Look who’s slandering the troops, again, as if he didn’t do a good enough job on us in the 1970s.
Sen. John Effing Kerry, D-Mass.
"’You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq,’ he said, to a mixture of laughter and gasps."
Right, if you don’t study, you’ll have to serve your country, along with the rest of the ignorant soldiers. But if you do study, you can be a lying phony like John Effing Kerry, marry rich, get elected by people too dumb to know better, run for president on the peace party ticket as a "war hero" (with the able assistance of the draft-dodging, prevaricating news media), and never have to work again.
UPDATE Response from office of Sen. John McCain: "Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country’s call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education."
Well, they are deficient in duplicity and dishonesty, subjects in which Kerry scores very high.
Via Instapundit
Entertaining commentary on the subject at, where else, Black Five.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Evidently John McCain and the head of the American Legion are stuffed suits behind podiums too, since they’ve both told John to apologize.
I’m sure he won’t apologize. His explanation that he was trying to make a joke about Bush, i.e. he didn’t study so now he’s stuck in Iraq, makes a little sense. But he’s always been a looner who says he means to say one thing when he says another. The Dems eat him up, of course, being one of their few veterans. Fortunately, there aren’t enough of them to get him elected to anything beyond his no luster senate career.
I was right. He didn’t apologize. He said he was sorry if people misunderstood him, but what he said was plain as day. No room for misunderstanding at all. What to make of a politician who’s too prideful even to apologize? He’s a looner.