John Fraud Kerry: A Botched Joke

*** Update: See also: Some gear for the next Kerry Lied rally ***

“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”  -- John Kerry, 2006.10.30

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Audio: John Kerry on America’s lazy, uneducated military;
Update: Video added

(Extensive coverage below the fold)

Michelle Malkin: John Kerry said what?! Read the whole thing and keep checking back. I think she's almost as pissed as I am, and she's not even a vet.

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John Kerry Supports The Troops As Special-Education Cases
Ed Morrissey

John Kerry has never hidden his contempt for the armed forces very well, not even when he served as an officer in the Navy. Yesterday the mask slipped a little bit, as John Ziegler at KFI notes on his website, and Allahpundit mirrors at Hot Air. At a political rally for California's Democratic challenger to Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor, Phil Angelides, Kerry told the Pasadena City College crowd to study hard and get an education -- or wind up like the losers in the military: ...

... Wow. Just wow. It's worth recalling that Kerry at one time aspired to command these same men and women from the White House, and claims to still want to lead them. How would these people react to taking orders from a Commander-in-Chief who believes them to be uneducated, lazy losers?

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Attention GOP: Spread this video;
Attention readers: Help support the troops
Michelle Malkin

Feedback continues to pour in this morning: ...

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Glenn Reynolds writes:

JOHN KERRY -- a gift that keeps on giving. Unfortunately, it's a gift for the Republicans. . .

Kerry's suggestion that the troops in Iraq are dumb failures is not only reprehensible, but false on the facts. In other words, a typical Kerry performance, just in time for the elections. Democrats must be wondering what they were thinking to nominate him in 2004, and why he won't go away now.

UPDATE: John McCain's office sends this demand for a Kerry apology from Sen. McCain:

Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country's call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education. Americans from all backgrounds, well off and less fortunate, with high school diplomas and graduate degrees, take seriously their duty to our country, and risk their lives today to defend the rest of us in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. They all deserve our respect and deepest gratitude for their service. The suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq, is an insult to every soldier serving in combat, and should deeply offend any American with an ounce of appreciation for what they suffer and risk so that the rest of us can sleep more comfortably at night. Without them, we wouldn't live in a country where people securely possess all their God-given rights, including the right to express insensitive, ill-considered and uninformed remarks.

A major blunder for Kerry and the Democrats, timed to do maximum damage to them and maximum good for the Republicans.

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The MSM is AWOL
Michelle Malkin

***12:30pm update.***Kerry adviser admits to National Journal's Hotline that Kerry's smear came out "mangled." McCain to repeat demand for apology on camera at 1pm.

Here's Kerry's non-apology: Digging in, blaming conservatives, condescending as ever.

11:57am update. Drudge: McCain calls on Kerry to apologize. ...

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Kerry responds to right-wing chickenhawk “nut-jobs”
Allahpundit

We have ourselves a meltdown.

Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerry’s comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record: ...

There’s more. The nutroots will eat this up with a spoon, of course, but you almost have to pity the poor bastards at the DNC. This is the last thing they want to be talking about this week. Score one more for Lurch’s famous political acumen.

What’s got him so agitated this morning, anyway? Bennett knows.

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One of those Republicans who never can be found to serve in war and have never worn the uniform — namely, John McCain — will, I hear, be addressing Kerry’s comments at 1 p.m. We’ll have video.

Update: Here’s a snippet of video of what Tony Snow had to say at the daily press briefing. I’ll post the full transcript once it’s available. ...

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The Associated(w/t)Press to Kerry's rescue!
Michelle Malkin

The A(w/t)P's Jennifer Loven (of course) spins the story.

Is the headline, "Kerry warns students, insults troops: Don't 'get stuck in Iraq?'"

Of course not.

It's "White House Spokesman Slams Kerry Remark:"

The White House accused Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday of troop-bashing, seizing on a comment the Democrat made to California students that those unable to navigate the country's education system "get stuck in Iraq."

"Senator Kerry not only owes an apology to those who are serving, but also to the families of those who've given their lives in this," White House press secretary Tony Snow said. "This is an absolute insult." ...

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John Forbes Kerry - Still An Asshat
Blackfive

Okay, all of you Vets and active/reserve/guard folks can stop emailing me now.  I've got the emails.  Basically, most of you have said "@#$% that guy."  I've got 120+ emails about this jacka$$ before 0800...

