Reply #4: I agree -

[sui generis]

Every time I hear Kerry it's the same gentlemanly indignation, and not real anger.

Kerry needs to do both - realizing two things:

1. some of your audience are the undecided braindead who probably won't vote anyway. Go ahead, pander to them. A little.

2. some of your audience are perma-pissed-off Dems with advanced rabies like me and the more you show you have real political cojones and can lead the more money and civic effort I will put behind you. I don't want a nice guy in office - you have a lot of crap to undo, and because if you play nice now, the rabid republicans are going to eat you alive. And every time we collectively take a shiner because we allow Republicans to define our issues for us, the last thing I want to realize is that it happened because we have someone who isn't aggressive enough to effectively define their issues for them.