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The hot topic on talk radio today is John Kerry’s comments from this weekend. Mary Katherine Ham and Michelle Malkin also lead the blogosphere coverage.

In case you somehow didn’t hear it:

Sure sounds like a condemnation of soldiers serving in Iraq. Of course, as Michelle points out, the only coverage by the MSM is over the White House reaction, not to the comments themselves. So we were left to wonder exactly what he meant.

My first reaction when hearing the audio was that it sounded like he was trying to slip in yet another “Bush is stupid” remark… but somehow it came out awkwardly. As southern expression goes, “his tongue got wrapped around his eye tooth and he couldn’t see what he was saying!” (But meanwhile the audience cheered him - I wonder which meaning (anti-military or anti-Bush) they thought they were cheering!!!).

Of course, either way he intended it, the remark doesn’t make a lick of sense. We’ve talked before how Bush is so stupid but at the same time he’s the evil genius who has manipulated all of the smart people in the Intelligence Services, Congress, and foreign governments as well. But I digress.

Later Kerry did manage to spin that he meant it to be a remark aimed at Bush. Washington Post gives the Kerry reaction. Of course, it’s not “I’m sorry”. Not even “I mis-spoke.” But rather… “It’s all Bush’s fault.”

He said he had been criticizing Bush, not the “heroes serving in Iraq,” and said the president and his administration are the ones who owe U.S. troops an apology because they “misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it.”
“This is the classic GOP playbook,” Kerry said in a harshly worded statement. “I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium.”

So Tony Snow is a “chickenhawk” and Bush should somehow apologize to someone for something. I guess that’s what Kerry means when he takes the fight to the enemy.

Coincidentally, earlier in the weekend Kerry was out baiting reaction with chickenhawk accusations on behalf of Pat Murphy’s campaign in Pennsylvania (per the Boston Globe):

“Attacking Patrick Murphy for his service is a little bit like Jessica Simpson attacking Albert Einstein’s IQ,” the Massachusetts Democrat proclaimed Thursday at a chilly outdoor rally at Bucks County Community College.
“A lot of these people in the GOP, the Republican Party — they think somehow that they served because they played with GI dolls when they were little,” Kerry said. “The guys who really served understand what it means, and we’ve had enough of these lies.”

Nice. Sounds more like Dean than someone who might have been President.

Anyway, I guess it’s Kerry who’s the smartest of all… he screws up his insult of the President and turns it into an insult of the troops, and that’s George Bush’s fault. Pretty “smart”.

UPDATE: Texas Rainmaker notes that the Boston Globe actually calls Kerry out on this one. Amazing! From their editorial: “The real shame is that while John Kerry stumps around the country, building up chits for his own possible presidential campaign rerun, he still has that D-Mass. after his name. And that’s an embarrassment to the good people of this state who sent him to the U.S. Senate.” Amen.