John Kerry has missed more Senate votes this session than he's made.

After Kerry blew-off the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in
Boston earlier this week, Menino was quoted as saying of Kerry's
refusal to appear and subsequent actions, "This is typical of small-
minded individuals who have to create controversy."

John Kerry has taken some flack over the absence of African
Americans among his top campaign advisors and a "certain amount
of awkwardness," was reported during his speech at Jesse Jackson's
Rainbow/PUSH event Tuesday. Jackson had earlier been quoted
describing Kerry as "the best we have to work with."

"When he was running for Lieutenant Governor in 1982, John Kerry
campaigned against planning for state evacuation in the event of a
nuclear attack. He actually ran a radio ad saying, 'Someone has to
stand up and say 'no' to this madness.'"

During a Democrat fundraiser in San Francisco Monday, Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton told the audience. "We're going to take things away
from you on behalf of the common good."