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1. In what is practically a daily ritual of insanity, John Kerry did yet another interview with the Boston Globe , and the Sunday Mike Kranish story that it yielded is one of the richest anyone has produced on any of the candidates this election cycle Ñ in the inside baseball category. LINK
If you are interested in this race and/or the Kerry campaign and you don't read it in full, you are basically saying you have no respect for The Note's judgment.
But since we know that description fits many of you, here are the highlights:
A. Kerry trashes his staff for not implementing his visionary lead on the Internet.
B. Kerry seems to go back on the notion that he won't make staff changes.
C. Kerry trashes (implicitly) Chris Lehane, for issuing an announcement-day press release in Kerry's name, which, the candidate now says contained words that "weren't precisely my words. They were the words of the press release sent out."
D. Kerry seems to blame Dean's rise and his fall on Dean's advertising jump (not on, say, not having a message).
E. Kerry promises to let the Boston kitchen cabinet have more of a say in things (a recipe for É É ..).
F. Kerry says Dean will raise twice what he himself raises this quarter (We think he might live to regret that expectation setting É ).
G. Kerry has to suffer the indignity of long-time supporter Jerome Grossman panning his Iraq position (We admit we failed to notice that Kerry unveiled yet another new justification of his pro-war votes in Baltimore É .), with Grossman saying wild and crazy things.
H. Kerry, sitting with campaign manager Jim Jordan during the interview, doesn't really deal with his having repudiated Jordan's attacks on Dean, while Kerry makes tougher ones himself.
I. Kranish reports that some of Jordan's troops threatened to quit if Jordan was sacked.
J. Kranish reports on the remarkable history of the Kerry blog.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html