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By Joe Fitzgerald
Boston Herald Columnist
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 - Updated: 04:34 AM EST
The most amazing thing about John Kerry is that anyone withhalf a brain would still take him half as seriously as he obviously takes himself.
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If hes not putting his foot in his mouth, hes attempting to extract it, as he is again this morning, trying to blame everyone but himself for his outrageous defamation of Americas fighting forces, slurring them as unproficient, shallow-minded cannon fodder.
Appearing in California to ostensibly assist Phil Angelides, a Democratic candidate for governor, Kerry warmed up by suggesting George W. Bush used to live in Texas, but now lives in a state of denial.
Whatever happened to that American ideal of the loyal opposition, especially when the country is at war?
Is common decency too much to expect from Kerry? Or have the fires of his insatiable ambition consumed his common sense as well?
He has no one but himself to blame for this latest fiasco, which was pure blasphemy born of bitterness over losing to Bush in 2004.
Addressing students at Pasadena City College, he said, 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 dont, you get stuck in Iraq.
Stuck with whom, Senator? All those losers, rejects and unenlightened simpletons who left their homes and loved ones not because of any sense of duty and honor, but because they screwed up in the classroom? Was that your point, senator?
The only one who screwed up here was Kerry, whod be well-advised to do the right thing and admit it.
Humility, however, is not his strong suit.
So when he subsequently realized the implications of trashingour troops, he reverted to form and lashed out at his critics, blaming them for wounds that were self-inflicted.
Im 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, he fumed, wrapping himself in the flag by alluding to his military experience.
But one of those despicable Republicans was Sen. John McCain, who spent more than five years as a POW in Vietnam.
The indignant McCain insisted Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq who answered their countrys call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education.
McCain, it should be noted, graduated from Annapolis, so it wasnt as if he was captured for being a dumbbell.
If anyone ought to bridle at such a suggestion, its Kerry, the Yale man who saw combat: Im John Kerry, and Im reporting for duty! Remember?
Figuratively, what he ought to do this morning is report to the principals office for his boorish behavior.
Its bad enough our troops have to hear disgruntled countrymen calling them invaders, occupiers, aggressors, murderers and terrorists; must they hear a senator hint that theyre imbeciles, too?
Of course, if hes looking for sympathy, he could always call Hillary Clinton, telling how he, too, has now become the victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
But since hes so hot on education, it says here, Kerry would do himself a favor by turning this into a learning experience, heeding the advice of yet another Republican, Abe Lincoln: Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt.
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