October 31, 2006
You just can't make this stuff up
Not only can John Kerry give away an election with ideal conditions stacked in his favor, but it appears he's also capable of blowing an election in which he isn't even running.
He's just made comments that, on the face of it, imply that the troops in Iraq are there because they aren't educated. He claims this was really a botched joke about the president, and you know what, I believe him. But just read the quote in question:
"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
I mean, yes, I can interpret that as being about the president and his policies in Iraq. Granted. But sweet baby donkeys man, come on, that's a suspiciously Freudian slip if there ever was one. And if it weren't bad enough, he's refusing to apologize. It doesn't even require playing dirty to use a statement like that one. Now is not the time to show spine. Now is the time to take your lumps and say that it came out wrong.
It takes a special kind of prowess to lose a race you aren't even running, but leave it to John Kerry. Now if only he'd blow his reelection campaign, we could say goodbye to the miserable prick.
