2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Roy Karrde]

Romney seems to agree with Santorum here. Big surprise.

Come to think of it, apologizing is something that Republicans seem to be loath to do. I certainly never heard the words "I'm sorry" come out of Bush's mouth. Limbaugh apologized once in his career, i believe. Every other time he said something that turned out to be a boldfaced lie, he made excuses.

You don't remember Abu Gharab?

Obama has to apologize. We need the support of the government of Afghanistan. Because the GOP doesn't want to raise taxes, we lack the funds to fight the Taliban by ourselves. And unless we discover a cave full of pirates' treasure somewhere on US soil, we aren't going to get the funds.

The hell? You honestly think the Afghanistan Government is helping pay for this war?

The GOP is just showing how desperate they are to paint the President as incompetent by making statements like this. I ask Santorum and Romney... Since you're so concerned about family values, didn't your parents ever tell you to apologize when you did something wrong? Even if it was an accident?

Mine sure did. 'Nuff said.

So umm... when will the Afghanistani's be apologizing for all the troops their own people are killing in response?

You're right, he should have said 'Fuck you and your book of spells', that would've been much better

Which, although you weren't implying he SHOULD say that instead of apologising, the Afghan people would have taken the absence of an apology as such. The USA has alienated nearly every nation on the planet in the last 10 years with its rather careless attitude to the sentiments and feelings of other cultures, any President would do well to at least pretend they care about it and to start repairing the wounds.

I agree it is a damned if you do, damned if you don't approach, I just wonder if not apologizing may have helped take out much of the legitimacy of this and allowed it to blow over. Because apparently now after the apology the backlash has become even larger, in Libya for example after it was heard Obama apologized they went and desecrated the grave site of thousands of British troops.