Posted on 09/28/2004 12:39:16 PM PDT by SkyPilot
I got a phone call today from an old reporter friend in DC. They are having a great laugh at Kerry turning "tan" on the eve of the debates. The buzz is that Kerry has been obsessed with emulating JFK for so long that he has planned to try to recreate the JKF tan of the famed 1960 debate with Richard Nixon. He said part of the staff is embarasses but no one has the courage to tell Kerry he looks ridiculous.
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"The Great Debates marked television's grand entrance into presidential politics. They afforded the first real opportunity for voters to see their candidates in competition, and the visual contrast was dramatic. In August, Nixon had seriously injured his knee and spent two weeks in the hospital. By the time of the first debate he was still twenty pounds underweight, his pallor still poor. He arrived at the debate in an ill-fitting shirt, and refused make-up to improve his color and lighten his perpetual "5:00 o'clock shadow." Kennedy, by contrast, had spent early September campaigning in California. He was tan and confident and well-rested."
Hey what's that band on his wrist... is he on parole or something?
Is that an altered picture??
I guess Kerry doesn't remember the Gore - Bush debate where Gore had on orange makeup and pink lip gloss and blush and looked absolutely absurd.
Looking orange in 1960 on a black and white screen was smart politics. An orange face in 2004 looks diseased to people buying into the tan fakery and ridiculous to people not buying the fake tan. Kerry's JFK obsession is psychotic.
His face looks a few degrees more orange than the photo I saw on the Drudge Report.
If not, all I can say is good gawd, it's getting worse. LOL!
It's a Lance Armstrong "Livestrong" bracelet. . .
Oh please, Kerry couldn't hold a candle to Nixon or Kennedy. These guys are like movie stars compared to Kerry. What a joke he is, and scumbag acording to Theresa of course.
I think that's one of those sex bracelets. I don't know what yellow stands for. Probably some submissive position.
Oompah loompah doopady doo, John kerrys' an ass and john edwards is too.
Besides, Kennedy was dark because of Addison's disease not necesarily a tan. Maybe that's why they always played up the athletics so people would believe it was a tan.
Maybe he's ripening, tomato-like?
This is just the natural effect of being both Red and yellow at the same time.
"It's the Great Pretender, Charlie Brown!"
What a gross picture! I really didn't realize Ted was so ugly.
Kerry will look spray-tanned, lazy, and shallow.
If thinks there are any tricks left in this new fangled business called television, than he is certifiably nuts. I just hope I get to watch him "go live" with it on Thursday.
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