Abandoned thread

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'cause I'm an idiot. Have at it, ladies.

I'm up first. Kerry and those glasses (wore them in committee today.) :evilgrin:



Sorry - can't find the one I want, but I'm still looking.

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1. New one

Swoon :loveya:



US Senator John Kerry is seen at US Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice's confirmation hearings before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington Jan. 18, 2005.

[TayTay]

3. OMG! What a look!

Wisdom, resignation, intelligence, wariness. It's all there! Great friggin pic, Whome! I love this one. It's a'Lincolnesque' pic for sure and certain.

Swoon :loveya: indeed

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4. It's great, isn't it?

It was from a Chinese website: Peoples Daily Online http://english.people.com.cn

Helluva photographer.

[TayTay]

5. I guess

That's a lovely pic. Everything I really admire about KErry is in his face in that pic. (I'm getting the vapors again.)

:evilgrin:

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6. Know what you mean...

every time I look at it I get swoony all over again...

[JI7]

17. ohhhhhhhhh

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2. and another...

US Senator John Kerry is seen at US Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice's confirmation hearings before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington Jan. 18, 2005.

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7. BTW,

Eyes look very green here.

[TayTay]

8. Yeah.

You know, he's had a very busy week. (And he looked really good in committee today. I didn't see the floor vote on the judges, but I assume he looked good then as well.) Sigh!

We are lucky to have him. He can walk and chew gum at the same time. (HaHa Sen. Allen) He is a tasty morsel (especially with those glasses on and he is wicked, wicked smaht.

[ginnyinWI]

9. I did.

Kerry floor report: He came in and went up to the desk on the Dem side and impatiently drummed his fingers on the counter until she noticed him. Voted "no" (against Brown) and then went over to talk to Biden. They both sat down behind the first row of desks and had a long serious conversation--(I'm imagining about Bolton). Lots of hand gestures on each side, and both hunched forward and looking straight at each other. Hmmm I wonder what's up.

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10. I'd love to know.

I missed that one, but here's my floor report on the Pryor cloture vote. He walked in from the dem side, drummed his fingers on the counter until she noticed him. Voted "no" (against cloture) and then walked purposefully out the same way he'd come in. I think I see a pattern. ;-)

(He looked very good while doing it :evilgrin:)

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11. Re: Bolton

Funny Clemons post today, titled John Bolton's "Real Purpose" at the United Nations?"

This sculpture at the Visitor's Plaza of the United Nations in New York was a gift from the Government of Luxembourg and presented to the United Nations in 1988. The sculpture depicts a 45-calibre revolver, the barrel of which is tied into a know and was created as a "peace symbol" by artist Karl Fredrik Reutersward.

A talented, aspiring political cartoonist, Jonah Lobe, sent me the following depiction of Bolton's plans if confirmed to be America's Ambassador to the U.N...

[JI7]

18. i love that

[ginnyinWI]

12. Because I watched Going Upriver again last night:

My 22 year old daughter saw it for the first time. She had no idea that there were so many protests and demonstrations over the Vietnam war! And this is the one that just graduated from college!?! Ah well. I filled her in with my own personal recollections.

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13. I haven't gotten my daughter to watch it yet.

She finds listening to Kerry too painful, still. I keep working on her, though. One of these days...

What did your daughter think of it? Was she impressed (assuming, of course that she was impressed with Kerry to begin with!)?

[ginnyinWI]

16. She was impressed

She hadn't known anything about the VVAW and Kerry's being involved in it. So that impressed her--that he was that anti-establishment at one time. And she also said that throughout his life he always seemed to be on such a "presidential track", from Yale to the military and beyond that. She said that even as a young man he had so much dignity and was so distinguished--I think she means gravitas. She feels that we've missed two good presidents now--Gore and Kerry. Sadly I agree.

Last year she started out a Dean supporter but turned to Kerry quite easily, once we had attended a JE/EE rally and she heard a local education person give a pitch for Kerry/Edwards' educational policies (since she is going into a school-related career). She got to shake Edward's hand and got an autograph and saw Dan Rather in person (funny that she was impressed by that!)

One thing that makes Going Upriver so powerful are the many personal testimonials throughout the film, from Max Clelland to Bobby Muller to Jim Rassmann. That, plus the beautiful photography and the Philip Glass score. Makes it complete. I'm glad I own the DVD.

[karynnj]

15. Butler did a great job on telling that part of the story

His framing of it was really interesting - because he tried to explain it from the point of view of the returning soldiers. The images really brought back that time period and I loved the music he used.

I've never seen the anti-war movement shown so clearly. In fact, if Kerry weren't a political figure now, parts of it would probably be fantastic for High School classes on Vietnam or (60s, 70s, 80s) as 2 history classes were named in the 2 high schools my kids have gone to.

[Lavender Brown]

14. This one is from a few weeks ago

At a race in Boston:

[elshiva]

19. Reminds me of...