Hi Nerd,

Glad we can agree on something.

There is always something we can't know about elected officials. We are somewhat ignorant about all of them.

I agree that the media will paint all kinds of pictures of the candidates.

I believe that Kerry can be very articulate about his wartime. He has obviously done some work on himself so that he is no longer a victim of post-trauma. I don't think Kerry will appear to anyone to be a nut. He's come too far and has been successful.

Nothing surprises me anymore. It's really hard to know all we need to know about any candidate so we really have to go on what information we receive and trust our own instincts about how we see the candidate's performances. A lot of what we decide might rest on our feelings about the candidate rather than having all the facts at our disposal.

Frank