[ChemistCat]

I do not want someone who is so potty-mouthed he will emit words like that when he knows a mike is live.

I'm not too keen on George W. Bush's own slip-up during the 2000 campaign--even if he WAS right about that reporter.

A President must have control of himself at all times.

That's my NTBHO.

[AmishDude]

This was planned. It was in a sit-down interview. With Rolling Stone, no less -- not Newsweek -- RS's readers would respond favorably, on balance, to this. Kerry's handlers knew exactly what they were doing.

He wasn't overheard at a restaurant. This wasn't some reporter nearby when he got the bad news of his poll numbers. This was a planned "slip up".

It's supposed to make the WH and critics look like prudes and it expresses Kerry's bona fides vis-a-vis the Dean crowd. Dean may disagree with Bush's policies, but Kerry is f'in' pissed!

[Patriotic Bostonian]

John Kerry used his foul mouth in an interview for a magazine. It was no slip up and he won't back down on it.

[TedsGarage]

The White House response: "Only a major-league a**hole would use the word 'f***.'"