...just not enough tact to pull it off w/out being politically incorrect.
2006-11-01 05:45:03 · 23 answers · asked by Studmuffin 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I don't think he meant for it to come out that way; but yes, he is right.
2006-11-01 05:55:21 · answer #1 · answered by fitgalmel1 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What he actually said was wrong-- there are alot of smart educated people in the military along with grunts who are not so smart. Just like any segment of the population.
What he meant to say was not a very good joke but roughly right-- that is, study, learn how to think critically, learn planning and strategy or you'll end up like this President- stuck in Iraq with no working plan or strategic success. Little tactical successes don't cut it.
2006-11-01 13:49:00 · answer #2 · answered by dapixelator 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If Senator Kerry truly meant to say that the uneducated and intellectually lazy belong in the military, I'll put my Air Force trained brain up against his college-educated gray matter in a battle of wits any day of the freaking year. He has no idea how things work and get done in the real world. Heck, I'll put my Air Force trained brain up against ANYONE who believes military members are intellectually inferior to our civilian counterparts.
2006-11-01 13:54:31 · answer #3 · answered by sarge927 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not me and not America. Despite the regular group of Liberal Democratic Apologists on this site, the rest of America is digesting his outrageous comments and getting ready to puke. The folks on here are only kidding themselves, nobody else. They somehow believe that the Dems will go untouched by this whole incident. Foolish, foolish people. Look for a whole lot of fireworks on this one before and during election day. Thank you, John Kerry.
2006-11-01 13:51:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
The last time that John Kerry was right was when he conceded the presidential election.
2006-11-01 13:57:54 · answer #5 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think I understand what he was trying to say.... but Dan Quayle got toasted because he misspelled potato. So, don't expect republicans to back off just because his intentions were good. He screwed up, end of story. Our military is not composed of a bunch of losers. I'm proud to say that I have 2 members of my family currently serving.
2006-11-01 13:49:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
He was wrong. People choose to serve, they are not obligated to.
And Jim W he was not talking about Bush. He was not talking about the republicans. He was talking to a bunch of student and why hey need to make the most out of thier educations. Stop being an apologist for him, Kerry said what he meant.
2006-11-01 13:50:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
He was talking about Bush, not about the military (just to be clear here).
With that being established, NO he was not right. I despise Bush as much as the next guy, and I freely castigate his lack of intellectual heft - but that is NOT why we are in Iraq.
Kerry's statement - joke or otherwise - was a ham-handed bit of elitism that is just plain puerile and juvenile, and it does NOTHING to help any of us solve the problems we face, nor does it do anything to help Dems win next Tuesday. If intelligence actually mattered to the American voter, Bush would never have won his party's nomination in 2000, never mind two terms as President.
2006-11-01 13:50:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
I used to work for a government contractor. The military employees were quite a bit smarter than the civilians government workers.
2006-11-01 13:51:21 · answer #9 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
He tripped over his own tongue while trying to make a valid point. It happens to the best of them. It also happens to George Bush. A lot.
2006-11-01 13:48:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