Kerry can't take responsibility for his gaffe

Joe Fitzgerald, Boston Herald:

The most amazing thing about John Kerry is that anyone withhalf a brain would still take him half as seriously as he obviously takes himself.

If he’s not putting his foot in his mouth, he’s attempting to extract it, as he is again this morning, trying to blame everyone but himself for his outrageous defamation of America’s fighting forces, slurring them as unproficient, shallow-minded cannon fodder.
Appearing in California to ostensibly assist Phil Angelides, a Democratic candidate for governor, Kerry warmed up by suggesting George W. Bush used to live in Texas, “but now lives in a state of denial.”

Whatever happened to that American ideal of “the loyal opposition,” especially when the country is at war?
Is common decency too much to expect from Kerry? Or have the fires of his insatiable ambition consumed his common sense as well?
He has no one but himself to blame for this latest fiasco, which was pure blasphemy born of bitterness over losing to Bush in 2004.
Addressing students at Pasadena City College, he said, “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
Stuck with whom, Senator? All those losers, rejects and unenlightened simpletons who left their homes and loved ones not because of any sense of duty and honor, but because they screwed up in the classroom? Was that your point, senator?
The only one who screwed up here was Kerry, who’d be well-advised to do the right thing and admit it.
Humility, however, is not his strong suit.
So when he subsequently realized the implications of trashing our troops, he reverted to form and lashed out at his critics, blaming them for wounds that were self-inflicted.

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It’s bad enough our troops have to hear disgruntled countrymen calling them invaders, occupiers, aggressors, murderers and terrorists; must they hear a senator hint that they’re imbeciles, too?

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Arrogance in the defense of a mistake is no virtue Sen. Kerry. Kerry will not be the last politician to have his career killed for a mistake, but he certainly will be one of the most deserving.