I don’t know about you, but I thought the original joke was pretty funny:

[John] Kerry’s office said … he had intended to say, “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. Just ask President Bush.”
—article

Too bad he messed it up.

But at least he apologized for the messed up part of it. (I read an article about an hour ago where he wouldn’t apologize.)

I’m running a bit too late to really write what I think about it. Plus I didn’t get enough sleep and my head is at that stage right before I might possibly get a headache if I make a wrong move.