Kerry Redux

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Kerry, Kerry, Kerry...

With one week to go until DemoVictory '06, Senator John Kerry made a "misspeak", like oh so many politicians do, and pissed off a bunch of Fox News watchers in the process (not saying that's necessarily a bad thing.)

Kerry, trying to make a joke about the president's obvious learnt disabyl-eighties, insinuated that troops serving in Iraq were people who weren't smart enough to get a higher education. Naturally, this is untrue, since a lot of people join the armed forces to receive money for college.

Unfortunately, as politics goes, the GOP took this opportunity to twist Kerry's real words into a fake meaning. Kerry was trying to make a joke about how uneducated the president is (although he does have degrees from Yale & Harvard) and obviously failed. Senator Kerry does not know how to joke, especially scripted jokes, since I don't seem to remember him as being the life of the party during the 2004 election.

In any case, Kerry needs to shut up until after the elections. In fact, EVERY Democrat in Washington & on the campaign trail, excluding those who are actually running for office, needs to keep their mouth shut for another week. Then they can talk all they want, within bounds, until about September of 2008. We cannot lose this election based on the fact that a few speech-writers & aides try to be witty.

I do accept Kerry's explanation of what happened, and what he really meant is painfully obvious if you get the opportunity to see the whole thing (a la Fox News, which I'm sure hasn't taken the initiative to show it all.) C'mon, Kerry, try harder, unless you're not running, like in this election, when you shouldn't have to try at all.

Kerry has canceled all future stumps for other candidates, with the exception of those who canceled with him first.

-Adam