Jo’s Cafe

John Kerry has stepped off in to the deep end and reality has left the building.

Now he is blaming everyone for twisting his statement against the level of education of our military by even going as far as to bring up Rush Limbaugh.  I listened to most of it via Rush this afternoon, Mr. Kerry and you were tap dancing like you were auditioning for Dancing With The Stars.  You jiggied left, ducked right, and twisted yourself into a knot to keep from admitting, like a man, you screwed up.

He claims it was a “botched joke”:

Kerry said the comment in question was “a botched joke about the president and the president’s people, not about the troops … and they know that’s what I was talking about.“ 

Mr. Kerry, it was plain out and out who you were talking about, and it wasn’t President Bush. What you said Mr. Kerry did not have any meaning about, or for, our President. 

He then said: “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 Iraq.” 

It was squarely directed at our troops; you know it; I know it; the people of this country know it; and God knows it.

You went on to add more insult to injury in your press conference today:

In Seattle, Kerry highlighted his own military background.

“If anyone thinks that a veteran would somehow criticize more than 140,000 troops serving in Iraq and not the president … they’re crazy,” Kerry said.

Should we remind you of your attack on the troops:

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.  (VIETNAM WAR VETERAN JOHN KERRY’S TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE, APRIL 22, 1971)

Let’s go back to your Face the Nation appearence on Dec 4, 2005:

SCHIEFFER: All right. Let me shift to another point of view, and it comes from another Democrat, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. He takes a very different view. He says basically we should stay the course because, he says, real progress is being made. He said this is a war between 27 million Iraqis who want freedom and 10,000 terrorists. He says we’re in a watershed transformation. What about that?

Sen. KERRY: Let me–I–first of all, there is so much more that unites Democrats than divides us. And Democrats have much more in common with each other than they do with George Bush’s policy right now. Now Joe Lieberman, I believe, also voted for the resolution which said the president needs to make more clear what he’s doing and set out benchmarks, and that the policy hasn’t been working. We all believe him when you say, `Stay the course.’ That’s the president’s policy, which hasn’t been changing, which is a policy of failure. I don’t agree with that. But I think what we need to do is recognize what we all agree on, which is you’ve got to begin to set benchmarks for accomplishment. You’ve got to begin to transfer authority to the Iraqis. And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the–of–the historical customs, religious customs. Whether you like it or not…

Oh and your feelings for our troops came through loud and clear when you voted against funding for the troops body armour:

From NewsMax.com March 8, 2004:

Likely Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry slammed President Bush over the weekend for not supplying U.S. troops in Iraq with enough body armor to protect them from attacks.

But, it turns out, Sen. Kerry actually voted against supplying the troops with more body armor just last year.

Addressing a Texas audience on Saturday, the Massachusetts Democrat said it was “shocking” that “tens of thousands of other troops arrived in Iraq to find that – with danger around every corner – there wasn’t enough body armor.”

But Bush campaign press secretary Scott Stanzel told WABC Radio’s Steve Malzberg on Sunday that Kerry “voted against supplying body armor to our troops when it mattered most” – when President Bush included the request as part of the $87 billion appropriation for the Iraq war in 2003.

Boy am I glad this idiot didn’t get in the Whitehouse …

LOL Don does a “What he meant to say” comparison.

I was planning a major blogroll run and link fest to all the great posts on this, but I’d be up all night!!  Check my blogroll … there are some great posts out there on this.  Enjoy!

Additional Sources: Yahoo! News; CNSNews.com; Captain’s Quarter