I Swear I'm Not Making This Up

As Dave Berry likes to write, “I swear I’m not making this up.”

Mr. Kerry stepped boldly into the verbal minefield early, arriving at a front-porch session with supporters in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. As he likes to do, he brandished a bit of local color to show he wasn't just any interloping politician blowing through town.

But in so doing he seemed to forget that Republicans have been tearing him down for months as a vacillating, indecisive, finger-in-the-wind politician of the worst order.

"Everybody told me, 'God, if you're coming to Canonsburg, you've got to find time to go to Toy's, and he'll take care of you,'" Mr. Kerry said, dropping the name of a restaurant his motorcade had passed on the way in. ‘I understand it's my kind of place, because you don't have to - you know, when they give you the menu, I'm always struggling: Ah, what do you want?

"He just gives you what he's got, right?" Mr. Kerry added, continuing steadily off a gangplank of his own making: "And you don't have to worry, it's whatever he's cooked up that day. And I think that's the way it ought to work, for confused people like me who can't make up our minds." [my slack-jawed emphasis]

The New York Times actually reported this, folks. The New York F’ing Times.

I just heard Sean Hannity warn against complacency, that this is going to be a tough, close, down-to-the-wire race, etc.

I guess the question is who has the tougher task, Hannity to keep GOP feet on the ground, or Kerry trying not to step on any more rhetorical rakes.