Dem (former DNC chair Fowler) apologizes for joking about hurricane

Source: CNN

Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler apologized Sunday for recently joking Hurricane Gustav's expected landfall on the same day as the opening of the Republican National Convention suggested God was on the Democrats' side.

A YouTube video of the comments posted by the conservative blog RedState.org and showed Fowler joking with South Carolina Rep. John Spratt about the timing of the hurricane while on a flight from the Democratic National Convention back to South Carolina. The person who filmed the conversation is not identified.

“The hurricane is going to hit New Orleans about the time they start. The timing is, at least it appears now, it will be there Monday. That just demonstrates God is on our side,” Fowler said, while laughing. Fowler also told Spratt that “everything’s cool.”

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Joking about the pain and deaths that are likely to be inflicted on the South as good news is aggressively stupid behavior by Fowler.

Dobson and his Succubus Perkins going to apologize for that. Around the 12th of Never?

they don't know how dumb they are--i wish they did & would apologize

I believe it's regrettable and insensitive that Mr. Fowler on this occasion engaged in the type blasphemy that Pat Robertson does on a weekly basis.

Beyond this, he is wrong as it gives the Republicans an excuse to distance themselves from their own convention in a year when the word Republican is being replace by RNC on so many local ballots. It gives Bush an excuse not to show so that McCain can further distance himself. It will give everyone in the gulf a reason to go home and avoid the clusterfuck of a convention and the disaster of McCain's VP choice.

Everyone is getting out of dodge. The sex workers will be very disappointed at their take home pay.

All the 'God' did it stuff I read on here coupled with the poll someone posted the other day regarding whether party insiders read DU.