R. sam brownback says faith helped him stop hating the Clintons.

[Philosoraptor]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070630/ap_on_el_pr/on_the2008_trail;_ylt=AtwXJYIqyGzrcSmZSqB2Gb3MWM0F



WASHINGTON - Sam Brownback says he harbored a "hatred" of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton until he experienced a religious awakening in the mid-1990s.

Brownback, a Republican presidential hopeful, details in a new book how the change in outlook led him to make a stunning apology to Hillary Clinton a few years later during a Senate prayer breakfast.

"I was considering what I should say when I confronted all the anger that I held for the Clintons," the Kansas senator writes in the book, "From Power to Purpose: A Remarkable Journey of Faith and Compassion."

"I thought, I hate them for what they are doing to the country and I feel justified in hating them for it," he writes.

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My how very forgiving of him.

[aquart]

1. "A stunning apology"?

Like "I forgive you for ruining the country"?

[Philosoraptor]

3. Of course no repubs are ruining the country.

He reserves his hatred and obligitory forgiveness for Democrats who ruin the country, while his party is destroying the whole world. Of course bush didn't ruin the country, so he doesn't deserve sam's hatred or forgiveness.

[SoCalDem]

2. How Christian of him

:puke:

You'd think that he had a crush on Clinton & Clinton cheated on HIM ..

These republibot Christian Soldiers are such blatant phonies..

[Philosoraptor]

4. He's definitely holier than we.

[SoCalDem]

5. jesus loves him

[GeneCosta]

6. Hey, Sam

See that? It's called the Republican nomination. This is as far as you'll ever get to it .

[Philosoraptor]

7. He TOTALLY blew it when he forgave the unforgivable Clintons.

[timtom]

8. And I just know

that your faith will get you over hating the Bushes, Cheney, Gonzales....Oh, wait. You don't hate THEM, do you?

I suspect severe issues with his father in his formative years.

[bperci108]

9. Uneffingbelieveable...

"...I hate them for what they are doing to the country..."

For what THEY are doing to the country?!?!??


I can't believe this colossal asshat is one of my senators.

Welcome to JesusLand. :puke:

[Philosoraptor]

10. He's a very selective player hater.

[Philosoraptor]

11. ...........

[mitchum]

12. I have no faith, so I guess that's why I still hate Brownback

[Philosoraptor]

13. You're cool with sam, he knows you'll burn in hell forever.

[Richard Steele]

14. My faith must be weak- I still hate lying mealy-mouthed shitheads like Brownback. nm

[Hippo_Tron]

15. Actually I don't hate Brownback, he comes off as genuine

Don't get me wrong, I don't think he's qualified to be Dog Catcher let alone President, but unlike a lot of the other fundies that use religion for power I think he genuinely believes the bullshit.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. I guess I am not religious enough to stop hating Brownback

:evilgrin:

[DemGa]

17. This is a powerful God

For only God could deliver one from such a thing.

[Bluebear]

19. Is that so?

[DemGa]

21. Uh, sorry

Guess I should have included one of these: :sarcasm:

[Bluebear]

26. :)

[Hamlette]

18. they hated Clintons for "what they were doing to the country"??? Peace and prosperity?

Does he explain exactly what it was they were doing that he hated so much?

[Bucky]

20. I love it when Republicans try and "reach across the aisle" in amity.

It sorta reminds me of that video of a gorilla trying to figure out a TV remote. She'd scratch her chin and push a few buttons and turn it around a bit, but she just couldn't get the damn thing to work. It was so cute. You just know she wanted to get that thing to make the TV go the way the zookeepers did. But it was a tool designed for an intelligence different from what a gorilla possesses.

Poor Sam Brownback. You know he really wants to reach out to Democrats and promote national accord. If only he could just figure out how to push the right buttons.

[Cha]

22. Aren't you special..brownback?

Does this mean brownback's faith is better than the faux religious haters who still hate Clintons among others?

Does this mean brownback doesn't listen to limpdick?

[Flying Dream Blues]

23. Ok, so what I'd love to ask one of these haters...what is it that the

Clintons DID to our country? And what, in the name of Jeebus have ** and co. done that is in the least bit good for our country? Does anyone remember how much better things were during those 8 years (aside from the constant witch hunt against the clenis)??
I don't even recognize this country after 6 years and it sure as hell isn't because things are better.

It's breathtaking that this guy could make such a statement about what the Clintons did to this country!

[Philosoraptor]

24. Bill's greatest sin was that he beat daddy bush the wimp.

And interrupted their monstrous plans.

[AnnInLa]

25. Well, I know just how he feels!

I hate the republic party and I feel justified....and I don't apologize, and I'm not sorry. And, I don't think Baby Jesus likes them either. So there.