Kerry's 'day off' with daughter replete with Secret Service (Buys Jockstrap At Sporting Goods Store)

Los Angeles Times ^ | March 13, 2004

[presidio9]

BOSTON -- It's not often one gets a quiet afternoon away from the office to run errands. When you're campaigning for president of the United States, those moments can be even more fleeting.

John Kerry was home in Boston Friday for what was billed as a day off. But a routine trip out on a snowy afternoon by the presumed Democratic nominee quickly turned into a big-time production.

The Massachusetts senator and his daughter Vanessa, 27, were escorted from their red brick townhouse in Beacon Hill to a nearby Borders bookstore by a seven-car motorcade -- two police cars, three SUVs loaded with Secret Service agents and two minivans stuffed with reporters.

"So much for a mundane day with Dad," said the candidate's daughter.

As he edges closer to becoming the party's official nominee, Kerry's privacy has rapidly receded. The national media are now treating the Massachusetts senator with nearly the same scrutiny that they apply to the president.

Next week, members of his press corps are planning to accompany him on a five-day vacation with his wife to an undetermined locale.

[jigsaw]

why in the world would kerry need a jock strap?

Hillary told him to buy it.

[mass55th]

This mirrors Bill Clinton's MTV "boxers or briefs" moment. This guy is a moron.

[CyberAnt]

So now we get more of the bathing-suit clad dancing on the beach type of photos - to prove Kerry and Teresa really care about each other .. Yuk! It would take more than that to convince me.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

In Kerry's case, it's a "joke strap".

[theDentist]

Buys Jockstrap At Sporting Goods Store

A gift for his daughter or Thereeeeeeeza?

[hershey]

Kery is eating up all this attention, and he'd better, because he won't have it after Nov. 5.

[mewzilla]

What is it waith Dems? Bubba buys his daughter's bikinis, and Kerry's buys his jacques with his daughter? Euwwwwww....

[bray]

After the kicking Chaney gave him, he probably needed an ice pack??

Why would Yaaaawn buy this with 100 reporters around??? Weird, this guy makes Algore look normal??

Pray for W and The Truth

[Trillian]

Maybe jock strap is code word for testicle lock box?

[Ed_in_NJ]

A jockstrap from Borders?

[Petronski]

Is Naomi Wolfe involved? This has earthtones and 'alpha-male' written all over it.

LOL

[chiefqc]

To keep his nose warm.

[NYCVirago]

Check this out:

A reporter offered Kerry a copy of Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite. "I don't want to read it," the senator said with a laugh.

Of course not. He's too arrogant!

[SAMWolf]

[E Rocc]

He's trying to show that he's "sensitive" and "secure" enough to do Theresa's personal shopping for her.

-Eric

[E Rocc]

I can't decide if this one makes for really good or really bad subject matter for you.

-Eric

[Rebelbase]

A word of advice for all here. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, Look up "jockstrap" on google image search.

I'm going to wash my eyes now.

[mountaineer]

Jacques Strap

He does have Chirac right where he wants him, after all.

[mountaineer]

At least Clinton bought bikinis alone

I seem to recall that he picked up a few thong bikinis while in Brazil, and claimed they were for Chelsea. Ewwwww...

[GraceCoolidge]

At Borders, he pulled several hard-covered books off the shelves -- including such weighty tomes as The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene, and Walter Isaacson's biography of Benjamin Franklin, slinging them under his arm as he browsed.

Of course he was buying "tomes" because he is so smart. I am just completely shocked that he wasn't buying a book about the Vietnam War. The Benjamin Franklin biography, of course, was to draw parallels between himself and a more well respected American admirer of French culture. As for his jock strap purchase, that is just too gross for words... what a lack of class. Too bad a "foreign leader" didn't buy it for him... then at least maybe he would have kept it a secret.