John Kerry’s penned an op-ed in today’s Times called “The Speech the President Should Give”, offering Bush a helpful outline for how tonight’s Iraq address should be structured. What’s not mentioned anywhere is that this is exactly the speech John Kerry should’ve been giving during the election, over and over again, rather than continuing with his equivocations over whether we should’ve entered the country. A good read worth filing in the “What Might Have Been” category, I guess.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.