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Deval’s naivete endangers us all (Ma. Gov blames victims of 9/11)
bostonherald.com ^ | September 13, 2007 | Michael Graham

Posted on 09/13/2007 7:24:35 AM PDT by Boston Blackie

In his 9/11 commemoration speech, Patrick observed that while the attack on the World Trade Center was “mean and nasty,” (that’s telling ’em, Deval!) the real tragedy of six years ago was the “failure of human understanding.”

Yes, 9/11 was, Patrick said “a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other.” [Emphasis added.]

To find out what the victims of 9/11 didn’t understand about the terrorists that might have prevented the attack, I turned to Debra Burlingame. Her brother, Chic, was the pilot of American Airlines [AMR] Flight 77 - the plane that hit the Pentagon.

When I first read Debra the governor’s remarks over the phone, her reaction was astonished silence. “Can you read that again please?”

I did. More silence.

“Did he have the audacity to say that in front of grieving 9/11 family members?” she asked, somewhat astonished...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 911families; debraburlingame; devalpatrick; masshole; sixthanniversary; wot
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To: Red Badger
His Rodney “Can’t we all just get along?” moment?............

This is more than just a "moment" for this clown -- he really believes this stuff.

Examples:

He previously ordered state police not to arrest illegal aliens, claiming that would distract them from law enforcement (I'm not kidding, or exaggerating....)

He wants the State college system to provide in-state discounts to illegals.

21 posted on 09/13/2007 8:01:12 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: goldstategop
A gun still solves more problems than singing kum-baya.

No argument here.

22 posted on 09/13/2007 8:03:09 AM PDT by Boston Blackie
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To: Little Ray
Is there any way we can expel the Democratic People’s Republic of Massachusetts from the United States?

That would be nice. The state really, really needs to change the motto on motor vehicle license plates, which reads, "The spririt of America."

23 posted on 09/13/2007 8:03:32 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Aquinasfan

Yeah. He is definitely “metro.”


24 posted on 09/13/2007 8:04:28 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: dashing doofus

I feel like I should end every post with ‘reporting from behind enemy lines.’


25 posted on 09/13/2007 8:07:55 AM PDT by Boston Blackie
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To: Boston Blackie

Dear Boston:

Thanks for American Airlines Flight 11. Thanks for United Airlines Flight 175. Thanks for your Red Sox being the only team in the Major Leagues that declined to offer 1 paycheck to 9/11 charities.

I’m not saying that Boston doesn’t care about, or is even the slightest bit responsible for the attack. I am, however, saying that nobody in NY could give a f-ck about opinions on the attacks from Boston or its politicians.

Sincerely, a guy sitting across the street from a giant hole in the ground right now.


26 posted on 09/13/2007 8:09:38 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Boston Blackie

I know the feeling. I lived in the People’s Republik of NY for a long time.


27 posted on 09/13/2007 8:14:03 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: presidio9

Why don’t you complain to Chucky or Hillary. They are more to blame for 9/11, along with the likes of Kerry and Kennedy, than the City of Boston.


28 posted on 09/13/2007 8:15:18 AM PDT by Boston Blackie
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To: Little Ray
I agree, I was in Texas recently and a local radio talk show said this about Romney : He has a problem with 2 M’s. One is Mormon issue which he can get past, the other one is Massachusetts which is going to take him down as there is no fixing that. Romney is a decent guy and would make a good president but he is dead in the water because he is from the land of Kerry and Kennedy and now Deval Patrick.
29 posted on 09/13/2007 8:18:10 AM PDT by Maneesh (A non-hyphenated American.)
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To: Maneesh
It's not so much that Romney happens to be from MA, as that he was able to get elected there!

Either he believes what he had to say to get elected in MA, or he doesn't and believes in what he's saying now.

But which?

30 posted on 09/13/2007 8:24:06 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Boston Blackie

Schumer, Clinton, Kennedy, and Kerry are US Senators. The article was about the mayor of Boston blaming the victims of NY. As I said, I’m not blaming the citizens of Boston directly. I’m saying that the Mayor those citizens elected is particularly poorly qualified to be pointing fingers. And I am correct. When it comes to 9/11, Boston mayors would probably do well to keep thier mouths shut. The know they are playing to a very liberal audience, but they know they can’t “feel your pain.” Therefore, anything they say is going to end up pissing most people off.


31 posted on 09/13/2007 8:25:17 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9
Actually Deval Patrick is the Governor of Massachusetts, although the Mayor of Boston: Menino could very well make those statements. Because of his horrendous pronunciation, most people would not understand what he said so it may not have made the news. Deval Patrick speaks slowly and clearly and what he said clearly indicated his thought process : criminals are actually the victims and love and understanding can solve everything. Incidentally a giant mosque is being built in Boston and they got a sweetheart land deal.
32 posted on 09/13/2007 8:30:56 AM PDT by Maneesh (A non-hyphenated American.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
Romney did have to soften his conservative stance on several issue to get elected in MA. I think he was all long more of a conservative than he could display as Governor of MA. So now even though he is revereting back to his actual roots it can very easily be construed as shifting or flip flopping.

In either case, the MA link will sink him which is too bad because he is the only candidate on either side that has run successful businesses, had employees, has been a CEO, has a very stable family life and is probably the best communicator.

33 posted on 09/13/2007 8:34:08 AM PDT by Maneesh (A non-hyphenated American.)
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To: Boston Blackie

Add Michigan, too.
Still sounds like a good idea to me.

Or at least let the South secede peacefully...


34 posted on 09/13/2007 8:38:17 AM PDT by Little Ray (Rudy Guiliani: If his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
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To: Maneesh

So he flop-flipped liberal to be governor of the DPRM?

I’m sorta willing to vote for Romney if he gets past the Primaries. But that is as far as it goes.


35 posted on 09/13/2007 8:40:32 AM PDT by Little Ray (Rudy Guiliani: If his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
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To: Maneesh

Except that Bloomie has the most annoying, nasal Boston accent — more of an accent than Mumbles Menino, from what I can make out from his ramblings... ;-)


36 posted on 09/13/2007 8:47:49 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: dashing doofus

You know, I know people in the state Democratic Committee who said there’s a reason why is wife is depressed. tap tap tap


37 posted on 09/13/2007 8:50:46 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: presidio9

Hussein al-Husseini, the man believed to be John Doe #2 in the OK City bombings and a member of Unit 999 of the Iraqi military got a job at MASSPORT working at Logan Airport. Isn’t that interesting?


38 posted on 09/13/2007 8:54:30 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Boston Blackie
"It was mean and nasty and bitter attack..."

...Among other things.

(SHUDDER) What a TWISTED individual.

39 posted on 09/13/2007 9:03:39 AM PDT by cake_crumb (May I never live to see the day America has a 'popular war'. God bless our troops.)
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To: massgopguy

Nobody wants to call him of the culpability of the Democratic nepotism that had political cronies in charge of Logan airport at the time. This pap is just a dodge.


40 posted on 09/13/2007 9:03:58 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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