Not really,Dale...a lot of what he is saying now IS in concert with that speech.  I took from most of what he has been saying is that he DOES want to unify the country (if elected).  He has voiced his objection to the way George Bush has handled things, which in Kerry's opinion (and mine as well),have further divided the  nation into camps. In Bush's view of  things, you are in his camp, or you are "unpatriotic".   Really...that speech is not in contradiction to a  lot of what Kerry has said recently.  Show me with SPECIFIC examples, of what I am missing here.   Again..the point?   I think the real John Kerry  is pretty well singing the same tune (you don't have to like it..and you don't but..)

Gene