The NY Times Caucus blog reports that Bob Kerrey likes Obama more than Clinton (and Clinton has a bigger brain than Obama):

Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was candid about his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, despite what he admitted was an affinity for Barack Obama’s less doctrinaire politics. This was at a breakfast with some fellow-transplanted Cornhuskers (two of us, to be precise). “Even before John Edwards was chasing ambulances in North Carolina and Barack was voting ‘present’ in the Illinois state senate,” Senator Clinton was involved in major policy initiatives, he said. He cited her history as a pioneer of children’s rights issues and her work on the Congressional Watergate hearings. He also contended that she possessed a superior mental Rolodex to Senator Obama’s should the time come to make hundreds of national-security political appointments. But discussing the importance American voters place on a candidate’s personal likability, Mr. Kerrey said: “If you’re talking about having somebody in your living room every day for four years — on the television — people are going to have to like listening to them. In that category, I like Obama better.”

Here is Kerrey’s dramatic response, via the comments section of the blog:

Eric Konigsberg joined myself and another Nebraskan for breakfast to talk about our home state. This conversation was private. He gave no indication that he was there as a reporter or that what I said was going to be blogged. What he is doing lowers the journalistic bar for the NY Times to the gutter. This posting should be removed. It was garnered under the falsest of pretense. And to you Eric: You betrayed me for a cheap story. It makes me sick to my stomach to think I trusted you. I certainly will never do so again.
Eric Konigsberg responds: I appreciated Mr. Kerrey’s candor during our breakfast, but I’m surprised at his reaction to what I wrote. After he made what sounded to me like a plainspoken and fairly innocuous assessment of the relative merits of Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama as candidates (and his computerized “match” with Mr. Kucinich), I asked how he felt about my writing up the conversation for the Times. He said he had no problem with it.
— Posted by Bob Kerrey