I've posted many times before that I have never been interested in investigating what he claimed he did during the Viet Nam War (I know many of you disagree with that).  I still hold that it's what he did afterwards that makes him unfit for public office.  His lies, protests, lack of support while in office, and his treatment of our troops while a Senator (yes, the story of how he treats the air crews is true) are certainly enough evidence that he is a huge, huge, tool...and, certainly, unworthy of your support.

I've said it before, I'll say it again.  Veterans Day came a week early in 2004 when former and present military kept him from being President of the United States.  Instead of being the POUS, he's just a POS.

And, now (as if we needed it), we have more evidence of how much disregard he has for the military. ...

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John Kerry's Continuing Contempt For the Military
Confederate Yankee

Lurch just can't keep his contempt for our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines hidden any longer.

“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

This mindblowingly stupid comment comes courtesy of Allahpundit, who also has Kerry on audio and video over at Hot Air.

I hope that members of our military keep in mind that Kerry is only articulating sentiments that many on the far left have held over and passed down to future generations of service-hating leftists since at least the Vietnam War era, and that our military can voice its displeasure with Kerry's "fellow travelers" at the ballot box exactly one week from today.

If Kerry's backhanded slap at those in uniform isn't a call to get "out the vote" for our brave servicemen and servicewomen and those who support them, I don't know what is.

Update: Republican Senator, Navy Pilot and former POW John McCain lets Kerry have it with both barrels:

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John Kerry, Not Presidential Material, reason #456,987,321 
John Donovan

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U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Benny Hubbard, the district Sgt. Maj. for Gulf Region South, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, shakes hands with an Iraqi child prior to the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Salah Hadi Obid Elementary School in Afak, Iraq, Oct. 11, 2006. The construction of the school was funded, contracted and inspected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price) (Released)

Compare and contrast SGM Hubbard's efforts with students to... the junior Senator from Massachusetts...

Kerry then told the students that if they were able to navigate the education system, they could get comfortable jobs - "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq," he said to a mixture of laughter and gasps

Oh, yeah, he said it. Don't wanna believe the journo? Listen to it here, courtesy Bill. I wonder what SGM Hubbard thinks about that comment? . ...

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Kerry's Bush-Bash Backfires as Snow, GOP Fire Away at Troops 'Stuck in Iraq' Comment
FOX News

WASHINGTON —  An attack on President Bush's Iraq policy by Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry erupted into a verbal dogfight Tuesday between the failed 2004 Democratic presidential candidate and administration spokesman Tony Snow, who Kerry called a "stuffed suit White House mouthpiece."

It is just one of several nasty proxy battles between Democratic and Republican leaders in the run-up to next Tuesday's election.

"What Sen. Kerry ought to do first is apologize to the troops," Snow told reporters Tuesday, referring to a comment Kerry made a day earlier while campaigning in California for gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides ...

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GOP, Kerry launch war of words over Iraq comment
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republicans unleashed a firestorm of criticism Tuesday against Sen. John Kerry after the Vietnam veteran told college students they'd "get stuck in Iraq" if they didn't work hard in school.

Kerry later said the remark was a "botched joke" meant to target the president, not U.S. troops.

Before the clarification, White House press secretary Tony Snow, House Majority Leader John Boehner and Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, lambasted the four-term senator and demanded he apologize.

A CNN poll suggests that Iraq is the second-most important issue behind the economy as voters ponder for whom to cast their ballots in next week's midterms.

"This is an absolute insult," Snow said at a daily press briefing. "Senator Kerry not only owes an apology to those who are serving, but also to the families of those who've given their lives in this."

Boehner said the remark was "insulting" and called on "Democrat candidates across the country" to publicly denounce the comment.

"These Americans who are risking their lives in the fight against terrorism in Iraq deserve better than to have their service demeaned by a United States senator," Boehner said in a statement. "Our soldiers need John Kerry's support, yet John Kerry offers nothing more than disparaging commentary." ...

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John Kerry Jackass
The Ugly American

Ok I do have something to add. It’s the coverage of the event by the Pasadena Star. News. The story mainly talks about the cast of Democratic Party stars who came out to try and help Phil Angelides lose by less than 20 points.

