GAFFES AND BULLSHIT
John Kerry (Aug. 5, 2004): Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered in my ear, 'America is under attack,' I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to -- and I would have attended to it.

John Kerry (July 8, 2004): [W]e'd just come into a leadership meeting in Tom Daschle's office, looking out at the Capitol. And as I came in, Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon.

As Red State notes: "[T]he second plane hit the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m., and the plane hit the Pentagon at 9:43 a.m. By Kerry's own words, he and his fellow senators sat there for forty minutes, realizing 'nobody could think.' In other words: Sen. Kerry, who criticized President Bush for not rushing out of the Florida classroom for seven minutes, sat paralyzed with his colleagues for a full forty minutes. He is hardly in a position to criticize President Bush for 'inaction.'"

Thanks to Jamz for pointing me to National Review and Red State.

George W. Bush: Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

We know he meant that we never stop thinking of ways that the terrorists might try to hurt us.

John Kerry: [W]hen Mr. King gets dragged behind of a truck down in Texas by chains and his body is mutilated only because he's gay--I think that's a matter of rights in the United States of America.

Although Mr. King was the dragger and not the draggee, and Mr. Byrd was black and not gay, I guess we know what he meant too.