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Great wrap up on Kerry...
Kerry is the psuedo-intellectual elite gift that keeps on giving...
If anyone is "stuck" it is Kerry!
He's in an infinite time-loop. Still stuck in the 60s, smoking mary jane with Peter, Paul and Mary. He forgets this is an all volunteer force, with many graduate degrees, Masters and Doctorates. Many gave up fantastic jobs. I remember one poster, whose son left a job at NASA. Many have vast experience abroad in international diplomacy, much more equipped than Kerry himself.
No one gets "stuck" in Iraq. They volunteer, many asking to SERVE in Iraq. Many more serve in Afghanistan.
Kerry needs to explain why thousands upon thousands reenlist to fight in Iraq! And its not just to kill the enemy, but to lift up the poor and oppressed because we are making a difference.
Millions more are stationed around the world in North Korea, Japan, Phillipines, or state-side. South Korea today is one of the 10th leading nations in the world listed by GDP because we fought for their freedom. Today, volunteers, high school grads to Doctors, Lawyers, Scientist are fighting a new enemy to free yet another nation.
These young people who volunteer will one day be leaders in this nation. And I guarantee, they will remember Kerry's words and the Democrats who defend him. They'll remember NYT and CutNruN.
Spree, thanks for posting my comment! I posted a brief response.
Michael.... I responded to your response. Will wait for your email.
Great post.
John Kerry is “stuck on Vietnam” and the 60’s -where if you didn’t go to college and make your grades, you got drafted. I think this explanation fits Kerry’s words better than simply “a quip gone awry” that was meant for Bush.
Kerryism (Victor Davis Hanson comments brilliantly on Kerry flap)
Corner ^ | 11/1/2006 | Victor Davis Hanson
Kerryism [Victor Davis Hanson]
Kerry surely must be one of the saddest Democratic liabilities around. Some afterthoughts about his latest gaffe, which is one of those rare glimpses into an entire troubled ideology:
(1) How could John Kerry, born into privilege, and then marrying and divorcing and marrying out of and back into greater inherited wealth, lecture anyone at a city college about the ingredients for success in America? If he were to give personal advice about making it, it would have to be to marry rich women. Nothing he has accomplished as a senator or candidate reveals either much natural intelligence or singular education. Today, Democrats must be wondering why they have embraced an overrated empty suit, and ostracized a real talent like Joe Lieberman.
(2) How could Kerry possibly claim that he was thinking of the uneducated in the context of George Bush, who, after all, went to Harvard and Yale?
(3) Some of the brightest and most educated Americans are not only in the military, but veterans of Iraq. Two of the best educated minds I have met-Col. Bill Hix and Lt. Col. Chris Gibson, both Hoover Security Fellows-were both Iraqi veterans. What is striking about visiting Iraq is the wealth of talent there, from privates to generals. Without being gratuitously cruel, the problem of mediocrity is not in the ranks of the military, but on our university campuses, where half-educated professors and non-serious students killing time are ubiquitous. Personally, I'd wager the intelligence of a Marine Corps private any day over the average D.C. journalist. Every naval officer I met at the USNA, without exception, seemed brighter than John Kerry, whose "brilliance", after all, has managed to offend millions of voters on the eve of a pivotal election. If the Democrats lose, it will be almost painful to watch the recriminations against Kerry fly.
(4) This is not the first, but third, time he has denigrated soldiers in the middle of a war-and there is a systematic theme: John Kerry's assumed superior morality allows him to pass judgment from on high about supposedly lesser folk who become tools of a suspect military: thus we go from limb-loppers and Genghis' hordes to terrorists to dead-beats. The only constant is that the haughtiness is always delivered in the same sanctimonious, self-righteous, and patronizing tone.
(5) The mea culpa that Democrats are blaming the war and not the warriors is laughable after Sens. Durbin, Kennedy, and Kerry have collectively compared American soldiers to Nazis, Pol Pot's killers, Stalinists, terrorists, and Baathists.
(6) The problem is that Kerry is not just a senator, but the most recent presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, and thus in some sense, especially given the diminution of Howard Dean, the megaphone of the entire party.
(7) His pathetic clarifica
Well said, although it did cut off and lets not forget he scored LOWER than Bush in school. So the Jokes on him.
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