Worse than his looks, did you notice that Kerry was purposely dropping the g from his ing to sound more colloquial and not so stilted?
F'n also used "folks" a few times in an effort to relate to "the little people".
I have to add that Kerry was trying to sound more colloquial while his step son, Hunter Heinz was here in Bellingham, yesterday, sounding more stilted and affected than John Kerry. It made me laugh to think that a young man from the coal regions of PA was sounding like a phoney Englishman.