Pics of John since it's Valentines Day

[JI7]

[JI7]

1. some more pics

[ginnyinWI]

2. Awww..nice, thanks!

And more:

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and his true Valentine:
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[Vektor]

3. Is it possible..

...to be any MORE in love with this man?!?!

That first pic looks like the Nantucket ferry - makes me homesick.

I didn't think it possible, but I love him more with each passing day. What a beautiful human being. Thanks for these.

[ginnyinWI]

4. kick for Kerry! n/t

[WildEyedLiberal]

5. His true valentine?

What? That wasn't a picture of me! Sorry, you must be mistaken.

He is so beautiful. Thanks for the pics.

[JohnKleeb]

6. Yeah I was wondering why I didnt see a Dominatrix

:).

[ginnyinWI]

7. lol

too bad he hasn't got a son for you, WEL! :)

[JohnKleeb]

8. Kerry has stepsons but WEL wants Daddy Kerry

Its been said that all of her crushes are old enough to be her father :D , just like all of mine can be a big sister by 1-3 years, :shrug:.

[GRLMGC]

9. He's got a stepson for me

:evilgrin:

[JohnKleeb]

11. Oh yes

He Who Shall Not Be Named Heinz
aka HWSNBNH, I must say, it doesnt have a nice ring like JHK :shrug:.

[ginnyinWI]

12. which one?

I must have missed this--is it Chris or Andre?

[JohnKleeb]

13. I wont name him because I dont want GRLGMC to pound me

:). I if anyone wonders celebrity wise have a crush on a certain Israeli American Actress err Goddness and on a gorgeous undergraduate :) in real life.

[GRLMGC]

25. The one that Lavender Brown doesn't want

:)

[Lavender Brown]

14. Andre belongs to me

:P

[JohnKleeb]

15. Well there ya have it

See everyone's happy as far as crushes go.

[WildEyedLiberal]

10. Nah, I would'nt want anything other than the real thing anyway.

Big John is irreplaceable.

[TayTay]

16. that sleeping pic

on the plane. That's very sweet. And the ferry pic. (I think that is the Nantucket Ferry. I really should come up with a Valentine's Day Ode TO Nantucket Limerick. (Okay, I'm a little under the weather and all my normal Shields are down. I am very suceptible to Limericks when I am feeling slightly flu-ey..)

[WildEyedLiberal]

17. It'd be sweeter

If it were me.

[TayTay]

18. Ha, you are but a mere babe in the woods

but a child, a mere poser. Surely the charms of a perhaps older, but more, ah, experienced practitioner of the art of amour might catch such a grand man's eye. (And other parts.)

(I am a little woozy today. I think I get verbose when moody.)

[WildEyedLiberal]

19. I think you just totally dissed me

How dare you.

I have an unmatchable zeal for life. John will be captivated by my energy, maturity, wit, and fiery nature. What I lack in experience I make up for in raw passion. I will invigorate and rejuvenate him. Besides, I'm young and way hot, so I beat an old woman any old day. :P

[TayTay]

20. That well could be, child

But age has it's charms and knowledge. (I mean, no one, but no one disses Teresa.) There might be enough to share, so we could resolve this amicably.

[WildEyedLiberal]

21. Keep calling me child if you must

But I assure you I could more than handle him.

I'm under no illusions that I'm as mature as I'm going to get, obviously, but I don't think I'm your typical giggling wide-eyed teen girl, either. (God, it's so nice not to be a TEEN anymore.)

I'm just a WILD-EYED liberal who knows that Big John would be very compatible with me.

[TayTay]

28. Geez, me too! I would just employ different methods.

I think everyone's methods would be, ah, effective. Yours is youthful and full of passion and energy. Who could resist it?

I would nearly drown the poor man in a subtlety of lace, a glide of silk and close whisper of satin. Perhaps there is room for more than one approach. (Perhaps in tandem, one after the other. Sounds like a rich Valentine's Day to me.)

Agree to share?

[whometense]

22. That bottom one is hilarious!!

John Kerry = Jesus???

[WildEyedLiberal]

23. I know!

That so rules.

[karynnj]

24. Funny co-incidence of seating position

But he may be a descendant of Moses' brother Aaron and the high priests of Jerusalem.

Last fall while waiting for stragglers to arrive at a meeting of people from my synagogue, there was the following discussion after some people mentioned the Kerry's family's original name. The gist of the conversation, although none of us involved had any relevant Jewish education on this, was:

" in reality isn't it somewhat possible that Kerry is descended from Aaron, brother of Moses (ancestor of all cohenim - the high priests of the temple at Jerusalem) Kohn is a variation of Cohen and the designation is passed from father to father. So, it is possible that this included Kerry's ancestors. (Kerry would not be a cohen because he's not Jewish as he doesn't have a Jewish mother.) But the line of descent would be the same, so he would have an illustrious ancestor on the Kerry side as well as the ones on his mother's side. Much was then made of the fact that Aaron was reputed to be a good speaker - and as we saw in the debates ...."

