he hasn't been able to fix in four years.

You can keep blaming Bush for whatever you like--but you can't blame him for sending planes into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. What would you be saying about him had he DONE NOTHING AFTER THE LOSS OF ALL THE INNOCENT AMERICANS???? By blaming Bush for sending troops into the Middle East and saying it was for NOTHING, you are essentially spitting on the lives of those people lost on 9/11. I pity all you who have already forgotten those Americans.

Dean and Marge, I am surprised that anyone still links the 9/11 attacks to the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan. The attacks were planned and carried out by a terrorist group called Al-Qaida. The group, comprised of radicals from many countries was not even allowed to operate in Iraq untill after we took out Saddam Hussein. The majority of the attackers were from Egypt (a powerful U.S. ally), and Saudi Arabia, (another powerful ally whose leaders were on friendly, and I mean hugging and kissing friendly, terms with the Bush family due to their overlapping oil interests.) We did not go to war with Egypt or Saudi Arabia but, with Iraq who needed to be changed, true, and Afghanistan whose only real crime was, being the country that Bin laden was living in. I have no political agenda with this comment, I am tired of both sides of the aisle but, come on, facts are facts and, repeating old lies and misinformation hoping to make them true is so last decade.

"Bleeding liberals"? Of all the fevered rants I've seen on this site, yours may be the dumbest. At least half of the founders of this great nation were people you would consider "liberals." At least half of the people presently living, voting, and trying to stay alive in this great nation are people you would consider "liberals." And if you ever removed your head from your a** long enough to read the Sermon on the Mount (you know: all that stuff about forgiving, about feeding the hungry, about visiting the imprisoned), you would probably consider the founder of Christianity to be a "bleeding liberal" -- literally, in His case. You need to read more, you need to think more, you need to turn off Rush, and most of all you need to lose your hatred of people whose point of view you don't share.

Not sure why anyone is blaming obama for this since I am sure bush put the words on his mouth and forced him to say it against his well.

Wilmer

Oh how easy it is for the addled of mind to say Christ is all about LOOOOVE and how we should all give and give and give. Unless of course they are the ones who have to give. It is better to receive than give right?

The word WORK is translationed 420 times in the Bible / 70 times in the New Testament.

And how easy it is for Liberals to just forget for convenience; as long as it's someone else they can take from:

2Th_3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

I'm not one to say we should not be compassionate and help each other; but if one is going to sit on their rear end and wallow in self pity. Go a head and starve if your that stupid, one less mouth, more for the others, who are willing to work.

John93921 said:

"...if your that stupid..."

John, are you acquainted with the concept of irony?