The man with lower approval ratings than George W. Bush

I imagine this profile of John Kerry is meant to be ennobling and hopeful, but to me it seems just an illustration of the quote from Estes Kefauver repeated famoulsy by Mo Udall, "Presidential ambition is a disease which can only be cured by embalming fluid. I keep wondering why someone would lust after such a thankless and frustrating job, which is so largely because of the irresponsible legislation which created entitlement programs and a vast bureaucracy manned by people protected by the Civil Service System.