Kathryn: Remember that I heard this debate on radio, so all the body language was lost to me.
I think Kerry is always better spoken, and often had more details at his command. Sometimes they didn’t in fact amount to much (Sen. Hagel, I’m sure, is a worthy man, but I don’t care what he thinks about anything), yet they reported for duty all the same.
His weaknesses are pomposity—which showed once, in the Chris Reeve my friend line; and evasive generality–which showed in the fed $ for abortion answer, and in his constant reference to his plans for this or that, which is why I have been blogging Lewis Carroll’s “For I was thinking of a plan/To dye my whiskers green…”