Off the cuff? Didn't Kerry claim it was a planned joke which he just left a couple words out of? You can leave words out of a script, but how do you leave words out of an off the cuff remark?
Kerry danced around the statement, claiming it was a bad joke gone worse, but in the last throes of an election cycle in which the Republicans were spinning into chaos, the Massachusetts senator gave them an opportunity to bring out that old saw about those wanting to get the military out of Iraq being anti-troops.
In the hours after Kerry's unbelievably idiotic statement, here in New Hampshire the Republican distraction machine was moving faster than the speed dial on a phone call-blocking program.
No bias here, no sir...
/what goes here again?
It's AMAZING how all these frickin' idiot Carry water-kerrying dipsticks try to twist and turn to get everyone to believe this "botched joke"!
"if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq"
If you slack off, don't do your homework, make no effort to be smart, you won't do well and you'll get stuck in Iraq!
There you go... That's EXACTLY what he said! Where's the joke? Where's the misinterpreting?