You're right. If Kerry had just laughed along with the rest of us, maybe cracked a few jokes, the whole thing would have blown over by now. Just because the guy looks like a dork in every picture, that doesn't make him a bad person. Being a lying, ultra liberal, hypocritical, anti-American, terrorist-appeasing gigolo makes him a bad person.
Kerry opted for the Democrat way. He lied about it, (through his campaign manager) tried to pin the blame on someone else for his stupidity, and tried to make himself a victim of some evil plot.
An ass who curses his Secret Service protection for disrupting his shoosh down the ski slopes has no sense of proportion, humor or fair play.
Kerry looks like he's the kind of guy who only laughs at others.