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Kerry getting prickly is interesting too since he didn't actually vote to confirm Petraeus -- he was a no-show on that vote. It would have been easy for him to say "I didn't vote for the man" and have it be the truth. Then again, JK is one of the biggest no-show senators we got.

As bad as Sen. sKerry is, there is a lot of evidence that there are shreds of decency lying mostly dormant beneath the opporunism. All the while he attacked President Bush's policy on Iraq, he quietly admitted that a precipitous withdrawal would be disaster (and some libs hated him for it).

I don't mean to imply he's a good guy, but he's better than some, and I think that explains his action in this case. Unlike Hillary, for example, he does care somewhat about the future of the country, even if he's a bit misguided and selfish.