Uh, perhaps that was not the best answer on his part. Might not have been his finest hour.

Also, in the US it appears that for this confession gambit to work you have to be:

1) already in office
and
2) confessing a heterosexual sin--if it's homosexual, that tends to strain the quality of mercy of the Christian Right




So, how is everybody coming on the mea culpa for the Iraq war?