Pic thread. Cuz, just cuz

[TayTay]

Boston Red Sox player Johnny Damon (L) talks with U.S. Senator John Kerry before the start of the Nextel Cup Series Ford 400 race at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida November 20, 2005.

Johnny D is looking a bit shaggy. Sen. Kerry looks very good. (And he really does like NASCAR races.)

[TayTay]

1. Kerry defending Murtha

This is an image made from a C-Span broadcast of the U.S.Senate television feed showing Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, voicing support for Sen. John Murtha. 'There is no sterner stuff than the backbone and courage that defines Jack Murtha's character and conscience,' Kerry said.(AP Photo/CSPAN)

That is mui macho. I love it.

[FreedomAngel82]

2. Wonderful picture

So full of passion and fire there! And Kerry seems to like a wide range of different things. :)

[_dynamicdems]

3. Isn't this just sweet?

[FreedomAngel82]

42. AW!

He was so cute! I love your Kerry banner!

[ginnyinWI]

4. you can't have a pic thread with only three posts--so:

age 12!



born to be wild

[MH1]

5. Great pics! Do you know where the second pic

(holding the child, looking up) was taken? That looks like it could have been taken in Philly, but there's plenty of cities with architecture like that, so I'm curious.

[ginnyinWI]

7. no, I don't, sorry

But someone else might know!

[jenndar]

6. OMG.

Why won't he wear a helmet? :eyes:

[ginnyinWI]

8. looks like it's only a parking lot or airport tarmac

so not so dangerous I don't think.

[whometense]

9. Today's shot:

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., speaks during a news conference in Boston, Monday, Nov. 21, 2005, to respond to Vice President Dick Cheney's comments on Iraq. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)

He's home! :loveya: :loveya: Or he was for a while, anyway.

[_dynamicdems]

11. Oh, that's it! This guy belongs in NH! Just look at that profile...

Coincidence? I think not!

Give him back! :D

[whometense]

13. Don't mean to be

un-neighborly, but NO!

You can't have him. :P

[_dynamicdems]

17. Awww...but why not? Hehe...can't blame ya one bit! ; >

[FreedomAngel82]

43. I see Kerry!

Like the fundies say they see Jesus we see Kerry!

[_dynamicdems]

53. Hey seeing his profile in granite is better than seeing the Virgin Mary

in a grilled cheese sandwich! (Remember that?) LMAO!

[TayTay]

23. I think the Senator usually spends Thanksgiving in Boston.

Something about Plymouth and home and all that.

Actually I was trying to find that story that mentioned the influence that Teresa has had on Kerry's outlook and that had to do with the rather austere New England Thanksgiving he used to celebrate. The article said that the holiday was celebrated simply, with just dinner and watching football games and such. Teresa brought in guests and lights and conversation and really jazzed it up and made it much warmer and more interesting. I really like Teresa and her influence. I certainly like her Thanksgivings more!

[whometense]

10. Great picture of JK! n/t

[zann725]

12. A pic posted last year on DU of campaign trail.. with JK & rainbow behind

Anyone remember it? Have it?

[whometense]

14. I don't remember that one.

Found this one, but Kerry's only technically in the shot!

[ProSense]

15. Very nice!

I refuse to be sad!




That rainbow!

:cry:

[zann725]

34. Thanks..that 's it! I was in post-election fog at the time. All I

remembered was the overall rainbow symbolism over the Kerry train...and "Believe in America" motto.

I shall shall treasure it. Thanks for looking.

[_dynamicdems]

16. Kerry chiaroscuro

[frogmarch]

18. John Kerry is the only president

well, okay, should-be president, I've ever wanted to see depicted on Mt. Rushmore with the other great ones. I really do mean it. Not only would he be a truly great president, he would look fabulous depicted on that mountain! Where I once lived, I could gaze out at Mt. Rushmore from my front deck. If John Kerry's face was on that mountain, I'd move back pronto.

Can you see it too? His face carved into the granite of Mt. Rushmore?

Whoa Lawdy! I think I need mah smellin' salts!

[karynnj]

19. Could the creater of the NH mountain that Dynamicdems posted be

telling us something? Kerry's profile is already carved there. Bush should be jealous.

[_dynamicdems]

30. It is gone. It was kinda prophetic about last years election....

that face in the mountain - the symbol of our state - fell off the mountain last year. It was a devastating loss to NH. From 30000BC to 2005 RIP. http://www.twinmountain.com/oldman.php


But then NH went to John Kerry. Maybe there is meaning there. We don't have our "Old Man of the Mountains" anymore, but maybe we will have a President with a remarkably similar profile one day.

