Bush's "Whoops!" on Iraq

This Freudian slip is funny - I wonder if there will be a big outcry about what Bush really meant with this gaffe, vis-à-vis Kerry's flub last week? Of course not.

The more distance we get from Kerry's goof, the angrier I get at the GOP's trying to club us over the head with their messages about it. It's hilarious, but sad, too. Keith Olbermann put it best last week when he said that if you take quote in its entire context, there's no way you could cconceivably think that Kerry was referring to the troops: He spoke about being in Texas the day before, and that Bush used to live in Texas, now he's in a state of denial; he spoke of the importance of education and if you don't do well, you can get stuck in Iraq (he was referring, I'm guessing to Bush's bragging about his "C" average at Yale). The context is pretty uunmistakable to anyone who listens to an extended version of the clip, which I have, and not the 20 second clip played over and over on the "news" networks. Even the most partisan of hacks would have to admit that nowhere in his remarks was he even insinuating that the troops are stupid.

In essence, the GOP's running on a gaffe - what a laugh. Hey, they've got nothing else to run on, do they?

I'm sort of echoing Keith Olbermann's commentary from the other night as I type this (Get those clips from my blog Here), but really there is no boundry these people will not cross to stay in power. And I almost just typed, "The only thing they haven't used to stay in power is the military" and then I stopped myself. Because they have. The War in Iraq wasn't conceived solely for the Republicans to stay in power, but it's part of it.

Anyway, back to the boundries thing. Thanks to Karl Rove, "Swiftboating" has entered the political vernacular. In '04, Rove and the Republicans made Kerry, a decorated Vietnam Vet who earned a Silver Star, a Bronze Star Medal and three Purple Hearts, sound like a traitor. How laughable is that, especially considering that most of the ass wipes who are criticizing him have never served one damn day in combat - President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Tony Snow among them. And Kerry isn't the only one that Republicans have done this to - Max Cleland and John Murtha are two other Hall of Fame examples.

What's more curious to me is how combat veterans could possibly support, much less condone and vote for people who see no shame in committing such reprehensible behavior. That's like an African-American supporting a KKK candidate for president.