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kerryisms: The senator's caveats and curlicues.

Kerryism of the DayThe senator's caveats and curlicues.

By William Saletan
Posted Friday, June 4, 2004, at 1:51 PM ET
What did he say?

(For instructions on how to read a Kerryism, click here.)

"I actually did vote for the $87 billion1."

—Huntington, W.Va., March 16, 2004 (on appropriations for Iraq)

[1] before I voted against it.

Kerry version:

"I actually did vote for the $87 billion—before I voted against it."

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William Saletan is Slate's national correspondent and author of Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War.
Photograph of John Kerry by Marc Serota/Reuters.
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