[karynnj]

36. That's sad

[FreedomAngel82]

45. Why isn't it there anymore??

Weird about that.

[_dynamicdems]

52. Gravity took its toll. This was a natural geological formation from the

ice age. Time, gravity and many winters. There had been a patch on a crack, but it didn't hold.

The Old Man of the Mountain fell from the mountain today.

The Old Man is gone. 5/03/03
(I thought it was only a year, but it has been over 2 years.)

The loss of the Old Man of the Mountain will be borne by living and still unborn Granite Staters and people around the world for years to come. The venerable granite symbol of New Hampshire slid unseen down a mountain and into the past sometime Friday or early Saturday morning.

A state park trails crew reported around 7:30 Saturday morning the 40-foot tall stony face was gone from the side of Profile Mountain in Franconia Notch. The Old Man was covered by clouds Thursday and Friday, so no one knows when it actually fell.

The image that only nature could have crafted became a symbol of the state as countless people viewed the remarkable monument. The Old Man became a rite of passage for New Hampshire residents and a tourist attraction that become synonymous with the state and its slogan, "Live Free or Die." The profile was about 1,200 feet above Interstate 93, about 65 miles north of Concord.

The cause is believed to be a result of freezing and thawing of the past winter combined with heavy spring rains. Ultimately, the hands of the time pulled down the man.


Origin:

High above the Franconia Notch gateway to northern New Hampshire there is an old man. He has been described as a relentless tyrant, a fantastic freak, and a learned philosopher, feeble and weak about the mouth and of rarest beauty, stern and solemn, one of the most remarkable wonders of the mountain world.

Daniel Webster once said, ..."Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men." .......

The Old Man of the Mountain has several names including "The Profile", "The Great Stone Face", "The Old Man," and "The Old Man of the Mountains". ......

Geological opinion is that The Profile on Profile Mountain is supposed to have been brought forth partly as the result of the melting and slipping away action of the ice sheet that covered the Franconia Mountains at the end of the glacial period, and partly by the action of the frost and ice in crevices, forcing off, and moving about certain rocks and ledges into profile forming positions.

http://www.greatdreams.com/Old-Man.htm

[FreedomAngel82]

44. I would love to see

Kennedy, Clinton and a future president Kerry. :)

[ProSense]

20. Here's my slide show. Hope it works.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/publishmag/slideshow?.dir=/ef78&.src=ph

[karynnj]

21. Those are wonderful

There are so many Teresa/John pictures I never saw.

[ProSense]

25. Thanks!

My favorite is the one of them embraced in front of a tent.

[whometense]

22. That was really lovely.

Thank you!!

[Island Blue]

24. That was fantastic!

Thanks! :yourock:

[ProSense]

27. Thank you and whometense too!

I've been collecting them for a year, to get the right mix.

[Vektor]

31. That was astounding. Absolutely amazing. Thank you.

This says a lot:

[ProSense]

32. Thanks!

I love that photo.

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

33. I actually saw that scene live on the Internets, I think...

It was pretty amazing -- he finishes his campaign stuff and heads out, there are about 6 BC04 type folks politely yelling at him and he walks right up to them, says something and then shakes hands!!! All the while he was walking up to them, he had a nice mischievous smile on his face too!

Disclaimer: I am not certain that the scene you posted is exactly the one I saw, because I remember the one I saw as being across a fence; but this reminded me of that :-)

[FreedomAngel82]

47. Oh yes

I remember that one! I thought that was amazing. I remember reading another story of him doing a front porch tour and he was leaving and on the other side of the road were Bush supporters and he went over there and said "hello" and shook their hands and talked to them. What a leader!

[jillan]

38. Bravo! That was wonderful!

I really enjoyed all those pics of him and Teresa.
On her birthday, we did a Teresa thread, and the one thing that really impressed me, was how he looks at her. You can almost feel his love for her in his eyes.

Very impressive ProSense. Thanks!

[ProSense]

41. What can I say

I love John and Teresa. The way he looks at her... Thanks.

