Apologist in Chief in Japan

[LegendKiller]

OP gets dumber and dumber every hour.

fascinating.

I am attempting to help clean up P&N by not engaging in ad hominems. I'd suggest you do the same.

 

[waggy]

One of the survivors took it as an apology. Guess I'm not the only one.

I can forgive the survivior of thinking it was an apology. For anyone else it's silly.

it was no apology. it was a reaffirmation of alliance.

 

[Sulaco]

You can express sincere and heartfelt remorse for a tragic situation without accepting the blame for it.

Obama's speech and presence was perfectly legitimate. Pointing out the bonds of friendship between the two countries that have since evolved and grown is the best message to take away from that sad era and event.
Finger pointing and jingoism accomplishes nothing.

 

[Pens1566]

One of the survivors took it as an apology. Guess I'm not the only one.

And it looks like majority of posters took this as a DERP thread.

 

[LegendKiller]

I can forgive the survivior of thinking it was an apology. For anyone else it's silly.

it was no apology. it was a reaffirmation of alliance.

lol - the alliance has been secured for decades and was not in question. Being the first President to visit there only shows how secure it was. It wasn't needed.

 

[LegendKiller]

And it looks like majority of posters took this as a DERP thread.

Meh, typical liberal group.

 

[JSt0rm]

lol - the alliance has been secured for decades and was not in question. Being the first President to visit there only shows how secure it was. It wasn't needed.

maybe the pres wanted to eat at jiro's sushi place. Did you think of that?

 

[kage69]

I think it's pretty funny that someone can get so unhinged over that speech.


Ease up OP! You're going to pull a Breitbart with all that frothy rage, heart's gonna pop like a zit.

 

[JSt0rm]

Freedom sashimi.

 

[evident]

You're a friggin idiot. Japan is the most important ally we have in Asia along South Korea. Get over your hate for obama jackass. No apology given, nor was one needed, but a touch of human empathy about the shittiness of war. Or do you think all war is glorious and clean like a video game?

 

[CitizenKain]

Conservatives are simply unwilling to understand anything beyond thinking that everything Obama does is bad.

 

[LegendKiller]

You're a friggin idiot. Japan is the most important ally we have in Asia along South Korea. Get over your hate for obama jackass. No apology given, nor was one needed, but a touch of human empathy about the shittiness of war. Or do you think all war is glorious and clean like a video game?

Human empathy? LOL - surely you must be joking. How long did it take them to apologize for the Korean Comfort women, rape of Nanking, or the medical torture of US soldiers?

Fuck apologizing to them. They started a war, we finished a war. It's over. To run around apologizing for something they caused, now, is ridiculous.

We had a fine relationship with Japan for the last 70 years, apology not needed.

 

[LegendKiller]

Conservatives are simply unwilling to understand anything beyond thinking that everything Obama does is bad.

I voted for the guy, twice. Pretty much everything he has done is bad.

You guys had no problem with me when I was ripping on McCain and Mittens. In fact, you were gleefully cheering it on. Homers.

 

[Jhhnn]

The speech apparently doesn't translate well into the language of the Glenbeckistanese. It sounds just like English but the words have different meaning so there's room for a lot of confusion.

 

[dphantom]

I voted for the guy, twice. Pretty much everything he has done is bad.

You guys had no problem with me when I was ripping on McCain and Mittens. In fact, you were gleefully cheering it on. Homers.

Glad you finally found the truth. I held my nose the last two times but this supposed president is the utter dregs of any moral purpose. The sooner gone the better. The embodiment of a statist philosophy that is ethically, morally and spiritually bankrupt.

 

[zinfamous]

I am attempting to help clean up P&N by not engaging in ad hominems. I'd suggest you do the same.

why didn't you quote my other ad hominem? it was wittier.

 

[zinfamous]

Meh, typical liberal group.

you've been hypnotized by your master

 

[LegendKiller]

you've been hypnotized by your master

And you yours.

 

[sandorski]

Barrack Apology Obama!

 

[zinfamous]

And you yours.

what, books? literacy? which master?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Since there was no apology, /thread.

 

[UglyCasanova]

There was no apology but I'm also not comfortable with our sitting president visiting Hiroshima where it might be perceived as such, and it's particularly distasteful so close to Memorial Day. We wouldn't expect the Japanese prime minister to visit Pearl Harbour making speeches.

Maybe this solidifies ties with Japan even more though which is a good thing to counteract China's influence in the region, same with the Vietnam visit.

 

[Paratus]

Do you or a loved one suffer from elevated blood pressure, increased heart rate, excessive saliva, flushed face, or excessive feelings of rage whenever the president is mentioned?

Have you or a loved one begun mistaking right wing blogs and opinion pieces as facts?

Then you maybe suffering from Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Talk to your doctor about new treatments* today.

(Treatment for severe cases may only be available in Colorado and California)

 

[ivwshane]

Human empathy? LOL - surely you must be joking. How long did it take them to apologize for the Korean Comfort women, rape of Nanking, or the medical torture of US soldiers?

Fuck apologizing to them. They started a war, we finished a war. It's over. To run around apologizing for something they caused, now, is ridiculous.

We had a fine relationship with Japan for the last 70 years, apology not needed.

Yeah.... Which is why Obama didn't apologize and why he highlighted and focused on that 70 years of a fine relationship.
If you weren't so mental you'd actually think his speech was a good one and struck exactly the tone that you think it should have struck. But....

 

[Jhhnn]

There was no apology but I'm also not comfortable with our sitting president visiting Hiroshima where it might be perceived as such, and it's particularly distasteful so close to Memorial Day. We wouldn't expect the Japanese prime minister to visit Pearl Harbour making speeches.

Maybe this solidifies ties with Japan even more though which is a good thing to counteract China's influence in the region, same with the Vietnam visit.

There's a difference between "perceived as such" by reasonable people and painted as such by Breitbart for the rubes. Surely you can appreciate the difference.