Kerrey Apologizes To Obama

Associated Press   |  Nedra Pickler   |   December 20, 2007 08:54 AM


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Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey has apologized to Barack Obama for any unintentional insult he committed by raising the Democratic presidential candidate's Muslim heritage while endorsing rival candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Kerrey sent a letter to Obama on Wednesday, lauding the Illinois senator's qualifications to be president and saying that he never meant to harm his candidacy. Kerrey told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he sent the letter on his own and had not spoken to Clinton or her campaign about the comments he made Sunday in Iowa.

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- cope I'm a Fan of cope permalink

Bob Kerry is the President of The New Madrassa in New York - at least according to Kerry's vocabulary.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:43 AM on 12/21/2007

Bob Kerry is a in the closet Liberal Bigot. Yeah I here about these type everyday. Oh I not a bigot I know two black people. Oh what a shame

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:57 AM on 12/21/2007
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He did not need to apologies for saying what he said.

He needed to apologies for the back handed attack on Obama!

If he had said Obama is qualified but his grandparents(paternal)muslim roots may be an issue in the general, I would not have a problem with him.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:54 PM on 12/20/2007

Kerrey has NOTHING to apologize. Enough of this coddling of Obama......call a spade a spade no more no less.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:40 PM on 12/20/2007

Jeez Bob,

I'm sorry that I told everybody that you had sex with Mom. :-)

What a d*ck.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:53 PM on 12/20/2007

I fell for the Madrases Rethug talking point. Damn they are good.

Since Indonesia is not an Arab country, it is totally inappropriate to call a Muslim or catholic school or any school a "madrases". "madrasah, madarasaa, medresa, madrassa, etc. is the Arabic word for any type of school, In common English usage the word "madrasah" has been taken to refer to an Islamic religious school.[1] " Wiki

It's a big stretch to say: Huckabee and Romney went to what the Arabs would call a "madrasah". It's technically true: Madrasah is just another word for "school" in Arabic. Even if you take the narrow definition as "religious schools", it's still correct.

I's a very clever smear.

Rovian.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:01 PM on 12/20/2007

Why don't we stop apologizing for Muslims? Let's apologize for our own mistakes and missteps...let Muslims apologize for themselves (which they won't). Left to their agenda, Muslims will take over this country and turn it over to Sharia Law.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:27 PM on 12/20/2007

mentioning the secular madrasa, waiting for it to get some attention, then right when no one is talking about it anymore he apologizes for bringing up his muslim heritage and hopes he will have a role in clintons presidency because of his muslim background.

text book politics. bravo.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:41 PM on 12/20/2007

As I understand since Senator B H Obama is a Christian-we may infer that Senator Obama's forgiving former Sen Kerrey's for trying to paint Sen Obama as a Muslim was a generous act of Christian charity. We heathens aren't obliged to forgive former Sen Kerrey for this cheap, bigoted attack. I don't forgive Bob Kerrey for acting like a worn out, retreaded, scum bag. May Bob Kerrey live a long, lucid life & spend it in NJ.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:24 PM on 12/20/2007

I worked for Bob Kerrey and he has been my favorite politician since 1988. I have prayed that he would be elected President ever since then. I am shocked to find that today, with his underhanded smear of Obama, that I will never trust anything he says again. I imagine the Clinton's purchased his subtle smear for a high price. Karl Rove could have written the same comments. I feel like a naive child who just found out his hero is the opposite of a hero. Maybe I should seek counseling at a cult awareness group. I hope there is a limit to the number of Robert Hansen's in the Democratic Party. http://humbletruthseeker.blogspot.com/

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:04 PM on 12/20/2007

Apologizing for attempted racist character assasination, doesn't cut the mustard Bob!

Apologizing does not erase your intent or the damage caused to a fellow Americans good name!

Throwing stones then saying, "oops did that hurt", "sorry" will not restore you "good guy" image.

Through the mouth behold what's in the heart!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:35 PM on 12/20/2007

Kerrey Apologizes To Obama....and then Obama apologized for actually going to a secular Madrasah and then he apologized for his middle name being Hussein and then he apologized that his father and step father were Muslim.

This is stupidity and I am disappointed in Kerry for being terrorized into offering this apology.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:32 PM on 12/20/2007

Why is Kerrey even apologizing? He just stated the truth..

He did state the truth that Obama was not Muslim but he did come partially from a Muslim background. This is the truth right? Kerrey is not allowed to say that? Obama's name is Barrack Hussein Obama. That is his name, he didn't decide to change his middle name or anything, he decided to keep his middle name of Hussein. That is Obama's middle name.

Obama talks so much negative stuff about other candidates, so what goes around comes around.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:11 PM on 12/20/2007
- cope I'm a Fan of cope permalink

I tell you, even Paul Krugman is taking a beating in the blogs for getting down on Obama. Mostly from longterm Krugman fans! Rightly or wrongly, Obama criticism is boomaranging on just about everybody.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:54 PM on 12/20/2007

Barack Obama can do for the Democrats what Ronald Reagan did for the Republicans. I see Obama as coming to the rescue of the Democrats the same way Ronald Reagan came to the rescue of the Republican party at a time when the Democratic party was demoralized with what seemed like a failed Carter presidency, much like what Dubya has done to the Republicans party and our nation as a whole. Reagan offered a glimmer of Hope that we could turn the page. He made it cool to be Republican and he won over many Dems, who would become known as the Reagan Democrats. His appeal was broad and inclusive. He provided inspiration and motivation that America could be great again. To this day Republicans still invoke the name of Ronald Reagan as an example of what's good about the Republican party. What we need at this point in history is someone to finally unite the red and blue states. Someone to motivate people. Someone to lead us, all of us, as one nation. Obama has already won over many Republicans. We need inspiration. We need HOPE. We need Barack Obama. He is the ONE. It's not time for him to wait his turn. The time is now! America can be great again, and the Obama Republicans will turn out to support him.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:42 PM on 12/20/2007
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