Mr Kerry gives the GOP a present

I’m not sure which part of this is more stupid: Mr Kerry’s initial comment,

“You know, education—if you make the most of it, you study hard and do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Or his response, when members of both parties called for him to apologize to the troops,

“The White House’s attempt to distort my true statement is a remarkable testament to their abject failure in making America safe. It’s a stunning statement about their willingness to reduce anything in America to raw politics.”

Many Democrats are white-hot that he would make such a comment just before an election, giving the GOP a surprise gift just when they need it most. This says more about the Democrats than the GOP or Mr Kerry. Mr Kerry’s comments are inappropriate and insulting at any time. Thus, the question is not about the GOP’s “willingness to reduce anything in America to raw politics,” but about the Democrats’ inability to resist doing such.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/31/kerry.mccain/index.html

-W.