Schaaf very sorry we all misunderstood which kind of slavery he was talking about
After refusing to apologize for weeks and promising to frame any condemnation of his speech equating SCHIP with slavery, Rob Schaaf is sorry.
He's sorry that his "comments were not taken the way he intended them to be taken," and acknowledges he bears "some responsibility for that." He apparently wasn't talking about the slavery of African Americans when he said Democrats want to reverse the actions of Abraham Lincoln -- he was just talking about a more general kind of "economic slavery" that is unrelated to Abraham Lincoln.
He also defended his long refusal to apologize on the grounds that such an apology might limit his ability to talk about slavery in the future.
Thankfully, Schaaf has also forgiven all the meanies who didn't like his talk of slavery, on the condition that they promise not be offended about future conversations of "economic slavery":
I forgive those who have since made hurtful comments about me. But my apology comes with a request. I am also asking my Democrat friends and my African American friends to please not be offended by nor to try to limit our ability in this chamber to have a discussion about the economic enslavement of the taxpayers by our government. It is a valid topic about which many Americans care and it is worthy of unemotional debate.
