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Like in a scene from one of his horror novels, writer Stephen King channeled the spirit of John Kerry while addressing a group of high school students at the Library of Congress recently:

I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.

What mysterious and evil force compels liberals to morph into complete morons when they deliver speeches to students? John Kerry was clearly possessed by some sinister entity in 2006 when he was speaking to students at Pasadena City College. The Senator and former Democrat Party Presidential Candidate advised them:

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. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.

Sean Hackbarth is on top of these strange occurrences, quoting the Pentagon's Bill Carr via a link to Gateway Pundit:

In fact, military recruits are far better educated than the general youth population, Carr said. More than 90 percent of recruits have a high school diploma, compared to about 75 percent of the U.S. youth population.

That's an important issue to the military, Carr said, because a traditional high school diploma is the single best indicator of a recruit's stick-to-it-ness and likelihood of successfully adjusting to military service. Recruits with a high school diploma have a 70 percent probability of completing a three-year enlistment versus a 50 percent chance for nongraduates.

The military has exceeded the 90-percent benchmark for recruits with high school diplomas every year since 1983, Carr noted.

Silly me, I thought that everyone knew that the Army requires a high school diploma or equivalent (such as a GED) of its enlistees.

Class discussion: If a high scool graduate lacks reading skills, is it because his or her NEA teachers did too much social engineering and not enough teaching?

Literature Students: Find the irony in the left's hostility to our military due to a sense of elitism born of ignorance.

Extra credit: Diagram the sentences in the King and Kerry quotes.

- JP