Since this was covered on both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, I think it actually made the Republicans who are criticising Kerry look far worse than Kerry himself.

Whether he actually meant it as stated, or if it was a mistake, it seems to be acurate anyway. But if you do take it at face value, it seems to be every bit as much a shot at the military lowering their standards to "anyone with a pulse (so long as they aren't gay)", which is still a result of Bush's clusterfuck in Iraq. It really is pretty sad that this is what the Republicans have to beat to death on the verge of the election -especially so since it seems that nearly everyone in Bush's inner circle has either been convicted of, or is awaiting trial for, some horrendous crime that is very real, not just a random sentence spoken at a random college.

My favorite part of the whole thing was the part where the Republican (press secretary? I think) was trying to say that the sentence "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." couldn't make sense if the word "us" was added to it. A child of three can see that that it makes perfect sense if you put "us" between "get" and "stuck", yet this guy wasn't able to wrap his brain around the complexity of the whole concept.

It is sad to think that roughly 50% of about 40% of the registered voters in the US actually voted for these people.

 

Come on. Kerry deserves some heat for this. What a stupid thing to say by someone who is used to being in the spotlight.

 

Give me a break. To anyone with half a brain, that prescripted comment thing looks and sounds totally bogus.

This is why the Dems didn't win in 2004, should have picked Edwards.