"You know, I am not a liberal. Now is this session about over?I need to get me a hunting license, I'm a real man you know, just an ordinary guy."
"You know, I am not a liberal. Now is this session about over?***...At one point last winter, Kerry once said he could "dumb down" his language, speak more plainly, but he thought voters would sense the phoniness and punish him for it. So he has tried to connect in other ways. At two rallies in Wisconsin on Friday night, he went for empathy as he told the story of an out-of-work Ohio father who had said he had lost his pride by relying on others to buy his daughter a dress for her first homecoming dance. Voters also enthusiastically applaud his most optimistic lines, like "let America be America again" and "hope is on the way," but his public sense of humor -- about unemployed Elvises or Bush's middle initial standing for "wrong" -- often falls flat, if laughter is the measure.....***
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/10/17/kerry_takes_steps_to_unbutton_his_emotions/