What Kerry needs to win II

[newdealer]

No one doubts that John Kerry is a principled, thoughtful, intelligent candidate, with a biography that seems too good to be true. If you read many of the more in-depth biographies, a story emerges not of a rich kid, spoiled, sent to the best schools to mix with the elite, In fact, quite a different picture emerges: son of a distant father who placed demanding expectations on the young Kerry. Nor was Kerry part of the elite. He was forced to follow his family around, and so was bounced from school to school, never being an elitist, but instead grew up with a seance of injustice as he watched his fellow school chums take for granted their wealth.

I've made this observation a number of times to this board, and it is, what I think, going to be the defining moment of Kerry's campaign. His "stiffness" is not because he lacks humor or warmth, he as that in abundance. But remember he grew up as a shy kid, and what I think he needs to inject into his persona is a sense of passion, unwavering conviction, and if need be, indignant and angry.

George W. has been tremendously successful because he comes off believing whole-heartedly in what ever he says; however true of false it is. Kerry needs to throw all of himself behind everything he says, everything he proposes. If he can do this, he will dwarf that little man from Midland.