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This is not what the Kerry campaign, or the DNC in general, needs in the middle of a hotly contested Presidential election.

Boston Herald - Mayor Thomas M. Menino unloaded a searing attack on fellow Democrat John F. Kerry yesterday, calling his presidential campaign "small-minded'' and "incompetent'' - laying bare a years-old rift weeks before the city plays host to Kerry's FleetCenter coronation.

Menino, in an exclusive Herald interview, let loose on the hometown senator two days after Kerry snubbed him by siding with union picketers outside a U.S. Conference of Mayors event.

"Maybe they should use some of their energies to get their message across to the American people instead of trying to destroy the integrity of someone who is on their team, to try to discredit someone on their team,'' Menino said. "They have better things to do.''

But, in a move that might only intensify the public war of words, the Kerry campaign responded by suggesting Menino made the comments because of the "pressure'' he's under as convention host.

I think the Kerry campaign is in more trouble than recent polls have indicated. The economy is booming and the hand over of control in Iraq to the new Iraqi government went smoothly. To voters, Bush is looking like a superbly confident leader while Kerry can't even get everybody in his own party on his side.