On that note I think we have beaten the dead horse enough with this thread. Not much else to say about what Kerry said, other than the fact that the remarks were stupid and a sorely needed gift to the GOP. I’m not convinced that his explanation about the written vs. spoken speech and the ommitted word is truthful. In my opinion he meant to say it just as it was spoken, but did not properly consider the implications or consequences of his words. It’s a throwback to Vietnam when there was talk about having to go to college or go to Vietnam, and there were debates about the underclasses of society being unfairly burdened by the draft. Even if the remarks were written differently by the speechwriter, his words were clear and he was unappologetic until the end. Whose to say that he didn’t just conveinantly discover that adding a word changes the meaning and then use that as his explanation? The kicker is that it makes a heck of alot more sense the way he actually said it than the other way around!