[shhrubbery!]

What's with the gaping mouth? Photographers usually don't allow you to pose like that.

Another FReeper said Kerry had a pronounced "underbite." One of my sons has that condition too. Possibly the jaw or chin surgery Kerry's rumored to have had was to correct the underbite.

(So it could be that he just didn't look good with his mouth closed -- much as I can't stand John F'n Kerry, I don't want to make fun of that.).

[small voice in the wilderness]

Well, now we know why he his later photos show him with his hand under his chin in a reflecting mood. It's actually to hold his gaping mouth shut!

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" One of my sons has that condition too. Possibly the jaw or chin surgery Kerry's rumored to have had was to correct the underbite."

Kerry admits to surgery on his jaw, but, naturally the reason for the surgery varies from year to year,
interview to interview.
And then sometimes it is denied.
It looks like Kerry had cosmetic orthognatic surgery to shorten his jaw, but,is claiming he had some type of transmandibular joint surgery, for an old hockey injury.
I think Kerry was Clinton's mentor and role model.

Kerry also said he carries a note from his dentist in his briefcase, stating that Kerry had a medical reason for the surgery.

Joe Klein interview in the New Yorker,2002 :

The Boston media assumed everything Kerry did to be political and his actions were subjected to ridicule- "like the fact that he had corrective jaw surgery (to fix a clicking sound, which had been compounded by a hockey injury )"

In a Washington Post article, in 2002, Kerry's aide, David Wade, says Kerry's surgically enhanced jaw was not the result of a cosmetic chin-tuck but rather from "an operation to correct 'a malocclusion,'
The paper noted that Kerry now had more appeal to the ladies.

[eeriegeno]

What's with the gaping mouth? Photographers usually don't allow you to pose like that. Another FReeper said Kerry had a pronounced "underbite." One of my sons has that condition too. Possibly the jaw or chin surgery Kerry's rumored to have had was to correct the underbite. (So it could be that he just didn't look good with his mouth closed -- much as I can't stand John F'n Kerry, I don't want to make fun of that.).

John F'ing couldn't keep his f'ing mouth shut back then and he aint learned any better even with a Yale education? Go figure?????

[CathyRyan]

Rich people always seem to have bad teeth.