Wow. When the consummate old time Democratic insider David Broder has so many unflattering things to say about Kerry, it's pretty damning.

Reader Dennis wrote in to comment that, in his estimation, Kerry's defining weakness is an inability to accept responsibility -- even for something as trivial as a snowboarding wipeout, where he cursed at his Secret Service agent (in my view, a very revealing and quite unforgivable lapse. If someone is brave enough to be willing to take a bullet, it seems like they might deserve at least a modicum of respect from the person whose life they'd save).