Kerry's got some 'splanin to do.
Kerry served in Vietnam?
They're first attempt at splainin was to say that the additional flowery language was required by Navy regulations. I am not kidding!
To which we might reply with Cicero:
---When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?---