Dem Colored Glasses
November 1st, 2006 by EyeOnWinerDave jumps on the Liberal Bandwagon.
What Kerry Actually Said:
If you make the most of it and 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.
What Kerry allegedly meant to say:
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. Just ask President Bush.
I say “allegedly” not because I’m convinced that his purpose was to insult the troops, but because even if he had, this is what he’d have said to save face when it blew up on him. But yes, Dave, he has something to apologize for. Whatever it was that he actually meant, a great many reasonable people were insulted by his remarks. And, after his spotty record of “supporting” our troops, I can’t say that I blame those people.
Granted, I think the right-wing blogosphere has gone a little crazy, but if, the day after, he had come out and said “I apologize, what I meant to say is that Bush is an idiot” it would take the teeth out of the current fracas. It would’ve also helped if he had had the presence to realize what kind of a line his intended joke was treading close to and had actually said what he allegedly intended to say.
As it stands right now, reasonable people think that he insulted our soldiers and he doesn’t think those concerns are worth addressing.
It doesn’t help that the party’s foot soldiers like Dave are rushing to his defense.