Botched Travel Planning

The single worst job in the political universe right now is the media person for Senator John Kerry.

Because the Senator from Massachusetts, who was once a few hundred thousand Ohio votes away from the presidency, is, I kid you not, planning a trip to Iraq. Kerry intends to meet with the troops, and military and civilian leaders. And the media person (who is, in all likelihood, savvy enough to understand the impact of the recent gaffe) must be busy trying to plan a schedule where Kerry will meet as few actual troops as possible. All it will take is a crowd of average soldiers and a few journalists in the same location. There will be heckling, signs, and a incisive sarcastic response from the men and women in uniform, people who, despite the counter-spinning, feel like they were having their intelligence insulted by an arrogant, bitter politician who still (brace yourself for the punchline) thinks he might get elected in 2008.

It's almost too darkly funny. I'm sure they have tried to convince him not to go - but Kerry, of course, thinks that all of this was just a big flap invented by conspirators on the Right.