Kerry himself admires his wife’s intellect and independence, he told me, and he seems to accept stoically, if not with relish, that she is “saucy.”
Relish? Sauce? Whoa, too many Heinz allusions.
Perhaps, he reflected, she tends to reject criticism imperiously “because she’s used to tremendous deference. When you have so much money, and give so much away, everyone, from governors on down, courts your approval. I think she sometimes has problems with a secondary role.”
So many words! I think the one he was looking for starts with a "B" and rhymes with rich. Here we go:
in a television interview with a Pittsburgh anchorwoman, employed the word “scumbags” to describe some of her detractors. I doubt that she knows the literal meaning of “scumbag,” but perhaps, after forty years in America, nearly thirty of them as a political wife, observing how the flaws and contradictions of a personality as complex as hers are melted down for ammunition by the other side, she should have learned it.
Trust me on this, there's nothing about Pittsburgh that reminds one of Mozambique:
...nostalgia for the sensations of her childhood (the steamy vibrance of New Orleans reminded her of home, she said, as did the palm trees and tile roofs of Florida and the earthiness of Pittsburgh) ...
Not sure what to make of this:
The students at Bethune-Cookman College, in Daytona Beach, half of them male and most of them under twenty-one, listened politely but with glazed expressions to a digression about hormonereplacement therapy for the symptoms of menopause.
This is bull, Pittsburgh began its cleanup long before Teresa came on the scene, but are we surprised that she takes credit of it:
What was once one of America’s most polluted cities is now, according to Heinz Kerry, one of its cleanest, in part because of her environmental leadership.
Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) is joined by his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, left, and actress Uma Thurman at the 7th Annual Redbook Mothers & Shakers awards luncheon, in New York, Monday Sept. 20, 2004. Mrs. Kerry received an award for inspiring Americans to help others, Thurman was honored for nurturing kids born into poverty, and the candidate gave the keynote address.
Not sure what to make of this:
The students at Bethune-Cookman College, in Daytona Beach, half of them male and most of them under twenty-one, listened politely but with glazed expressions to a digression about hormonereplacement therapy for the symptoms of menopause.
She has no idea how to connect with "little people" and doesn't see the rudeness in trying to educate them because, after all, they're Americans and not very well informed. There's so much out there to know and the little people can't keep up so she must help them understand why their lives are so miserable. Hence the talk about hormone-replacement to 21 year old blacks, half of which are men. No doubt she blamed the president for cutting some woman's program so she had to explain why they should be concerned.
This cemented my conclusion:
You know, Americans are smart, but they only know what they see and hear. How many read op-ed pages?” She would like to make a weekly broadcast, “perhaps on c-span, talking and listening and feeling part of making people’s lives better.”
Hey! Maybe they'll give her Dan Rather's job!
That CBS kerfuffle is going to explode tomorrow. Mapes tells Lockhart to talk to Burkett. Burkett tells USA Today that he refused to give the documents to CBS until they got him an appointment with the higher ups in the Kerry campaign. Can you say, Kerry's circling the bowl? Sure, I knew you could.