While I agree with your assessment of the Mara Liasson/Dan Rather response... I believe the real question at hand is "what did (John Kerry) know, and when did he know it"! Even the left-leaning Bob Woodward would come to the same conclusions! Either junior-Senator Kerry was completely complicit in the scandal... or, he was foolishly aloof of the operations of his own campaign. In both instances, he is painted into a very unflattering corner (right where he belongs!). I believe it is vitally important that the President's campaign use this prisim through which it illustrates the Kerry operation for the duration of the campaign.... repeat it, repeat it and repeat it again! Who would've thought that John Kerry could make Mike Dukakis look quite "manly" (and that's a picture I don't care to imagine)!