Bunning apologizes for Ginsburg cancer remark

[Contrary1]

"FRANKFORT, Ky. – Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning apologized Monday to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for saying he believes she could die within a year from pancreatic cancer. At the same time, his planned bid for a third term in 2010 may have gotten tougher with one of Kentucky's top Republicans saying he has not ruled out a possible run.

Bunning, a Hall-of-Fame major league pitcher, who has no medical background, said during a speech Saturday that Ginsburg has "bad cancer. The kind that you don't get better from," the Courier-Journal of Louisville reported. "Even though she was operated on, usually, nine months is the longest that anybody would live" with pancreatic cancer.

"I apologize if my comments offended Justice Ginsburg," the two-term Kentucky junior senator said Monday in a statement..."

Not "I apologize to Justice Ginsburg for my offensive comment". Can any Repub ever just admit what they said was wrong?

What an ass hat. :eyes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_go_su_co/bunning_ginsburg

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. And I apologize if my statement...

That Senator Bunning appears to have an advanced case of senile dementia offends him, as well.

Really. No. Really.

Stop laughing, you bastards! I mean it!


:evilgrin:

[wellstone dem]

2. They corrected his spelling or her name

in the actual apology he spelled it Ginsberg.

[malaise]

3. Twice

:D

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

4. It's just a miracle he's literate. nt

[Supersedeas]

5. conditional apologies -- more rightwing cowardice -- can't even apologize in a straightforward way

[AndrewP]

6. Sounds like he has the same publicist that A-Fraud has

[SeattleGirl]

7. They are always apologizing "if" their remarks hurt someone.

Assholes!