More on Kerry

I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown... We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that view the perpetuation of war crimes as simply "doing it's job".

John Kerry, 1972 (from a Fox News clip)

Well, we've had a volunteer army for quite some time now. Maybe Kerry's changed his mind since he made those comments 34 years ago. Maybe it really was a botched joke about President Bush. In my opinion, it was a Freudian slip.

But let's assume, for the sake of discussion, Kerry just fumbled his words and they came out to mean something he had no intention of saying. Why the "I apologize to no one" speech? How hard is it to say "I'm sorry, I misspoke and that's not what I meant."? Why the half-hearted internet apology? That thing read more like "I'm sorry you're not intelligent enough to understand what I meant."

And hasn't anyone ever told Kerry not to tell jokes? It's just not possible for him to be funny. It reminds me of Billy Bob Thornton telling the bridge joke in Sling Blade. "I believe one of them fellers was from Arkansas...Get it?"

And for a defeated presidential candidate to start calling the man who beat him stupid, well...that's just sore-loserish.