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To: Cogito who wrote (52692)	11/1/2006 7:06:08 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

there was no joke, Kerri is lying about that.

To: Cogito who wrote (52692)	11/1/2006 7:55:22 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

That persistent claim about Bush is precisely why I made the observation. It's easy for those with an anti-Bush agenda to make such statements, but more difficult when the offender(s) are on the same team, isn't it? The fact that Kerry referred to his verbiage as a "botched joke" is neither an apology nor an admission of having erred. I don't believe that he even personally uttered an "apology". Just issued some squirrelly statement this afternoon once it became clear that the issue was not going away so easily. This was after he cancelled public appearances or had them cancelled for him. Where's all this valor under fire? The story put forth that he botched a joke sounds like something that 22 year old staffers dreamed up overnight. I've seen it intoned all over SI today as though the intended joke were so obvious and flowed naturally from his prior comments. Yeah, right. I think he said exactly what he believes. He probably didn't mean to say it, but it slipped out anyway.

To: Cogito who wrote (52692)	11/1/2006 8:55:51 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Man, that really is true of Bush, isn't it? Asked in a Press Conference whether he could think of any mistakes he had made during his Presidency, he stood there like a mute. That's one press conference not a pattern of behavior. In any case why would Bush campaign against himself. Still active (as opposed to retired) politicians tend to either side step such questions, or turn them around to an attack on their political enemies ("my mistake was underestimating the viciousness of X") or talk purely about tactical errors ("I overestimated how much support there would be for the bill, I should have delayed introducing it until") At best you get very minor mistakes about issues almost no one really cares about, or you get recognition of a mistake when its impossible to argue that some sort of mistake has not been made.