ON TODAY’S Good Morning America, John Kerry defended his “I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it,” comment: “It just was a very inarticulate way of saying something, and I had one of those inarticulate moments late in the evening when I was dead tired in the primaries and I didn’t say something very clearly.”

The problem: According to the March 17 Washington Post, Kerry made the comment at a noontime appearance at Marshall University, two weeks after the Democratic primary contest had ended.