“It’s not enough to have a governor that acts like a Democrat on Election Day. Phil Angelides will be a Democrat every single day,” said Boxer.

Sure thing Barb. But in paragraph 6 we to come to the good stuff:

But while the students showed proper enthusiasm for Angelides by waving his signs and wooing and booing at the right places, the energy in the room clearly belonged to Kerry. He took the stage to roaring applause and left it only to be mobbed by students and reporters.

It is completely understandable for a group of folks to be excited about the Democratic Party’s last nominee for president. But mobbnig him after his comments?

It gets worse:

Kerry then told the students that if they were able to navigate the education system, they could get comfortable jobs - “If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq,” he said to a mixture of laughter and gasps.

I wonder exactly what the mixture was. Did half the crowd think that line was funny? 25%?

I have left a message for the reporter who wrote the story. ...

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John Fraud Kerry is....

....at it again, insulting our troops. I guess a leopard never changes its spots. ...

... Whether he intended to insult the troops or not is irrelevant. He did. Just like he defamed every one of us in 1971. This guy should not be a local dog catcher, much less a US Senator.

Will you people in Massachusetts please wake up and send this guy packing? Can't you find a liberal with more self-control to replace this jerk? (Yes, I know it's way too much to ask that Massachusetts actually send a moderate to Congress.) What can you possibly gain from having this bozo pontificating on the national stage? Haven't our military folks suffered enough from this jerk? ...

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KerryWatch: Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Soldiers
Cassandra

America. It's a great country.

The land of the free and the home of the brave. Here, we have the freedom to do, or be, or even say anything we want. America is a land filled with opportunity; a land of plenty, and peace. A land where a young boy or girl can grow up to be an astronaut, a doctor, an engineer, an exotic dancer, or even a United States senator who gratuitously insults the men and women who gave him the precious freedoms enjoyed by every American:

“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Funny. I went to high school with my husband. He was a Merit Scholar with SATs in the 98th percentile. He got into every school he applied to, including (as I recall) at least one Ivy. He graduated from college with grades far better than John Kerry's, though he had a full-time job, a wife, and a baby to support while attending class. He could have written his own ticket, but he chose the Marine Corps. Of course, what would he know? By definition, he must not be terribly smart.

After all, he has stayed the course, serving his country for over 25 years instead of bailing out four months into his tour of duty. ...

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Dan Riehl:

... The bastard should be tried for treason and shot! Americans need to remember that this is the last Presidential nominee of the Party that seeks control of the Senate and the House. We don't need people like this in leadership positions. ...

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Credibility Problem
Blue Crab Boulevard

Why the Democrats have a credibility problem on national defense, part 2,578. John Kerry on America's soldiers: ...

... There is this vast amount of contempt for the military within the Democratic party. They continually refer to the people in the military as 'children'. They routinely paint them as having joined the military out of financial desperation, lack of education or a lack of ambition. Kerry is one of the contenders for the 2008 nomination and he speaks for a large part of the party. ...

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John Kerry: Get An Education or Get Stuck in Iraq
James Joyner

John Kerry, who came a few thousand Ohio voters short of being Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces: ..

... Unbelievable. And rather ironic given that the line sounds dumb in more ways than one.

And, of course, in the age of YouTube politics, this is everywhere already including, appropriately enough, YouTube:

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The True John Kerry
Curt

Rove, you magnificant bastard! Getting Kerry to display how he really feels about the troops is genius….genius I tell you!

Sigh….

This is the man who came so close to leading this country. Can you imagine? Someone who feels only the dumb and ignorant serve this country. He has shown disdain for our military even before he spent his few months on Vietnam. He is a pathetic excuse for an American, a pathetic excuse for a politician, and a pathetic excuse for a human being.

Why don’t you let us take a look at your WHOLE military record Mr. Kerry? What are you afraid of? That the world would see what a real coward you were, running from a fight, asking for medals for a splinter, leaving your fellow comrades in Vietnam while you went home to trash our country?

Instead of us being allowed to see your whole service record we have you telling a crowd of college kids that only the dumb and ignorant will find their way to Iraq. So you better get an education kids!

The last day of October and John effin Kerry has giving us the October surprise.

