No, this is not a crack about Kerry's recently acquired orange tint. (On second thought, I just can't resist: Maybe, in an effort to pander to Floridians, he's consumed too much orange juice. Perhaps while monkeying around in the NASA spacesuit over the summer he developed a Tang addiction. Maybe he's modeling a new Heinz ketchup color.)

I'll simply let today's OpinionJournal column from James Taranto explain:

John Kerry has a new explanation for why he voted to defund the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Associated Press reports:

Both Powerline and the far-left Daily Kos note that Kerry claimed to have made the comment in question "late in the evening." But the Washington Post reported at the time that it was during "a noontime appearance." Is Kerry lying, or is he just too confused to know what time it is? Neither answer inspires much confidence.

ADDENDUM: For what's worth (probably very little--remember you're getting it for free), I think the Kerry shares in the Iowa Electronic Markets rate a "buy" at their going rate of 30 cents. All sorts of things that might swing the election in Kerry's favor could still occur--a significant turn for the worse in Iraq, a terrorist attack, George Bush's syntax in the three debates ...