The only thing left for John Kerry to do is lick his comb.

[WilliamPitt]

80. Several times

He was my Senator for years. I interviewed him three times during the '04 campaign, and was at the big confab at Al Franken's house. That was incredibly ballsy; Kerry called in the editors and political writers from Time, Newsweek, the NY Times, the Washington Post, CNN etc, and held a three-hour on-the-record bullshit session about why his campaign was shitting the bed, and why he voted for the Iraq war. Arthur Schlessinger was there, fa chrissake. He took every punch, gave great answers, and basically changed the momentum of his campaign in an afternoon.

He never dumped on his campaign staffers that I could see (but there is a Heisenberg Principle involved there; he probably wouldn't be a dick in front of a reporter), and was a genuinely affable and loose guy...but that side of him never came through on TV. He was, and remains, awful on TV. In the modern era, that's a lethal flaw.

This guy I've been seeing lately with the bedslat face and drooping eye trying to explain how war isn't war? Never met him.