Damn it, Ace-- I'm proud of you.

I was about to post on this, and you beat me to it. Thanks, you saved me from writing the same thing.

Now I can go back to ripping Wiggles CDs.

Much obliged,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Wow, John McCain, a true American icon. What a goob...

I am repeating myself from another post, but I must say it again, I guess it's ok to trash all over the military as long as you have a tear-filled apology afterward. Lame. Ultra lame.

Good post, Ace.

Jesus. Courage is what our guys in the military got. Not some twit senator backpedaling on his asshat comments.

Arrgh, this sort of thing just burns my ass. The whole "I'm sorry if you're such a wimpy loser whiney twit that you were offended" crap.

You're sorry or you're not. Period.

And John McCain, hey, it just occured to me that his last name is appropriate..

That guys' even more of a weasely douche bag IMO now.

What's with all our pussy ass senators these days? I've never in my life seen so many grown men cry. It makes me sick to see a fucking Senator cry over some crafted remark that backfired on his ass.

Politicians can suck my balls.

Fat KidIt makes me sick to see a fucking Senator cry over some crafted remark that backfired on his ass.

Yeah, this is the type of behavior you would expect out of some gern like Al Franken, but a Senator... no shame. What a bunch of pansies.

That last one was me....

Apology? What apology? What the jerk did was denigrate every American alive in the world, and he's "sorry if he offended anyone"? He only got one thing right in his whole side-step: He's sorry.

That I can take to the bank, because he's just as sorry as the wuss who ran for pres and lost, just as sorry as the lady-killer from MA, and certainly just as sorry as the dirtbag "apologist" from AZ.

The Republicans in Arizona have to insist that McCain run as a Dem. We need our Senators to have balls; obviously he doesn't.

Because real "independent-thinkers" always have perfectly-predictable thoughts

The same way real non-conformists always wear black and listen to the same bands.

...Durbin said, choking on his words.

Now THAT I believe.

Later,
bbeck

Sorry, Dick. Still not accepting your apology.

But, for what it's worth, you forgot to apologize for giving moral support and aid to the terrorists who plot to murder us.

Apologize for that...so I can reject that one too.

Look, people...we know where this guy's mindset is. Apology or no apology, tigers don't change their stripes (even Tony the Tiger), the make PR calculations.

Shame on my native Illinois. Shame.

You know, I could accept his apology, if he would apologize for what he actually did wrong.

Instead of apologizing for making an assnine moonbat comment comparing Gitmo to a gulag, he apologizes for offending people. Of course he's sorry he offended people. People vote. Therefore, upset people = bad. Appease the people =good.

What a douche.

Excitable Andy must be disappointed that his new hero made even such a half-assed apology.

Good. Fuck him.

Yeah, but Lott had to apologize and resign. So should Dickless Durbin.

mcCAIN just makes himself more irrelevant by the day and deed. Won't be long before Republicans are saying "John who". His hatred for President Bush is equal to that of the donks and he just can't wait everyday to side with them.

The news says Richard Daley had something to do with Durbin's about face. I hope Daley kicked Durbin's ass in private. His son, Patrick Daley, enlisted post 9/11. And though he is a republican, blood is blood!

Reason 857 to hate John McCain: He's cosponsoring a bill to make DHEA a controlled substance, undistinguished from anabolic steroids. I don't see how he could even have taken it into his head to do such a thing unless it were at the behest of people who finance his campaigns and have special access to the buttons and switches of his moral indignation. I'm tempted to write that bloated, diseased martinet and let him know vitamin D is a steroid, too. "Please, you must make fortified milk a controlled substance before Our Children are destroyed by drug pushers!"

This was nothing compared to what Trent Lott said a few years ago, yet he practically gets a free-pass from the MSM and a half-ass apology is called "courgaeous." Utterly predictable.

Who wrote this apology? The f**king runaway bride!

No, Durbin did not do the right thing and anyone can see it. But these words can all be brought up again and shoved in his own and his party's face, including his weak attempt at covering his own ass. This shit won't flush in much of this country. And as long as he refuses to admit it was outrageous, this is actually good news!

And, surprise! Sully's obviously feeling the heat of criticism, because he's printed not one but TWO self-congratulatory emails in which people agree with him.

In responding to one email, he says this:

I'm reminded of Mayor Daley's amazing quote: "I think it's a disgrace to say that any man or woman in the military act like that." Some questions: Is Daley denying the incident Durbin described? And what does he mean by "like that"? We know for a fact that some U.S. interrogators have tortured some detainees to death. We know it because the military has conceded it. Is it now "a disgrace" to report that? Is it "a disgrace" to lament that? And how exactly is torturing innocent people to death via presidential memo utterly different than the behavior in many vile regimes?

It seems to me Sullivan has stepped over a line. He's suggesting the president approves of torturing people to death.

What a hysterical little crapweasel.

Durbin and McCain. These pricks deserve each other.

Phony crocodile tears on the Senate floor and a backwards apology -- that only applies if you were "offended" -- if you agree with the cocksucker, well then everything is hunky-dory

Next time I kick someone in the nuts for no reason I'll just profess to be "sorry" if they were "hurt"

that's the lesson I learned from this.

It finally seems that at least some AZ Republicans are tired of McCain:

http://www.gopwing.com/modules.php?sid=910

Saw that at RWN

We know for a fact that some U.S. interrogators have tortured some detainees to death.

No, we don't. But I have seen things on the net that say so, and I dearly hope they're true. But the fact that Liberals don't care that as a direct result of this kind of accusation, and that the resolve of our enemy is stiffened, our image among the terrorists and the allies we need to help us is tarnished, and that this will make the war much harder, much more bloody, much more expensive and much longer than it had to be is one reason I hate them so much. They just don't care what happens to our boys and our country and deserve to be horsewhipped on the steps of the capital.

Hey, what more do you want? King McCain stamped his approval.

Dang shame the King of the Dwarfs, couldn't have managed to give the nod to stop his good buddies on Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. Instead he shook his Important Head and turned loose his hounds, Hagel and Graham. Shame King Hero Celeb chose not to stop the "torture" by his good buddies and MSM. But hey, that's just American soldiers being trashed in his effort to hit Bush. Reminds one of his view on those pesky Swifties. Who were those people? Why didn't they shut up when King Celeb Hero told them ? Didn't they know he was the ONE?

Now we should all just move along with Turbin Durbin. King Double Speak of the Ruling 7.... ordained.

There are only two reasons to make this sort of "Sorry if you're offended" non-apology. One is if you're tactfully refusing to back down from your remarks. The other is if you're a craven politician who finally realized this might come back to bite you in the a$$ with the voters. It's possible Durbin was non-apologizing for both reasons simultaneously.

If the guy had an ounce of class, he'd apologize for these reasons, in this order: 1) Giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war; 2) Slandering our men and women in uniform; 3) Embarrassing the Democratic Party. (Okay, that last one was just comic relief. He might offer an apology to Richard Daley, though.)

I have bad news for McCain: All those moonbats who say they would vote for you if you ran because they think wrongly that it makes them look less moonbatty -- are lying! And you sure as hell not going to get the nonmoonbatty vote.

utron

"Sorry if you're offended" non-apology.

Isn't that galling? I'm sorry if you're offended but I'm not going to admit I'm wrong on the substance because that would involve a real mistake on my part, instead of hyper-sensitivity on your part.

But this will still come back to haunt him and his party, i.e., if conservatives can manage not trip over their own dicks in public long enought for this to be used by them against Liberals, a very big "if."