In the careful crafting of public image, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has worked overtime portraying himself as a macho man. There have been photographs of the senator looking lean and toned in a wet suit. He has been immortalized wearing the daredevil attire of snowboarders. He has tooled along the campaign trail in a beaten-up motorcycle jacket. He paraded before the cameras in a barn jacket and toting a shotgun. On the tarmac, he tosses footballs in a shirt and tie, suggesting that the uniform of the civilized Western man can barely contain his inner athlete. And every five...