Reply #125: You are repeating Kerry's biggest character flaw... [View All]

He doesn't seem to get that not everyone sees things in the same way or is motivated by the same things. With your statement, "If you had, you couldn't say this." you prove my point about it being a common affliction by adopting the same attitude. I did see it, and was unmoved.

Let me just see if I can sum up my feelings on Kerry in blunt terms:

Kerry gives his opponents ammunition to call him detached and aloof because he IS detached and aloof. He is as passionate about his beliefs as a college professor is about their particular concentration of study, that is to say, very. However he is possessed of a singular passion for his beliefs and opinions himself, like the college prof, he does not have a gift for imparting that passion onto students, maybe because he believes its draw to be obvious. The facts speak for themselves? Um, rarely. It takes a bit of raconteurship to persuade, as it also requires personalization of the argument. He avoids both like the plague.