BUSTED!
Don’t you love when public officials get caught saying something that they didn’t mean too? Like Joe Biden dropping the F-bomb when healthcare reform passed? I happen to think it’s nice to know that they are human beings, and that they are passionate about their causes, and what they do. The most recent case of blurting profanity has come from Ken Buck, a Colorado Tea Party Candidate, who was caught calling party members dumbasses.
Little Green Footballs reported, “Of course, he didn’t say that in public. He was caught on tape by a Democratic Party worker in an unguarded moment. In other words, when he was telling the truth.”
The article goes on with Buck’s statements regarding his bad judgment. He of course apologized for his language and said that not all tea party members were dumbasses; he was just frustrated with the fact that he wanted to talk about the national debt, and tea party members wanted to talk about a birth certificate. He goes on to say that other candidates feel the same way, but they might not use the choice words he used.
The guy has been on the campaign trail for 16 months, it appears as if every time he gets on television someone asks him about President Obama’s birth certificate, as if a birth certificate is going to fix the economy or get rid of the trillions of dollars of debt this country has.
The article does say that he is “pathetically back peddling” but isn’t that to be expected? Just because there’s freedom of speech doesn’t mean that it’s appropriate or accepted. Of course he is going to apologize. Hello! He’s running for office and the Tea Party has the ability to make a big stink about this.
The best piece of this article comes in the last line where they have this takeaway point, “Even the Tea Party’s own favored candidates think they’re crazy.” Over all, the article is well written. It displays Ken Buck’s original statement, his back peddling comments, and the author throws in his own statements at key points of the article. A must read!
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