Why is John Kerry a sad case? Let me count the ways.
Language is thought. Kerry cannot speak in simple declarative sentences because he cannot think in simple declarative sentences. He is not as good at dissembling as Bill Clinton is but it is not for lack of trying.
He has odd disjointed gestures that he once saw in a grainy black and white newsreel of Jack Kennedy 44 years ago and he decided to copy them as if they were his.
He windsurfs and goes skeet shooting and paints both of his faces with Botox and orange Man Tan to disguise the age issue--the fact that he would be at 61 the fifth oldest president if inaugurated and his wife would be the oldest First Lady ever.
He defended his gratuitous remarks about Mary Cheney by saying he respected the Cheney family for loving their daughter. If that is not patronizing what is?
Suppose that Bob Schieffer asked a question about how the high divorce rate in America destroys families and Bush gratuitously turned to Kerry to say, "Gee I think it is great how Sen. Kerry keeps in touch with his first wife and I am sure she does not resent the fact that he married again after receiving the Catholic sacrament of matrimony once and moved on to a new life with a very rich widow of a former colleague." Its called damning with faint praise and Kerry knew what he was doing. Kerry learned from the master demagogue in America, Ted Kennedy, and he has been a good student of that old patron saint of Left Wing buffoons.
Brilliantly put.