[NYCVirago]

That humanizing moment then got a little cloying when Bush started talking about the Kerry and Bush daughters, but it was the kind of thing that can deepen precisely the sense that the president knows and cares about ordinary people.

Podhoretz missed the telling thing about this. After Bush said nice things about Kerry, all Kerry could say was that he'd chuckled at some of the twins' comments. Very condescending and rude.

[Helms]

that he'd chuckled at some of the twins' comments.

If ever a man cried out to be brought low it is Kerry. My guess is that he wa referring to the girls at the convention.