More than 2000 Americans died after Bush flubbed his little joke, and the American people voted him back into office. But somehow Kerry’s remarks are on a par with child molestation or apostasy. This, in itself, seems a meta-joke so monstrous that it almost makes you believe there’s a God. Funny folks, you fellow Americans of mine.

UPDATE: For some reason the video above won’t open on this website, so click here. Thanks to Music for America for the video.

“Education — if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well,” said Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat. “If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

To quote our whimsical Secretary of Defense, “Oh, Henny-Penny, the sky is falling!” Somebody told the truth. It’s too bad Kerry left out the punch line: “Just ask President Bush.”

So now it’s dogpile-on-Kerry time again:

Some Democrats defended the senator, but others privately cringed. An unnamed Democratic congressman told ABC News: “I guess Kerry wasn’t content blowing 2004, now he wants to blow 2006, too.”

Oh, bravo, sir! Displacement is so much more constructive than confronting the source of the problem.

So, keeping alive a completely meaningless cockfight, CNN wants to know “who should apologize” over the artificial horror engendered by John Kerry’s clumsy comment on why kids should do well in school:

President Bush has called Kerry’s comments “insulting” and “shameful” and said the Democrat from Massachusetts owes an apology to the U.S. military. Kerry said the president owes the troops an apology for misleading the country into the war in Iraq. What do you think? Does Kerry owe the nation’s military an apology, or does Bush?

Rather beside the point now, since Kerry already apologized. We truly are a nation of fainting goats.

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