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Worst week? Nobama? Vilsack? Sherrod? Rangel?

Various story excerpts from this past week:

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who appointed Sherrod last year as the Georgia director for rural development, announced today that Sherrod had resigned, saying in a statement "There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person." Sherrod told CNN that Cheryl Cook, the Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development, demanded her resignation on the phone while Sherrod was on the way back to the main office from a field office by telling her she was about to be on Glenn Beck.

"They asked me to resign, and in fact they harassed me as I was driving back to the state office from West Point, Georgia, yesterday," she said. The last call "asked me to pull to the side of the road and do it [resign]," she said.

Vilsack told CNN on Tuesday that he "didn't speak to anyone at the White House. ... I made this decision, it's my decision. Nobody from the White House contacted me about this at all."

By midweek, the White House was in full mea culpa mode, with press secretary Robert Gibbs telling reporters that "a disservice was done, an apology was owed."

Following Gibbs's lead, Vilsack put himself up for a public flogging, acknowledging that he "could have and should have done a better job" and expressing "profound regret" to Sherrod, to whom he offered a new position with the USDA.

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Ok…now my question….where is the directed and public outrage from Liberals and the NAACP over the wrongful firing of a black woman Federal appointee in a white-man-led Federal department; as is business as usual for the Libs & the NAACP?  Where are the civil rights champions?….where are the women-libbers?

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And then this:

And, just when Vilsack had humbled himself as much as anyone thought he could, Obama decided to humble him some more. In an interview with ABC, Obama said Vilsack had "jumped the gun" in the Sherrod incident. "We have to take our time and think these issues through," the president admonished.

Really?….an admonition….that’s it? Why so quick to not ask for Vilsack’s resignation as evidenced by the self-admitted gross violations and harrassment against this lady.

Once again…another Democrat will not do the right thing and resign, but will try and ride out the wave of stigma from this. Once again, libs will not be calling for Vilsack’s head as they would a repub.

The lame mainsteam media is blaming this whole fiasco on Fox News. Some witch-with-a-B was on Today this am and was spouting off about Fox in relation to this - so does that mean that Vilsack heard it on Fox and promptly called and asked for the resignation? O'Reilly says that Fox has a MUCH larger audience than the rest of the networks put together and that they try to denigrate them because they lose revenue to Fox, so now the admin is listening to FNC to guide them. Well, get your ears cleaned out cause you are not getting the message. No person that reports on FNC said that middle-income unemployed persons should not have unemployment benefits - only that cuts in the humongous budget or unspent funds from the stimulus bill should be used to pay for it - not increase the fed deficit to pay for it. Basically our grandchildre/great-grandchildren will be charged with paying off the nearly 40 Billion plus interest.

So BB, in answer to your question about who had the worst week, the answer is the usual - the American taxpayer (except the admin and congress of course). Of course, from the posts on here we are led to believe that tp doesn't pay taxes either - maybe he's a covert congressman.

We can be comforted by the fact that the liberals continue to implode. 

 JC and DarylM...you both are right. I voted absentee for the primary this year due to travelling. My wife went to the polls and voted, and while she was being checked in she overheard the poll worker lady checking in a guy next to her say that if he wants, he can immediately change party back to Democrat after voting, or do it anytime in the future. Wife said that he said no way....

My wife said she then leaned over and asked that other poll worker if she issued alot of that info so far, for that election day? The poll worker said, "Oh yes, alot today"!

The primary voter turn out results do reflect just that too. What a miserable Dem turnout. So much for their idealistic duty to perform their civic duties. I remember reporting here that the voter turnout was near three to one by registered Repubs. after Iowa elections.

With this Rangel mess adding to the heap...November is gonna rock! I mean....that guy was at/near the top of their food chain. They are eating themselves...all while evidence that liberals are shuttering and hiding is more and more obvious. Just like our most honored liberals here who seem be hiding from these messes.