In a moving endorsement of Kerry, the NYT editors write the following today:

We look back on the past four years with hearts nearly breaking, both for the lives unnecessarily lost and for the opportunities so casually wasted. Time and again, history invited George W. Bush to play a heroic role, and time and again he chose the wrong course. We believe that with John Kerry as president, the nation will do better.

How can it be that anyone would still believe otherwise?

(*see “forty-second street pre-election diary” post, September 22, for explanation of post title)