WTF.
Mirroring my previous post's title, Bush's ignorance must be absolute bliss for him, since it's agony for the rest of us. This story about Bush & Kerry annoyed me to no end. Bush is a f'in idiot.
Reading Kerry's comments to the college students, I totally understood his 'botched joke' being target at BUSH, and bush alone. I didn't see it as a comment about the soldiers at all. Bush though, in his infinite idiocy, WOULD be likely to misinterpret his words, and twist it to be a bash against the soldiers.
Personally I don't believe Kerry has anyone to apologize to, but should probably do some damage control and explain that it was intended towards Bush, and not the people in the military.
Bush on the other hand was the one who turned Kerry's joke into soldier-bashing political propaganda.
I think Bush should apologize for voicing remarks on a joke he obviously misinterpreted, and for any suffering he may have caused by his misinterpretation of a joke. The president, with the public spotlight so much on him, should know better than to try to explain the meaning in someone else's speech.
I mean, if he can't correctly interpret clear concise debate questions, then why the hell is does he think he'll be able to correctly interpret secondhand reports of a botched joke.
If ANYTHING good came of Dubya's idiocy in this issue, it was it lit a fire under me to vote anything BUT republican in this mid-term election. I was going to skip this election and not vote (especially since I just moved and would have to deal with driving back to my old town to vote since my registration won't transfer over until AFTER the election), but the Republicans obviously can't control their own party members from making retarded comments, plans, decisions so they NEED to lose control of Congress.
That being said, why can't we get rid of the partisan bullshit that seems prevalent in elections? The world IS NOT black and white, so why do people think politics should just be red and blue? Congressional Reps should make their vote decisions based upon their state’s general consensus on the ISSUE, not what "their party's" stance on the issue is. A state may have elected a republican, or democrat, but that doesn’t mean EVERY decision on EVERY issue will reflect that party’s statnce. Congressmen who vote on important issues, basing their vote ONLY on the party stance, and not the views of their representative state, should be kicked out of their position, since they obviously aren't doing their job (which is to represent the state’s views in which they were elected).
(FYI... I don't support the war, but DO support the troops. But I DEFINITELY don't support the idiot in the white house.)
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