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Jim McDermott
You remember Jim McDermott, don't you? He's the Democratic congressman (Washington State) who traveled to Baghdad to announce to the world that Saddam Hussein could be trusted, but that George Bush could not.
Quite an American, this McDermott. Well ... the other day it fell upon Jim McDermott to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the opening of the day's business before the House. And recite he did, with only two departures from custom ... and from law, by the way.
First of all, he left out the phrase "under God" in the Pledge. He also failed to put his right hand over his heart as the law requires. Well ... I guess that's exactly what you should expect from a Congressman who puts the word of a bloody dictator above that of the President of his own country. Seattle can have this jerk.