Journal GMontag's Journal: Kerry Disses the Troops and Refuses to Apologize 7
1 November 2006
The Honorable Senator John F. Kerry essentially called American Service Members uneducated dopes, then refused to apologize for his statement.
He also refused to apologize for criticizing President Bush, which is puzzling as he did not criticize the President, he only criticized the troops for being the people with bad grades from college. So, he refused to apologize for something he did not say. Fair enough.
it's worse than that (Score:1)
Kerry's problem (Score:2)
You have to jump through hoops to "get" the joke. The joke is, "If you don't study hard and do well in school you'll end up President and get stuck in Iraq." That really is the joke. It fails on at least two points.
1) Kerry was a less than spectacular student who got his foot in the door at Yale in much the same way Bush did so casting that particular stone is ill advised at best.
2) The US Mil does not currently have the "draft" there and is (as Red Warrior has shown) better educated than the ma
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Liar. (Score:1)
So this is the level the right has sunk to.
You've actually read enough (as your last paragraph reveals) to know he was insulting the President, not the troops. But you're pretending it was an insult against the troops anyway. Pretending, of course, being a polite way of saying you're lying.
Your total lack of honesty and shame is predictable. But, hey, you're part of a group that has been insulting real heroes for as long as I can remember, while simultaneously pretending to "support" the troops. There'
Pants on fire? (Score:2)
He may have meant to insult the President (and of course all MBA's from Harvard too I guess) but he blew the line, if in fact he actually blew it.
He hasn't had the guts to come out and say that he blew the line and didn't mean to insult the troops, no he had to whine about right-wing conspiracies and how they're not real men.
The honest man would have been forthright and apologized.
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He's since apologized and re-emphasized that the remarks he made were misinterpreted.
But do you know if he disagrees with the generally perceived interpretation? That would be a much more solid apology if he ever come out and said, "I'm sorry, the troops really are well educated people who've volunteered out of a sense of patriotism, defending freedom, and helping others."
But he seems to be avoiding any language that would actually correct that interpretation. I think he is trying to play games and be smart