Final proof positive that Kerry handled things correctly today >>>

[troublemaker]

The most powerful lens ever devised for discovering the truth is using Andrew Sullivan as a counter-indicator.

He has never been right about anything, ever. He has the worst political instincts of anyone alive. It's eerie... he perfectly distills the dumbest strains of the conventional wisdom. In short, a pure vomit-inducing self-styled moderate wise man in the mold of heroes of self-serving mediocrity like Lieberman and Sullivan's hero John McCain.

So I was delighted to see that Sullivan just called for Kerry to apologize, whether he dissed the troops or not!?!?

What Kerry said he must apologize for. Sooner rather than later. He may not have meant it the way it came out. That doesn't matter. It's wrong to talk about the military that way - wrong morally, empirically and ethically. And the way he said it can be construed as a patronizing snub to the men and women whose lives are on the line.

Notice the crap-headed beauty of the thing... this is the abject nihilism that passes for wisdom these days. People should apologize for things they didn't do because if they did them it would have been a bad thing to do.

Fine, I'll go first... I'm sorry I started the London fire of 1610.

http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/10/sorry_seems_to_.html#trackback

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ON EDIT: There's a lot of disagreement on this topic today. I think it might be clarifying to say that I do not want this story advanced. I want it gone. The question is how to end it, and saying "I didn't do it" was, IMHO, the most effective way of short circuiting the thing. It turned the story into a mind-reading exercise, a sort of story at which TV news does not excel.

If apologizing would have ended the thing faster then I might have favored an apology, by apologies do NOT end political stories. They whet the wolves' appetite.

[babylonsister]

1. You are a troublemaker! nt

[solara]

2. It's about time you did

:rofl:

[WCGreen]

3. It was you........

My ancestors curse your soul!!!!

[Dr. Death]

4. It's wrong "empirically"?

"It's wrong to talk about the military that way - wrong morally, empirically and ethically"

:wtf:

What can he mean by that, I wonder?

[troublemaker]

5. Maybe he's channeling Don King

It is wrong existentially, splendiferously, munificentaciously...

[beachmom]

6. Good points, all of them. Here's my apology.

I want to say I am sorry for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which triggered WWI.

And that triggered WWII.

Which was followed by the Cold War:

(Which led to the CIA backing the Baathist Party in Iraq and the rise of Saddam Hussein.

Which led to the Vietnam War

Which led to us backing the Mujahadeen and Osama bin Laden against the Soviets in Afghanistan)

Which led to 9/11

Which led to the administration finding an excuse to invade Iraq


Well, heck I KNEW all of that was my fault. And for that, I am very sorry. I didn't mean it, but I'm sorry anyway.