In a release, MoveOn.org's Tom Matzzie writes that Sen. John Kerry's (D-MA) "proposal for Iraq is the sort of bold leadership America needs." MoveOn.org's "Political Action will mobilize its members" in the coming weeks to support Kerry's "deadlines for Iraq." Kerry's strategy "is how progress will be finalized in Iraq and how we'll be able to bring our troops home." The "public desperately wants leadership," and Kerry "has stepped forward and provided it" (4/6).

Kerry appeared on the "Situation Room" and "Hardball" last night and "Imus" this a.m.:

On the WH leak: "If it's true, it proves that the buck doesn't stop anywhere in this administration. It also proves that the president has a funny sense of having an investigation, when he says we're going to get to the bottom of it and I'll fire the person who authorized it, if he indeed authorized it. Kind of tricky. ... Evidently he's been looking for himself for the last two years. This is serious. If the president of the United States is authorizing the leaks of classified material in order to destroy people who oppose his point of view or go after them, then something is really unbelievably wrong with both their standards as well as the lack of accountability in this administration. And their word is now even less meaningless than it was a few hours ago" ("Hardball," MSNBC, 4/6).

More: "If it's true, it means that there is no accountability in this administration, the buck doesn't stop anywhere. It means you have a president of the United States who stood up in front of Americans and said, gee, we have to find out who did this, we're gonna have an investigation, if I find the person, I'll fire him. ... To the best of my knowledge, it's part of the same effort to discredit Joe Wilson and to credit illegitimate arguments for going to war in Iraq."

Asked if he supports the censure resolution: "I think the hearings are appropriate, and I would be prepared to vote for it, if there shows the appropriate linkage of what they've done to the requirements of the law."

Asked if he's running in '08: "I honestly don't know yet. It is too early. I am working mostly on the 2006 races. ... That's what I think we have to do, is win seats in the House and Senate, and I'm determined to try to help do it."

More: "I'll tell you this, I came within 60,000 votes [in 2004], I won 10 million more votes than Bill Clinton did for reelection, and we exceed our goals in every precinct in America. ... I'm proud of the campaign. We made some mistakes. I take responsibility for them. I know that if I ran again, I've learned a lot, I won't repeat those mistakes. I think I know how to win, but it is way too early to be getting into a head-to-head analysis and I'm just not going to do that" ("Situation Room," CNN, 4/6).

Asked if Bush is "being straight with the American people about WMD in Iraq": "No." Asked how serious it is: "It's about as serious as it gets."

On what needs to be done in Iraq: "Our administration ... is just diddling and fiddling around. ... A quick visit by the secretary of state is not sustained with deep diplomacy" ("Hardball," MSNBC, 4/6).

Asked about Gov. Mitt Romney (R): "I don't see him a lot. ... I liked this health care bill that passed. I think it's terrific. ... We really need to be doing that on the national level" ("Imus," MSNBC, 4/6).