Please tell me that photo has been altered. Please tell me that Kerry's right eye is not really one full inch higher on his head than his left eye and a half-inch further out from his nose.
Otherwise, it's obvious to me that dude is actually some half-completed, 1st Generation droid that the DNC is running as a placeholder for the Junior Senator From New YorkTM
It would explain the distance from humanity and inability to think on it's feet, though. Hmm...