Sen. Hillary Clinton, speaking at a Kingston campaign stop this morning, joined the chorus of Democrats criticizing Sen. John Kerry for what the former presidential candidate has called a joke gone awry.

“What Sen. Kerry said was inappropriate,” she said.

When asked if Kerry should apologize, as President Bush and other members of both parties have said, Clinton said “I heard he said he was sorry.” He has said he was sorry for the joke being botched, but has not apologized to our troops.

Clinton tried to deflect attention from the controversy by saying “elections are about the future,” and “we don’t have to be re-fighting the 2004 election, as much as President Bush would like that.”

I had asked which side of the issue she would be on here, I guess now we now. Both sides...