John Kerry, Common Man

John Kerry is trying to displace his "Do you know who I am?" personna with a more palatable common man facade.

"The other day, when Teresa Heinz Kerry she sat down with a gossip columnist for the New York Post, she fretted about the way her hair frizzes in the humidity and noted ruefully how she has gained 10 pounds on the campaign trail from the temptations of "quick snacks and junk food." Surely people everywhere could relate to the struggle.

The Kerrys recently have been reminding people that they have hobbies and foibles that would be familiar in any American household. It is an apparent response to a sustained effort by Republicans to tell people that, in many other ways, the presumptive Democratic nominee and his wealthy, foreign-born wife have lives far removed from the experience, or even the imagination, of most voters."