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And I’ll say it again. Josh Marshall has a way with words.

President Bush's new line of attack is that John Kerry is a man of few achievements.

But coming from George W. Bush? A guy whose handlers had to get some of the more gullible run of journalists to refer to his life before he turned forty as his 'lost years'?

I mean, even if you grant that Bush's presidency has been a tenure of transcendent achievement (and it has undoubtedly been eventful), it's a bit hard to get around the fact that even by his own account he spent his first five decades kicking back, living off family connections and playing solitaire.

It's certainly true that Mr. Kerry said certain things in his war protestor days that can now be used against him. But until he was well into middle-age President Bush's most noteworthy public utterances seem to have been limited to various invocations and inflections of the word 'par-TAY' and reciting the alphabet under legal compulsion.

Nearly showered my monitor with Mountain Dew after reading that last line.