CNN: Sen. John Kerry says he apologizes to no one for his criticism of President Bush

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Nice answer

It's Bush who owes the world an apology.

[BattyDem]

2. They're reporting it as criticism of Bush ... not the troops

That's a VERY good sign! :-)

[keepCAblue]

3. Good for JK.

His refusal to cower or back-pedal restores my faith in him as a man of backbone and integrity.

Give e'm hell, John!

[Der Blaue Engel]

4. Right on, JK

Anyone who actually thinks this one issue will "blow up in our faces" and cause thousands of people to suddenly vote for the Republican candidate in their race when they were just about to vote Dem is living in lala land.

edited for typo. (sigh)

[rockymountaindem]

5. Oh snap!

Where are you "flip-flopper" and "weak on defense" memes now, MSM?

[crossroads]

6. Good to see him fight back!

Go Kerry... give em hell!:bounce:

[Jack Rabbit]

7. Indeed, no one should apologize for opposing Mr. Bush

I am patiently waiting for an apology from his supporters who have forgiven him every obvious lie he hold in getting hundreds of thousands murdered.

[woo me with science]

8. I just heard it on the radio.

It is even more effective in his own voice. GOOD for Kerry, for responding quickly and emphatically this way.

[closeupready]

9. Love it

>>"I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed-suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq."

He further expressed disgust with "Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country."<<

[karynnj]

18. Does that paragraph have echoes of John Lennon's Gimmee Some Truth

Im sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
Ive had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope

[kurth]

10. What's this shit about RW criminals demanding apologies from good guys and victims?

Did the pattern start with Cheney's shooting victim apologizing to Cheney for getting shot?

[Mark E. Smith]

11. Kerry needs to make a bunch more like it

How a president who is in the process of losing two wars at once can be perceived by anybody as the essential man in the war on terror has got to be the mystery of the age.

[MODemocrat]

37. Yeh! while kissing every "man" who will hold still for it

That surely does make him look like a leader doesn't it? Who but his 34 percent followers can take him seriously? What a joke!:dunce: :dunce: :crazy: :crazy: :thumbsdown:

[wisteria]

12. Good. They want him to apologize for a bad joke? LOL n/t

[phantom power]

13. If only he'd opened up a can of that in 2004...

not to dwell on what-ifs, but damn.

[Hosnon]

14. Good move. This has the potential to really hurt the Dems and the best way to lessen that damage is

to fight.

[Teaser]

20. it has no potential to hurt the dems at all

What is Kerry running for again?

Unless its for President, this is a one day story.

[Hosnon]

21. Naive. The Right HATES Kerry and this energizes them. This helps the GOP GOTV:

He may not be running but he is a prominent Democrat.

REMEMBER: BUSH AIN'T RUNNIN' EITHER.

[karynnj]

22. But Bush is President - Kerry isn't

You can say that a given congressman will support Bush's agenda. That's why Bush is an issue.

[Hosnon]

23. Kerry's a Senator. And ran for President. He represented us just two years ago. nt

[karynnj]

28. I know that

What I was saying is that if you take any race - there are two things this could be seen as:

- To someone who is RW, Kerry who they already hate insulted the troops - though even their interpretation is logically wrong - saying SOME people have no choice but the service does NOT mean that is why all joined.

- To others, it is Kerry blasting Bush on Iraq.

Who is more likely to be undecided? If anything it calls attention to Iraq.

[Teaser]

26. MORE NAIVE. Kerry is nobody.

and no one cares about him.

[Hosnon]

29. Then why is this news? How can one man go from being the Democratic nominee for President

to NOBODY in two years?

[JoFerret]

35. Interesting that it is seen as an opportunity

for bushites to attack him.

[The Stranger]

15. Don't you dare fucking apologize. We were fucked last time The Dick Durbin apologized.

Maybe after the 139,240,242,266,983th time, we Democrats will learn not to apologize whenever the GOP tells us to.

[Hosnon]

16. Agree...Kerry messed up here but can possibly make this a plus by sparking an all out war between

those that favor this war and us...they lose when confronted with the facts.

[The Stranger]

19. Polls show the majority hates the fucking lying, torturing, murdering war.

So if this is a referendum on that, we win. What this is is another attempt to get the spineless, boot-licking, sycophantic, pathetic Democrats to blink and apologize.

Hell, I don't care if he was critical of the troops, who in the fuck made troops above all criticism?

[treestar]

31. IA, if they can't take criticism how are they supposed to be tough

enough to fight in a war? What is even more ridiculous is the constant right wing claim that the troops are so weak they cannot take it if Americans exercise their right of assembly to protest against the war. Any troops who aren't fighting FOR that can come back home right now as far as I'm concerned. If they aren't protecting THAT, they aren't worthy of being in the US military. But it is all a RW lie.

The RW does this in order to play the victim. On behalf of someone else's difficulty and suffering, since most of the RW are only armchair warriors.

[dkos refugee]

17. best explanation:

http://anythingexceptthetruth.blogspot.com/2006/10/kerry-let-slip-more-truth-than-america.html">Kerry let slip more truth than America can handle

[zonkers]

24. He should agree to apologize to Bush only if he apologizes for being the biggest, crookedest, fuckup

fuck up of a president ever.

[rogerashton]

25. Kerry did back down, a little.

It's a fact that military service is very class-biased in this country. The people who get to do the dying are community college students and people who skipped community college. What Kerry said is the simple truth and even describing it as a "botched joke" is a waffle.

[SKKY]

27. Is Mary Beth Cahill working on the Kerry Campaign again?

:wtf: is he thinking?

[tomg]

30. So Kerry botches a joke, and he is told to

apologize, and that dumb son of a bitch Bush botches a war, 100,000s of human lives, an economy, the U.S's position in the world, our safety, Hurricane Katrina relief, and Bush then gets to go on national TV to demand that Kerry apologize.

[lyonn]

33. You pretty well explained in fewer words what Kerry stated

in his speech today explaining his comments yesterday. It had nothing to do with the IQ of our troops only the IQ of our Great Leaders who never learned about the cultures of other countries before going to war, etc.

[iilana X]

32. Good for him! I won't apologize either. Bush and company are the most evil and

corrupt bastards who do nothing but pay lip service to our military. F*ck them!

[goforit]

34. Well this is a first! No one should apologize to THUGS!!!

[MODemocrat]

36. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, et al owe this country a huge apology

They're just cold-blooded killers, and war-profiteers; all of them. I hope they have to apologize for what they've done to our military, and all the civilians they've killed and maimed; but I certainly won't be holding my breath until they do. They started the war, and they don't even have a clue as how to stop all this bloodshed.

They need to apologize for stealing the election away from Al Gore, who won the popular vote.

Until those hacks have seen some time in service, they don't have the right to criticize a war
hero like John Kerry. He doesn't owe them a damned thing.:evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown:

[MasonJar]

38. Do NOT ever apologize to these cretins, John. They owe you so

much that they should have their neck under your heel. Pond scum!