did John Kerry just call soldiers stupid?

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by Jupiter

hey goulish. he may not have said that. but tht was the implementation that i got. hey call it me if you want. but that is the impression i got. but this is also from a guy who is appearntly in his own world.

If you had heard the quote, just the quote, by itself without any of the feigned outrage from the republican spin machine, would you have come to the conclusion, on your own, that he was dissing the troops?

Because, personally, I just don't see it. I'm not a Kerry fan at all and yet, I'm having a really hard time understanding how it could be perceived that way. I completely understand that the right demands that it be perceived that way but I have a hard time believing that this is the interpretation that most people would have come to, had they simply heard the quote in context, without all of the commentary that accompanied it, telling them that they should be outraged.

To me, it sounds like he was dissing Bush and potentially dissing the abysmal educational system that was created with "No Child Left Behind". And again, saying that uneducated people tend to join the military IS NOT the same as saying that everyone in the military is stupid.