Oh, sure, he has apologized now, sort of. “Oh, sorry, I botched the joke.” Like we’re all at a big office party and slightly tipsy, and he’s the ditzy blonde who forgot the punch line to a knock-knock joke instead of a United States Senator.
Food for thought: It's a safe bet that at least three of the men in the picture above have college degrees, two of them earned while they were on active duty. Clearly, their command of the language is excellent: effective parody requires deep understanding of the subject. This simple response to Senator Kerry’s insulting remark is nothing short of brilliant.
John Kerry’s “botched joke” shows not just that he’s an arrogant asshole with a stunning level of contempt for the men and women in the military…who are at the same place in their lives that he was 40 years ago…but that he’s surrounded himself with people who share that arrogance.
He may have attempted to tell the joke, but he didn’t write the joke…and probably didn’t even read it until it came up on the teleprompter. And if, "Just ask President Bush," is all they could come up with for a punch line, Kerry needs a new writer. He might as well have just gotten up and said, "Yeah? Well...your mom wears, uh, boots! Yeah! And you suck, too!"
This is not the first time Kerry has made disparaging remarks about our troops. During his presidential campaign, Kerry said that President Bush was “spending like a drunken sailor.” An odd use of stereotyping from a guy who’s never far from reminding us all about his service in the Navy.
Kerry’s website talks about his service in Vietnam, but never mentions his antiwar protests after he returned home. There is heavy emphasis on his daring leadership as a riverine skipper, and a quote from one of his citations.
He’d like you to think that the lessons he learned in combat stand him in good stead today.
But they don’t.
If they did, he’d never say anything remotely insulting about those who serve or have served with honor, the way he did, and he’d make sure that his speechwriters understood that. He’d make it clear that he respects those who have chosen a life path so similar to the one he chose as a young man.
Instead, he aims the machine gun of his contempt and sprays us all with staccato bursts of rhetoric, the object of which is to point out that we ought to listen to him because he’s smarter than we are.
He did go to Yale, after all.
After Kerry made his “drunken sailor” remarks, I wrote him an e-mail (through his website) to express my displeasure over the use of such a stereotype. To me, the fact that so much of what he says he’s done involves fighting stereotypes only reinforces the hypocrisy of his ilk. America needs fewer John Kerrys, not more.
Three months after I sent my e-mail, I got a fairly lengthy response from the John Kerry campaign that read, in summary, “Thank you for your support. If you’d like to contribute to the John Kerry for President Campaign, please send your check to…”
The note was signed by a Jennifer somebody, and because there is an Immutable Law of the Universe that states that All Women Named Jennifer Are Cute, I considered hitting her up for a date.
That is, until I remembered that Republicans are better in bed.
Okay, I’d like to write more, but it’s payday and Vons has a sale on beer.
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