The Guild 8-11-04 What Would Ben Franklin Think of John Kerry?

The Quotable Franklin ^ | 8-11-04 | pubmom

[pubmom]

It does seem unbelievable. And why would he call his "dear friends" to come and comfort her?

Making little jokes about the situation as alleged in the article is just too sick for words.

Normal women who discover/know their husband is gay either leave, leave and get a good lawyer, or just aim and pull the trigger.

[lodwick]

Normal women who discover/know their husband is gay either leave, leave and get a good lawyer, or just aim and pull the trigger.
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Just about covers the options...cheers, pm

[mountaineer]

Good for them -

War veterans Jere Hill, middle, from Warham, Mass., and Robert Gibson, right, from Lexington, Ky., stand with their backs turned during Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's speech at the 105th Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Cincinnati on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004. Man in foreground is unidentified. Kerry received a polite if not overwhelmingly positive reaction from the VFW. But there was a clear divide, with scores of veterans sittings with their arms folded while others clapped. (AP Photo/David Kohl)

[lodwick]

But there was a clear divide, with scores of veterans sittings with their arms folded while others clapped.
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A microcosm of our country represented there.

[They'reGone2000]

A former Kerry girlfriend has written a book.

[mountaineer]

Oh my gosh, that's hilarious! From her website:


I think that I should explain "Hedge Fund Mistress." By the
time John Kerry won Iowa this novel was mainly completed.
There is a chapter on a character who dated a United States
senator. When John won my first reaction was: What do I do
now? Shelve my book? Rewrite the book? That portion of
the book is crucial to the story.

It puts me in a strange situation because I do not want my
personal experience with him to be twisted and I put nothing
past the right wing talk show hosts - especially in such a
close election (I hate Rush Limbaugh - in the book I call him
"The Rash"). Anyway, I'm not really sure what to do. John
may certainly read it before it goes to press for his input but, I
will ultimately make the decision on what is printed.

July 24, 2004. I think I should not release "Hedge Fund
Mistress" until November 2nd. Although it is a fiction novel I
don't want my words twisted or my meaning misconstrued.
Plus, I don't want the current political situation to affect my
honesty as a writer. It is just a story meant for entertainment.
I love my country and I have the greatest respect for John.

The book is a mainstream book with adult themes and I
believe there would be plenty of fader for the hate mongering
right wing talk show hosts.

[lodwick]

What a nitwit - bless her dem heart.

Thanks for the laugh: I needed it that.

[mountaineer]

I believe there would be plenty of fader for the hate mongering right wing talk show hosts.

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We can't have that!

[lodwick]

Heheh...I read that twice, then checked it, and then just thought, "eff'n was not boinking a genius..."

Goodness, girl, get some spell check proggie going on.

[lodwick]

This from MadIvan on another thread:

TERESA HEINZ KERRY, America’s would-be First Lady, reinforced her reputation for blunt speaking yesterday by admitting that her husband was not qualified to hold the office.

“I think nobody is truly qualified to be President of the United States,” she said, displaying the plain speaking that has become her trademark, a possible liability for John Kerry’s campaign.

“I mean, are you qualified to run the world . . . not run it, but have that influence? No, nobody is,” she said in the latest edition of Reader’s Digest.

Many American voters may be drawn to the evident reasoning behind her argument. But others are likely to be less sympathetic. Presidential campaigns rarely admit to any human frailty on the part of their candidate.

Her honesty apparently fell flat with Reader’s Digest, which said that the message she left hanging in the air was: “Vote for John. He’s less poorly qualified than the other guy.”

It was not the first time that Mrs Kerry has drawn attention with a directness that her husband’s campaign insists is an advantage.

The widow of a Republican senator, and a former Republican herself, she once admitted voting for the current President’s father. “I don’t think the son is the father, and the father’s not the son,” she added.

Mr Kerry followed in his wife’s footsteps by baring his soul in the September edition of GQ.

Perhaps seeking to draw a comparison with the teetotal President and pre-empt more embarrassing questions about his personal life, the Democrat revealed a liking for Charlize Theron. The South African actress was “pretty extraordinary”, he told the magazine in an interview entitled “A Beer with John Kerry”. Catherine Zeta-Jones was another favourite, along with Marilyn Monroe, who was funny, complicated and “ obviously very attractive”.

The US Senator also tried to fill in some of the missing years in his personal story for voters — the period after his first marriage ended in divorce and before he married Teresa Heinz.

“Those were not good days,” he said of his time as a bachelor on Capitol Hill. “That’s not a good world, and everyone wants a piece of you, and all I can say is, thank God I found Teresa.”

