Kerry Spot    [ jim geraghty reporting ]
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There's not much more that can be said about this. Over the course of the campaign, Teresa Heinz Kerry has claimed that someone sent out a bogus bad cookie recipie in her name. John Kerry has claimed that his secret service agent knocked him down on the ski slope. The Kerry campaign has claimed that NASA leaked the "bunny suit" photograph.

When asked about his oft-repeated attacks on "Benedict Arnold CEOs" by the Wall Street Journal, Kerry said "overzealous speechwriters" were responsible for the line. Kerry claims he was misled into war and what voting for the Iraq resolution meant. And when he threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park last week, he said he "held back" and "tried to lob it gently" out of concern for the National Guard soldier and Iraq veteran who was standing in as catcher.

There is an odd pattern here of an inability to say, even in mundane circumstances, "yeah, I messed up."

[Posted 08/02 09:03 AM]