Posted on 01/01/2011 8:50:56 PM PST by Robwin
The parents of a Yelm soldier killed in Afghanistan earlier this month have received cards from friends and strangers expressing condolences, and they’re grateful for the support.
“As a father of someone killed, it is overwhelming,” said Lt. Col. Patrick Collins (Ret.). His son, Sgt. Sean Collins, was buried Wednesday at the Tahoma National Cemetery.
Among that outpouring of empathy, two politicians inadvertently stung the family.
One slight came in a letter of condolences the family received from the office of Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.
“Again, please accept my warmest condolences. May your memories of Bryn and the knowledge that he made a positive impact on the lives of so many serve as a source of comfort to you during this time of sorrow.”
[BREAK. This fatuous woman is an embarrassment to the state of WA]
The other slight came when Patrick Collins called the White House and asked to have President Obama call his ex-wife, Linda, to talk about their son.
He was told that Obama did not regularly make phone calls to the families of fallen soldiers.
Later, Patrick Collins read a story about Obama’s phone call to Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffery Lurie. Obama reportedly praised Lurie for giving quarterback Michael Vick a second chance to play football after serving time in prison for running a dog fighting ring.
“That burns,” Patrick Collins said Thursday.
And so is this fraud of a C-in-C who's enjoying a million dollar vacation in HI while this family suffers.
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Maria Cantspellwell
Would you expect anything less from someone who spent $10 million of her own money for a $200K a year job ?
This fatuous woman may be an embarrassment to the state of WA, but they keep electing democrat senators like her. Like CA and OR, dem senators are “in.”
This fatuous woman may be an embarrassment to the state of WA, but they keep electing democrat senators like her. Like CA and OR, dem senators are “in.”
Good enough for government work.
What a POS this politician is. As for Obama, well we all know that is Kenyan for ASSHOLE!
Maria Cantwell, aka Maria Cantvotewell...
You’ve nailed it. Since meat-heads like Cantwell, Murray Congressman-For-Life Mcdermmott have a lock on their positions, we can expect more and more of the imperial attitude towards the commoners who slavishly re-elect them.
I’m starting to think that states like WA, OR and CA have reached the tipping point, where there are enough useful idiots, combined with those on the dole, either employed by the government or subsidized by it, that short of a horrible disaster, the reigns of power are permanently
in “progressive” hands.
You have to hand it to them, by chance or design, they’ve figured out a winning formula.
In WA, the symbol of Republican resistance is Dino Rossi, a fine man, no doubt, but he’s become a sort of Voodoo doll for Dems to stick needles in on the way to re-election.
I don't know if he met every one, but he certainly made the effort to personally meet many of them. A hard thing for a CIC to do, no doubt.
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