“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you
study hard and do your homework, and you make an effort to
be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck
in Iraq.”
Audio: John Kerry on America’s lazy, uneducated military
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People send me these audio clips all the time and I’m never sure whether to run them or not. Without the audio of the whole speech, I can’t tell if the comments were later qualified, retracted, embellished, etc. So let’s just go ahead and assume that Kerry caught himself the moment this left his lips and immediately disavowed/clarified it. Okay? Full benefit of the doubt here.
That said, it’s awfully stupid. And, of course, completely politically tone-deaf, which makes it vintage JFK. As usual, you can kind of tell what he’s trying to say, but it’s so artless you just end up shaking your head.
The guy who sent it to me says it comes from a speech Kerry gave on behalf of Phil Angelides today in California. John Ziegler of KFI 640AM in L.A. picked it up, and the rest is history. Without further ado.
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