John Kerry Flip-Flops Again

Our favorite senator who was for the war before he was against the war has come up with yet another doozy. Here's a short recap of the last few days in the world of John Kerry. Lovey!

Monday, October 30
Making a speech to students at Pasadena City College, Kerry tells them, "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." President Bush and Republican leaders quickly condemn the remarks, calling them insulting to those soldiers who have served in Iraq and their families.

Tuesday, October 31
Kerry issues a half-assed explanation in which he essentially stands by his remarks and blames everyone else for misinterpreting them and the Bush administration for getting the country into the mess. He says, "My statement yesterday, and the White House knows this full well, was a botched joke about the President and the President's people, not about the troops. The White House's attempt to distort my true statement is a remarkable testament to their abject failure making America safe.... If anyone thinks that a veteran would somehow criticize more than 140,000 troops serving in Iraq and not the president and his people who put them there, they're crazy."

Wednesday Morning, November 1
Several Democratic candidates who had asked Kerry to help them stump rescind their invitations, seeing the need the distance themselves from such a firebrand. Kerry continued his half-assed explanation by calling into the Don Imus radio show and telling him that "Look, everybody knows I botched a joke. It’s not the first time anybody’s done that.... I said it was a botched joke. Of course, I’m sorry about a botched joke. You think I love botched jokes? I mean, it’s pretty stupid."

Wednesday Afternoon, November 1
Finally, in the afternoon, Kerry realizes the political sh-- has hit the fan, and sensing the need for major self-preservation, reverses his hard-line position that the troops shouldn't have been insulted because it was their own fault if they misinterpreted his comments, opting instead to acknowledge that given the way his words came across, they were in fact insulting. In a written statement, Kerry now says, "I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended.... As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: My poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and [was] never intended to refer to any troop." In other words, John Kerry was not sorry before he was sorry.

Someone needs to explain to me why people in Massachusetts keep voting for this guy.