The OP isn't "suspicion", it's a direct charge that is completely unsubstantiated by the original source. It was bad journalism from the start that was spread all over the place because nobody bothered to fact-check it. This isn't the time to reposition those goalposts.
"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
Shoddy journalism aside, I didn't read it to be that he DID apologize or even that it was a fact that he wanted to....but it raises questions, and the answers that fit those questions best are the simplest. I'm sure he did want to apologize...I'm just glad he didn't.
Fire Goodell
<-- This is the title of this thread.Obama tried to apologize to Japan for A Bomb!
<-- This is the linked story.Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for using nukes to end the overseas contingency operation known as World War II.
Neither of these are true according to their own source. If you read the actual cable, it says that Obama should not visit Hiroshima during his visit because people in Japan and America might expect an apology, and that wasn't going to happen. The author of the original story wrote up an intentionally misleading story and everybody ran with it without bothering to fact-check.
Obama *might* be the type to do all sorts of stuff, but that doesn't make this story any less false. People get misled by bad journalism all the time, but generally once they figure out they've been lied to, they stop repeating it. They certainly don't defend it.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-and-f...kileaks-cable/
FOX News has manned-up... sorta. In truth, the entire story never shoulda been repeated without fact-checking it first.
"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
This is my favorite piece of propaganda. I don't think it's that unreasonable that the State Department gave the family of a US citizen a phone call after he was killed in a drone strike (even if he was an obvious scumbag). I'm pretty sure police confirm with families and "express condolences" whenever they've had to use lethal force.The obsessive need of this president to apologize for American exceptionalism and our defense of freedom continued recently when Barack Obama's State Department (run by Hillary Clinton) (just in case you didn't know) contacted the family of al-Qaida propagandist and recruiter Samir Khan to "express its condolences" to his family.
I'm sticking to my guns. This would not be a story if not for the fact that Obama has already embarrassed this country and himself numerous times already bending over backwards to apologize for things he has no business apologizing for.
Fire Goodell
"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
Obama hates America
Hater = Realist
WOW! Digging this thread up from ashes!?! Pun intended.