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/p> p> Spot on, Mr. Tyrrell. Indeed a psychiatrist would offer fascinating insights into the minds of Jean-Francois and his ilk. However, your premise does give short shrift to the hard core political junkies/ hacks that invariably flock to these people. I believe, as you know all to well, that D.C. is full of such sycophants. I submit that Kerry's remarkable hubris in his transformation from war "hero" to war protester and 30 years hence back to war "hero" was not so much the product of fleeting sanity, but rather the machinations and calculations that cynical, dishonest and amoral, take no prisoners, political staffers love to produce. Kerry and his acolytes, like many in Washington, subscribe to a version of the famous aphorism, to wit; "While you can't fool all of the people all of the time, you can fool some of the people ALL of the time." Given the election results of 2004 and the current political sophistry produced by the left, I believe I'm safe in resting my case on the legal concept, Res ipsa loquitur . (It speaks for itself.) Or, more along your premise, as Freud once said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." br> -- A. DiPentima /p> p> I am still waiting for Kerry to release all his "war" records. After all he said he would, but that has been a couple of years and so far nothing. Don't anyone hold their breath, just seems if what he has said was true the records would have been released first thing. The only think Kerry is good at is marrying rich women. br> -- Elaine Kyle br> Cut & Shoot, Texas /p>

One has only to read Evan Thomas's ELECTION 2004, an account of how he and the Newsweek staffers lap-dogged it around the country licking Kerry's boots, to confirm their suspicions that John Kerry has a serious psychosis.

I am not sure that Thomas meant to, but his "inside insights" into Kerry's foibles indicate an insecure, disturbed human being. From Kerry's tantrum over someone losing his hairbrush to giving unshirted hell to the guy who "caused" him to fall on a ski slope, to the final pathetic ending, where after a post-election interview at his Beacon Hill home in Boston, he followed the reporter down the street, holding a letter "that had just been left on his doorstep" -- purportedly written by a schoolgirl -- which read, in part, "John Kerry, you're the greatest!" This to buttress his claim that he was, indeed, liked. Following a reporter down the street with a missive such as that? What psychiatrist would not have a field day analyzing that pitiful gesture? Brings to mind Sally Field, accepting her Academy Award with "You like me, you really like me!"

And this was the man who was constantly asking, "What am I doing, even having to debate this guy?" Well, trying to get elected, John.

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