[Kakaze]

He was "stunned" that his beliefs were cheered in private and rebuked in public by hi colleagues is more like it.

Kerry did succeed though, he sufficiently numbed the public to these kind of remarks, thus blazing a trail for charlie rangel to say virtually the same thing without feeling the need to hide it in a "botched Joke".

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Yeah, you saw the uproar in the MSM about Rangel's remarks, didn't you ? You didn't ?