Time for a break from reality

The question on everyone's minds these days is not what will be said at the debates, not who will win the debates, not what each candidate has to do at the debates. No, the real questions is what color Kerry will be when he shows up at the debates. All kidding aside Kerry showing up with an orange face the other day has lots of people guessing why the sudden change of color. And of course there are the jokes.

From Hugh Hewitt.

An e-mailer suggests it is just Kerry turning colors for the fall. Another writes that Kerry just wants to declare "Ich bin ein Pumpkiner." A third says its a play for the Great Pumpkin vote. And finally, one suggests it is just nature's pimpkin cycle: Blooms and grows in July. Turns Orange in September. Carved up in October. Thrown out in November.

After seeing those jokes I thought the other anti Kerry blogs might have some too. But they are all to serious today and haven't touched the subject. Still curious and in an almost desperate search for humor, I looked on Google news and only found an article from The New York Post, JOHN A 'BRONZE' STAR

John Kerry has suddenly become the man with a tan that even George Hamilton would envy — leading to accusations that something is shady just before the big presidential debate.

How the Democratic presidential candidate got his striking new orange glow depends on whom you ask.

The Kerry camp reportedly insisted he earned it fair and square -- by baking in the sun during a game of flag football last Friday in Bedford, Mass.

But a top New York dermatologist — after studying new photos of Kerry — told The Post yesterday that the deep bronze color appears to be one big fake.

"Wow! That is a tan! He has color all over his face. But if he had gotten it all outside, he wouldn't have been so evenly tanned," said Dr. Ted Daly of Garden City Dermatology.

"My diagnosis is: it's a tanning salon — some ultraviolet rays."

Still looking for light humor I wandered over to Rush for the transcript of Kerry Goes Orange for Big Debate but I didn't read it because it was too long. While I was working earlier in the evening I heard a caller to a radio show opine that it may have been a reaction to Botox injections or some medication he took to reduce his sweating at the debate. Sadly my quest for humor on this subject is over. It's a pity too as I had such high hopes. As far as looking orange at the debates, that won't happen. Whatever his skin color is will be covered by makeup just as everyone does who goes on TV. I guess the mystery will never be solved and that's too bad because it was the first interesting thing that's happened in a very long time. -sigh-