Open Mouth, Insert Foot
He has now apologized.
Clearly the statement was not meant the way it sounded, but he did need to apologize for saying it and the impression it gave. And now John Kerry just needs to keep a low profile for a couple weeks so as not to give ammo to the GOP blowhards who need to latch onto any little thing to spin as the election nears.
And Bush especially needs to stop trying to twist the words and actually realize that he of all people should not be screaming for an apology unless he wants to get the mea-culpas rolling by acknowledging his own missteps, lying, diaster in Iraq, and his failed policies that have hurt America in the international community.
And the big irony is that the decider-in-chief is quoted as saying "anyone who is in a position to serve his country ought (ought?) to understnd consequences of words..."
--- Yeah right, this coming from a man who cannot complete an entire sentence and has created his own language complete with mispronounced words and imcomplete sentences that are riddled with um's and uh's.