Thanks you liberal elitist loser. ..

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Kerry video: "I apologize to no one"
Michelle Malkin

He never, ever does. It's a life-long congenital condition.

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Video: Kerry refuses to apologize for insulting American troops
Ian Schwartz

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Sen. John Kerry held a press conference moments ago to address a controversial remark he made implying those who are uneducated serve in the military and get stuck in Iraq. Kerry made it “crystal clear” that he apologizes to no one, adding his remarks were a “botched joke” about the President, not the troops.

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'I Apologize to No One'
Fox News

WASHINGTON —  Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry defiantly and in no uncertain terms declared Tuesday that he would "apologize to no one" for statements made a day earlier in which he told a gathering of California college students that if they don't do well in school, they will "get stuck in Iraq."

"I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and his broken policy," Kerry told reporters in a press conference in Seattle.

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Kerry’s botched joke 
Austin Bay

No kidding. John Kerry is now claiming his insult at the expense of American soldiers was “a botched joke” aimed at the President.

Sheesh. Kerry is stuck on Vietnam, almost as stuck on Vietnam as he is stuck on his own self-absorbed, narcissistic bio-mass.

Instapundit has the background.

Kerry insulted America’s defenders. When I heard the statement on the radio this morning I thought “Yeah, that’s right, run through the damn Winter Soldier put-downs once again.” (That was his movement in 1971-72, when he accused US troops of war crimes.) No, this insult wasn’t at the level of the Winter Soldier accusations, but Kerry’s “joke” plays into the Left’s view of US troops– we’re all stupid, comparatively uneducated, and in need of rescue by…by John Kerry. He’s nuanced, see?

I’m listening to his latest statement (1:30 or so CST) and it is a re-hash of The Great Litany of leftish accusations. Reaction as I listen– this guy knows he made a mistake and he’s pedaling fast. Wait– now he says he is a real man. Yeah, he basically said he’s a real man. (Get a transcript!) If he’s a real man, he has the chance to prove it. Senator Kerry needs to debate his Swift Boat veteran critics. Man to man. Now. Not later.

In the spare space of 24 hours Kerry has resurrected the Vietnam Syndrome –at least his and the left wing of the Democratic Party’s Vietnam (loser’s) Syndrome. This is stupid but particularly stupid in the last week of a national election. Doubly stupid in the midst of a long, grinding war. Kerry is trapped, in an odd sort of amber. He’s stuck on stupid and stuck in the past simultaneously. John Kerry, the stegosaurus of American politics. (Okay, I’m unfair to stegosaurs, they had backbones and spikes on their tails– but the drawing at the link is cute.)

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Real Men Don’t Disrespect the Troops John
Big Dog

John Kerry (who was in Vietnam), held a press conference and he refused to apologize for his statements indicating that people who do not get an education end up in Iraq. I did not see the conference but those who did said he flipped his lid and that he is appealing to the left wing nut jobs who are anti war. Looks like he is getting a tune up for the 2008 presidential race. Here is the text of his conference:

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No, John? Well how about you get lectured by this veteran who served about 20 years longer than you did? You are a despicable waste of flesh and should be removed from the gene pool. You criticize without ever having a “plan” and this time you attacked the men and women in the military. ...

You are a lying, conniving POS who does not deserve to be in the Senate because you committed treason and you should have been shot for that. You sir, are the stuffed suit who crawls out from under a rock to bloviate and spew vile crap about our men and women. You are not fit to shine their boots or even mention them. You are not worthy of the protection they give you you slimy gutter dweller.

You mention real men John. Any time you want to tangle whether it is in discussion or in a ring, you let me know and I will enlighten you on the subject of real men. You are a sorry bastard. Got any complaints, dial 1-800 go to hell.

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Here We Go. Again...
Contributed by Bobbie (OWB)

Just when you start to think that Kerry may go away, there he is, once again putting his foot in something, then spreading it around for all to smell. The excuse that it was meant to be an insult to our President instead of the U.S. military doesn't help at all.

There is a lesson in it for us all. The pinko America hating thugs of the 60's have grown up, have huge bank accounts, and are recruiting as if their lives depend upon it. We are running a few paces behind considering that they own the college campuses. Even so, they don't own every college student or college graduate out there. And they most assuredly do not own the military or veterans. There may actually be more of us than there are of them. ...

