A late comment on Kerry's Daily Show appearance

I came across this live-blog post by Athenae at first-draft.com, and wanted to share it.

If you're a Daily Show fan, a Jon Stewart fan, or a John Kerry fan you should go read the whole post. But I thought this observation in particular was brilliant:

And ... to screams of delight from the audience, we're now on to commercials. Look. I think he did well. I don't think he changed minds because there aren't many out there to be changed. But I do think he was himself, which is really, really smart. He could have fallen all over himself trying to look hip and genial, and he didn't. He's deeply comfortable in his own skin, and I'm starting to think that maybe the fact that not everybody is comfortable with him is a failure to appreciate on our part, rather than a failure to communicate on his.

Indeed.