"I feel your pain" Nice thing to say to someone or not?

[NanceGreggs]

20. THIS is your apology?

Let’s talk about the fact that you are still not taking responsibility for attributing statements to me I never made, and taking something I DID say – on a completely unrelated topic – and insinuating that I’d made that comment in response in an exchange on a different subject.

"I want to apologize to that person for things I wrote which were hurtful and I want to apologize to DU for losing my temper." Where is your apology for lying about what I said? Where is your apology for attributing statements to me that I never made?

Your contention was that I said “I feel your pain” as a sarcastic response to the fact that I had healthcare (here in Canada) that you do not. You said that I’d “bragged” about that fact. You brought up my deceased husband, and then said: ”I lost a child thanks to the profit hungry insurance companies and hearing someone with single payer tell me that I and mine are not good enough for it stick in my craw.”

When I asked you to provide a link to where I’d said anything remotely like that, you provided a link to where I’d said “I feel your pain” – in response to an OP you had written about Hillary’s alleged unelectability. (See http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251704260#post107 )

The thread I made that statement in had absolutely nothing to do with healthcare whatsoever. And you KNOW that. And yet you persisted in misleading others into thinking my “I feel your pain” remark was a sarcastic response to you having lost a child due to inadequate healthcare – an event I wasn’t even aware of before you accused me of being “sarcastic” about it.

Aside from our frequent disagreements over politics, I really thought you were better than this. I was absolutely gobsmacked that you would accuse me of saying things I’ve never said – and, when challenged to provide proof of same, that you would quote a response I made to your contention that “millions of Democrats would stay home rather than vote for HRC” as being a comment that you and yours “were not good enough” for universal healthcare.

And as I write this, I see you are STILL persisting in your dishonesty in this thread. ”I wouldn't have got so upset if she hadn't kept on lecturing me and then put personal insults on top of that after I apologized to her.”

Again you are implying that I “lectured” you about healthcare in an exchange about HRC's electability. It really doesn’t get more dishonest than that.

As I said in my last response to you on the thread in question: You should be ashamed. And now you should be doubly ashamed for continuing the lie that I “lectured” you about your lack of healthcare, when we both know I didn’t.

You raised the topic of my husband’s passing in order to score political points. You then lied about what I’d said about healthcare. And you’re still playing the victim, and insinuating that I DID indeed say things I never said.

Yeah, I know. My post will be alerted on and hidden – for whatever reason your colleagues can come up with. And that’s just fine – because nothing screams “READ ME!” like a post that’s got that flashing neon “hidden” sign on it.