Why can't Kerry just have the balls to apologize?
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How many combat tours did you and bush do combined?\n\nBy the way, Kerry IS one of US troops so he could never insult us.\n\nBush hid from the VietCong in a cushy stateside champagne drinking unit reserved for NFL players and Politicians sons.\n\nHe gets appointed in 2000, and NOW he claims to support us.\nNot buyin it.
825299
Kerry was giving a campaign talk to students for the losing candidate in California, Phil Angelides, when he said that if you paid attention and got good grades you could be a success and, if you didn't, you'd get stuck in Iraq. Everyone took that as a backhanded swipe at the troops indicating that they're stupid.\n\nKerry tried to state that he was making a joke and he flubbed it and people took it the wrong way. So I guess that he figures that people are stupid too. Then he refused to apologise. Then he apologised because people took his joke the wrong way.\n\nPersonally, I think he said what he said and given that he's done nothing but trash mouth the military for years, he meant it just the way he said it.
908505
Your right it was not an apology. Didn't I hear him say once he would never apologize. or was that before or after something?
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This president must apologize to the troops for having suggested, six weeks ago, that the chaos in Iraq, the death and the carnage, the slaughtered Iraqi civilians and the dead American service personnel, will, to history, “look like just a comma.”\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops because the intelligence he claims led us into Iraq proved to be undeniably and irredeemably wrong.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops for having laughed about the failure of that intelligence at a banquet while our troops were in harm’s way.\n\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops because the streets of Iraq were not strewn with flowers and its residents did not greet them as liberators.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops because his administration ran out of “plan” after barely two months.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops for getting 2,815 of them killed.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops for getting this country into a war without a clue.\n\nAnd Mr. Bush owes us an apology for this destructive and omnivorous presidency.\n\nWe will not receive them, of course.\n\nThis president never apologizes.\n\nNot to the troops.\n\nNot to the people.\n\nNor will those henchmen who have echoed him.\n\nIn calling him a “stuffed suit,” Sen. Kerry was wrong about the press secretary. \n\nMr. Snow’s words and conduct, falsely earnest and earnestly false, suggest he is not “stuffed,” he is inflated.\n\nAnd in leaving him out of the equation, Sen. Kerry gave an unwarranted pass to his old friend Sen. John McCain, who should be ashamed of himself tonight.\n\nHe rolled over and pretended Kerry had said what he obviously had not.\n\nOnly, the symbolic stick he broke over Kerry’s head came in a context even more disturbing.
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America heard Kerry's comments for what they were.\n\nKerry got mad because we didn't hear what his statement was supposed to be.\n\nMany Liberals ( such as Mr. Colmes ) claim that Kerry's  "joke" was clearly refering to Bush's Iraq policy.\n\nNow why do they say that when the statement that Kerry made in no way refered to Bush, not even any symbolism partaining to Bush...\n\nIt just goes to show the far left has a lot of bias.\n\nWhat a funny "joke" - but Kerry is not laughing, maybe this is because he realizes that the joke's on him.\n\nI wonder if he has taken his foot out of his mouth yet. The Democrats shoved it in there, while they wrote Kerry's "apology".\n\nKerry's "apology" was not sincere because prior to his apology, as you said, he demanded that Bush apologise. He also said that he will not aplogise for his words.\n\nSo you have to be blind to actually think Kerry is sorry.\n\n\n\nThose comments are nothing compared to his other anti- troop comments.\n\nHe called our boys terrorist for terrorising wemon and children in Iraq. he called his own comrads murderers after he served in Vietnam.\n\nAnd yet the Liberals say that he is a proud war veteren? He threw his purple hearts on the Whitehouse lawn.\n\nFor all we know, he could have made self inflicted wounds to get those hearts.\n\n\n\nI hope we don't have to many Democrats that think like John Kerry.
887464
Kerry is a pathetic piece of dung who couldn't tell a joke if his life depended on it
916801
seems like john kerry has a problem making any kind of a decision period.