As I never read this speculation anywhere, I doubt it has any merit.
But seeing the "Jesus" thing, it brought back this strange conversation. (It's beyond anything I studied when I became Jewish.)

[TayTay]

26. Unknown, I only am familiar with Catholic Kerry

But I did find this today:

Ancient Jewish scripts confirm Kerry's Bohemian origin

Source: CZECH NEWS AGENCY
Date: February 12, 2005

MOHELNICE, North Moravia, Feb 12 (CTK) - The civic association Respect and
Tolerance today for the first time exhibited priceless Jewish scripts
discovered by its members in the USA and Britain which also show that ancestors
of U.S. Senator John Kerry originate from Usov in the Sumperk region.

The new documents have complemented a wandering exhibition about Jewish
traditions, customs and history in Bohemia and Moravia, based on the collection
of Jewish museums in Prague.

Visitors can for the first time see "Modlitby Izraelituw," the first edition of
a Czech-Hebrew book of prayers from 1847 and the documents written and
illustrated by Abraham Leipniker from Usov.

"When studying the documents and further files we found that Leipniker was an
ancestor of Senator Kerry. Five generations of Kerry's ancestors lived in
Usov," Ludek Stipl from the association Respect and Tolerance told CTK today.

The association had contacted Kerry earlier and asked him whether it could
publish the information about his ancestors, Stipl said. "We have received a
consent from his personal secretary and today I could speak for the first time
about it. We are also in contact with Kerry's brother," Stipl said.

[elshiva]

27. I love the pics of him and Teresa.

They are a beautiful couple very romantic for Valentine's Day!

[muse]

29. I keep returning here again and again . . .

This is a LOVELY thread.

The pics are a great Valentine's Day treat!

[Firespirit]

30. Lots of wonderful pics in this thread

but I think that of all of them, my favorite is still the top one in the original post. That picture makes me go :o

Although I must say, the bottom one of him asleep is a very close second. T. should be snuggling him, though, rather than sitting like she is. He clearly wanted it when he was awake, as he fell asleep with his arms on her.

:loveya:

[GRLMGC]

31. I was gonna say that

She kinda looks like she's pulling away, haha. It's all good though :)

[Firespirit]

32. I KNOW!

She'd better not be actually pulling away from him, though.

There's another possibility, and that's that she's avoiding facing him because she couldn't control herself if she did, but she doesn't want to wake him up. I could see that as a strong possibility if it were me in that pic. So maybe it's all right.

It's strange (but sweet) to see a big, tall guy in a position like that.

[GRLMGC]

33. hahaha

Yeah, it's a really cool picture.

[ginnyinWI]

34. Right....

like he's gonna try something with a photographer around! :eyes: :)

I read that he learned to easily fall asleep for catnaps while in 'Nam. Of course my husband can fall asleep anywhere too when he's tired. A guy thing perhaps. I can't do it--too many years taking care of kids--you don't dare shut your eyes for 5 minutes.

They are a really cute couple, though.

[sandnsea]

35. Picture of marriage

Two independent people who move within each other's spaces but don't feel the need to dominate or change the other. I thought it was one of the best pictures I've seen of them together. Very sweet.

[ginnyinWI]

36. more romance!

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[JI7]

37. John and Elizabeth Edwards

seeing John Edwards with Elizabeth you can tell he truly loves her. it's common for people in love to find other people attractive and look at them as i have seen with Kerry and some others.

but with Edwards no matter how attractive another woman might be he never seems to even have any interest in looking. he only has eyes for his wife. i remember when she was giving a speech and he would look to Kerry with a "isn't she great" expression on his face and Kerry would return with with a "she certainly is" type look.

with Kerry it's like he has total trust in Teresa and just wants to show her off to people. i always get a sense he is thinking "how lucky am i to be married to this amazing woman". people criticize Teresa for appearing "too distant" from Kerry at times. but she really does love and care for him. she does things like make sure he eats well and when he gets a cold she tells him what to take to get better. it's really sweet.

there are some differences in the way of expression but it still comes down to love for all of them.

[elshiva]

40. JK was asked to describe Teresa in 3 words.

He replied: "Sexy. Saucy. Brilliant." Natch.

And Dubya described Pickles as: "The lump in the bed next to me." harhar cold showers for you!

[sandnsea]

43. Yeah, so where'd they get this crap?

"Kerry is the weirdo first husband you married in college when you were an art major. Bush is the solid second husband who saved you, helped you raise kids and taught you golf."

