Bikini Clad J-Lo Teases the 2004 Dem Candidates [The 9 Dwarves Cant Even Merit an Esquire Cover]

Boston Globe ^ | July 3, 2003 | Mark Shanahan and Carol Beggy

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Esquire Magazine's August edition features some revealing photographs of the 2004 Democratic Presidential contenders in what they consdier their natural elements, but the good editors at the magazine were smart enough to know that it would take more sizzle to attract readers.

That may explain why they slapped a picture of actress Jennifer Lopez --clad in a bikini--on the cover.

J-Lo's pinup shot leads readers into the features about the candidates, in which Sen. John Kerry is photographed in his Washington townhouse, talking on the phone while his wife Teresa, sits perched on his wingback chair with a cup of tea in her hand.

The photographer, Michael Edwards, said Kerry stayed on the phone for most of the photo shoot, saying he was chatting with an ambassador.

Edwards said Kerry originally wanted to pose with his wife on a replica of the Navy Patrol Boat he skippered in Vietnam.

The other photos show Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri in his kitchen making chicken, Se. John Edwards of North Carolina horsing around with his children in their bedroom, and the Reverend Al Sharpton in his favorite Harlem Soul Food restaurant.

Despite the free publicity, Kerry has his cohorts should be aware of another item teased on the cover: a story about potential candidate Gen. Weley Clark, the former NATO Supreme Commander.

Its titled 'The Man Who Can Defeat George W. Bush (If He Wants to)'

[ewing]

So funny..they cant get arrested!

[BCrago66]

Defective link.

[ewing]

It is a long one..

[katze]

Kerry and the gang of 8 are also defective. ;-)

[cincinnati65]

Having seen the issue........No complaint.

[KellyAdmirer]

Edwards said Kerry originally wanted to pose with his wife on a replica of the Navy Patrol Boat he skippered in Vietnam.

Oh man, that guy has GOT to get over himself. He plays both ends against the middle so frantically it's a wonder even knows who he is anymore - if he does.

[Coop]

How do you expect us to judge the, err, value of this story without the subject photo?

[ewing]

Is it out in the stores already?

[ewing]

That sentence in the article merits a hurl alert all by iself..

[ewing]

Working on it..

[cincinnati65]

Mine was through subscription, so I'm not sure. Features J'Lo in 5 or 6 "Varga" girl-type poses, complete with all the 1940's era cheesecake glamour. She pulls it off REALLY well.

[Coop]

I bet you are. :-)

[SwinneySwitch]

AL, stay out da Soul Food Restaurants!

[ewing]

A VERY good choice, I might add..

[ewing]

I may have to go out to the newsstand and buy this issue, the (ahem) photography looks very well done..

[Coop]

Fine analytical work on your part.

Very fine.

[Coop]

Almost (!!) makes a fella want to vote for Howard Dean or Joe Lieberman.

[george wythe]

She looks like a pinup from the 1950s when women used to have more meat in their bones

[cincinnati65]

The pictures featured the "candidates" in supposedly candid shots at home. Most featured the candidates with their families, playing games and such. Dean's was at a campaign headquarters. But, Kerry's was the most pretentious of the bunch, with him sitting in a leather chair, holding a brandy, with the Heinz honey sitting on the arm of the chair. He looked like some elite snob, rather than a "man of the people".

[ewing]

For discussion purposes only..of course-if the gals can drool over George P. Bush than we can have Varga pics

[cincinnati65]

Varga bump.

[ewing]

Al probaby lives at Slyvias on 125th Street..

[homeschool mama]

poor deformed thing

meow.

[Junior]

Very 1940s-ish.

[ewing]

And the pic doesnt look airbrushed much..

[headsonpikes]

Ahhhh, Varga girls!

My fondest memories of '60's Playboy mags.

[ewing]

I dont know if I could go that far!

[Coop]

Hers truly is an amazing story, isn't it? The way she has been able to overcome her hideous deformities and attain star status. Brings a tear to my eye just drooling thinking about it.

[csvset]

I just might have to look for that issue of Esquire... for the articles mind you.

[My back yard]

So, the nine have left Minas Morgul then?

[ewing]

She has lost some significant weight, I heard that she was complating to Madame Tousseaus Museum in London because they made her rear too big.

[Coop]

I dont know if I could go that far!

I could. I'll tell her every morning for the next seventeen months I'll vote for Howie. But she's not gonna be in the voting booth with me. :-)

Disclaimer: The above discussion is for informational purposes and in no way should be reported to Mrs. Coop.

[My2Cents]

Gee, I didn't know John Kerry was in Vietnam. [/sarcasm]

[geaux]

Nah; not airbrushed at all.

[ewing]

It is a horrible condition being blessed by God with such a plentiful posterior.

I shudder to think what Varga could do with her..

[ewing]

I only read such magazines for the articles.

[homeschool mama]

**And the pic doesnt look airbrushed much.. **

FOFL!!!

[Coop]

Okay, excuse my ignorance, but what's the repeated reference to Varga?

[D. Brian Carter]

She does appear to have lost ALOT of weight, and I must say that I liked her look better with more meat on her bones.

[homeschool mama]

?! She has/had an ample rear. Wonder if she had liposuction done to reduce it.

[ewing]

She could sneak into the voting booth with mee looking like that..

[homeschool mama]

***Disclaimer: The above discussion is for informational purposes and in no way should be reported to Mrs. Coop.

I'm telling.

[Coop]

I'm telling.

Shouldn't you be schooling the kids?!? :-p

[pilgrim]

Is this the true Kerry?

 

 

 

 http://www.globe.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061703.shtml

At a jammed Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on April 22, 1971, Kerry took his case to Congress. Television cameras lined the walls, and veterans packed the seats. Kerry was dressed in his green fatigues and wore his Silver Star and Purple Heart ribbons, although he said he left the medals at home. With his thatch of dark hair swept across his brow, Kerry sat at a witness table and delivered the most famous speech of his life, the speech that defined him and made possible his political career.

"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam?" Kerry asked. "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Attacking the Nixon White House, he said, "This administration has done us the ultimate dishonor. They have attempted to disown us and the sacrifices we made for this country."

Almost forgotten in that famous speech were Kerry's controversial assertions that Vietnam veterans had "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephone to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."

To some veterans, including some of those who served alongside Kerry, this was too much. They thought they had served honorably, and they had seen Kerry as a gung-ho skipper who led the charge and didn't voice such opposition on the battlefield.

"I would go up a river with that man anytime. He was a great American fighting man," said Michael Bernique, a highly decorated veteran who served as a swift boat skipper alongside Kerry. But Bernique remains upset with Kerry's assertion that atrocities were committed, an assertion that Kerry has not backed away from. "I think there was a point in time when John was making it up fast and quick. I think he was saying whatever he needed to say."

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Famous World War II pin up artist..

[egarvue]

Should read "Vargas". The most famous pin-up artist, the pic of J-Lo looks like his style. Just type "Vargas" into any search engine, and you'll find out more; I'm at work, otherwise I'd do a search have more answers :-)

[Coop]

OK, thanks.

[homeschool mama]

It's SUMMERTIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mikeb704]

Edwards said Kerry originally wanted to pose with his wife on a replica of the Navy Patrol Boat he skippered in Vietnam.

Was Kerry in the military during Nam? Who'd have guessed? He sure doesn't brag about it.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[Coop]

Curses, foiled again!