Quote Originally Posted by BigTex
Ok english teaching time. If you are not smart, you are unintelligent also known as being an idiot. If you don't work hard, you are called lazy. He is stating wether he meant to or not (but since the speech was written out infront of him...) that the US armed forces are neither smart, nor do the work hard.
English Lesson Part Two:

Today's new word:

con·text (kntkst) Pronunciation Key
n.
  1. The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning.
  2. The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.
Pay particular attention to 1, as it is very important to this discussion. Rather than type it all out myself, I'm just going to quote from the article I posted previously, as it explains it very clearly. So clearly in fact, that only those who really don't want to understand it won't be able to after reading it.

Sen. Kerry, as you well know, spoke at a college in Southern California. With bitter humor he told the students that he had been in Texas the day before, that President Bush used to live in that state, but that now he lives in the state of denial.
He said the trip had reminded him about the value of education — that “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.”
The senator, in essence, called Mr. Bush stupid.
The context was unmistakable: Texas; the state of denial; stuck in Iraq. No interpretation required.
There's that pesky "context" word again...

Quote Originally Posted by BigTex
Yes he said he didn't mean it, and later the portion of the speech was shown. But when he spoke he didn't mention bush, he didn't mention the presidency he only mentioned the US armed forces.
As shown above, he did mention Bush. But you and the rest of the Republican party chose not to include that in your quoting of him.

Yuck. This thread is leaving a bad taste in my mouth, having to defend a guy who I think actually is an idiot, but for different reasons than those stated in the thread.