John Kerry: Possibly Correct, Still An Idiot

Hey, remember John Kerry? Big guy, got Botox, lost to Bushie in the election? Yeah, that guy. Well, he was supposed to come speak at a rally for Bob Casey, and now he’s canceling all of his appearances because he said soldiers are dumb. Or that poor people fight wars. Or something.

Here’s what the furor is over:

The furor was triggered over Kerry’s comment to a group of California students on Monday, that people unable to succeed in America’s educational system would likely “get stuck in Iraq.”

Kerry says it was a botched joke, the people in the White House say Kerry is worse than Satan and the soldiers in Iraq continue to not know about this brouhaha because they’re actually fighting and dying while politicians fight over what some other politician said while the troops are like, “Uhh, hello, we could use some helmets or something? Guys? Hello?”

Anyway uh, don’t we send poor people to fight wars? Don’t poor people tend to be less educated? Who’s the last soldier to come out of Yale, John Kerry? (Okay, okay.) Anyway, if you do good in school, aren’t you less likely to join the military because you can’t get a job somewhere else? You still might join the military — and I think the military is, on the whole, more educated than a random sampling of the public, which makes sense — but not in a Hobson’s choice situation. And so you’d, indeed, “be stuck in Iraq” because you didn’t succeed in school?

I don’t know. Perhaps that’s what John Kerry was really trying to say, or perhaps he really thinks troops are dumb. Perhaps he eats babies at night. But it’s a big news story! Because bloggers are talking about it! And so we fight over whether he thinks troops are dumb and see who can moralize the best and act all holier than thou on their keyboards. Oh, please, we are so close to the election, thank you so much.

Kerry Cancels Philly Visit Amidst Controversy [CBS 3]