Excellent Boston Globe oped on Kerry and Israel/Palestine

[karynnj]

2. He really is

It reminds me of the what Alexandra Kerry said in her personal. beautiful convention speech.

To every little girl her father is a hero. It’s taken some getting used to, that my father actually is one. And not just in the obvious ways. Because he likes to listen as much as he likes to talk; because he’s studious in the way someone is when everything in the whole world interests them; because he leads by example; because he trusts people with the truth and doesn’t pander or play to our baser instincts.

And let me tell you this, when he loves you as he loves me and my sister and his family, as he loves the men who fought beside him there is no sacrifice too great. When he cares for you, as he cares for this country, there are no surer hands, and no wiser heart.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/politics/campaign/29TEXT-ALEXANDRA.html

I followed John Kerry more AFTER the election than anyone else. Over the last decade, the more I have read of him, the more dead on his daughter's words seem. In 2004, I paid more attention to to wonderful story of him rescuing the hamster, but I remembered her comment on him being a hero and how she said it. Still, when I googled to find the text, I realized that the rest of that paragraph IS the John Kerry I have watched when he is at his best.