Abu Wabu

Via Power Line: He Who Cannot Run, And Why. Too bad; he was good for business.

UPDATE
Dean Barnett, writing at Hugh Hewitt's blog:

Yesterday saw the sorry spectacle of John Kerry tearing up on the floor of the Senate as he announced he would not seek the presidency in 2008. As Roger Simon pointed out, it’s worth asking who the tears were for. Certainly Kerry wasn’t crying about the death of a Kerry agenda. Beyond his personal ambitions, there has never been a Kerry agenda.

John Kerry was crying for himself and the dashing of those ambitions. What a pathetic display. As this sad man ended his national political career, he wallowed in self-pity because he wasn’t going to get what he wanted. Boston Globe columnist Scott Lehigh summarized Kerry’s personal tragedy this way:

AND SO the dream ends for John Kerry. He will never be president. For a man who has craved the job virtually his entire adult life, that's no doubt a crushing realization, the more so because of the way his ambitions died.

John Kerry’s farewell to his presidential ambitions was a perfectly splendid coda to his political career. The fact that he chose to cry tears of self-pity from the Senate floor because he would not achieve his dreams speaks eloquently to what drove him, what consumed him and where his priorities have always been.

Good riddance to one of the biggest phonies ever to land in D.C., and thank God he never got command of the ship.