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| Rockefeller Apologizes to McCain |
| 2008-04-09 |
| U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) was forced to apologize Tuesday to Republican Presidential candidate John McCain for comments he made about McCain’s military service. “I have profound respect and appreciate his dedication to our country, and I regret my very poor choice of words,” Rockefeller said in a prepared statement. Rockefeller, who supports Barack Obama for President and has campaigned for him, said in an interview with the Charleston Gazette editorial board this week that McCain was not grounded in issues affecting people because, in part, he was a fighter pilot. “He flies at 35,000 feet and drops laser-guided bombs, missiles,” Rockefeller said. “He was long gone before they hit. What happened down there, he doesn’t know.” Rockefeller added that he knew the comments were “unkind” because McCain was fighting for the country, but he added, “You sort of have to care what goes on in people’s lives.” The McCain campaign responded through Lt. Col. Orson Swindle, USMC (retired) who served in Vietnam and spent 20 months in a Hanoi prison with McCain. “We know what flying through hell is like and the senator doesn’t,” Swindle told Metronews. “He probably never heard a shot fired in anger unless it was in the backwoods of West Virginia hunting or something like that.” “He (Rockefeller) doesn’t know a damn thing about the military,” Swindle added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 McCain is going to pull it out, thanks largely to liberal asshelmets like Rocky the Lesser. Election day will be the biggest setback for liberals since the Rosenbergs were executed. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2008-04-09 22:54 |
| #7 Rockefeller was trying to nail McCain and didn't know what he was talking about. McCain should consider it the apology of a fool--worth scat. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-04-09 16:48 |
| #6 He said what he said. If he didn't at least tacitly believe it he never would have made the statement. I would even guess that since Jay Rock is so dense he was probably reading from a script. His felow traveler (babs boxer) never EVER talks without her handy dandy bendover.org script in hand. Apology NOT aqccepted. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2008-04-09 14:55 |
| #5 Close: John flew an A-4 Skyhawk, an attack aircraft, not a fighter ( although it did have guns) and the bombs were gravity ( dumb) bombs. But at least Jay stood up and apologized, rather than some mumbled misremembering thingie.....(take a clue Hillary) |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2008-04-09 14:27 |
| #4 “He flies at 35,000 feet and drops laser-guided bombs, missiles,” Rockefeller said. “He was long gone before they hit. What happened down there, he doesn’t know.” Until, of course, he got shot down. McCain should accept his apology then ask him if he ever hears from Meagan Marshack... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-04-09 11:47 |
| #3 Jay is obviously the shallow end of the Rockefeller gene pool, and if Barbara Boxer weren't there, prolly the dumbest Senator. That's saying a lot (see: Biden, Joe) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-04-09 09:09 |
| #2 A man whose fortune is based mostly on... hydrocarbons. |
| Posted by: Sonny Elmeamp2499 2008-04-09 08:40 |
| #1 Jay Rockefeller - poor little grandchild of the wealthy. A sense of entitlement as healthy as his inheritance but no personal worth to back it up. |
| Posted by: Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-04-09 06:25 |