[anniegetyourgun]

"While other boys were eating TV dinners in front of the tube, [John] Kerry was discussing George Kennan's doctrine of containment."

Whoa.....that's all I need to hear. It also tells me Kerry has no compassion, and no moral sense outside of the expedient.

[Barset]

"While other boys were eating TV dinners in front of the tube..."

Is Evan Thomas writing from his own experience growing up, or is this his effete assumption about the squalid upbringing of "other" Americans, lumpen proles, serfs?

Bliss indeed.