[FreedomAngel82]

48. Oh yes!

I love that. It's SO romantic!!! I'm a fool for romance. *sigh* It's so different from George and Laura. With them it's like a "have to" thing from my watching of them. With John and Teresa you can tell they really love kissing and cuddling and all that. We never see that with George and Laura. They would've been such a wonderful and romantic first couple. *sigh* :( I adore the tent picture too. *sigh*

[TayTay]

40. Those were wonderful

You did a great job collecting them and arranging them in sequence.

[FreedomAngel82]

46. I LOVE pictures with him and Teresa

You can tell they're so in love and it's soooo sweet!!!

[Vektor]

26. CAN DO! How's this? Hot enough for ya?

Dreaming of the day his beloved Kerrycrats come to town:


Vintage Foxy:


I'd like to see him creeping out from behind my shower curtain like this:


John Kerry, Stormtrooper of Sex: (Okay, a freeper site, but I still love it.) SO CUTE.


More Stormin'


She knows HOTT when she sees it.

[ProSense]

28. Wow!

That second photo is great. The bunny:


:rofl:

[JI7]

35. i have been looking for the top one for a while

it was posted regularly during the campaign but i was unable to find it until now.

the young Kerry pic is totally cute. i have never seen that one before.

and i love Kerry in those NASA pics also.

[Island Blue]

37. That top photo is sizzling hot!

Love the fish he's wearing tie too!

[FreedomAngel82]

50. Oh yeah they are fishes!

Cute! I love pics of him in college and his late teen years. He was so cute! He reminds me of Brad Renfro!

[jillan]

39. I like the one where he is coming out from behind the curtain.

He kinda has a mischevious look on his face.
Ouch!

[FreedomAngel82]

49. I love the curtain pic!

It's so cute! Very playful. The thing I like about him is how he always knows when to be serious and when to be playful. It seems like he's a lot of fun to be around and campaign with. What is he holding in the last picture? There's a picture of the White House on the front.

[frogmarch]

29. Tay Tay, THANKS!

What wonderful pictures! After seeing them, I got so wrapped up in visualizing that same handsome face on Mt. Rushmore that I forgot to say how fabulous the pictures are!

The picture of him as a toddler is oh, so adorable, as all the pictures are. John Kerry has a timeless physical appeal, doesn't he? He looks great at every age.

[politicasista]

51. Thanks for the pics

:hi:

[karendc]

54. More pics

I am trying this out--I have been reading this forum for a while, but have not posted much. I have tons of JK pics from the Kerry blog and thought, if it all works, you might like to see some of them.

[MH1]

55. Welcome!

:hi:

I am sure I speak for all of the JK Group when I say we would love to see more JK pics!!

The one you posted here is especially nice. He's so good with the kids. Thanks for posting it!

[karynnj]

56. Welcome - that's a cute picture

[TayTay]

57. Boy that's the way to our hearts.

We love pictures with kids. (We just do. I think about half the pics here are pics with kids.)

Thanks for checking in!

:patriot:

[ProSense]

58. I love that picture. Thanks!

:hi:

[Vektor]

59. Welcome!

Nice to see you, glad to have you on the forum.
:hi:

[politicasista]

63. I love pics with kids/babies

Welcome. :hi:

[sandrakae]

60. He connects with all ages.

I wonder what's so funny



Taking the Pres for a walk.



He dropped by a school on the way to a ralley, when he saw kids waving to the motorcade.

[karendc]

61. same pics!

I have those pics too--they were from Iowa, I think.

I have to go back and see what's in my files. I know he really connects with kids--when Dick first began with the campaign, we said to them "RUN PHOTOS OF HIM WITH KIDS"

I have never seen a kid not be completely enamored of him--it's the focused attention, with the twinkle in his eye...

[TayTay]

62. That's so true!

We had a pic thread once of kids with Sen. Kerry and kids with Bush. Oh dear! The poor kids with Bush looked frightened. The kids with Kerry all looked happy. (My favorite is that pic of the little girl who just put her haed on his leg during the reading of a storybook. That was one relaxed looking child.)

[globalvillage]

64. That's my favorite, too.

She looks like she feels very safe and comfortable with him.
Did you ever hear the song Barbra Streisand sang for her son? I'm not sure of the title, but it goes
Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around...
I love that song, and that's what that pic of the little girl and the Senator reminds me of. I'll have to look for the lyrics.

[globalvillage]

67. Here are the lyrics.

I just like this song. And I have always loved Barbra.



Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around
Nothing's gonna harm you, no sir, not while I'm around
Demons are prowling everywhere nowadays
I'll send them howling
I don't care, I got ways
No one's gonna hurt you,
No one's gonna dare
Others can desert you,
Not to worry, whistle, I'll be there!
Demons'll charm you with a smile, for a while,
But in time...
Nothing can harm you
Not while I'm around...
Being close and being clever
Ain't like being true
I don't need to,
I would never hide a thing from you,
Like some...
No one's gonna hurt you, no one's gonna dare
Others can desert you,
Not to worry, whistle, I'll be there!
Demons'll charm you with a smile, for a while
But in time...
Nothing can harm you
Not while I'm around...

[TayTay]

71. That's from Sweeney Todd

Sondheim's 'penny dreadful' musical. I love that one. It has gorgeous music. (Currently in revival on Broadway, btw.)

I like this one, from 'Sunday in the Park with George.' It's a second act song that talks about an artist who is just feeling 'poured out' and wonders where the desire to create went. He has a chance conversation with a 'ghost' of his own great-gramdmother (hey, it's Sondheim, odd things happen in Sondheim.) She is trying to get the artist to forget his failures, forget the criticisms of his work and concentrate on his own special abilities and to 'Move on.'

Ghost: No one is you and no one can be
But others will do though
No one is you, no, there we agree
But no one is me, no, no one is me
We do not belong together
And we'll never belong

Artist: There's nothing to say
I cannot be what you want

Ghost:I did what I had to do
Now it's up to you
Move on

Stop worrying where you're going - move on
If you can know where you're going, you've gone
Just keep moving on
I chose and my world was shaking, so what?
The choice may have been mistaken
The choosing was not
You have to move on

Look at what you want
Not what might have been
Only what could be
Look at all the things you did for me
Open up my eyes, taught me how to see
Notice every tree
Trust myself enough to move on

Artist: I want to explore the world
I want to find how to get through
To this something new
Something of my own
Move on, move on

Ghost: Stop wondering which direction is right
You think that you found perfection
And then overnight you keep moving on
Look at what you want, not at where you are
Think of what you have, what can be?
Look at all the things you gave to me
Let me give to you something in return
Think of what we have
Not the things we couldn't share
Just the best of what was there
Like the care, and the feeling
And the life moving on
We do not belong together
And we should have belonged together

Both: We have to move on...
Settle for the glow, time for letting go
Now the moment's gone
Time for moving on
Move on, move on....

That really is one of my favoite songs. It's so touching and hopeful.

[globalvillage]

72. That's wonderful. Thanks. n/t

[LittleClarkie]

79. "Children and Art" kills me every time. Bawl like a child, I do.

Followed very closely by "No one is alone" Oh. My. God.

I just looked up the lyrics. Somehow they don't quite make it by themselves, but in the context of the musical, I just lose it.

My favorite Sweeney is Len Cariou, btw.

(Yeah, among other things, I'm a musicals geek too.)

[karendc]

81. Favorite Sweeney..

,,,sorry, LC. George Hearn blew me away one evening in San Francisco...AMAZING; and he knew it too--he came out for his bow with a huge smile on his face. I still get chills.

[TayTay]

82. Wow! I saw Hearn and Angela Lansbury long ago

and they were both amazing. (Hearn puts his soul into it. He had the best 'damned soul' look on his face as Todd. And Angela Lansbury was perfectly amoral as Mrs. Lovett.) I love that show. For a violent, penny-dreadful, it has the most lovely music.

And, ahm, odd as it may be, one of my favorite Sondheims is ahm, Assassins. Yeah, odd topic for a musical, but a really interesting book. (Although I never liked that last sequence. It was not well-written.) This has some really great music in it and is, ahm, a bit challenging for an audience.

BTW, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim have the same birtday, March 17th. Hmmmmmmm.

[LittleClarkie]

83. Never saw Len, but I liked the contrast between his

melodrama and Angela's dancehall comedic turn on the recording. Friends who saw them said that they were spooky as all hell together. Too bad Len got some of that dirt down his throat from the grave scene and had laryngitis for the recording.

But then maybe I'm prejudiced because I love his Fredrick in "A Little Night Music."

Funny, I liked that last sequence in Assassins. Maybe it's just how Victor Garber played it as if he were the Devil coming in with an apple for Oswald.

Did you ever hear "Something Just Broke"? The song makes me cry, but I just can't seem to see where it would flow in the play itself.

Btw, hail fellow Sondheimites! I knew I liked it here in Kerryland for a reason. Always a sign of intelligence in my book to love Sondheim.

