Written by: Beck

You remember the Saturday Night Life skit, right?

Anyway, the Kerry campaign, not to be mistaken for the Not-Ready-for-Primetime Players despite numerous similarities, have engaged in a vicious... letter delivery. Things have reached such a level of high farce that I just have to laugh, despite how sad it all is.

I wonder how the strategy session went. I mean, at some point, someone actually said, "Hey, let's try to make Bush look bad by writing a nasty letter to him demanding he stop being such a rat bastard. We can have that one armed guy deliver it personally." And then someone presumably said, "Hey, that's a great idea. Let's go with that."

Sadly, Cleland was unable to accomplish his mission--which was presumably anticipated--so instead he just put on an entertaining show for the gathered media. They just love his Adam Sandler homage, "I'm Crazy One-limbed Veteran Man, now won't you give me some candy?" routine.

Patterson said Bush had asked him to accept the letter from Cleland. But the Georgia Democrat refused to hand it over. Instead, he said he wanted to deliver the letter personally to Bush or, barring that, to a member of the Secret Service. When he succeeded at neither, Cleland took the message to the news media.

"These scurrilous attacks on John Kerry's credibility in war, courage and valor are false and George Bush is behind it," he said. "That's why I tried to deliver a letter to the president's home and hand it either to him or one of his aides."

The letter was signed by nine members of the U.S. Senate, all of them veterans, including a Medal of Honor recipient.

The full text of the letter can be found here.

Update: Evidently I'm not the only one who finds this entire pathetic episode vastly entertaining. More laugh-until-you-cry-until-you-laugh-again material here, here, here, here, and here. For a more serious take on the whole matter, see Soxblog.