Can anyone look upon the fading figure of John Kerry without feeling a sense of pity as for a man who’s lost his family and home? His serious face, always looking a bit pained with concern, now expresses a sad displeasure for life itself. To make matters worse, Howard Dean, the child politician – childlike in size, bearing, countenance, temperament, mentality, and world view – has not only stolen Kerry’s media-given title of Man to Beat, he has now taken Kerry’s Biblical allusion: Job.

Imagine the insult Kerry must feel when Dean declares,