John Kerry is only 3 1/2 years late

I have to admit, I didn’t expect reading a story about how President Musharraf says he will bow to the election results in Pakistan and go quietly was going to make me laugh out loud. But the Times just gave me the giggles by first enumerating how truly remarkable this is, then following up with this paragraph that contains the first quote in the story. Who did they choose to quote, you ask?

Mr. Musharraf was “accepting of the reality of the election,” Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, said in Islamabad, the capital, after he and two other American senators met with Mr. Musharraf. NY Times

Here’s what made me laugh: John Kerry telling us that a hated leader is about to leave office because of the “reality of the election.” And it’s only 3 1/2 year late.

It’s either that, or John Kerry is now the guy you quote when someone looses an election against all odds.