1. Those were not excuses; they were possible explanations. 2. There are likewise brave men telling a different story about Kerry.
You mean brave men like this? ----------- Anti-Kerry Book Author Sorry for Slurs By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - One of the authors of a new anti-John Kerry book frequently posted comments on a conservative Web site describing Muslims and Catholics as pedophiles and Pope John Paul II as senile. But as he prepared to launch the book, "Unfit for Command," Jerry Corsi apologized for the remarks in an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday, saying they were meant as a joke and he never intended to offend anyone. In chat room entry last year on freerepublic.com, Corsi writes: "Islam is a peaceful religion — just as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered and the infidels are killed." In another entry, he says: "So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the lawyers rip the gold off the Vatican altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that's probably about it." Corsi, who described himself as a "devout Catholic," said the comments are being taken out of context. "I considered them a joke," said Corsi, who owns a financial services company and has written extensively on the anti-war movement. In a March posting, Corsi discussed Kerry's faith, writing: "After he married TerRAHsa, didn't John Kerry begin practicing Judaism? He also has paternal grandparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?" Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, are Catholic. "I don't stand by any of those comments and I apologize if they offended anybody," Corsi said. The Kerry campaign called Corsi's Web chat postings disgusting. "President Bush should immediately condemn this sleazy book written by a virulent anti-Catholic bigot. It says something about the smear campaign against John Kerry that it has stooped to enlist a hatemonger," said campaign spokesman Chad Clanton. Terry Holt, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign, said neither the president nor his campaign has ever questioned Kerry's military service. "It's shameful for the Kerry campaign to suggest so by falsely associating us with this effort," Holt said. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...anti_kerry_book
1. If you call them possible explanations instead of excuses, it doesn't matter. The President has never claimed any of those things. The only thing that W has claimed is that he gave up drinking. 2. Some of the other brave men weren't with Kerry for much of the debated activities, gave Kerry glowing reviews at the time they were in Viet Nam together, but have since changed their stories, are contradicting and trying to make liars out of people like Jim Rasmann, and others who were the closest to John Kerry. In John Kerry's examples nobody needs to make up any 'possible explanations'. Kerry has people who were partcipants with him, backing up what he's said. There is no need to make up anything. Yet for some reason you are more willing to make up your own possible explanations for Bush, and give him a passing grade, than to use existing eyewitness testimony from people who were the closest to John Kerry.
The President of the United States is drunk. On video. And that's not the least bit interesting to you, even in an Access Hollywood-kinda way? Politically, I couldn't care less -- what he does on his free time is his business. But that doesn't mean the video's not funny, or that it is beyond punchlines.
rimrocker's HS Football Coach: "Excuses only satisfy those who make them. Remember, the cream rises to the top... don't be the milk!" (I don't know why I posted that... this discussion of excuses must have brought up some dark memory...)
I enjoyed the video tremendously. It is not a tool for character assasination, though. That's all I'm saying.
"Never ASSUME anything. If you do, you will make an ASS out of U and ME." -the original coach from The Bad News Bears
Not at all. I like humans better than politicians. Most of my pro-Bush-to-the-hilt stuff in here is just a counter to all of the anti-Bush-to-the-hilt.
