John Kerry

I haven't seen the Melber interview (he used to work for Kerry), but I will check it out. Ok, is/was the whole thing blown out of proportion? He shouldn't apologize?

I also have not seen the anti-HRC comments (and there are many from the Bernie folks), and to be fair, Biden still gets flack for Anita Hill from liberal women nearly 30 years later.

It was nice that he got props for his work as a war hero, Senator, and SOS. History will seem to be kind (though still curious about what happened with the Syria red-line thing via Obama admin).

You are right, no one will come close to Obama. That being said, when McCain passed, there was talk (Matthew Iglesias had a twitter feed about it) that no other war heroes (Kerry, Cleland, former POTUS Carter, etc) would/or will get the same amount of coverage and/or tributes from both sides of the aisle, despite having accomplished more as public servants and private citizens.

Best wishes in reading.