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— The Continental Congress, July 4, 1776
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— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commonwealth Club Address, 1932)
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— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008
Double Standard? You Bet
Published Sun, Oct 15 2006 9:28 AM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics
So I'm sure by now you are absolutely sick of hearing about Mark Foley, the former Republican congressman that resigned in disgrace over lewd emails and instant messages he sent to a "minor" (who turned out to be above the age of consent in Washington D.C.). We all know how the news media treated that scandal.
I've suspected for a long time that if Mark Foley were a Democrat he would have been praised for his behavior. Well Stop the ACLU has the perfect example. Gerry Studds. Here we have a congressman that actually got an underage minor drunk in order to sodomize him.
What happened to the congressman? Not much of consequence. Why Chuck Schumer, one of the people calling for Dennis Hastert's head, even voted against the censure of this perverted person.
Hypocrisy, thy name is the Democratic Party!
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