Peggy Noonan on the two JFK's:

JFK was an interesting man, privately complicated and publicly merry. When his motorcade went by in 1960, women--especially nuns, I once read--couldn't help themselves; they jumped up and down in excitement. The Kennedy campaign called them the jumpers. Mr. Kerry on the other hand--well, no one jumps for him.
I didn't think a man with a face that anguished would make it this far. I mean without other qualities that overwhelm and even counter the message of the face, which is: I suffer from mild clinical depression, do you?

Mr. Kerry also has me pondering the now-uneasy relationship of Democrats and class. JFK was a millionaire's son and all the happier for it. He benefited from it. To be a millionaire in those days was strange and glamorous. And he'd been to Harvard. An Irish Catholic who'd gone to Harvard: Go Jack. Mr. Kerry has used his wealth to get ahead but it does not work as a plus for him. Wealth doesn't have the patina it used to for Democrats.

He can't play regular guy, he's clearly not a regular guy. He seems very much like a man who keeps a secret stash of Grey Poupon. This was said of George Bush the elder but seems more true of Kerry.