Kiss of Death?

Never let it be said Shortshanks couldn't read the direction the wind was blowing:

• Mayor Richard Daley said today he won't be endorsing anyone running in the Democratic Feb. 2 primary contests because he's too busy to worry about elections --- and besides, political endorsements don't matter much any more.
  

  "If I do endorse, you'll say 'Boss Daley does this,' you guys will spin that," Daley told reporters after a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the renovated CTA Brown Line station on Fullerton Avenue in Lincoln Park. "In this day and age it's completely different, it's a completely different environment in politics, I'll be very frank. Endorsements don't mean as much as they used to mean in the past."

Especially when your approval rating is hovering around 30%, right Richie?