Kerry always wanted to be the center of attention and went out of his way to leave a trail behind him that would trip him up later.
Barack Obama, by contrast, was more of an "inhibitionist" (if that's a word).
He didn't leave much of a trail, stayed in the background, and let a mystique build around him.
Well if it wasn't, it is now!
Quite fitting given his using the applications of Alinsky Jujitsu