Abramoff's Father To Clooney - Curious Thing For Jack's Father To Say.....

[global1]

"One day the truth about my son will come out and there will be a lot of people in your industry and others lined up to apologize for their efforts to destroy him and our family."

What do you think he's talking about? What does he know? Could Abramoff be a double agent? Could Abramoff be working on the inside to bring down *Co?

It seems like an odd thing for the father to say - given all we've heard about Jack and how he operates.

I know usually a parent will stick up for their kid no matter what he/she does. But to come out with a statement like "One day the truth about my son will come out and there will be a lot of people in your industry and others lined up to apologize for their efforts to destroy him and our family" - seems curiously odd.

I think someone should lean on the father to find out what he meant.

Note: This post got buried in another thread and I don't believe anyone had a chance to see it - so I'm reposting here.

[Orangepeel]

1. That was some deep cover!

starting with president of the college republicans!

No, Abramoff was no "double agent." He is a greedy, power mad pig with a delusional father and a ridiculous name.

[rooboy]

2. What he means is that OJ is out looking for the real killer. n/t

[okieinpain]

10. exactly, cover up time.

[Fridays Child]

3. That is odd.

Maybe he means that the story will make such a blockbuster movie that Hollywood will be grateful to Jack for being such a colorful asshole. :shrug:

[ekelly]

4. Are all the Indian

tribes who were bilked out of millions "in on it" also?

I think it's just a case of a father trying to defend his son.
Or maybe a father who, himself, can't believe his son could be such a monster and is reaching for.......something......anything.

[DELUSIONAL]

5. Could father and son be "psychopathic personalities"

http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,1691370,00.html

If Jack Abramoff's father really believes this then perhaps the following discussion applies to both father and son.

George W Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka Christians, and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PPs, the medical term for smart, personable people who have no consciences.

To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete's foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr Hervey Cleckley, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia, published in 1941. Read it!

Some people are born deaf, some are born blind or whatever, and this book is about congenitally defective human beings of a sort that is making this whole country and many other parts of the planet go completely haywire nowadays. These were people born without consciences, and suddenly they are taking charge of everything.

PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose!

Kurt Vonnegut -- the above is from his upcoming book.

[NYC]

6. I read The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley.

Worth reading.

[catzies]

7. I just took it as another swipe against the so-called liberal media elite

Unless he's going to pull a Lee Harvey & say he was a patsy, forced to launder money for the BFEE.

[pk_du]

8. If he was under cover - what did calling Indians "monkeys" and

"troglodytes" in private emails mean ?

[Catherine Vincent]

9. I think he's just hurt and embarrassed for his son.

And he's taking it out on Clooney et al.

[belle]

11. I think it means Abramoff didn't get his personality from nowhere, which

surprise, surprise.

[susu369]

12. The entire family are big financial supporters of bu$h*

The Family That Gives Together:

January 09, 2006 | Jack Abramoff and his wife were not the only members of their family making political contributions to President Bush, who is giving away money that the disgraced Washington lobbyist and his spouse contributed to his 2004 re-election campaign. Jack Abramoff’s parents, brother and sister-in-law gave at least $8,000 to President Bush’s second campaign—all on the same day in June 2003—according to a review of federal campaign finance records by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

All of the contributions made by Abramoff and his family members, to Bush and other Republicans over the years, appear to be legal. It is unclear whether the Bush contributions—all dated June 20, 2003—were made during a fundraising event that the Abramoff family attended together. On that date, according to published reports, the president was headlining an event in Georgia. First Lady Laura Bush was hosting an event in Tennessee. Bush fundraising "bundler" Steven Burd, the top executive of Safeway, Inc., hosted two events that month in which guests paid $2,000 each to hear the president talk. Burd was a 2004 Bush-Cheney "Ranger" for having gathered more than $200,000 in support for the re-election campaign.

Abramoff himself was designated a "Pioneer" for raising at least $100,000, and he could have applied his family’s contributions toward his total. The White House has said that Bush will keep money that Abramoff helped raise. But joining other politicians rushing to dump contributions connected to the lobbyist, the president is donating $6,000 to the American Heart Association—the amount contributed to his 2004 campaign by Pamela and Jack Abramoff and one of the Indian tribes for which Abramoff lobbied. Bush apparently has no plans to return the contributions from Abramoff’s relatives. The White House did not respond to the Center's calls for clarification.

Reached Jan. 6 at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., Abramoff’s father, Franklin, refused to comment on the contributions he and his wife, Jane, made to the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign. Franklin Abramoff is retired from Diners Club, where he was an executive.

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Full story:
http://capitaleye.org/inside.asp?id=196&format=print