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Derhhhh...

Is it just me, or does it seem like someone struck a nerve where John Kerry is concerned? I swear, if I were a Democrat, all the feelings of frustration that I developed for the Senator in 2004 because of his maladroit campaigning style would have resurfaced and intensified the past 24 hours.

I always use the lefty blogs as my leading indicator on these things. Allah thought Kerry’s very butch press release would put the Nutroots into a state of orgiastic pleasure that they usually reserve for one of Keith Olbermann “Special Comments”. Alas, to date we have only radio silence on the matter from the progressive blogging aristocracy including Markos Moulitsas, Glenn Greenwald (and his various alter egos), John Aravosis and that very gentlemanly blogger who calls himself Atrios.

Maybe it's because it's '06, not '04. But since you asked, I was over at Kerry's house earlier tonight trick-or-treating, and it appears from what he was telling the kids that this is all part of a new ad campaign to motivate our youth:

Kids, stop plagiarising term papers and drinking all night or else you might wind up President one day and make fools of yourselves.

The ads are scheduled to appear early Saturday mornings, immediately following the abstinence commercials, right around the time most kids are sleeping off their hangovers with last night's date next to them.