Hollow Apology.
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Words mean things. They are meant to convey the underlying understanding of facts. When someone hears the words, â??I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpretedâ??â? what does that convey? It is implying that the person listening was actively misinterpreting what was said. So any non-conveyance of ideas was both the person talking and that of the listener’s faults that they did not interpret words to mean the same thing.
Now all this does get a bit confusing, until we give it context. We have an Ex-Presidential candidate who has shown his disdain for the military in the past, over decades in fact. We have a person who is so arrogant he can’t say the simple words, â??I"m sorry.â? or â??I apologize.â? Those words don’t ring hollow now do they? To say â??I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpretedâ??â? is just another insult to the whole nation. You"re not sorry for anything Mr. Kerry!
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In contrast, on the stump this week Bush has shown that whatever his faults â and there are many â that he still has that indispensable political gift of speaking simply to ordinary people rather than talking down to them.
“I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted…”
Not only does Mr. Kerry think that all of the soldiers in Iraq are stupid, but now he indicated that most of the people listening to his speeches are also stupid, because they heard what he said, vs. what he meant to say.
How hard is it to say “I was trying to tell a joke and I blew it. I’m sorry.”???
The problem with Kerry is that there is no contrition and he tries this flippant excuse game all too often.
In order for an apology to be legitimate in a case such as this, he would have had to state publicly that he was deeply sorry for his words, that those words were clearly offensive to many in the miltary, and all of those soldiers fighting over seas. That regardless of his intentions, upon reflection, it is clear that he was wrong in saying what he said and that he would, if he could, personally apologize to each and every soldier in the military.
John Kerry is a two-faced punk. He has always been a punk, and will always be a punk. Just for the record, again, following Iraqâs aggression towards and invasion of Kuwait in January 1991, Kerry voted against authorizing the first Gulf War. Then, in October 2002, he supported the current war in Iraq, despite the fact that Iraq took no aggressive action against its neighbors.
In September 2003, Kerry stated that voting against wartime funding bills was equivalent to abandoning the troops, yet one month later Kerry voted against an $87 billion supplemental funding bill for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. On the heels of this he stated: âI actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.â Was Kerry joking then? Were his words taken out of context? Were they misinterpreted? No, because he replied to critics who called him on it after the fact and here is what he said in reply: “it was one of those inarticulate moments.” Sound familiar?
The punk does this sort of stuff all the time, it is congenital.