The Boston Globe wins the award for the most painfully ironic title of the day:  "Democratic leaders offer a national security plan." You don't say? I guess coming up with something four years after being attacked by Islamic fundamentalists is better than nothing.

Award for the most painfully ironic quote goes to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who presented the Dems' new national security initiative by announcing, ''The Democrats are basically supportive of the troops." (emphasis mine).

Finally, the award for the most painfully clueless former Presidential nominee goes to John Kerry, who demonstrated again yesterday why he lost the 2004 election and why he doesn't have a prayer in 2008:

''History will judge the invasion of Iraq as one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time," he [Kerry] said.

But later, during a question and answer session, Kerry resisted comparisons to the Vietnam War, and said he told US troops in Iraq that ''their cause is noble" in risking their lives as Iraq stumbles toward democracy.

 Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.....