Kerry On

Despite receiving more votes for President than anyone in history except perhaps for G.W. Bush, John Kerry apparently was not significant enough to be named among Time Magazine's 100 most influential Americans.

Perhaps that's why a claim that he had made a single speech that may have violated campaign laws was immediately investigated, while a prior claim that Condi Rice (undoubtedly one of the 100) had made a whole string of political speeches late in the Bush campaign, unprecedented for a National Security Advisor, all paid for by taxpayers, was not investigated by the supposedly nonpartisan government panel, which incidentially is under fire for dumping professionals and promoting GOPer partisans. Whatever the reason, Senator John Conyers wants to find out.

Meanwhile, Kerry's outrageous charge that the Bushies had Osama bin Laden cornered at Tora Bora in 2001 but lost him when they "outsourced" the job to Afghan warlords, has been supported by a German intelligence official, who says that bin Laden escaped by bribing the Afhghans.

FRIDAY UPDATE: We might also mention that while a soldier in Iraq was killed recently because his post didn't have sufficient sand bags---yes, sand bag shortages--Senator Kerry got a couple of bills passed through the GOPer Congress increasing benefits for soliders and their families at home.

And while we're more or less channeling 11/04, allow us to announce that from election day to this day, here are the number of hours we have spent watching or reading the following:
Fox News 0
MSNBC 0
CNN 0
Time Magazine 0
network news 0
Wall St Journal 0
"reality shows" on network, cable or Mr. In Between: 0
[margin of error = + or- 0.1]