Coburn should get a pat on the back, not make an apology!

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Coburn should get a pat on the back, not make an apology!

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"Crap heads" cry foul over Coburn comment.A story on the website of KFOR, the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City, claims that the Oklahoma Democratic Party chairman is looking for an apology from Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Coburn for a comment he made about people in Western Oklahoma.

Here's the supposed exchange:

Coburn: You're saying a federal program for southeast Oklahoma?

Male: Southwest, yes.

Coburn: Southwest Oklahoma?

Male: We don't care about the easterners.

Coburn: You don't care about the northwest either? Look, economic development in southwest Oklahoma is a federal role. Do you really believe that?

Male: To some extent, yes sir.

Coburn: Why?

Male: Uh, because the development that we need is above our means.

Coburn: No, it's not. It's because you have a bunch of crapheads in Oklahoma City that have killed the vision of anyone wanting to invest in Oklahoma.

Now, having spent some of my childhood growing up in Oklahoma, I can easily identify with the tension and bitterness behind this exchange. See, there is a fierce rivalry that exists in Oklahoma, and I'm not talking about the Bedlam Series, I'm talking about Tulsa vs. Oklahoma City. In Okie, it's T-town vs. The City, and it's just as rough and tumble as any OSU vs. OU football game. Just as many people in the state divide into the Orange and Crimson camps, those residents from Tulsa and the surrounding eastern half of the state despise everyone from the Oklahoma City and the western side of the state.

You saw it in the primary for this very race, Kirk Humphrey's, the candidate from The City and Tom Coburn, Champion of the East! I, for several reasons, was glad to see the Dr. win. Now I know that T-town's side of the state will have a strong, conservative voice like Coburn's in DC once he trounces Brad Carson in November.

Dr. Coburn, you're right... they are crapheads!

O State!!!

Here's the whole Coburn comment by Adam C

From OKNews:

COBURN: No it's not. It's because you have a bunch of crapheads in Oklahoma City that have killed the vision of anybody wanting to invest in Oklahoma. Let's talk real frank here. You have a tort system in this state that only two other states have a worse system. The state Senate is controlled by the trial bar. There is no vision in this state that says we welcome with open hands, investment in our state and we're going to make it friendly, we're going to make it successful and were going to make an environment where you can be extremely competitive. We have a worker's comp system that says, "Please don't come to Oklahoma cause we're going to screw you." And then we have a tax system that nobody wants to stay here for. Half the people who retire in Oklahoma, leave Oklahoma because we tax their retirement and we tax their estate. Oklahoma, if we have a problem, it's because we have a problem in Oklahoma City with the vision that has run off major six major oil companies in this state and 400,000 jobs.

Emphasis mine. This man is the first politician from Oklahoma that I have felt passionate about. He's true conservative McCain-like maverick. He's says what he means. And I don't expect an apology, it's not his style.

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