He said that in retrospect, after hearing all the criticism about the candidates’ silence when the debate audience booed the gay soldier who was “serving his country in Iraq,” maybe he should have spoken up against the booing.
I would leave it there, but I think the booing was more directed against the moderators for setting the candidates up that way. I could be wrong, but I don’t recall anyone asking someone from the audience WHY they booed. They just assumed it was because the soldier was gay...because that is the way THEY think. Like when Perry defended the death penalty.
Thank you all for your informative replies, and for the links. I had merely heard that he “said he should have apologized to the soldier” which is a lot different from what appears to be the case. I don’t think of Cain as the cower in the corner type, like when asked about the “muslim uin his cabinet.” He was reported to have been apologizing all over the place, and I was starting to believe it, until he said on national television “I will NOT apologize for what I said, but apologized if people didn’t understand what I said, and I will say it again, loud and clear!” (on the day that he announced). I think the media is trying to portray him to be exactly what Obama is: the apologizer in chief (yet they have no problem with Obama doing just that the entire first year he was in office).
Thanks again, I’m off to read the article.