1042511
... I mean... how else can they excuse his actions... they can't face up to all the stupid policies that he supports... so they have to find a scape goat... let's call all the media "liberal," that way we can live in our own little bubble of naivety
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I never liked Kerry to begin with.  He acted like he was above the common person.  My husband is a recent enlistee in the National Guard along with my brother.  I have three cousins and an uncle in the Armed Forces and both my grandfathers retired from the military.  Every single one of these men have a degree of some sort and my uncle is a lawyer!  Come on now!  Kerry's words may have been intended for Bush but if that's the case, he should apologize for his wording.  He owes our troops an apology for his misstatement, not his stance.    He won't apologize because he stands by his position and dislike of president Bush.  He thinks if he apologizes , he's admitting he's wrong.  He'd be admitting a misconstrued statement.
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They have huge egos...and they have to know how to BS to arrive at their position..\nI think if they did say "oops..made a mistake here" the public would be more forgiving.
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No, it was not a real apology. Like he was sorry he got caught offending ppl. but not sorry about what he said.\n\nJ.Kerry the leper. I bet he is surprised his fellows didn't take up for him.
913118
As a paralyzed Vietnam Vet I will never forget John Kerry's traitorous remarks made years ago calling myself and my Brothers-in Arms all manner of names from "Baby-Killers" to "cowards" upon our return and now, our brave brothers and sisters are "stupid"?\n\nI want to state that, 'Mr. John Kerry is not only a man of questionable honor but he should apologize for making statements that not only insult every brave young man and woman Serving but give yet again, "Aid and Comfort to the enemy" which emboldens the enemy and gets more troops killed!\n\nWe will now do everything humanly possible to mobilize the Conservative Base not necessarily to Vote to support current policy and Incumbents but to vote "against the Democrats" and the Nancy Pelosi San Francisco Values that party holds to!\n\nThis was the best thing he could have done to energize our base!\n\nNow, how will the Far Left Wong ACLU Adoring Liberal Dems explain away this one...watch for the standard "disclaimers" mostly used for Dr Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi "Foot-In-Mouth attacks...i.e.:\n\n"He was mis-quoted" or maybe, "His statement was taken out of context" or maybe he meant it?
830245
Not really, what's sad (and wrong) in this country is that a public figure can not say what the rest of us are (supposedly) free to say, political correctness is like a pendulum that has swung too far. We have freedom of speech, yet if someone says anything that will offend anyone else, there's a big stink. Political campaign commercials are free to bash and exaggerate negatively about the opponents yet Kerry can't say what a large percentage of us really think? Hell no, he shouldn't apologize.
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There wasn't one.  Don't let his back-peddling fool you.\nHe said what he said and he was NOT talking about Bush!  He made a direct insult to every single member of the military and to those of us who raised them.  I have 2 of my kids in the military.  And guess what?  They joined because "gasp" they love their country.  My daughter has seen two tours this war and would go back in a heartbeat.  She is an extremely smart, educated and well spoken young woman.  Kerry is an idiot.  He can't even understand that what he said isn't being perceived as a joke.  He needs to be a man and say he is sorry.  But he won't because he said what he meant.  Way to damage your democratic vote for next week, John.
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Yes, the idiot in qestion was improperly handling a hand grenade...playing around with it.  On a further note, Kerry was unfavorably discharged(not dishonorably..although that's debatable!) and Jimmy Carter...the peanut farmer, who tried to run America(into the ground), changed it to honorable.
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You are right.  The way he worded his lame joke was not smart.  The fact is though, as long as the administration and the Republicans seeking office can keep the emphasis on Kerry's comments, the longer they can avoid facing questions on failed policies on their watch.  I fully understand why they have intentionally misunderstood and mis represented his comments.\n\nIf you watch the answers you receive to your question you will see a lot of their followers doing the same thing.
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He will apologize like the Pope did.  He will say he is sorry for people misinterpreting what he said, but will not apologize for the actual statement.  The big difference is the Pope didn't need to apologize and Kerry does.  I say around 2:30.