Rabbit Rabbit.

Yesterday Senator John Kerry got caught in the proverbial crapstorm for something he said that some people are taking to mean that he thinks America's troops are full of dummies. During a Monday rally for California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides, after urging students to make the most of their educational opportunities, Kerry said, "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

There are many angry people on both sides of the fence who felt this comment was out of line. I also read on some blogs that some right-wingers are taking this to indicate Kerry's--and the Democratic party's--lack of support for the military. I am pretty sure that that quote was taken out of context and that Kerry didn't mean for what he said to come out the way it did. So let's examine the speech in its entirety:

"Good morning and thank you for having me here today. I hate babies. That's right. I hate all children, especially yours. I hate them almost as much as I hate our troops. They're all idiots. Which is why I was such a bad soldier--because I hated being with all the other soldiers. You should get an Ivy League education like me because if you don't, you'll get stuck in Iraq. Actually, I'd prefer that you don't get an Ivy League education because I don't want too many people getting them. I'd rather all you morons of the heartland ship out to this war--and I still can't decide what I think about it! Flip flop! Flip flop! I love to flip flop. That will give me a lot more time to hang out with my fat cat friends in Washington talking about the rainforest and aborting babies. By the way, where are you going snowboarding this winter, fellows? Vail? That's so common. I'll be in Aspen, suckers. But you probably will never know how amazing the fresh powder on the Rockies is. I'm so sick of this country. I have no respect for it, probably because I come from an Ivory Tower, except for that time that I was in Vietnam and that's why I hate the troops so much--because it removed me from my Ivory Tower. That's why I'm running for President of North Korea and I'm going to bomb all you American pigs to hell! I'm going to go ride my rocket car now to go make love to my foreign ketchup wife as we laugh at the common American man. Vote for me! See you all in hell!"

See?