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Good to hear, but why today? Can't Kerry get his reactions into the same news cycle as events?

"Last night ... it was reported that in the Oval Office discussion around whether to invade Iraq that the president, the vice president (Dick Cheney), the secretary of defense (Donald Rumsfeld) made a deal with Saudi Arabia that would deliver lower gas prices," Kerry told a town hall meeting in Lake Worth.

"But here's the catch," he said. "The American people would have to wait until the election, until November of 2004."
(via Reuters)

So what's Kerry's point? That's how the Medicare benefit works, right?

Journalist Bob Woodward, author of a new book titled, "Plan of Attack," also said in a CBS' "60 Minutes" interview that Bush gave national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Cheney and Rumsfeld permission to tell Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan of his decision to go to war in Iraq before informing Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Poor old Colin Powell. It's sad, isn't it? Wouldn't it be simpler just to make Prince Bandar Secretary of State?

"Now, if this sounds wrong to you, that's because it is fundamentally wrong and if what Bob Woodward reports is true -- that gas supplies and prices in America are tied to the American election, then tied to a secret White House deal -- that is outrageous and unacceptable," Kerry said.

And hey, it looks like the "outrage" meme is starting to get some traction!

Good news, because outrage is really the only appropriate reaction to 9/10—OK, I'm too warm and generous—of what Bush does.

We may have outrage fatigue (back), but compared to the swing voters, we're fashion forward ... (back)