Abramoff: "I hope I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty "

[sabra]

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Abramoff Pleads Guilty, Will Cooperate

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Words will not ever be able to express my sorrow and my profound regret for all my actions and mistakes," Abramoff said when he rose to address the judge. "I hope I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and those I've wronged or caused to suffer."

[texpatriot2004]

1. Oh brother nm

[IChing]

14. Reminds me of Charles Colson finding Jesus

Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colson (born October, 1931) was the chief counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973.
In 1969, Colson was appointed as Counsel to President Nixon. Colson also became involved in the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP). Known as President Nixon's hatchet man, he once bragged,
"I’d walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon."

At a CRP meeting on March 21st, 1971, it was agreed to spend $250,000 on "intelligence gathering" on the Democratic Party. Colson and John Ehrlichman appointed E. Howard Hunt to the White House Special Operations Unit (the so-called "Plumbers"). Colson organized the Plumbers' burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in September 1971. Colson hoped that revelations about Ellsberg could be used to discredit the anti-war left.

As Colsen was facing arrest, his close friend Tom Phillips gave him a copy of C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity. This influenced Colson to become an evangelical Christian. Editorial comics in several U. S. newspapers, as well as Newsweek and Time, ridiculed the conversion, claiming that it was a ploy to reduce his sentence. His later life has been spent working with his nonprofit organization devoted to prison ministry called Prison Fellowship. Colson is also a public speaker and author. Colson is also the chairman of the Wilberforce Forum, a conservative Christian political and social think tank and action group active in the promotion of creationism in education and in biotechnology and bioethics issues, such as human cloning and stem cell research.

Hypocrites all of them

[Sparkman]

22. Nixon Library in Calif just had show of Nixon's church ties...

What a hypocracy, of mommoth proportions.
John Dean's book, "Blind Ambition", pg 354, Dean pleads befor Judge Sirica's sentencing,
"Your Honor, I've just a few words as I stand here at the mercy of the court. The only thing I would ask for is your compassion and understanding. I came in here last Oct. 19 and admitted my guilt. I have done wrong. I realize the wrong I have done. What bothers me most is, I was involved in corruption of government and misuse of high office. Realizing to say I'm sorry is really not enough, I have tried for about the last eighteen months to do everything I can to right the wrongs."

Then Sirica gave him 1yr to 4 yrs in a cushy Fed. Pen (onlyfor the wealthiest of society).
Notice, in Dean's mind he did all he could, for 18 months, to make amends! Then a huge book deal.

Justice is a joke, and HYPOCRACY defines and is the genesis of Republicans in public office.

[Ian David]

2. He's full of shit. He's just sorry he got caught. Viva Emily Miller!

Exclusive Backstory: How a Jilted Lover Snared Scanlon & Abramoff
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[myrna minx]

3. Ah...cue the Jimmy Swaggert tears.

"and I am so profoundly sorry that I was caught..." :eyes:

[cascadiance]

20. And "Duke the Puke" Cunningscam's as well...

[ohio_liberal]

4. Please, allow me be the first...

to use the puke smilie :D

:puke:

[LeftNYC]

5. Rot in Hell Jackie...nt

[txindy]

6. He didn't buy his way into heaven by funding the Israeli sniper schools?

Well, shucky-darn. :eyes:

[enid602]

7. honest Abramoff

he could start by giving back all the money.

[gratuitous]

31. Contrition is the first step, Mr. Abramoff

What amends will you make to the Almighty and to the people you have wronged? Will you give back the money you scammed from your clients? Will you give back elections you and your money helped steal? How will you restore the public trust you've damaged?

Until I see a plan of action that addresses these questions, I don't buy a word of it. And this very short list is just for starters, but could take Abramoff every waking hour of the rest of his natural life to accomplish.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. Hope he regrets it enough to give all the money back.

Actions speak louder than, old bean. Man, you're a brick.

[liveoaktx]

9. Why does Jimmy Swaggart's face show up here?

[ohio_liberal]

11. I have sinned!

[SlavesandBulldozers]

18. n/t

:spray:

[mopaul]

10. translation: i hope bush pardons me

[Skidmore]

12. Wel, an newly inducted member into KO's Hall of Apologists

Should be good.

[petepillow]

13. another repuker finding god in their time of getting caught red-handed.

hey, can't blame him. it's number 3 in the repuke playbook: when the goin gets tough, get religious.

[BlueEyedSon]

15. Fuck you, the almighty is public opinion. And we won't!

[Justitia]

16. HAHAHAHA - good one, Black Jack! That is f'ing funny! -eom

[peekaloo]

17. asslicker speak with forked tongue.

:nopity:

Save me Jebus!!!

[shance]

19. Amazing how they regret what they've done only after theyve been CAUGHT.

n/t

[skooooo]

21. I hope so too. nt

[htuttle]

23. "The Almighty says he's pretty sure you're fucked"

[FreedomAngel82]

24. Only because he got caught

[vickie]

25. This arrogant, swaggering thug is only sorry he was caught....

[Jara sang]

26. The Almighty? Oh he's talking about the dollar.

That's OK Jack your money will forgive you.

[Fla Dem]

27. CNN "Abramoff is very religious. He is an Orthodox Jew".........

Whether Jew, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, I believe one of the main tenets of all religions is "You do not steal, You do not bear false witness, You do not covet your neighbors' good. Seems he's guilty of all of that and more. So much for religious values.

"Pride goeth before the fall"

"The bigger they are the harder they fall."

"The love of money is the root of all evil."

"You do the crime; you do the time."

"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely."

When will they ever learn???? :shrug:

[sabra]

28. he has brought shame to my religion...

peace.

[Blue_Roses]

29. sounds like a Jimmy Swaggert

repentence.:eyes:

[BushOut06]

30. Is he asking Bush for a pardon?

That's what it sounds like to me.

[sakabatou]

32. And god said, "Go to Hell."

[JHB]

33. By his deeds shall ye know him...

The Colson comparison is apt: in recent years he hasn't been overly concerned about "bearing false witness".

Abramoff committed crimes against "Ceasar". Now that the punishment is coming due, let's see how quick he is to "render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's".

[TahitiNut]

34. "forgiveness from the Almighty" == "pardon from Bush/Cheney"

Junior likes being called "the Almighty," alrighty.

[Cobalt Violet]

35. Who the hell is he calling "the Almighty"?

Bush, Delay?