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In the coverage of MaryGate, I'm detecting a media effort to "disappear" the Elizabeth Edwards quote. All of them---Kerry, Cahill, Edwards, spinners---have been really repugnant.

But Liz Edwards' was the worst political remark I would ever have imagined. The only person I can think of who might possible make it worse is Tereza...I wish someone would ask HER opinion on this.

I too am curious as to why Teresa has not weighed in on the Cheney comment. She has been commenting on everything else lately. Last week, in Fl, she spoke to an Indian tribe and said she was going to help Indian children (wonder if she will let them wear clothes); she stated just the other day that her First Lady project was going to be "childhood obesity" and just yesterday she was talking about battered women.

Speaking of Teresa, her tax returns were not all that forthcoming. Link

John Kerry's near-billionaire wife, Teresa, reported more than $5 million in total income last year but paid only 12.5 percent in federal taxes — less than the average middle-class family — ......Mrs. Kerry's rate is barely above the lowest rate of 10 percent for the lowest-income Americans subject to taxes.

Experts on lifestyles of the rich and famous say that $5 million in income wouldn't come close to covering the Kerrys' golden lifestyle with five estates, multiple cars, a $3.5 million Gulfstream V jet complete with plasma TV, gold fixtures and two bathrooms, a yacht worth $750,000 to $1 million and servants in every location.

The Kerrys own a $12 million waterfront Nantucket estate, a $6 million mansion in Washington's tony Georgetown, a $12.8 million mansion in Boston's Beacon Hill, a $14 million estate on 90 acres outside Pittsburgh and an $8 million ski chalet near Sun Valley, Idaho.