KERRY'S "BOTCHED JOKE."

First, bring me the jerk who wrote a joke that, if botched, attacked the troops. Outahere. And the dolt who approved it. Oop, that would be John Kerry. "You know what I was trying to say..." doesn't get it. Yeah, maybe it's just as well he's canceled his next stop, not wishing to be a "distraction..." Whatever. Makes you wonder who really is smarter, Kerry or Bush. What the hell are you guys thinking, producing tricky "jokes" about a deadly war? Notice, Rovians don't make light. And notice, Bush learns his lines, and Rove never, never gives him lines he could "botch." I thought for a moment that Kerry had found his voice. But this was inevitable. I've got an idea. How about this: turn off the pissing contest, fire the quipsters, and state the facts--that is, just say the stuff Americans are already saying to each other.