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."
This gives Dubya so many perfect opening lines, like:
''I'm certainly pleased to be here. You are all looking fine, including Sen. Kerry who was looking kinda' washed out before he was tan.''
If he hasn't figured it out by now it's just one more reason he's not fit to be President (as if we needed another reason!).
Thanks! I really wanted to wipe hot tea out of my keyboard and alarm my coworkers with barely suppressed snorts of laughter!
LMAO! You owe me a keyboard.
His..ahem..hair also appears to be somewhat less gray than it looked before...
Kerry has a face made for radio.
ROFLOL
We have a winner!!!
I just showed this picture to my kids. Here are their responses:
"Oh my gosh! Is he drunk?"
"What happened to him?"
"Did he get really sunburned on Manhattan Beach?"
"He's a feigny...half feigning, half phony!"
"He's the Great Pumpkin!"
"Have you seen the commercials for that yucky candy where when the kid pops a candy into his mouth and his head turns into that flavor? He's an orange-head!"
"He's Tigger!"
"He's an Oompa Loompa!"
I love putting my kids thoughts down for all of you!
Best!
That's what a lifetime of Chivas will do to ya.
To think, he could have got the same effect on moonshine, and saved the Taxpayers of Massachusetts a bundle.
Now that is witty!!!
When I look at him now I no longer think of him as "Lurch," but rather as "Old Pumpkin Head."
He's gonna look great on the TV's that are out of color tune.
Kerry has tried to sound like JFK. I first noticed it in his primary campaign, he would try to imitate that notorious JFK inflection and tone. It was all too obvious how much he was relying on the 60's cadence of Kennedy in his after-primary victories. He's gotten away from it a bit but every now and then when he's feeling "groovy" he'll try to sneak it by the people.
Pssst, don't forget to give me a tad of photo credit.
Comedian and radio talk show host Al Franken speaks with a supporter Sunday, Sept. 26, 2004 outside the Kerry for President campaign office in Portland, Maine. Franken is in the state campaigning on behalf of the Kerry-Edwards ticket. (AP Photo/Joel Page)
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