Since Kerry DID apologize, can we all please shut the fuck up?

[yodermon]

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061101/D8L4DF9G0.html

Sen. John Kerry apologized for "a botched joke" about President Bush's Iraq policies that led Bush and fellow Republicans to accuse him of insulting U.S. troops.

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"Of course I'm sorry about a botched joke"

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Kerry, D-Mass., said he meant no offense to troops.

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"I'm sorry that that's happened," he said of his comment.

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[blm]

1. He said sorry for BOTCHING the joke - not sorry for something he DIDN'T do

which the WH was demanding he do - he didn't attack the troops and won't apologize for attacking Bush.

Big difference.

[mmonk]

2. Now we'll see if it goes away.

He was forced to apologize for what he did not intend to say or mean. If sacrificing his dignity for a lie doesn't work, maybe democrats running can use Murtha's approach.

[emulatorloo]

3. "You cannot get into the military today if you do badly in school."

Kerry, D-Mass., said he meant no offense to troops. "You cannot get into the military today if you do badly in school," he said. But he said the White House was purposely twisting his words, and asserted that it is Bush who owes troops an apology for a misguided war in Iraq.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2539345

[MercutioATC]

7. That statement bothered me.

Of course you can get into the military if you do badly in school. That's ALWAYS been the case, and it's even more true now that enlistment standards have been lowered. Why can't this man stop compounding his problems?!?!?!?!

[NavyDavy]

11. some people are never satisfied.....

[marions ghost]

4. yes

let's not give this thing any more legs.

What have we got here? Just another rightwing smear (yawn)...moving on....

Anybody who believes John Kerry intended to insult the military is just a freakazoid.

[Hav]

5. .

And it would be absurd as Kerry served himself. Does he regard himself as too stupid to find a "real" job? Really...just absurd.

[marions ghost]

9. yeah

it just goes to show how some people don't think even the simplest things through. They just gag down the sound bites like a pelican swallowing a pigeon. Whatever will feed their need to believe that they were correct in foisting the Chimp on us, and Kerry really is a loser.

This is all about saving face for the Cult of Boosh.

[emulatorloo]

6. The right wing noise machine doesn't beleive any of the BS they spin

it is all just to keep them in power. So they'll lie and distort and do whatever it takes.

Let's put this one to bed.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. Please. This story is OVER.

:hi:

[Cha]

10. Yeah, Kerry knows how

to handle without all the handwringers.