Ode to John Kerry (you jokester you!)

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My response? i don't care if he really was leveling criticism at George Bush or anyone in the White House. His comments were completely insensitive, tactless, and if nothing else, ill-timed (or well-timed, depending on who you bat for).

"Get stuck in Iraq" if you don't get an education? Tell that to dozens of millions of Iraqis who can't get out whether or not they have an education. Tell that to soldiers who have had limbs blown off and friends blown up because they're "stuck in Iraq." Obviously they don't have "enough education" to stay out of it.

Perhaps even more stunning is that he won't apologize, choosing instead to stand his ground:

"But Kerry refused to relent, calling the criticism part of the 'classic GOP playbook.' "

So basically his position is that the GOP should just back off when he insults millions of people.

Sure, he's a Democrat, and some may accuse me of bias since i have said in the past that i don't trust the Democrats more than i don't trust Republicans (hardly an admission of partisanship), but what really makes me angry about all this is political war-mongering. The GOP is just as guilty, i know.

If our politicians (on both teams) spent half as much energy ironing out sound legislation and dialoging for a decent compromise, we might actually get somewhere on issues that continue to pendulum swing depending on who's in power. The constant undermining and polarizing both parties spend their time and their dollars on is absurd.

And i'm not just whining "can't we all just get along?!" i know issues are difficult. i know people disagree. But when, for example, i hear about the Mark Foley scandal coming out "just in time for elections," i have to wonder along with Jack Johnson "where'd all the good people go?"

So thank you, John Kerry, for giving our students motivation to get a good education. Thank you for playing the same destructive game everyone else is playing.

And thank you, national government, for acting like a bunch of three-year-olds in a sandbox.