[Superman]

I'm not wild about Kerry either. Several other dem candidates would have been preferable, in my humble view. And heck, I probably liked Gore even less. But hey, until Amerikan Politiks move away from the current fashion-show, sound-bite tactics that are so effective right now, we're going to be stuck with pretty-boys' rhetoric while what we really need is statesmen with leadership qualities. Churchill was not pretty, and also fairly unpopular, but he was there when the world needed him.