John Kerry Rips Bush Speech He Didn't Even Watch

John Kerry is desperately trying to get some press, any press.  The failed presidential candidate has taken to furious Bush-bashing at every turn and was quick to criticize President Bush's speech from last Thursday night in a prepared statement. 

The president addressed the nation from Jackson Square in New Orleans, and delivered an ambitious plan and despite the price tag, had the right tone and pacing and it was a tremendous speech.

But John Kerry didn't like it.  So much so--he didn't even watch it.

John McCaslin of the Washington Times reports that Sen. John Kerry arrived at a crowded Cafe Milano in Georgetown, took off his suitcoat, and sat down to a shirt-sleeve dinner with three unidentified men.

"Senator Kerry's dinner lasted through the president's speech -- and due to his positioning at the table his back was to the bar television throughout the entire speech. He never turned around once during the address," a network news executive told "Inside the Beltway."
   
Lo and behold, when he was still seated at the table wiping squid from his chin, Mr. Kerry responded to the president's address with a statement of his own, issued at exactly 9:54 p.m.

Wiping squid from his chin?  John Kerry can't get out of his own way.  "Leadership isn't a speech or a toll-free number," the senator said in the statement. "Leadership is getting the job done."

Perhaps Kerry believes leadership is appearing haughty while eating and wearing squid in Georgetown.

Somewhere Hillary Clinton is smiling.

--News Analysis by CK Rairden.