Is it just me....or isn't this "response" JUST as offensive as the remarks he made??
No where in it was a mention of the good job our military is doing..even in his rebuttal, as nasty and wrong as it was...STILL no compliments for the troops themselves.
THAT proves that the first quote by him IS a put down of the troops.
It's not just you.
Not only is there NO acknowledgement of what are troops are doing, this thing reads like a drunken Will Pitt rant lifted straight off DU. And this guy is a freaking United States senator, and came within 120,000 votes in Ohio of sitting in the White House!
Actually, if you watch him speak it, he looks mentally unfit to perform the job of reciting the speech. He looks down, loses his place in the script and the unfortunate words pop out.
I have little doubt that he believes what he said (as opposed to what's in the script) in his heart of hearts and that's why this story resonates so well with everyone. But watching him fumble makes it look like a fumble.
Unfortunately for him, his statement quoted in this thread makes him look, well, insane and it's likely to do more damage than the original remark in the long term.
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