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Video: Bush rips Kerry for comments about troops
Allahpundit

I thought the nutroots would be having an out-of-body experience after Kerry’s remarks today but it turns out some of them are smarter than that. Dean Barnett e-mails to point us towards this Kos thread, where opinion on Lurch is split. More significant is the verdict of Olbermannesque Bush-hater Jack “Broken Government” Cafferty, who played Brian Fantana to Kerry’s Champ Kind this afternoon by recommending he stop talking for awhile.

Speaking of Olby, with the American Legion and AmVets demanding an apology from Waffles, will he do the smart thing and call for him to retract? Or will he applaud the Senator’s descent into full-blown nutrootsdom? Olbermann Watch has the answer. ...

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Video: Mary Katharine Ham slams John Kerry on Fox
Allahpundit

Three things that are always on television somewhere in the world: Gilligan’s Island, the Brady Bunch, and Mary K.

We’re going to have to up our monthly bandwidth allotment to keep up with her.

A day after her guest shot on Larry King, she turned up on Cavuto to talk about how Lurch was an asswipe before he was a moron. And if that’s not enough, there’s a new HamNation for your viewing pleasure. The topic is feminism and speaking truth to power, but you won’t see this in any Democratic campaign commercials. Click the image below to watch. ...

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Senator Bill Frist:

... Senator Kerry clearly owes an apology to our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines serving in Iraq. But Mr. Kerry has refused to do so. Instead, he’s claiming that Republicans are “desperately distorting” his comments. Watch the video yourself … it is perfectly clear what Mr. Kerry said … what’s unclear is whether Mr. Kerry ever means what he says. Perhaps he was against his comments before he actually made them. ...

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Michelle: Bush rises to the occassion

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The Charge of the Lightweight Brigade
Confederate Yankee

It seems that John Kerry can't quit charging the guns:

Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerry’s comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record: ...

I'm almost overwhelmed at how politically tone-deaf John Kerry in posting this response on his Web site.

Almost.

Not only does Kerry refuse to apologize for slandering those serving our country, he actually has the gall to try to go on the offensive and attack those condemning his comments. As many of the "assorted right wing nut-jobs" attacking him are current and former members of the military, Kerry insults them not once, but twice.

Kerry even goes so far as to insist that those who are enraged at his slur have resorted to lies and distortions, even though his comments were captured in print, audio, and video formats. The context of his comments was quite clear, and it is disingenuous for him to try to say the video evidence he freely gave of his own accord was a distortion.

His comments devolve from there into what even reads as a high-pitched and hysterical shrieking that seems to indicate that Kerry's immeasurable gaffe is somehow the Bush Administration’s fault. Certainly, the rant will play well on the far left fringe of the Democratic Party, but it serves to alienate almost everyone else in the country that expected a measured apology, not a second attack. ...

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Glenn Reynolds has a must-read post on the situation here.

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Max Cleland Defends Kerry
The Big Dog

Max Cleland, the Democrat who blew himself up in Vietnam issued a statement defending John Kerry and his slander of US troops. Thanks to Leaning Straight Up for bringing this to my attention. Here is the release:

“I think people will remember John Kerry’s press conference today as the moment we Democrats stopped once and forever accepting the disgraceful smears of Republicans. John Kerry showed our Party how to fight back with the truth. ...

First thing to notice is that the words are remarkably similar to Kerry’s from earlier. Perhaps Cleland should have gotten an education so he could think of his own words to write. Relax folks, I am sure that he has an education, it is just hard to put it to use when your brain is numbed with the kool-aid. The next thing that stands out is the blatant lie that John Kerry has been an advocate for veterans sine he returned from Vietnam (he was there you know).

John Kerry came home from the war and called his fellow vets rapists and murderers. Did that grenade rattle Cleland’s brain so badly that he has forgotten Kerry’s anti war, anti American activities that likely earned him a dishonorable discharge (we might actually know if this honorable man would release his records like he promised). How is it supportive of our troops to protest against them, to meet with the enemy, and to be held up as a hero by that very enemy? How is it supporting troops to say that American soldiers terrorize Iraqi civilians? How is it supportive to call the brave men and women of our military uneducated? ...

