A gift? It sounds like a pre-emptive excuse. Gardner is a potential thorn
in Kerry's side...and Brinkley is making sure to demonize the man before his
story starts to grow wings.

Brinkley is a self-declared "Presidential Historian" who only writes about
politicians with like-minded politics to his...namely, FDR, Jimmy Carter,
John Kennedy...and now Kerry.

Read:
http://hnn.us/articles/3436.html