kiss of death?

News today is that John Kerry has endorsed Barack Obama's candidacy for president. What a prince of a fellow, essentially declaring in the most public possible manner that his running mate of four years ago, who he must have thought at the time was good enough to be the leader of the country if President Kerry was disabled or dead, is evidently not good enough for him today. If I were Hillary Clinton's campaign adviser, I would be turning cartwheels.