Botched joke vs botched war

So the right wing has pinned its election hopes on trying to make Senator John Kerry's botched joke about President Bush worse than President Bush botching the war.

Which one hurts the troops more? I'd say the war/occupation.

Why would Kerry rip on the education level of the troops? He is a Yale graduate that fought for our country. The college kids in the audience at the time of the comment got the joke, but that didn't stop the righties from trying to serve this up as some red meat for the base right before an election.

Look we all know Kerry isn't a great speaker. We have the 2004 as a painful reminder of that fact.

But the fact the Bush Team is trying to hide with this media blitz is far more damaging than any botched joke or bad speaking engagement. It is becoming more and more clear to the citizens of this country that the Bush team isn't doing even an ok job managing the war. A slide from a Pentagon presentation shows the situation in Iraq is slipping closer and closer to chaos every week.

Which of course is what this orchestrated reaction to Senator Kerry's lame joke is all about. The Republicans figure, if people are going to be thinking about Iraq anyway, let's have them think about this comment from Senator Kerry instead of the real problems we have there.

And that line of thinking about Iraq is the real scandal.