Okay, I listened to Michael Savage and Richard is probably correct ...

Yeh, you heard me correctly. What John Kerry said, although possibly a "botched punch line," was definitely demeaning to our uniformed boys and girls in Iraq ... and everywhere in the world ... and requires an apology. His comeback speech in the previous post was excellent as regards the hard-hitting punches taken at the White House, but should have been preceded by a simple, "I apologize to all our men and women in uniform for a poorly worded punch line that I said yesterday ... wherein I was simply intending to admonish the students whom I was addressing to study."

That simple.

But he didn't say that and instead went on the offensive (prematurely, I now admit) ... and has hurt both himself and his party's chances a week from today.

Kerry said that what he intended to say was, "I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq."

I don't know.

I guess if you say so, Senator Kerry.

But quite frankly, it sounds like a lame and mildly dishonest afterthought and possibly shows an inherent weakness in an element of progressive/liberal philosophy ... I just don't know.

And yes, I owe my brother, Richard from Connecticut, an apology. If he thought what Mr. Kerry said was politically incorrect, I agree with him ... 100% !!!

I know that the Iraq war and occupation is wrong. The bombing and invasion were ill-timed and hurtful to Iraq, America and the rest of the world. I know that it continues to be poorly managed. I know that most, if not everything that Mr. Kerry said in my previous posting was true. But I also think that Mr. Kerry demonstrated a bit of superciliousness (maybe even arrogance) in suggesting that our military men and women are in uniform simply because they didn't make the grade intellectually. I've known too many uniformed geniuses (most of them from the enlisted ranks!) over the years to believe that kind of horse-crap.

Sadly, the Democrats (and I consider myself a Democrat) will be saddled with his foolish remark for as long as he doesn't square his shoulders and apologize. For sure, Mr. Kerry will never be nominated by his party to run for President again. We now have a JFK and a jfk ... spelled "j-e-r-k" !!!