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kerryisms: The senator's caveats and curlicues.

Kerryism of the DayThe senator's caveats and curlicues.

By William Saletan
Posted Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at 1:12 PM ET
What did he say?

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

Question: But no regrets about those votes [for NAFTA and the China trade agreement]?

Kerry: 1Sure.

—Democratic presidential primary debate, Milwaukee, Feb. 15, 2004

[1] I regret the way that they haven't been enforced,

Verbatim:

I regret the way that they haven't been enforced, sure.

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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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