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

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

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.

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

Jeez Bob,

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

What a d*ck.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Now you have o apolegize for making compliment to obama because people are ignorant?

Is this some sort of new and cynical political trick:

1. Make an outrageous statement,
2. let it fester in the media and public for a few days
3. then belatedly, after damage has been done, make an apology?

As a DEM, stop apologizing for "Muslim" remarks. Period. I don't want Sharia law, and I don't think any educated American does either. We Americans don't owe Muslims any apologies.

Hey there bob, how are things at the new university in NY CITY??
Need a friend in washington? thought so!
you screwed up bob....nobody likes h....you should have read the news before you mouthed off.

PLEASE! We the people are apologizing for EVERY FREAKN' THING! Let the Sharia's go HOME! Please America...stop apologizing.

Kerrey Says Obama Attended A Secular Madrasa
(original HuffPo headline)

cope: (12/18)
... The motive is so transparent that the tactic is backfiring on Clinton and her surrogates. Students are already calling for Kerry's resignation as president of The New School of New York.
posted 12/18/2007 at 14:17:44

Well looks like calls for Kerry's resignation as President of The New School for intellectual dishonesty and abusing his position for political expediency (Hillary has power over the federal funds for NY schools) has had an effect.

If RR was the "teflon president", Obama is the "boomerang candidate". Everyone who tries to smear him gets hurt themselves.

BTW the dishonesty was not Obama's middle name. The dishonesty was saying he attended a madrassa.

Kerrey is a washed up, has-been who does not even have the guts to run for Senate. Trotting him out to badmouth Obama was a pathetic move by the Clintonistas and shows the level they will play at. But it warms my heart to now know that maybe some Secret Service records will dog Billary in the coming months. Let's see them sputter and hem and haw when the focus is on their corrupt activities. As David Gregory made clear the other day, Hillary IS a robot. One whose programming gets slightly fouled from time to time as when she laughs out of context or smiles like an idiot when she should not or repeats a talking point one too many times.

Obama Racial Subtext Emerges in IOWA Race: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22285623/

Interesting article, and questions that it arises.

Kerrey, please just shut up while you're ahead ... or rather not too far behind.

ABC News has learned that the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has registered the names of two Web sites with the express goal of attacking her chief rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

"Clinton's campaign has also introduced, quietly, a Web site called Attacktimeline.com, which Clinton officials say chronicles the ways Obama and Edwards were criticizing her publicly long before she began returning fire.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4032659&page=1

Right Hillary, they criticize you directly, you send out surrogates to smear. But maybe you're right, maybe the press is out to get you, and the vast right wing conspiracy, and the Chinese, and the voters, and ....