[MaineRepublic]

I can't believe Kerry is really 6'4". I have to admit that I actually met him a year and a half ago, and politely shook his hand. I am 6'1" and maybe he was hunched over but it seemed we were eye to eye.

Of course, you supposedly shrink as you age as your spine compresses, so maybe they haven't measured him lately.

Now, Bill O'Reilly looked like a giant next to Mike Wallace as they were walking down the street.

[LisaS]

"I can't believe Kerry is really 6'4". I have to admit that I actually met him a year and a half ago, and politely shook his hand. I am 6'1" and maybe he was hunched over but it seemed we were eye to eye. ..."

We tend to view people we respect as being bigger or taller than they really are. The opposite is also true. When we do not like the other party - they appear smaller. Separately, I wonder why the MSM now puts Bush at 5'11". Until this week he was 6'-6'1".

[gop_gene]

I figured Kerry for 6'4" even before I knew his height (I'm quite good at figuring heights excepting if the person is a midget or a giant), but if you ask me, it's not really an asset. Sure, he's tall, but not "nice" tall--he's gangly and ungainly-appearing. Not strappingly tall like John Wayne, not athletic-tall like Errol Flynn, not rangy-tall like Gary Cooper, not suavely-tall like Cary Grant. He's just . . . awkward.