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AN APOLOGY . . . SORT OF

Pat Robertson issued an apology . . . sort of. You can find the article here. He apologized for the statement, saying that he was simply trying to accommodate someone who thought the U.S. was out to kill him. More concerned with the flow of oil and soft-pedaling his statement ("Take him out could be a number of things including kidnapping"), he's simply trying to protect his image, or what little of it there is left.

To me, this "apology" seems more like, "I'm sorry I got caught."

Hmmm . . . a religious leader praying for the deaths of Supreme Court justices so Dubya can put more conservatives on the bench, calling for the "taking out" of Chavez, amongst other things, and (scary as this may be) presidential advisor.

And yet, with this track record, Dubya apparently still refuses to make a statement about it. I could go on about the lack of ba**s on this particular president, but I'm trying so very hard to just shut my mouth and pray for God's mercy.

And now, I will shut up about this whole thing, because we all know that 3 out of my 4 readers come here read about the upcoming football season.

Pray for me, a sinner.