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Mad Senator Disease
John Kerry is still battling with his recent case of foot-in-mouth disease. As noted previously, Senator Kerry remarked that "You know, education -- if you make the most of it, 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, you get stuck in Iraq." Meaning, he believes that the members of our Armed Forces are uneducated nobodies with nothing better to do with their lives.
Kerry is trying to spin this as an attack on the Bush Administration, and not the slur against our troops that it actually is. Yet no where in the statement did he make any reference to Bush's Iraq policy.
So far, there is one Democrat running for office that I am aware of that has denounced Senator Kerry's insult to American Service Members: Harold Ford, Jr., of Tennessee. From CNN:
"Whatever the intent, Sen. Kerry was wrong to say what he said. He needs to apologize to our troops."
I've got to give credit where credit is due, and it is about time that there was one voice in the forest on the Left.
Meanwhile, Vietnam veteran and former Senator Max Cleland agrees with Kerry that our Armed Forces are made up uneducated nobodies. From the same CNN in piece as above:
But not all Democrats concurred. Vietnam veteran and former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia defended Kerry and applauded the senator for showing "our party how to fight back with the truth.""John Kerry is a patriot who has fought tooth and nail for veterans ever since he came home from Vietnam. He has stood with his brothers in arms unlike this administration, which exploits our troops to make a political point and divide America," Cleland said in a statement.
To me, it doesn't matter what their viewpoint on President Bush's policy in the Middle East is, or whether or not they believe we should be fighting in Iraq. The issue is the insult slung at our troops in the field.
Meanwhile, Kerry is getting off the campaign trail as his invitations to help various candidates have suddenly vaporized as a result of Kerry's big mouth. Too bad, as this means we may have to wait two years for another round of John "foot-in-mouth" Kerry blunders. Is there such a thing as "Mad Senator Disease?"
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