If John Kerry’s screw ups weren’t so funny, they’d be pitiful. No … wait. If they weren’t so pitiful, they’d be funny. Well, anyway, he’s done it again. In a fit of carelessness, he let slip how he really feels about the military – as if there was any mystery to that.

While stumping for California gubernatorial candidate, Phil Angelides at Pasadena City College, Kerry said, "You know, education, 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."

Of course, there are a lot of people pretty unhappy with such a statement and there are a lot of people who think it’s great for Kerry to have told it like it is. (including Kerry himself) And there’s speculation that he inadvertently threw next week’s election to the Republicans. But, you know what, this didn’t change very many opinions about Kerry or the Democrats. The people who liked him last week, still like him and the people who didn’t like him last week, still don’t like him.

His comments have diverted attention away from whatever it was that we were talking about before to watching his antics as he tries to blame Bush for his own honesty. It is fun to watch, but is this going to have a big impact on the election … or anything else for that matter? Not likely.

Still, we should be thankful to Kerry for giving us something new and unimportant to focus on for a while. We could use a breath of fresh air before the tumult of next week.