Should Kerry apologize?

[ProSense]

Should Kerry apologize?

...San Leandro

For what? Telling the truth? If a few more so-called leaders started telling the truth about Iraq, maybe we could save some of those lives that are being thrown away for nothing.

...San Jose

When I heard Kerry's comment, I knew that it was not an insult to the troops but rather a dig to the Bush administration. However, I think Kerry should explain what he meant and apologize to the troops for any misunderstanding.

...Palo Alto

Kerry has already said he made a mistake. But hey, if the man was capable of competently telling jokes, he might have been elected president.

...San Francisco

No. I spoke to a former enlisted man about this story. He's livid -- at Bush. He says there's no need to apologize to the real veterans, because that's who Kerry was talking to in the first place -- and they understand him.

...Oakland

Why should a person apologize for telling the truth? The truth is, for those who are not educated, the military is one of their only outlets. This does not mean the people are stupid, it means they are uneducated. Their lack of education often means the military, which currently means Iraq.

...Sebastopol

His claimed attempt at humor was certainly insulting to our soldiers, and for that, he must apologize. He needs to hire a new writer, and then learn to deliver a line without stooping to the level of the right-wing name-callers.

...Albany

Kerry stated the obvious -- that if Bush had done his homework on the culture and history of the region, maybe we wouldn't be stuck there. The Republicans have nothing left to run on, so they mischaracterized Kerry's statement as an insult to the troops. The only things that Bush gets an "A" in are spin and hyperbole. He's managed an "F" in planning, execution and follow-up, and that has cost thousands of lives. Who really should be apologizing here?

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Summary: Hell no!

[Erika]

1. W should apologize

Let's stop the Kerry threads.

[Tarcat1]

5. He should just keep his mouth shut.

He should just keep his mouth shut. No need to keep this story going any longer than absolutly neccesiary. It only hurts us.

[ProSense]

8. No, I prefer Democrats who speak up!

Not one vote is going to be lost over this! More Democrats will be fired up to vote!

[sandnsea]

9. He isn't keeping it going

The media and the right wing machine is. Did you not hear Matthews talk about getting press releases from damn near every Republican - like an 'all points bulletin' for a joke gone awry.

Funny that the only person this new keep his mouth shut talking point could possibly help is another Presidential Dem - and here you arrive with just in time to repeat it.

[Webster Green]

11. Fuck that!.....He should call the chimp out..

Wait outside the White House. Call the little mutherfucker out. Kick his sorry ass down Pennsylvania Avenue.

[BeyondGeography]

13. I'm coming around to that point of view

He fucked up, and now he should shut up. Other news will knock this off the front page soon enough.

[Nicole]

20. No way! n/t

[wicket]

22. Did someone order a pizza?

:nopity:

[Bridget Burke]

23. Welcome to DU...

(Even though you apparently joined only to slag Kerry.)

Don't miss the Egress!

[babylonsister]

2. For what and Fuck NO! nt

[JDPriestly]

3. Bush should apologize for killing thousands upon thousands

of American soldiers and Iraqis for absolutely no reason.

[JDPriestly]

4. Bush should also apologize for cuts in veterans' health benefits

and for extending the tours of our soldiers in Iraq.

[TomInTib]

6. OK, give it up.... My three favorite you-know-what you are 's

Wild women never get the blues. (OP and #1 and #2)

But they know just when and how to shut it up.

[ginnyinWI]

7. McCain should apologize

He took the opportunity to stab Kerry yet again for the sake of politics. The man's soul is gone.

[Selatius]

10. John Kerry made a gigantic mistake.

With that said, however, if anybody has to apologize to anybody, then the culprit is probably somebody in the White House, for starting the damn war.

[ProSense]

14. Bullshit!

He made a statement with a couple of words missing that didn't change the meaning for any rational person!

I happened to listen to the asshole pundits on Scarborough today, and not one of them interpreted the statement outside its original context. That is was a mistake is the RW BS meme! Complete BS, that is unless you believe criticizing Bush is a "gigantic mistake!"

[Selatius]

21. Criticizing Bush at this point is the most patriotic thing you could do!

With the nature of politics right now, anything that even remotely makes the Dems looks bad is not wanted, especially before a mid-term election.

If he wanted to make a joke, he would've been better off attacking Bush's record of failure at making predictions that turn out ludicrously far from reality, like the notion of Iraq's oil revenue paying for the war.

[fooj]

18. Probably?

[LittleClarkie]

12. Fuck no.

Bush knew what he meant. That's why he's running scared.

[Monk06]

15. No he should mock the R's for wasting what little time

they have left to keep from losing.

By this time next week al Sadr and the Mahdi
army may be in control of Bagdad.

The Sunnis now control all roads into the city.

It's OK Corral time and here we are listening
to drivel about something Kerry said on the
stump in some bohunk community center.

[donheld]

16. Kick and Recommend

Thanks for posting.

[ashling]

17. Anybody who actually thinks

that Kerry was "troop bashing" can't see past their purple heart bandaids and an idiot in a flight suit on the deck of an aircraft carrier telling us ove 2500 of our military's lives ago that the mission was accomplished.

:puke:

[Nicole]

19. Hell No!

Bush should!