So I hear Kerry has made that joke before

[jumpoffdaplanet]

The one he goofed yesterday.

What we need is to find video of the joke being told correctly at a different venue.

That way we can show what it really was supposed to be. Send it to all the news outlets.

That way we can shove this lie about Kerry down the throats of the RW.

[Libby2]

1. So, where do you hear this?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. So what's the goof?

I got the joke just fine.

[warrens]

3. Earlier versions, he said "you end up getting us stuck in Iraq"

Or so I heard on CNN.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. And?

[INDIA]

5. Because troops are stuck in Iraq

Bush GOT them stuck there.

I agree, if we can find a transcript or video of that joke, it will end this crap.

Kerry should have said, "If you don't study, work hard, you'll end up like George Bush". Would have worked just as well, without the potential for a slip-up. There was no need to bring Iraq into it at all. Saying it at a college wasn't wise either.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Yeah, and Bush is stuck in Iraq. And?

The only people who think this is a gaffe are people who want it to be a gaffe.

[INDIA]

12. Kerry called it himself a "botched joke"

AKA a gaffe. He didn't mean it the way it came out. But he still screwed up by wording it that way.

Everyone knows it was a gaffe, but you're right, the only people who will care are the Repukes. I don't think it'll afffect next tuesday at all.

[Joe Chi Minh]

14. What slip-up? What makes you people think it was intended as a

joke? Most young people find applying themselves to their tertiary studies a bit of a bind. Do you have a problem with the metaphor?

[INDIA]

15. uhhh, because Kerry called it a "botched joke."

That's why?

[Joe Chi Minh]

18. Heck, that's what * is. A BOTCHED joke! Gee whizz. What is it

with you people?

[INDIA]

21. You said it wasn't a joke..

Kerry himself said it was.

Don't shoot the messenger.

[Lex]

8. Correct version

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/kerrys-mangled-statement_b_32911.html

Below is what Kerry actually meant to say, which I got straight from the Kerry team, which Kerry uses all the time.

"I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy?You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq." - Senator John Kerry

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Yeah, that's what he said.

Once again, he's stressed the importance of a great education.

[Lex]

11. That's what he meant to say and usually says.

He is calling Bush out for being intellectually lazy and for getting us stuck in Iraq.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. And that's what he did say.

[Lex]

17. It is Kerry, not I, who is saying it was a "a botched joke"

and his staffers per the link above clarified what it was supposed to be, and usually is.

[texasleo]

19. damn

[angstlessk]

20. So, basically he left out one word 'us'..

You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq." - instead he said You end up getting stuck in a war in Iraq." -

[jumpoffdaplanet]

24. And someone must have video of Kerry telling it right

I hope that video is put somewhere like youtube for everyone to see.

[Gothmog]

7. I agree-there should be video of the joke

I swear that I have heard that joke before. Having some video would be helpful.

[abluelady]

9. I Got the Joke Yesterday. eom

[johnnydrama]

16. gaffe

It was most definately a gaffe. It's obvoius he was talking about the presidunce's education, and that we're stuck in Iraq because he doesn't educate himself about anything.

[Swamp Rat]

22. Just because Kerry called it a "gaffe" does not mean it IS a gaffe.

He sure MADE a lot of freeps spin this story, though. :D

[Melynn]

23. There's no context to Kerry's comments

The video I have seen have shown only Kerry's comments about education and the troops and not any part of his speech before those comments or any part of his speech after those comments. I think that this whole episode is a dirty trick.

I would like to see videos of Kerry making that joke at other venues.......in proper context.