(2004-09-14) Ellis On Kerry

Warren Ellis examines the limits to the Anybody But Bush approach... So we were left with The Candidate. A man who was in a War but appeared neither to have eaten babies or indeed prepared them with fire, nor to have introduced his penis into any part of the Enemy. A man with a full head of hair - no-one has yet noticed that the hair appears to belong to an overfed chinchilla - and none of the strange physical tics endemic to professional politicians that can sink a Presidential campaign. Aside from the bolts. I mean, there's appearing stiff on camera. And then there's being dead.