politics

More evidence that our military is highly educated and that the people got those degrees BEFORE joining the military.

A commenter from my previous post on this matter made the point that the military is one of few options for people who cannot afford to continue their education. I don’t disagree and feel strongly that the military, with the advanced training one can receive, is a very good way to go. In fact, I met with an Army recruiter my senior year of high school and was almost 50-50 on the matter. I went to college instead, but never finished my degree. Now I look back and wonder what my life would have been like had I enlisted, if I would have had a degree as a result of doing a stint. Getting a degree in the army was how they were selling it back then. Be all you can be.
Nevertheless, as the link to hughhewitt.com shows, there are a lot of the other group in the armed forces as well, those who went to college and THEN decided to serve their country.

The venerable blog Little Green Footballs has a shot of what Kerry would have said if he had stuck to his prepared statement in that fateful moment.

When Kerry says that he was making a joke at Bush’s expense, I believe him. Even Kerry isn’t so stupid as to deliberately shot himself in the foot as he did Monday night. Sometimes things get lost in translation when travelling from the brain to the mouth. Heaven knows I’ve made some really stupid and unintended statements that sounded better in my head. All of that is fine as far as it goes.

What isn’t fine is the damage control that has followed and the continuous bashing of the Republicans for taking Kerry to task for what he SAID, not for what he MEANT. Because what he SAID was despicable and inexcusable, pure and simple. And what Kerry should have done immediately afterward was to sincerely apologize to the men and women in our armed forces, and their families and stated what was in his prepared statement, instead of lashing out at people for being unable to read his mind. It certainly would not have made his actual joke any funnier or true, but it would have been par for the course with him. And Kerry wouldn’t be the big donkey with the target on his back.

I’ve been following with some interest the fallout from John Kerry’s latest flare up of Hoof in Mouth disease. I didn’t hear what he said about the military on the day he said it. I first found out about it from listening to Hugh Hewitt interviewing the head of ABC News, Mark Halperin, a day later. It wasn’t until the following day, yesterday, when I heard the clip. In hindsight, I shouldn’t have been shocked or surprised that Kerry would say such a thing, but I must admit I was. It’s the kind of thing really stupid people with no mental safeguards say at parties and then wonder why everyone is shunning them.

Of course, the ‘apology’ Kerry offered up is just pathetic. No one of intelligence higher than my dog heard a ‘joke’. And the fact that every other democrat in the free world has to explain that it was, in fact, a joke just shows how completely morally corrupt the democrats are. Why would anyone defend such a statement? Here’s a newsflash for those of you too clueless to figure it out, if you have to explain that it’s a joke, it’s not a joke.

Further, if in fact Kerry was trying to make the joke at Bush’s expense, as he claims, why didn’t he reference Bush in ANY way in his words? Usually when you try to make such a joke, you say something oblique that references the person you’re trying to slam and that people hearing can reasonably infer was about that person.

This is a Freudian slip, pure and simple. Kerry let his true feelings about the military slip out yet again and doesn’t want to admit it. So Kerry continues to dig his hole deeper by refusing to apologise and Mark Halperin, presumably a pretty smart guy, otherwise he wouldn’t be head of a major news organization, further slams the military. The Karmic Boomerang, which so far has missed Mr. Kerry, looks poised to whack him on the head.

What a sad state of affairs. Do you really want these people running the country come November 8th?