AS Re...Kerry's "regime change" comment was no gaffe. It was a deliberate broadside attack. It was also an accurate one.
I agree that it was a deliberate broadside attack. However, it was against the president, in a time of war. Kerry himself had promised to support the president in times of war, and now he broke his word. And his choice of words was clumsy and disparaging. So much so that he is now apologizing for them. ONe shouldn't have to apologize for well chosen words.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030408-36190180.htm
Mr. Kerry publicly promised last month that he would not make any campaign charges against Mr. Bush once the shooting starts if his words could be seen sending the wrong signal to U.S. troops who are fighting and dying in Iraq.
"I remember being one of those guys and reading news reports from home. If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert," Mr. Kerry said in a statement that appeared in the Boston Globe on March 11.
Mr. Kerry, who fought in Vietnam when many Americans were protesting that war, said, "It's what you owe the troops."
Asked to respond to Republicans' latest charges, Kerry campaign Press Secretary Robert Gibbs did not address the senator's promise. Instead, he issued a deeper apology for Mr. Kerry's remarks, saying that "Senator Kerry intended no disrespect or lack of support for our commander in chief during wartime, and Senator Kerry is not criticizing the war effort." <<<<<<<<<
Kerry knows war. And he's not going to let a chickenhawk deserter like Bush dictate how and when he can be criticized. No more.
Fine, but why is Kerry apologizing for those very words now? The question is, can Kerry recover. |
