Thought for the night

You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Massachusetts.

Update number 1

The Troops Send a Message

Update number 2:

The previous link is confirmed to be the Red Bull unit out of Minnesota.

John Kerry is a war hero who said a very stupid thing that offended many of our troops.

George W. Bush has never fought a single battle in our nation's military who started a very stupid war that has killed many of our troops.

Give me a break Ken.

Tim,

How about you give me a break? John Kerry is far from a war hero as signed by numerous veterans who made that quite clear when he was running for office. Hero implies that you did something honorable. Kerry did no such thing.

If you don't agree with Bush that's fine, but he is nowhere in this statement. John Kerry called the entire military stupid. If you believe that, myself and my entire military serviced family have some words for you.

Ken, anyone who believes that John Kerry was stupid enough in an election season to get up in front of a crowd while being recorded and call the military stupid needs to be examined by a doctor.

He himself went to Yale and joined the military, and the right wing needs to find something other than a misreading of an unfunny and tired joke about Bush's intelligence to yell about.

Numerous veterns also said Kerry was a war hero, the only reason you discount the testimony of those men is purely political. How anyone ever got the impression you were in any way an independant thinker is a mystery to me.

I don't like Kerry, I never did, but a Yale educated military vetern and professional politician does not purposefully say the military is stupid, the contention he would is laughable and pathetic.

Tim, John Kerry in his own campaign was the one that said "I have a plan for Iraq but I won't reveal it until I am in the White House" on meet the press. He is stupid enough to say it on his own campaign, he is stupid enough to say it now.

But then you point out Yale...Did you know that Bush had a better GPA than Kerry did? Bush is also a Veteran having joined the military.

Tim, examine your own statements, if I am not an independant thinker, then you yourself are very much not one as well.

If he truly did not mean that it was the military was stupid, why did he defend his statement without an apology? Why did it take his entire party telling him "Yeah, your statement is retarded" for him to issue an apology? Why did he stand firm by his statement even though it was obviously aimed at the troops. He could have diffused the entire situation by saying:

"I sincerely apologize to the troops. I realize that it sounded like I was bashing them and I am very, very sorry. I was trying to point out the President's failed policy in Iraq and I messed up, big time. I am sorry to all those who were offended by my comments"

Instead he attacked the president for spinning something that anyone who heard the quote would think it was against the troops.

The way John Kerry's comment has been publicized has been completely out of context. From what I gather, he was suggesting that if we don't educate ourselves we'll get stuck in Iraq by not calling out for a change.

We are all stuck in Iraq because of poor decisions made by the current administration. The presidential election was two years ago. It has been two years since we said this war has gone on long enough. Two years of more U.S. deaths and Iraqi deaths. He wasn't referring to the intelligence of the troops, that is just ridiculous.

Besides, even if Kerry did say it exactly the way the media portrayed it, who the heck cares what John Kerry said? He lost the election two years ago. Why is this getting so much coverage?

Could it be because Republicans are so insecure that they need to create any negative publicity toward the Democrats, even if means taking one comment by a former presidential candidate out of context to make him look like an asshole which, in their minds, would represent all Democrats? Probably.

Oh, stop it! What a shame for democracy that all this energy is being expended discussing issues that aren't issues! Not Kerry's gaffe, not Bush's GPA! And neither have anything to do with our governor's race, our senator's...we have local school boards to think about!

The only people interested in talking about this are Republicans desperate to fabricate a new “issue” in the last week of the election. Losing across the country, Republicans are clinging to this story and using it to avoid talking about the real issues.

The same is on the media. We count on them to filter out non-issues like this one from real news, and they're obviously failing. But Tim and Ken--you can rise above what the "news" tells you to think about, pick out the irrelevancies, and vote for intelligent reasons!

Patrick-

Your point is well taken, and I am a little embarassed I bothered to respond to the original post.

Pat, this is a real issue because it is the backbone of the democratic party. They have a history of loathing for the troops and while John Kerry is not a presidential, or congressional candidate at this time he is STILL A STANDING US SENATOR.

But Pat, I will engage in a real wager with you right now. Republicans who are "losing across the country" will retain the house and the senate this year. Or have you long forgotten the polls that showed Bush losing by 12% days before the last election? The polls have been skewed for years and their margin of error is no longer 2-3 points, but 12-15.