Please, No More Foreign Endorsements

Gee, just as those secret endorsements were starting to roll in, John Kerry has asked that they stop. He had already scored a Stalinist dictator, a socialist appeaser, and a vehement anti-Semitic former prime minister of Malaysia.

Now, he'd rather they stopped.

John F. Kerry's campaign is trying to wave surrender on the great controversy over his claim that more foreign leaders secretly back his candidacy than President Bush. Campaign aides last week said he is neither seeking foreign endorsements, nor will he accept them.

"This election will be decided by the American people, and the American people alone," Rand Beers, a Kerry foreign policy adviser, said in a statement. "It is simply not appropriate for any foreign leader to endorse a candidate in America's presidential election. John Kerry does not seek, and will not accept, any such endorsements."