Dear Pete Stark, thanks-

[mitchtv]

Oh, for nothing. You've joined the ranks of Democratic back peddlers. Yes, I realize you were shanked by Pelosi and Hoyer, but you should have known, Instead you read from the democratic playbook, you folded.

[2rth2pwr]

1. He could have stood behind what he said on Friday

that he would never apologize. Instead he wussed out.

[mitchtv]

2. are you suprised?

It neverfails. Did Cheney apologize to Pat Leahy for telling him to F himself? No they said he felt better. The dems are losing me fast.

[calimary]

3. Sigh... I had hopes anyway.

One brief shining moment of staunch, steely backbone. I wrote a piece on it that got into OpEdNews:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3641788

[mitchtv]

4. Sigh my sentiments exactly

I feel fooled and let down

[Fredda Weinberg]

5. We're defending the office, not the man. Stark made a mistake

and did the right thing ... apologizing to the president and his family, not *.

[mitchtv]

6. His mistake was saying something

he had to eat. For god's sake if you say something ,,,Mean it

[Fredda Weinberg]

7. There's a way to say anything ... properly. It was simply the wrong

place and he addressed the office, not the man. We all feel contempt for * ... but some of us want the next president to be respected.