John Kerry is simply not paying attention.
As his aides confirmed this week to Reuters, the Most Liberal Member of the United States Senate did not read the intelligence report preceding the vote on the War for Iraq.
Senator John Kerry, whose campaign demanded to know on Wednesday whether President Bush had read a crucial intelligence assessment on Iraq, did not read the document himself before voting to give the president the authority to go to war[...]
Then, last week, Kerry told Larry King that he had not "had time" to be debriefed by the Homeland Security Department on the spate of new terror threats that has gotten plenty of bi-partisan attention from those members of the Senate Intelligence Committee who want to know.
So uninterested is Kerry in the subject of terrorism - and, by extension, in protecting Americans from potential disaster - that, he disclosed on the Larry King show, he hadn't "had time" to receive the private briefing offered to him by Homeland Security Secretary Ridge. But he obviously had time to appear on a fluff TV show and attend an orgy of Democratic Bush-bashing at Radio City Music Hall.
Couple this with the absolutely appalling number of votes the Senator has missed this year, and what you have is a guy who's not paying attention. If he had the character of a man like Bob Dole, Kerry would resign his seat and give the citizens of Massachusetts a full-time voice in the Senate.