Yes, I am a very different Mudcat character than El Ted--but I think that Kerry is boring, as well. I don't want him to be boring, but he is--

Instead of emphasizing all the stuff listed above, I would like someone to teach him to speak in simple, declarative sentences--and to remember that, in order to survive on TV, you have to say things that the average 10 year old can understand. That is not a bad thing--I remember that there is scientific rule of thumb that goes, "If you can't explain it so a 10 year old understands it, you probably don't understand it yourself."

As to wanting to be president, Kerry needs to want to be president more than anything else, and who projects that to the voters. The truth of the matter is that the presidency always goes to the person who makes becoming president more important than anything else--no one wants a president who has other priorities--