It is remarkable, just stunning really, that the Dim candidates, and many other Dim Congress critters, just have no compunction or hesitation at all about telling flat-out, unequivocal lies. They even lie about the President lying by lying about what the President said, i.e. a triple lie.
In this example (but one of many) it is, first of all, CONGRESS (of which Kerry is a member!) that does the funding, not the President. Secondly, though I don't have the exact figures to hand, "leave no child behind" HAS been funded, to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars. To say it hasn't been funded, or that anyone "has refused" to fund it, is a lie. I'm not saying that it might be a lie, or there are interpretations under which it might be considered a lie; it is IN FACT a lie. There is no ambiguity at all that it is a lie. Kerry surely knows what funding has been approved (by CONGRESS!) on the matter, and he has consciously chosen to lie about it.
What Kerry apparently means (if I have this clear) is that the money appropriated in the budget did not reach the maximum amount that the bill, now law, allowed. Again, I don't remember the exact figures, but it was something along the line of the bill allowing, say, 16 billion dollars, and only 12 billion being appropriated.
All Kerry had to do was say "fully fund," which still would have been deeply misleading, but would not have been a bald, outright lie. Kerry chose to lie, and the press will never call him on it. The press repeatedly treats these unequivocal lies as if they were just matters of interpretation, or point to counterpoint. IT'S MADDENING!!!