Saturday, April 17, 2004
Neil Cavuto-Sorry for not Being Sorry
"Should the commander in chief apologize for 9/11? Should he apologize for Iraq? Should he apologize for not apologizing?"
"Saying you're sorry is all the rage....Why are we so fixated on someone, anyone, saying they're sorry?
"You know what I'm sorry about?"
"I'm sorry that we live in a country that seems to put more value on playing political games than saving real lives."
"I'm sorry that in this election year we're more interested in looking in the rearview mirror than at the very real and present danger in our front window."
"I'm sorry for a country that didn't focus on what FDR screwed up before Dec. 7, 1941, but can't let go of what GW might have screwed up before Sept. 11, 2001.
"I always have wondered what terrorists here and abroad think of our political infighting, of our unending quests for apologies, for things we didn't create but they perpetrated."
"Only in America can Osama bin Laden launch an attack, and we launch a national guilt complex. We don't ask him to say he's sorry. We prefer all of us just looking sorry."
"Many say it's a testament to our free and open society that we can criticize one another and demand apologies from one another."
"Some savor that. I frankly feel sorry -- for all of us -- for that."
Look at our site on Saturday, March 27, 2004: Neil Cavuto: Shut Up, Move On, Watch Out!
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
9/11 Families Voice Different Opinions
"Some Sept. 11 Commission hearings have been marked by applause from the victims' families for heated testimony. But not all families of victims in the 2001 terror attacks speak with the same voice."
"It doesn't serve our country to serve up a scapegoat and to point fingers," said Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon."
Apology Trap
"Why is it that the very same people who refused to demand an authentic apology from former President Clinton for actual felonies he committed demand a bogus apology from President Bush for something that was not his fault?"
Who wants to step up and apologize
"President Clinton was good at apologizing -- but only for things that others had done, not for his own wrongdoing."
"He apologized, on behalf of the United States, for having supported dictators during the Cold War, for slavery and for racism.".
"He never expressed contrition for failing to handle the terrorist threat, being snookered by the North Koreans, coddling Yasser Arafat or his many other missteps.."
"Should the commander in chief apologize for 9/11? Should he apologize for Iraq? Should he apologize for not apologizing?"
"Saying you're sorry is all the rage....Why are we so fixated on someone, anyone, saying they're sorry?
"You know what I'm sorry about?"
"I'm sorry that we live in a country that seems to put more value on playing political games than saving real lives."
"I'm sorry that in this election year we're more interested in looking in the rearview mirror than at the very real and present danger in our front window."
"I'm sorry for a country that didn't focus on what FDR screwed up before Dec. 7, 1941, but can't let go of what GW might have screwed up before Sept. 11, 2001.
"I always have wondered what terrorists here and abroad think of our political infighting, of our unending quests for apologies, for things we didn't create but they perpetrated."
"Only in America can Osama bin Laden launch an attack, and we launch a national guilt complex. We don't ask him to say he's sorry. We prefer all of us just looking sorry."
"Many say it's a testament to our free and open society that we can criticize one another and demand apologies from one another."
"Some savor that. I frankly feel sorry -- for all of us -- for that."
Look at our site on Saturday, March 27, 2004: Neil Cavuto: Shut Up, Move On, Watch Out!
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
9/11 Families Voice Different Opinions
"Some Sept. 11 Commission hearings have been marked by applause from the victims' families for heated testimony. But not all families of victims in the 2001 terror attacks speak with the same voice."
"It doesn't serve our country to serve up a scapegoat and to point fingers," said Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon."
Apology Trap
"Why is it that the very same people who refused to demand an authentic apology from former President Clinton for actual felonies he committed demand a bogus apology from President Bush for something that was not his fault?"
Who wants to step up and apologize
"President Clinton was good at apologizing -- but only for things that others had done, not for his own wrongdoing."
"He apologized, on behalf of the United States, for having supported dictators during the Cold War, for slavery and for racism.".
"He never expressed contrition for failing to handle the terrorist threat, being snookered by the North Koreans, coddling Yasser Arafat or his many other missteps.."
