Kerry Statement on CNN Now! 4:11 p.m.

[Coexist]

"sorry to soldiers who took it the wrong way. I will continue to fight..." blah blah.
Yesterday's was more moving.
It was really short.

[spuddonna]

1. Can you update the non-cable gifted here, please? :) n/t

[LonelyLRLiberal]

2. Please summarize - I have no access to CNN right now. Thanks.

[blm]

11. Said he's sorry the remarks were MISINTERPRETED since he was not directing

them at the troops.

[Straight Shooter]

18. Thank you!

It's good to know there's someone who can listen and repeat the actual words or at least the gist of the statement.

No cable here, I rely on DU to give me the facts. :thumbsup:

[LonelyLRLiberal]

21. Thanks.

Good grief, this is sucking up valuable time!

[brentspeak]

3. Update, please

[Coexist]

check OP.

[Marnieworld]

4. He should just read a list of all of Bush's flubbed lines

And then say how it all proves his original point that Bush=dummyhead.

[elocs]

25. People's expectations of Bush speaking are pretty low.

My advice for all high-profile Democrats in the remaining few days of this campaign is to leave the jokes to the experts and just talk about the issues. Kerry messed up the joke, said he would not apologize, and finally did apologize. Spin it any way you want, that does not look good.

[cobaindrain]

5. Cafferty is on now, talking about Pentagon

don't see Kerry

[OzarkDem]

6. He doesn't need to say anymore

its time to move past this and get our Dems elected.

[David Zephyr]

7. That's enough. Now let's move on! How about the Foley Cover-Up?

!

[Blue Diadem]

8. I only heard the aftermath..

Wolfie and Cafferty saying he should have said that right away and then it would have gone away.

[cui bono]

19. Same thing Al Franken said. They're probably right. n/t

[RadiDem]

9. Anybody hear Kerry on Imus???

Mad Jack is really beating up on JK, for 'digging himself deeper into a hole'.

Anyobody here listen to it?

Was it that bad?

[tritsofme]

10. If he said this 36 hours ago, this whole ordeal never would have happened.

We would still be focused on the 100+ GIs that died in Bush's war in October.

[BootinUp]

12. yep. nt

[Subdivisions]

13. Not to mention that we've lost Baghdad...

[SlipperySlope]

36. And all of Iraq to come?

[blm]

15. They hadn't been MISINTERPRETED by so many at that point. The truth

still had an opportunity to get out there.


I'm SORRY that so many newsmedia fed the MISINTERPRETATION and that so many Democrats chose to as well.

[Catherine Vincent]

26. You're right.

The Bush handlers with the help of the media fed this misinterpretation.

[noonwitch]

14. The fact that this is even considered news....

This is one of those "I'm rubber, you're glue" kinds of things anyways. Kerry didn't insult the military, but even if he did, does saying it make it true? Do the men and women in our military have such low self-esteem that a comment not even directed at them can insult them to such a degree?

It's just a bunch of idiots getting their panties in a twist over nothing.

[brentspeak]

17. Choose your words carefully, please

Specify who the "idiots" really are -- the GOP, their talking heads, and the media for abetting them.

[BootinUp]

22. heres some food for thought

Clinton said it best really....the Dem party has an image problem. You know many people that I talk to vote on the trust thing, or call it the gut factor, as much as on certain issues. They don't know what to think about certain issues unless someone who meets their gut check tells them what to think.

So if public statements rub them the wrong way it most certainly can change the gut factor.


I think people want to overlook how politics works when it doesn't work in their favor. Its a natural reaction probably.

[cigsandcoffee]

16. It's about fucking time.

Thank God. Maybe we can put this silly thing away now.

[WI_DEM]

20. He had no choice, I'm afraid

[WildEyedLiberal]

27. Not after his fellow "Dems" stabbed him in the back

Yeah, you, Hillary, Harold Ford, Jon Tester, Carl Levin, Mary Landrieu.

[The Count]

31. yeah, poor Kerry! Others always making his decisions for him.

At least with Bush you know: it's always Clinton.

[WildEyedLiberal]

34. Oh shut the fuck up.

The rest of the party fucking stabbed him in the back and stood WITH THE GOP in their craven cowardly attacks. Do YOU support the GOP's swiftboating too? Save your "concern."

[judaspriestess]

23. it would have not mattered if he apologized sooner

it would NOT have gone away. this is a typical red herring tactic by rove. The fact of the matter is that he botched the joke. and that is what they are running with. And I really feel sorry for the troops if they get sucked into the propaganda and actually believe that a decorated veteran would insult his own kind. thats what is really sad.

[brentspeak]

24. No, troops are smart enough to know Kerry didn't intend to insult them

But the Republicans and their footsoldiers take the troops to be dummies, and expect them to buy their accusation that Kerry's mangled sentence displayed what he really thought.

[Fermezlabush]

28. Groan. Not even 24 hours without a retraction. No concession of an election

with that? Wait and see how long the apology will be played now... as "not nearly enough" - you bet.
Good ol' Kerry - for a few hours I thought he grew up.

[Xenotime]

29. PLEASE just go and ride a bike.

[The Count]

30. Did Carville make him do it? Clinton?

Once again, showing how fast he can drop us...

[BootinUp]

32. probably hundreds

of calls for it if I were to guess.

[The Count]

33. Yup. More than poor baby could take. Imus was right." Go ride a bike!"

[WildEyedLiberal]

35. Like you ever gave a shit.

Did you support HIM when it mattered? No. So STFU.