[SpinyNorman]

Democrats briefly considered continuing the concerts without Kerry present, but ultimately decided that it would be unthinkable even to have associates hobnobbing with Hollywood celebrities while the nation mourns a former president.

Unlike the Paul Wellstone funeral/laughathon, or the Ron Brown "come out of the plane laughing and instantly switch to "mourning mode" at the sight of cameras."

Funerals are a photo-op for dems.

[Steven W.]

Hanoi John French Kerry gave his good friend Kommandante Daniel Ortega a phone call over the weekend so lament the passing of Reagan so long after Communism itself was laid on the ash heap of history when they'd both tried so hard to leave a legacy of the Port of Managua as a Soviet nuclear submarine base and aircraft carrier turning basin on the western coast of the United States.