Two more on Kerry. Retired Boston Globe columnist David Nyhan has a good description in the Salem News of the Republican attack machine's stunningly successful effort to smear John Kerry for saying that favors a "regime change" in Washington.

And, in the New York Press, "Mugger" columnist Russ Smith attacks Kerry, lecturing that "he needs a tutor who can explain the difference between a standard political jab and a rhetorical time bomb." (Smith also pays tribute to the late Michael Kelly.)