Great picture, eh?

John Kerry wouldn't think so. In fact this picture represents the end of his presidential hopes. One can never contemplate John Kerry as command-in-chief without thinking about this picture.

You know who does think its a great picture? Hillary Clinton.

First Mark Warner, now John Kerry. Like Alexander, she's killing all the rival princes to leave the succession a clear field.

UPDATE: Cheney twists the knife

UPDATE: Silent Bob has nixed an appearance with Kerry in Philadelphia.

UPDATE: Claire McCaskill joins the choir.

UPDATE: Hillary Clinton speaks and says nothing.

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.

Asked if Kerry should apologize, President Bush and other members of both parties have said, Clinton said “I heard he said he was sorry.”
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.”

Aside from her highness' command that we only discuss the topics she personally favors, what does it mean to say something was "inappropriate"? Does that mean "OK to think, but not to express in public?" Woefully inadequate IMO.

UPDATE: Gov. Janet Napolitano, Bob Menendez, and a host of others, have condemned Kerry's remarks.

Kerry has a new statement.

As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop.

I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended.

It is clear the Republican Party would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy. I don’t want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues. I will continue to fight for a change of course to provide real security for our country, and a winning strategy for our troops.

Read carefully what this asshole is saying here--I regret that you were to stupid to understand the nuance of what I was trying to say and by the way--its Bush's fault. Well, I am one of those family members he's apologizing to and this is just not working for me. Kerry just doesn't have it in him to rehabilitate himself political, so he might as well resign. Michael Barone noted yesterday on a panel discussion, that his advice to Kerry at the beginning of the 2004 campaign, would have been to have held a press conference and apologized for everything from the Winter Soldier affair to the current day.

That was good advice not taken, and now its far, far too late.

Some interesting comments by Tom Maquire

Dana Milbank blames the sorcerer.