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Posted on 01/04/2003 4:11:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Potential Senate rival Jennifer Dunn says Sen. Patty Murray's comments about Osama bin Laden's benevolence were "stupid" and ill-considered, but not a career-ending gaffe.
Dunn, a Bellevue Republican elected to Congress in 1992, the same year Murray went to the Senate, confirmed in an interview Friday that she's under heavy pressure from her party to run against Murray next year, but has made no decisions.
Even President Bush has given a nudge, she said.
She told The Associated Press that if she does run, she hasn't decided how to deal with Murray's comments about bin Laden.
"She said a stupid thing," Dunn said. "She said it without thinking."
A Murray spokesman countered that some Republicans were engaging "in silly, partisan games."
Last month, addressing a high school class in Vancouver, Wash., Murray asked students to consider why bin Laden is so popular in some parts of the world.
The answers may be uncomfortable, Murray said, but are important for Americans to ponder.
"He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that," Murray said.
"How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?"
The remarks made headlines and heated up talk shows. GOP state Chairman Chris Vance called the comments "outrageous and despicable." He and potential Murray rival Rep. George Nethercutt (R-Spokane) challenged her to debate her views.
Murray hasn't given interviews on her Osama comments. However, in a prepared statement Dec. 20, Murray made it clear she considers Osama bin Laden "an evil terrorist who is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans."
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Why the treason? How could Murray and the Democrats betray the murdered Americans?
The reason is because the Democrats have realized that
the families and friends of the murdered would never vote Democratic again after their loved ones were attacked and killed
by the very same terrorists and murderers of Americans that Murray-Democrats love.
Another member of The Stupid Party goes for the throat...
If Senator Murray says things, without thinking, that are stupid, she does not belong in the US Senate........
Focus on the little child who is being held outside of the window of the burning WTC when you try to analyze Murray's comments.......
Yep, I'm sure Patty was just reeling after that "attack".
Isn't that what Lott did, also? He said a stupid thing without thinking and look where it got him.....Goes to show you, had he been a Democrap, he'd have absolved of any guilt.
Liberals don't think — they "feel" and that is why most of what they say is stupid. Lott, on the other hand is capable of thinking and he thought something stupid and spoke it. You can't really compare Republicans and Democrats.
We live in a country divided into two groups... Americans and liberals.
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