An angry Senator John Kerry is also an entertaining John Kerry. And on ABC's This Week yesterday, Kerry provided us with a lot of comedy entertainment including his assertion that John McCain was forced to pick Sarah Palin as his running mate by Rush Limbaugh and "the rightwing." There are a lot of other comedy nuggets in this interview conducted by This Week host George Stephanopoulos who fails to challenge Kerry on most of his absurdities including the notion that that merely traveling though countries overseas on a brief campaign stint counts as foreign policy experience. The transcript is below but to fully enjoy the flavor, you need to see the video featuring a clearly perturbed John Kerry who seems not to have gotten over his 2004 election loss. The interview begins following an appearance by Senator Lindsey Graham and Kerry sounds a bit confused (emphasis mine):
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator Kerry, he's joining us today from Massachusetts. You heard Senator Graham there, Senator Kerry. Good morning first of all. What's your response?
JOHN KERRY: Well, he just admitted the case. He just said we've exposed him for being the calculating politician that he is. Barack Obama in his own speech said he's not going to attack John McCain's motives but you just heard them attack John McCain's motives. Calculating...
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