Teresa: "I don't know Laura Bush... don't know that she's ever had a real job -- I mean, since she's been grown up."
Posted on 10/21/2004 11:18:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"Clothing is wonderful, but let them go naked for a while, at least the kids," Teresa Heinz Kerry said last month to New York relief workers sending supplies to victims of Hurricane Ivan. "Let's just say that remark probably wasn't in her talking points," said one Democratic source described at the time as being close to the Kerry campaign.
The recent diversion from the talking points by the woman John Kerry's daughters reportedly refer to as "Step Money" came in an interview with USA Today, in which Teresa apparently decided First Lady Laura Bush was "fair game" for attack: "Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job -- I mean, since she's been grown up."
Remember when, during the Democratic convention, Teresa Heinz lectured us: "It is time for the world to hear women's voices -- in full and at last"? While the Kerry campaign seems to have sidelined Teresa's "full voice" as much as possible -- sending her to such hot battlegrounds as Texas -- every once in a while Teresa's true "voice" appears -- whether she's telling a reporter to "shove it" or saying a Bush re-election would be "four more years of hell" or saying "only an idiot" wouldn't support her husband's big-government health-care plan.
Teresa issued a lame apology yesterday for her Laura Bush slight, saying: "I had forgotten that Mrs. Bush had worked as a schoolteacher and librarian, and there couldn't be a more important job than teaching our children. As someone who has been both a full time mom and full time in the workforce, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are. I appreciate and honor Mrs. Bush's service to the country as first lady, and am sincerely sorry I had not remembered her important work in the past."
Okay, so she sort of apologizes to teachers and librarians for saying theirs aren't "real jobs." Did she really forget Laura Bush was a librarian and teacher? It's not like the First Lady's past is a big secret.
But Teresa still hasn't apologized to stay-at-home mothers for implying that they don't have "real jobs." Certainly, we aren't supposed to believe that she "forgot" Laura Bush was a mom. Most of us moms -- whether working moms or stay-at-home moms (I've been both) -- consider that occupation more than a full-time job. Then again, most of us don't have the staff of six that, as the New York Times reports, accommodate every whim of Teresa Heinz's and John Kerry's at their many mansions around the country.
One wonders what a "real job" is in the THK book -- but we can imagine (something to do with servants writing a six-million-dollar check to keep your husband's campaign afloat?). What slipped out from Teresa "in full and at last" was the culturally elite prima donna that the Kerry staff have worked hard to keep under wraps. No doubt Kerry and his staff are all indebted to Teresa's bankrolling skills -- but "Step Money" is causing problems on the home front.
Barbara Comstock is a former Department of Justice spokeswoman and currently a principal with Blank Rome Government Relations.
For that matter, why doesn't Andy Rooney find a real job?
Yeah.
Right.
I'm a Stay At Home Mom.
( mostly. she's gotten older, so I pick up piece work here and there. Mostly t buy extras for the Kid)
Queen TaRAYzuh can ..... (deleated)
BTTT
Wonder how this made it past the censors at C-BS.
the worst thing she said was that her experience was "larger" than Laura's. That was the snooty, grandiose part of it.
Ouch.
The woman is used to 'talking down to people' just like her hubby is. They talk down to servants, FBI and other people. I'm sure they DEMAND that people do things all the time. They are an embarrassment to the US. God forbid 'they' would be elected to office.
Teresa should check in with a neurologist, to see why she "forgot" the "important work" in her opponent's resume.
It's obvious that Teresa wanted to one-up Laura and didn't care about the truth.
Teresa is a LOT like her husband John.
We all know what happened to that other lady who spoke "Let them eat cake" in French.
Visualize this witch as First Lady of the United States. Is that scary or what? But, if the Dims, George Soros, Michael Moore and the radical left-wing libs of America manage to steal this election, that's what will happen, First Lady TA-RAY-ZA Heinz Kerry.
GOD FORBID !!
Teresa: "I don't know Laura Bush... don't know that she's ever had a real job -- I mean, since she's been grown up."
what do you expect from a woman who once referred to her meeting with her step daughters as having to treat them as one would pets? she gives no honor to motherhood.
*** by the woman John Kerry's daughters reportedly refer to as "Step Money"
Ouch.***
yeah, cause THEIR Mommy's family only had $300 million! Poor kids :(
I agree. Odd that Teresa didn't remember Laura has already had almost 4 years of experience as First Lady. Can't get experience much "larger" than that without being president.
The Kerrys want us to forget that Bush has been president and Laura and George are the couple with the most experience in the White House.
If I only had a brain!
First lady Laura Bush, center, and her twin daughters sit in the audience just before the start of the third and final presidential debate, at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004. From left to right are Secretary of Commerce Don Evans, Barbara Bush, first lady Laura Bush, Jenna Bush and the president's nephew George P. Bush, son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
I know John Heinz was a repub, but was he a conservative? Seeing and hearing his "sweet widow" makes me believe he was a "repub" on the order of Lincoln Chafee.
here is the exact quote: from the Boston Globe,
"The daughter of a doctor, Heinz loves to dispense medical advice. Friends think she is "delightful, loving, funny and kindhearted'' but her step-daughters, Vanessa and Alexandra Kerry, did not hit it off with her at first. "I thought, 'I love kids, kids love me, I'll be fine.' Baloney,'' Teresa said. "You have to treat stepchildren like pets. You're nice to them but you don't get too close or they chew you up. Well, I did it the other way.''
In fact, we hear the gals refer to Heinz as their "step-money.'' As for her hubby, the piece says that Kerry spoke French to Teresa when he was wooing her, as is his wont.
Such a great mother figure ...treat them like pets.
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