The Swift Boating of John Kerry Continues

Apparently, the swift boating of John Kerry has not ended.

The Republican party, and it’s right wing smear machine, desperate to turn their fortunes in the right direction, have latched onto an out of context sentence from a recent Kerry campaign stop. In classic fashion, they have used this poorly delivered sentence to put words in the former presidential candidate’s mouth and have attempted to muddy the already muddy water of this congressional election season.

This is the sentence trumpeted by the disgusting right-wing media: “You know education - if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Looks kind of bad doesn’t it? Sounds like Kerry is saying our troops are uneducated morons? Well, if the liars on the right wing were to disclose to their zombie audience the words preceding the clumsy ones above, it would be clear that Kerry was not talking about the troops, but rather about George W. Bush. In fact, Kerry preceded the above statement with various jibes at George Bush’s lack of sense and was suggesting that, as a result, Bush has become “stuck” in Iraq. The truth is that John Kerry was not referring to the troops at all—but, as we know, the truth is the enemy of the right.