Reply #12: I wrote a letter to Stark quoting a letter I had written defending him [View All]

[Newkophile]

After Stark apologized the day of the above letter, I wrote the following to Stark at his website:

It seems to me that every time a Democrat stands up and says what he or she really feels to the point that the Republican opposition is mortified and demanding of a retraction, the initially brave, forthright Democrat then capitulates and apologizes. For heavens sake, why?

Below is a letter I wrote this morning in response to a right winger who characterized you as a "worthless fuck":

"Let’s look at what really happened here. Stark went “over the top” with his comment about American soldiers dying for the “President’s amusement”. But as with many extreme statements by people on both sides of the aisle, ask yourself whether there is a glimmer of truth here. After ostensibly going to war in Iraq because of WMD, the threat of a “mushroom cloud”, etc., Bush had the audacity to joke onstage in front of his supporters (obviously as he would not have dared to perform such shtick in front of a less idolatrous crowd) about the lack of evidence of WMD. “Where’s the WMD?” he asked, looking under a table, a chair, etc. Very funny!!!! (not). Americans are dying where they have no business being, and this commander in chief is so terribly amused.

Is there perhaps a history of joking by this President when it is totally inappropriate? I recall when a death row victim requested clemency of her sentence when Bush was Texas governor, he mimicked her supposed pleas for mercy. Count me as one liberal who is not against capital punishment, but when a life is about to be taken, should one engage in stand-up comedy?

This President is a man of low character as he has proven on so many occasions. When he apologizes for reading “My Pet Goat” while people are burning alive or jumping to their deaths, or perhaps when he admits that attempting to play the guitar while people are drowning in New Orleans, maybe then, Stark should consider a statement of regret for what he said on the floor of Congress".

And sadly, I then read that you apologized even after the House voted not to censure you! I am embarrassed that I went to the trouble of writing that letter to defend you because with your craven apology, it was all for nothing. I'm a registered Democrat but if there were a really viable third party that had the balls to criticize this horrible President and administration without feeling a need to back down when the temperatures rise, I'd vote for its candidates in a heartbeat.

Very disappointed,