Pawlenty: "America Does Not" Need To Apologize EVER To Any Person, Place Or Thing

[kpete]

Tim Pawlenty has his finger on the pulse of conservatism so I was interested to see his CPAC speech live on television and in particular in his biggest applause line:

“Mr. President, with bullies, might makes right. Strength makes them submit. We need to get tough on our enemies, not on our friends. And, Mr. President, stop apologizing for our country,” Pawlenty said in one of his speech’s biggest applause lines.

“The bullies, terrorists and tyrants of the world have lots to apologize for. America does not.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/11/pawlenty-obama-appeasing-muslim-brotherhood/

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* Good luck with this one: Grover Norquist says the GOP needs to "marginalize" Islamophobia among right-wingers and "make it clear that there's no place for that in the party of Reagan."
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/11/norquist-marginalize-islamophobia/

[driver8]

1. What a douche...

No wonder the rest of the world hates us.

[RKP5637]

17. Yeah, it's no wonder, as the US slips I think we will be losing many allies. n/t

[fascisthunter]

2. deluded

[emulatorloo]

6. Palin in Paul Bunyan Drag n/t

[fascisthunter]

37. lol

[Kennah]

3. Making a list of bullies, terrorists and tyrants. Someone please check it twice.

Dubya
Rove
Rummy

[wizstars]

23. Cheney. Reagan. Kissinger. Poppy....

Bolton.
Condi
Let's not forget Ass-croft
Scalia.....

Do I need to go on?

[emulatorloo]

4. Does Pawlenty have any examples of Obama "apologizing for our country?"

No, of course not.

The Big Lie.

I can't stand this liar.

[Angry Dragon]

18. I remember Obama in a couple of speeches apologizing

and no........I do not have links

Any person that believes this country has nothing to apologize for
is either a fool, an idiot or both
Apologizing does not make a person or country weak

[emulatorloo]

24. If I remember correctly, he may have apologized for Bush being such a big *sshole.

At any rate this seems to be the new wingnut talking point. Those Iowa Caucus voters were parroting it. Probably got it from Beck or Hannity.

[niyad]

5. dear tim, "love story" is NOT a guide to american policy

[hfojvt]

7. Minnesota, OTOH, apparently has a lot to apologize for

[sharesunited]

8. Sucking up to the right in hopes of a GOP nomination for President.

He's also on a book tour.

[otohara]

9. When Did POTUS Apologize?

what are they talking about?

[emulatorloo]

11. They just make shit up.

[emulatorloo]

10. Just saw the Clip. F*CK Pawlenty n/t

[jtuck004]

12. So, just to start with, the millions of Native Americans that were killed to give this

so-called person a place to stand don't count?

Did his country just start this morning?

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Shades of what GHW "Poppy" Bush said in the aftermath

of the accidental downing of Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988 by a missile from the USS Vincennes

"I'll never apologize for the United States of America. Ever. I don't care what the facts are."

[HuckleB]

14. Sounds like your typical pre-schooler in the middle of a tantrum.

Of course, once the pre-schooler calms down, he or she will usually apologize!

[tabatha]

22. Nail on head.

[somone]

15. Amerika Über Alles

[NuclearDem]

16. America apologizes for Tim Pawlenty...

[City Lights]

19. Go fuck yourself, Pawlenty.

Pawlenty is an asswipe of the highest order.

[XanaDUer]

20. They really have bugs up their collective asses about apologizing, don't they?

Any kind of apology, concession etc is deemed some kind of subversive, weak form of sedition. Well, guess what? Sometimes, your country DOES do things it needs to apologize for, make right, and try to make sure doesn't happen again.

[driver8]

25. It is much easier to invade a country than to apologize...

We do that quite well.

[tabatha]

21. A page out of PW Botha's playbook

"Among South Africa's Afrikaner politicians, it is axiomatic that kragdadigheid, a show of strength, wins elections. With that strategy in mind, the National Party government of State President P.W. Botha has been preparing for the May 6 whites-only parliamentary elections by pouring on just about as much kragdadigheid as the country can bear."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,964204,00.html#ixzz1DhnU7yFU

Right-wing brain wiring.

[Canuckistanian]

26. Well, he's an ignorant bastard

So I guess he's got a legitimate excuse.

[derby378]

27. Ragnar Redbeard would be proud of this schmuck

Might makes right? Tell that to the people in Egypt.

[Skip Intro]

28. They're hot on that, "quit apologizing for America" thing? Where does that come from?

Did they just create that out of thin air?

[provis99]

29. and that's why billions of people hate Americans.

Well, at least we're number one at being hated in the world, even if we fail at everything else.

[baldguy]

30. Only children & sociopaths never apologize.

[Monk06]

31. El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Cuba, Haiti, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia

Argentina,

And in the Pacific; the Philippines, Samoa, the Marshal Islands, Okinawa

Africa; Nigeria, the Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda,
Angola.

Not to mention the Middle East and the Stans.

The US has a lot to pay for let alone apologize for.

[HughBeaumont]

32. Shut your yip-yappin' piehole, dicktickle Pawlenty.

The Manifest Destiny Bulldozer has plenty of people to apologize to. It's too bad whitey motherfuckers like you don't get it and never will. Bastard.

Such a stupidly-named fuck too. What the shit kind of name is "Pawlenty"? Sounds like a description of his stupidity, not a name.

[yellowcanine]

33. I think Pawlenty should apologize for being such a dweeb.

[unkachuck]

34. "The bullies, terrorists and tyrants of the world have lots to apologize for. America does not."

....spoken like a true tyrannical right-wing bully when you consider that we're the biggest bully on the planet....

....pawlenty, YOU have a lot to apologize for....you can start by apologizing for wasting our time reading your drivel....

"Mr. President, with bullies, might makes right. Strength makes them submit."

....don't listen to him Mr. President....Egypt didn't teach him anything.

[neverforget]

35. T-Paws can go fuck himself

[krispos42]

36. Didn't the US apologize to BP? n/t

[JoePhilly]

38. Pawlenty is proof that evolution sometimes goes in reverse.

What a clown.

[Enrique]

39. what about for injecting syphilis into Guatemalan prisoners?

will a President Pawlenty retract Obama's apology for that?