[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Kerry's off-the-cuff remark has been interpreted as saying members of the military who served -- or are currently serving -- in Iraq are not particularly smart.

Kerry danced around the statement, claiming it was a bad joke gone worse, but in the last throes of an election cycle in which the Republicans were spinning into chaos, the Massachusetts senator gave them an opportunity to bring out that old saw about those wanting to get the military out of Iraq being anti-troops.

In the hours after Kerry's unbelievably idiotic statement, here in New Hampshire the Republican distraction machine was moving faster than the speed dial on a phone call-blocking program.

No bias here, no sir...

/what goes here again?

[Air Gap]

Notice how they make no attempt to refute the substance of the story. They just bemoan the obvious damage the USS Kerry has done to the Rats. Now Kerry knows how Yamamoto felt after Midway.