Kerry Kerry quite Contrary

As the American spinmeisters rev up their engines to eagerly devour yet another controversy, I sit here and wonder if things are ever going to change in this country, or if they are going to continue down this path of polarized nonsense that the vast majority of "Middle America" is sick and tired of walking on.

While the Democratic Party scrambles to prove to America that John Kerry wasn't inferring that American Troops, during a time of war, are somehow not as intelligent as those who engaged in higher education, they face one very daunting fact that is hard to repudiate.

The great Senator of Massachusetts has done this before.

Soon after returning home from Vietnam, Senator Kerry went before congress and testified against the very men and women he served with. If nothing more, this gave the Republican Party and their talk show mouthpieces, like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Jim Quinn a lifetime supply of sound bits to use against Mr. Kerry everytime he said or did something they thought could be used for political cannon fodder. This bodes well for them because, as we all know, Senator Kerry is just of of the many public servants who suffer from that indomitable affliction that us common folks know as "Foot in Mouth Disease."

As the Republican party throws their recent temper tantrum over the fact that John Kerry hates every single American serving their country, and wants them all to die of AIDS, they have conveniently forgotten their cries of "bias" against the mass media. Although there were outlets that either didn't even carry the story, put the story on page 18, or glossed over the situation completely, they all did one thing in common. They did indeed leave the full context of his comments somewhere on the editing room floor. Which party do you suppose this serves?

I believe that John Kerry purposely called American Soldiers stupid about as much as I believe that the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to win the Super Bowl again this year. It's obvious to anyone who wishes to take the time to sort through the media, the Democratic Party, and the Republican Party's constant prevarication of reality. Mr. Kerry, simply stated, said something stupid. Had it not been 1 week before what both parties see as a life and death campaign, this story would have lasted one, maybe two news cycles at best.

With that said, I think it was completely inappropriate for a Senator of the United States to imply that the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces was somehow an uneducated moron who is "stuck in Iraq" because of some intellectual reason, or lack thereof. Irrespective of your thoughts on Iraq, we are at war, and I think a little discretion needs to be brought back into politics in this country. The debate on the origins and execution of this conflict can be waged in the writings of history, but for now, statements like these do little more but to embolden those who are eager to lie in green pastures with their 72 virgins.

Mr Kerry should really take some time and think before he attempts to take cheap shots at the President of the United States. One might discover that in reality, from an educational statistics standpoint, his GPA was actually lower than Mr. Bush's.

To me, telling a roomful of students that if they don't study and do well in school they might wind up being the President of the United States some day is not very wise.

After all, it seems we already have enough stupid people in Washington.