High Hopes
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Days before the Democratic National Convention, John Kerry is looking
for victory in the battle of expectations
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Richard Wolffe
Newsweek
Updated: 2:06 p.m. ET July 22, 2004
July 22 - After four days of extreme sports and extreme speechwriting
on Nantucket, John Kerry embarked on his countdown to the Democratic
convention looking unusually unstressed. Maybe it was the time he
spent kiteboarding, a strange mixture of surfboarding and paragliding,
which Kerry chose to display to the TV cameras this week. It takes a
supreme kind of confidence to perform any kind of televised show of
physical skill as a presidential candidate, given the ample moments to
look downright foolish. Gary Bauer could barely manage a
pancake-flipping contest, and Michael Dukakis struggled to look
presidential riding in a tank. So why in the world would you want to
kiteboard in front of a camera?
Richard Wolffe
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