If I were a cynical person, I might say that the New York Times saved the previously-reported “missing explosives” story until a week before the election to hurt the President politically. [sarcasm] But then I said: “Not the New York Times!” [/sarcasm]

Update: Kerry’s pamphleteer – “At this point it is scandalous that the "newspaper of record" pretends to be anything other than the daily Kerry campaign talking-points memo.”