I think just about everyone else has commented on Kerry’s crazy comment but me. I have been busy with a school Halloween party today and trick-or-treating tonight and have yet to get my sugar-filled kids to sleep. I don’t know what else can be said, really, but I did want to share my husband’s reaction. He is a Marine Corps vet. When I repeated what John Kerry said about those who don’t study hard and smart being sent to Iraq, he just stared at me in dead silence with a look of disbelief. He was momentarily speechless. Then he said a few things, which I won’t share here. The silence and disbelief is what I remember most though. I am still trying to believe Kerry said it myself. And it is even harder to believe his refusal to apologize. If it were true that those who were not so smart were the ones being sent to Iraq, John Kerry would probably be on his third tour there by now.
Update: Josh Manchester, also a Marine vet, has an interesting post about a family that received a call of condolence from Kerry for their son’s death the day before he made the now infamous statement. They think he needs to do more than apologize.
Update II: Thanks to New England Republican for plucking their “quote of the day” from this post.
Update III: Blackfive reminds us why John Kerry is still an “asshat.”
Kerry is history….
….but not living.
The Republicans are demanding Kerry apologize.
I hear if he doesn’t, the Republicans are going to bog down our troops in an intractable war that will cost billions of dollars and thousands of soldiers lives.
That’ll show old war heroes what we think of their remarks about our troops!!
mark at 12;42,
That’s it. Reward incompetence.
That’ll show ’em.
mark, you’re a Jenius, with a capital J.
I know thiw would require you to dosome work, and lord knows that an anthema to republicans, but check out the speech. He had been talking about what a dumbass the president is. He was following up with what would have been a clever insult if he had gotten out. Again, having said that, what he DID say was offensive to thr troops and he should have apologized immediately.
What does it say about Kerry when that moron in chief was not only able to get better grades but defeated him in a re-election bid?
It says that we need to change the election laws so that ignorant, poorly educated white trash like Kaffir and his family can’t vote.
He had been talking about what a dumbass the president is.
…and many other things, for the previous several minutes. Here’s a question: if he was originally supposed to have only been going after the President, then why did his camp spend most of the next 24 hours refusing to apologize for his remarks? If he screwed up and left out that magic disappearing “us,” then why didn’t he say, “oops, my bad, I didn’t mean to say that?”
However, even taking that silly after-the-fact rewriting adding the “us,” he sorta needs to explain how not getting an education (about the same as Kerry’s own college work) and not doing anything with it can land you a job as the President of the United States.
…and the real kicker, the one the “moderate” Dems won’t address, is the huge number of left-wing Democrats who think that what Kerry actually said (pre-editing) was “the truth,” and that he doesn’t need to apologize for it. In other words, there’s a helluva lot of Democrats who do think that people in the military are dumb and uneducated (despite the known truth that says just the opposite).