Afterall, he thinks so much of his 20 years in Congress that he offered a
whole 73 words to it in his 10,000 word acceptance speach at the convention.

He's not runing for Congress. He's running for POTUS. Unlike the incumbent, he
doesn't have a (dismal) record of job performance as POTUS.

In that case, it's all about character. How will he do the job once elected?
Probably better, and certainly no worse than the current "character" in the
office.

The very fact that Bush winks and nods while his controllers and his supporters
go on a rampage of character assassination in his behalf, (and ignores calls
from rational Republicans like McCain to repudiate the activity), is certainly
informative about Bush's character.

No, nor do I think others do. I do believe that at some point in time they
served along side Kerry. Do you believe that is possible?

BTW. How many weeks did these 9 or 10 guys serve with Kerry on his boat?
5? And some 30 years ago at that. And they now believe they can offer an
opinion about the mans ability to serve as POTUS based on those 4 or 5 weeks
with him?

If you had stopped to consider the logic of that argument, you would not have
offered it. It destroys itself on the runway before ever getting off the
ground.

You say that all 250 people who are damning and slamming Kerry are all experts
on his character because they were in other boats, in the same approximate
vicinity for at least a few minutes and on perhaps only a single mission,
during Kerry's service in Viet Nam. (Odds are, they didn't even know or care
what the name of the Lt. skippering the the other boat was).

Then you say, the people who served on the same boat with him for (in your own
words) "4-5 weeks" are less qualified to judge his character than those who
happened to be assigned to the same or nearby mission for perhaps less than one
day.

Could I interest you in a spectacular deal on a bridge crossing the East River?