Where was he during the campaign?

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

After the election, two things happened that I found close to heartbreaking. One came at the point in Kerry's concession speech when he said, "I wish I could take each of you in my arms...." There was something so touchingly genuine about him at that moment that I couldn't help wishing that he had shown more of this side of himself during the campaign.

Another was when I read in Newsweek that, when it became clear that the lies in the Swift Boat ads were doing serious damage, Julia Thorne told her daughter Vanessa that...