[TayTay]

85. I actually have that soundtrack on my computer

I uploaded it. I might have just found the Oswald sequence too squeamish for me. (I found the other segments were stronger.) I loved, loved, loved, Another National Anthem. I think of it whenever I encounter freepers. Chilling stuff.

Sondheimites sounds really funny. But it's true. I love the guy. From Gypsy to the Frogs one, I love them all.

I knew I liked you too LC. You have a lot of taste, my dear.

[karendc]

86. Sondheim and Kerry?

I am laughing because I choreograph a lot of musicals and I never talk about them because people make FUN of people who do musicals...

And here is a Sondheim CULT!

[TayTay]

87. Isn't this just the oddest forum?

You never know what topic is going to just show up. I have been posting here for nearly a year (I have to renew my star this weekend) and I never knew LittleClarkie was a Sondheim phreak.

I love Sondheim and just about any musical ever. I actually collect them. We few, we few, we band of musical lovers! My Dad loved musicals. Before VCRs and tapes, he used to let me stay up for the late, late show and watch classic musicals into the night. It was our secret that we kept from my Mom, who would have prefered a proper bedtime. It stuck.

[WildEyedLiberal]

65. This one?

So precious.

[globalvillage]

66. Actually, that's not the one I'm thinking of

but just as sweet. I'm thinking of the one where the little girl is laying her head on his leg. I'll look for it.


edit
This is the one



And I found this cool pic.

[TayTay]

68. Both of those pics are just amazing.

Just totally amazing. Damn, I rarely had my own kids that relaxed. Wow! (I just love those pics. They are my favorite kid pics of all.)

[Island Blue]

69. That has to be total instinctive trust

on the part of the kids in those photos (and others we've seen too). Sen. Kerry is a big man. You would think that most kids would be a little shy and intimidated around someone of his stature (if they don't know him well), but they seem to be totally relaxed. Smart kids!

[jillan]

70. Great pics - haven't seen all of these.

The kid on the top was giving $ to Kerry.
Kerry asked him where he got the $, the kid said he stole it from his dad. I remember reading about that one.

All of these pics show how these kids really take to Kerry.

[karendc]

73. I think they say a lot about JK...

...his ability to connect with kids is not that different from his ability to connect with adults; the only difference seems to be that the level of trust on both sides is much less complicated with the kids.

I took my son to an early (November 2003) JK fundraiser in DC--there was a room full of big donors (we had helped decorate the room and stuck around to say hello). My son was 14 at the time; Sen. Kerry took at least five minutes to talk with him about school, his interests, to really figure out how much he had to do to get this kid to engage with him. Meanwhile, the big money people had to wait their turns. I will always be appreciative of his efforts (which were sucessful: my son, now almot 17, is still a fan), but more importantly, I got to see how masterful and warm a communicator he is.

I have never gotten the aloof meme; it seems so deeply manufactured. But I have often wished that every voter could have had the views we got early on in the campaign--of a man who could connect and engage so intimately, and who would never let the protocols of governing interfere with his human concerns about the people of this country and planet.

I regret that THAT message never seemed to get out into the media. On the blog, we really tried to explain that, through stories and anecdotes and reminders of his past actions, both legislative and personal.

Nice to find you all here--

[jenndar]

74. Well said, and welcome!

:)

[jillan]

75. What a great story!!

The media spin really did a great job on re-writting Kerry's personality.

Altho I still have never seen him in person, every rally that I watched, every pic I have seen, I saw a very warm and caring man.


Welcome to the Kerry group!!
Great sig line too:)

[LittleClarkie]

80. I remember seeing him on the tv during the campaign

before I had really warmed up to him, actually. He was faced with a little 2 or 3 year old, and he just popped himself right down there to chat with the little guy face to face. I think that was one of my building blocks. I am always impressed with an adult wants to talk to a child at their level, you know?

[MH1]

76. Okay, I stole some of these

for a post by ProSense in GD-P that desperately needed them.

(not that there was anything at all wrong with ProSense's post!)

I'm presuming the bandwidth isn't a problem. Smack me with a wet noodle if it is.

[sandrakae]

84. Alex looks like her mother.

[ProSense]

77. Love this one

http://www.time.com/time/election2004/photoessay/gatefold/index.html

[MH1]

78. Me too!

That is such a sweet pic.

(I'm trying to play along, really. Those people just crack me up though.)