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Bush and American Legion Demand Apology From Kerry For Insulting Military

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It looks like he has outraged more than just the President. The American Legion is demanding an apology as well.

The National Commander of The American Legion called on Sen. John Kerry to apologize for suggesting that American troops in Iraq are uneducated.

“As a constituent of Senator Kerry’s I am disappointed. As leader of The American Legion, I am outraged,” said National Commander Paul A. Morin. “A generation ago, Sen. Kerry slandered his comrades in Vietnam by saying that they were rapists and murderers. It wasn’t true then and his warped view of today’s heroes isn’t true now.” ...

McCaine isn’t buying it.

You can’t make this up. His statement, basically, was so demeaning to the men and women who are serving in the military that you will be even more grateful than you are at this moment that George Bush is president of the United States…

You can’t make this up. His statement was that if you get an education and you do well, then you don’t have to go to Iraq, and if you don’t have an education, then you have to go to Iraq. Do you know how demeaning that is to the men and women who are serving so magnificently in the cause of freedom and are fighting and dying in Iraq today? As I said, you can’t make it up. ...

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President Bush Responds to John Kerry's Repugnant Comments

President Bush struck back at John Kerry after he made his unbelievably crass remarks about our military men and women in Iraq:

In the mist of a heated campaign season, there are somethings we should all be able to agree on, and one of the most important is that every one of our troops deserves our respect and our gratitude.

Yesterday, my opponent in 2004 presidential race, Senator Kerry, was speaking to a group of young people in California. I want you to listen to what he said. He said, "You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and 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."

The senator's suggestion that the men and women of our military are somehow uneducated is insulting and it is shameful. The members of the United States military are plenty smart and they are plenty brave and the senator from Massachusetts owes them an apology.

Ouch. That is going to bruise.

Update: ...

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Dem Congressman: Kerry Blowing It, Again

Evidently the Congressman didn't want his name attached to the quote. So much for this all being partisan spin.

A Democratic congressman told ABC News Tuesday, "I guess Kerry wasn't content blowing 2004, now he wants to blow 2006, too."

Update: I saw this earlier. I wonder what John Cut and Run Kerry is going to do about his planned attendance at a rally with Veterans tomorrow?

Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Joe Repya issued this statement earlier this afternoon: ...

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Video: McCain calls for Kerry to apologize on Hannity & Colmes; Update: Iowa Dem cancels appearance with Kerry

I’ve got two more clips coming as updates, one of Mort Kondracke and Michael Barone from Brit Hume’s show tonight and the other of our favorite Democrat from John Gibson’s radio program. They should be posted below within the next hour, so check back. Here’s the big one, though: a subdued, statesmanlike John McCain parrying Alan Colmes’s feeble attempts to change the subject for three minutes — then bringing up Waffles’s ineffably disgraceful Winter Soldier testimony in the last thirty seconds. Sweet.

Incidentally, how come we never, ever get to see “crazy McCain” in public? Wouldn’t this have been the perfect time?

The clip has been edited. Like I say, more coming.

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Update: Tomorrow’s events cancelled? Has Kerry gone to ground?

Update: The first lifeboat hits the water: Iowa Congressional candidate Bruce Braley has kancelled Kerry due to his “inappropriate” comments on the war. ...

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The New York Times to the rescue!
Kerry cancels appearances?
Dem cancels Kerry
Michelle Malkin

Guess the NYTimes couldn't stand to see the Associated Press doing all the water-carrying for Kerry and the Dems. Here's the Times' contribution to the save-Kerry's-backside campaign available tonight on the Times website. The headline? Nope, not "Kerry scorns troops, Bush defends military." This:

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You have to read 15 paragraphs down into the story before you learn what Kerry said. Because "the mounting death toll" in Iraq, RINO Lincoln Chafee's disavowal of the war, NJ GOP Senate candidate Tom Kean's and Washington GOP Senate candidate Mike McGavick's thoughts on the war, and the Democrats anti-Iraq war ads are all more important to the Times reporters than Kerry's actual words.

All the news that's fit to bury.

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Fox News reports (via Hugh Hewitt via F/R via Allah) that Kerry has cancelled his campaign appearances tomorrow.

Bruce Braley, an Iowa Democratic congressional candidate, disinivites Kerry: ...

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