I don't remember who wrote this during the campaign, but I remember I blasted their ass. Is this not the stupidest thing you ever heard? Bush is the drunken, lying, pompous, shit head of an asshole first husband; Kerry is the one who saved you, helped you raise kids, listened to you and respected you, and didn't give a shit if you learned golf. I just never could figure out what idiots were writing this crap, but it sure pissesd me off and it really pisses me off that they make so goddamn much money doing it.

The article is copied here:
http://www.libertyunites.tv/ftopict-3174.html

[JI7]

44. pretty disgusting isn't it

the fucking asshole was drunk for most of his fucking life and suddenly he "finds jesus" when he is 50 and they claim he is a good moral leader .

while Kerry has always taken up responsibilities that is far more than many would throughout his life. some of the biggest being when he spoke out against the war after having the guts to go sign up and fight in it himself where he risked his life to save others. Kerry has been the one who set up programs in poor neighborhoods to help kids do something positive with their lives. Kerry was the one who set up some of the first support centers for raped women. he is the one who helped to bring some comfort to families to lost relatives in vietnam by normalizing relations and trying to bring back as many remains as we could find of the soldiers who were killed there.

and someone who does THAT is what a true leader is.

[karynnj]

47. How did they succeed in such blatant misrepresentation?

It's almost like they convinced people that black is white and white is black.

How do they explain that the kids Bush raised seem less reponsible than those raised by Kerry (and his ex-wife)?

In the wake of the election, some commentator mentioned that Rove's strategy is always to hit his oponent's strengths rather than his weaknesses. Kerry is a concerned, consientious, serious person so they translate this to "weirdo".

[elshiva]

38. Is the top JK and his first wife Julia?

What is the story behind the first picture? Why does he have water on him? Must have been hilarious.

Love the last one of JE and EE, another great Dem romance. Here's to them happily married Dems.

[JI7]

39. yes, it's his first wife

i think i read that some of his friends threw him into the water or dumped water on him.

[elshiva]

41. LOL, thanks!

They separated I think because Julia didn't like being a political wife. That is not the kind of life I'd like to lead either. Even though I would marry Kucinich, if I wasn't married already!;)

[ginnyinWI]

42. that's right

They picked him up and threw him into the pond! Yup, that's the stuffy, aloof, boring guy that nobody likes, all righty. :eyes:

[TayTay]

45. Wow, then the suit wasn't a rental?

That's a sweet pic. Her dress for that wedding was taken out of storage I believe and was hundreds of years old. (I believe that Julia Thorne was also related to all those founders of the Commonwealth as well. Geez, this means that the Senators kids are more blue blood than he is. Wow.)

I liked Teresa dress for the Nantucket wedding. It was very romantic.

[karynnj]

46. The Kerrys grins are so invectious in that picture

The people in the background seem to have remarkably little reaction to Kerry being totally wet. How can anyone still look so neat while dripping water from being thrown in a pond? This photo is great.

[DoBotherMe]

53. His groomsmen through him into the

pond. They were married at Julia's family estate on Long Island. D ; )

[karynnj]

48. Love your analysis of the photo

The quote in your signature line is profound and beautiful. The way she says it is almost poetic. What a wonderful first lady she would be.

[whometense]

49. Legs!!!!!!!!!!

[JI7]

50. i love that pic

i never saw it before. he looks good in almost any clothes he wears.

[angrydemocrat]

51. WOOOO HOOOO!!

DAMN!! Excellent pic whom. Best one I have seen in a long time.

[whometense]

52. Thank you,

thank you - stumbled across it in an old Newsweek article. :-)

[TayTay]

54. That is a nice pic.

He is at the cottagein Nanctucket, on the beach and this hair is still perfect. (Whenever I go to the beach I get windblown hair in seconds. Sigh!) He has really big feet. I wonder what size shoe he takes?

[whometense]

55. And a post-Valentine pic

Senator John Kerry accused the US government of ignoring offers of aid and support for the Iraqi security forces from its allies.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)

[whometense]

57. bumping it up

so everyone can see this beautiful picture. Maybe I should start a new thread with it.

[TayTay]

58. That is indeed a lovely pic

I have a lovely pic of the Senator reading a briefing page in his study on Beacon Hill. He is wearing his glasses but they are far down on his nose. I have scanned the pic, but I lack the software to crop it down and then post it. It is very good. (A bit geeky, but, well, that's why I like it.)

[whometense]

59. I love

pictures of him wearing his glasses. Don't know why, but I do. Must be my inner geek too. ;-)

[whometense]

56. yesterday's speech

U.S. Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., delivers the keynote address during a community awards ceremony, sponsored by The (Worcester) Telegram & Gazette, Monday, Feb. 14, 2005, in Worcester, Mass. Kerry is calling for tens of thousands of new U.S. troops and says the country should adopt a series of initiatives to support military families. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)

[elshiva]

60. Caption:

"Message to Bush: Talk to the Hand"