How loathsome is John Kerry?

This loathsome. The man's whole campaign amounts to "I was a Vietnam vet." He has surrogates feverishly denouncing George W. Bush at every turn for allegedly going "AWOL" during his Texas National Guard service, thirty years ago. But now Bush has taken the "low road," "reopened the wounds" of Vietnam, even questioned "my commitment to the defense of our nation." How? By attacking his voting record in the Senate. Owww!