Flak attack

Thomas Menino, Mayor of Boston, is as much a dyed-in-the-wool drinkin'-the-Kool-Aid Democrat as Hillary Clinton or the late Tip O'Neill. So it means something when Mr. Menino slams John Kerry and the Kerry campaign for kowtowing to an illegal union strike and refusing to cross a picket line to deliver a speech he had been scheduled to give to the US Conference of Mayors. What's even better -- Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (a Republican) stepped in and delivered a speech in Kerry's place.