believe he has corrected the record to say it was some place near Cambodia he is not certain whether it was in Cambodia...

But he previously had the "seared" memory of being five miles across the Cambodian border.

Pretty exact statement for someone who had a "mistaken recollection."

I like the corrected title. It doesn't quite match up with your uncertainty principle analogy, but it sounds much better.

It also occurs to me that since Kerry wasn't actually in Cambodia, whichever President--Johnson, Nixon, Bush(?)--who denied he was there was, well, telling the truth.

"resume-paddingly alleged"

Ha!

I like the quantum Kerry explication too. It fits. The more closely you examine him, the more he changes.

Oh, yeah. Does nuanced mean liar in French or Latin or something?

I love the Heisenberg/Kerry principle. LOL funny.
That's why I come through this space often...
Keep it going

Sorry to revisit the 'he's stoopid' political meme that we are all tired of, but Kerry is an idiot.

Telling complete falsehoods during a presidential campaign. Not just lying about how something happened, but making shit up from whole cloth.

When he drops one of these whoppers, do his aides smack themselves upside the head, as they should?

And then his complete inability to pull an Al Gore (also a prolific liar on the campaign trail) and claim to be misquoted, or say 'I exaggerated,' or reconcile what he said with something mildly truthful mumbled out the side of his mouth.

Sigh.
Anybody But Bush??? Are you sure about that wish, loonie-moonies? Because if anybody's STOOPID, its your boy, not ours.

I'd prefer an anology to the Pauli exclusion principle because it's easier to work in the concept of spin (and to use the name Wolfgang without irony, truth be told).

In any case, I wanna be there when JeffinK's wave function finally collapses.

Hey MSM, open the damn box already.

I agree with Laura that there's more evidence Kerry isn't the deep-thinking intellectual than that he is.

I mean, it's not obvious to me that his intellect is vastly superior to Bush's.

Oh my! Sounds a lot like Schroedinger's cat. You never know if it's alive 'til you open the box.

What an awesome title for a post! The half-life of the "war hero" meme....does it decay before we open the ballot box?

On some planet earth somewhere in the multiverse, Kerry actually did cross into Cambodia. He probably just switched places with the alternate John Kerry in an terrible quantum-level accident in Al Gore's lab during the development of the internet.

Evan over at Brain Terminal posted this analogy a while back. Not that I'm accusing you of stealing ideas, Wonkace.

By jove Ace! I think you've managed to finally hit on the reason that Kerry is able to take all sides of every issue! He is living proof of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle! At every point where we mere mortals have to choose one reality and stick with it, John Frickin' Kerry can actually spin off multiple universes with each nuance of position he takes! He was both in Cambodia AND in Sa Dec on Christmass eve 1968. He was getting shot at by friendly troops AND by the as yet barely extant Khmer Rouge at the same time. His memory was seared, seared mind you, by Nixon lying about troops in Cambodia AND his brain was baked by good pot and bad acid. He dumped Rassman in the water by gunning his boat in panic when he heard the mine AND picked him up under fire during a silver star winning performance of courage. See, it's not about what the meaning of "in" is, it's about whether you are viewing him as a particle or a wave form. And I think that distinction depends on whether you are drinking a vodka martini while grilling eggplant and veal or washing down peote with Mescal and piclked worms.

The quantum foam of Kerry's brain is made up of tiny bits of string vibrating in 11 dimensions. The tiny, curled up, extra dimensions are what allowed the Kerry probability wave to exist in Cambodia when he was clearly not. You people have got to stop thinking in three dimensions. The during Christmas part also confuses many Republicans that think of time as a linear function, myself included. We must remember that space-time is relative to the observer's position and velocity.

Dammit, you're right. That's how he was able to know that Nixon would lie about Cambodia 3 years before he actually did so in our own space-time continum. He's not just a walking, talking worm, he's a walking, talking worm hole! Think of the benefits of having a president with prescient vision though. The Dems are really dropping the ball not using this information in their strategy.

(slaps forehead with a roast beef sandwich)

OYVIN!!!

Killed another thread. Yessss

Carving another notch on my mousepad.

Stretching the analogy a litle further

The uncertainty principle doesn't state that you can not absolutely pin down the position of a particle

But that if you do find it's exact position you would not be able to measure its momentum

which in laymans terms means you won't know where it's coming from or going to

Schroedinger's Plan: You can't see it until he opens the box after November.

Although you cannot simultaneously know the position and direction of the Kerry Particle, nonetheless its wave function has local maxima in the near vicinity of the Francium nucleus and Martha's Vineyard. Wendy's, on the other hand, is definitely a local minimum.

Science. BAH!

I'm with you, LauraW. Who needs science, when you have emotion?