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On the Offensive

The "hopey-changey stuff" gives way to the politics of insult.

"How's that hopey-changey stuff workin' out for ya?" Sarah Palin famously asked last winter. It was intended as a rhetorical question, but as the Boston Herald reports, everyone's favorite hopey, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat who by the way served in Vietnam has an answer:

A testy U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry [Friday] blamed clueless voters with short attention spans for the uphill battle beleaguered Democrats are facing against Republicans across the nation. "We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than...