Maybe It Sounded Better in French

This from today's "Political Diary" from the Wall Street Journal:

John Kerry showed up on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday to explain his infamous comment that he was in favor of an $87 billion appropriation for the troops he Iraq before he was against it. Mr. Kerry admitted to Ms. Sawyer the comment was "an inarticulate moment in the late evening when I was dead tired in the primaries."

The only problem with that explanation, as an e-mail from the Bush campaign pointed out, is that the statement was made at the noon hour: "Maybe he was on Paris time," the Republican missive snickered.