Try as I might I just can’t get the images that Dana Stevens’s Slate article on John Kerry’s appearance last night on The Daily Show conjured up out of my head:
From the moment the senator appeared and sat down on the gray sofa where, just last week, Bill Clinton basked in the audience’s applause like a cat lapping up cream, Kerry’s charisma was less than zero: It was negative. He was a charm vacuum, forced to actually borrow mojo from audience members. He was a dessicated husk, a tin man who really didn’t have a heart. His lack of vibrancy, his utter dearth of sex appeal made Al Gore look like Charo.
As in the movie The Ring there’s only one thing to do: pass them on.
