Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110008465" target="_blank">http://www.opinionjournal.com/ best/?id=110008465</a> >>Here is a story that we find oddly refreshing. Alan Hevesi, New York's Democratic state comptroller, was speaking yesterday at the commencement of Queens College, where he praised another speaker, Sen. Chuck Schumer†. According to WNBC-TV, this is how he described New York's senior senator: "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." What's refreshing is what happened later in the day: 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. It was beyond dumb." When people in public life give offense, they often follow up with either weaselly nonapologies or apologies so self-abasing that they could not possibly be sincere. It's nice to see an abject apology, without excuses, that is exactly appropriate to the offense given.<<
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "I don't know RT... the real story here is the way democrats are so quick to attack a republican, yet will give their own people a pass even if they are stuffing stolen money in their icebox." So it's yet another partisan opportunity to say "gotcha"! Reasllllllly? I had noooooo idea......
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Hevesi really did put his foot in his mouth, but as even the WSJ admits, he did the right thing afterward, and did it immediately. Also, clumsy an attempt at humor as it was, it was quite obviously that. No one seriously thinks that Hevesi would think the shooting of the president would be a good thing. The reason Lott's comments generated so much fury was that he praised Thurmond's presidential bid, which basically had one platform: segregation. Lott's state of Mississippi voted for Thurmond for president, and Lott said THAT was a good thing. Moreover, there really are plenty of people in the south who still believe that the country should have avoided the "problems" of the civil rights era and really do pine for the "good old days" when blacks were not treated as equals. Believe me, I know - I'm related to some of them.