He waxed lyrical about the attributes that drew him to his wife. “Look for what gets your heart,” he told the interviewer. “Someone who excites you, turns you on.”

She should have character, be smart, confident and a “full woman”, someone who “knows how to flirt and have fun” and be “sexy and saucy and challenging”.

[Timeout]

Every time I check in, I'm just sure Big Wave Betty will have returned with her harrowing account of the hurricane. I assume they're still without power....bless their hearts...it's HOT down here.

Has anyone heard from her?

[lodwick]

Not a word, heard here, TO.

Check in, when you can, SL.

[Mr. Silverback]

By the way, Johnny, Marilyn is a has-been.

Literally.

[Timeout]

Good morning, everyone.

This LA Times photo made me laugh out loud. They call it "cutting edge prefab"..."decidely hip".

I think it looks like a house in Florida after Hurrican Charley passed through. Judge for yourself:

LOL!

[pubmom]

It does have that "freshly tossed by a 120mph gust look" about it.

[pubmom]

I have a great hurricane story for you. Yesterday we spoke with a co-worker of ours who has been living in Venice, Florida with her mom. Usually, they only winter there, but for some reason they decided to stay there until next spring.

Anyway, because they were in a retirement community comprised of homes of the mobile variety, they were evacuated and sent to a shelter. It turned out that shelter was not exactly the place to be, unless you're a storm chaser type.

When it became obvious the storm was going to make a direct hit, she remembered something her father had told her years ago, go to an interior room. She took her mom and herself to the bathroom, she strapped her mom to the toilet and she fastened herself to the pipes just above and weighted herself with an 80 pound backpack full of survival gear and her mom's medications. When the hurricane hit, it ripped the roof off the sports center and actually pulled her into the air. If she had no tethered and weighted herself, she would have been injured or worse. The bleachers in the sport's center collapsed at some point during this, and from what I understand, people were trapped.

And the trailer park where they lived?
Undamaged.

[mountaineer]

It's a good thing your coworker and her mom made it, after all that. There's just something undignified about departing this mortal coil strapped to a toilet.

[mountaineer]

More on "Hot Lips" Kerry:

In other news related to Kerry's carnal side, the presidential hopeful appears to have flip-flopped on the hotness of Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Kerry recently made headlines with a candid interview for GQ magazine in which he named Zeta-Jones and Charlize Theron as the sexiest actresses in Hollywood.

But it wasn't all that long ago that Kerry apparently found Zeta-Jones too zaftig for his taste. While being interviewed for a recent profile in Newsweek, Teresa volunteered that when she and her husband saw the movie "Chicago," he much preferred Renee Zellweger's slender physique to that of her curvier co-star, Zeta-Jones.

"You thought she was . . ." Heinz-Kerry teased her husband, laughing and holding her hands out wide. (Page Six)

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It's probably fair to say that whatever he thinks of Liz Edwards' physique has not been made public.

[mountaineer]

All the loonies and whackjobs are weighing in on l'affaire McGreevey:

The mystery man who claims to be Golan Cipel's ex-lover said yesterday that not only is the handsome Israeli gay - he's also still in love with Gov. Jim McGreevey. "Golan says he's not gay? He could have fooled me," Dr. David Miller of Livingston, N.J., told the Daily News yesterday, as he claimed that he had a gay affair with the ex-McGreevey aide.

"We love each other. Is that a crime? We're lovers," said Miller, 51, an openly gay man and divorced father of two.

In a manic, disjointed interview, Miller said that Cipel had made a pillow-talk confession: He still carries a torch for McGreevey. "Cipel never complained about the governor. They were in love," Miller said outside his home.

Miller also claimed to reporters that he is a CIA operative who takes pills doled out by the intelligence agency to make his skin darker so he can infiltrate unnamed groups. the rest of the hilarity

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I'm starting to enjoy this. My liberal sister-in-law, who lives in Essex Fells, NJ, was convinced Christie Todd Whitman was the devil incarnate, and she must have been thrilled with Gov. McGay. Now I wonder what she thinks - especially if that sleazy donor (Kushner?) spills the beans about how corrupt McGreevey and his administration have been.

[mountaineer]

The woman who says she dated Sen. John Kerry for 20 months in the early 1990s - former Harvard graduate student Lee Whitnum - tells me she has written a novel in which a Kerry-like character tries to become President.

The fortysomething Whitnum - who received her master's in education from Harvard and uses the pen name Lee Roystone - describes "The Hedge Fund Mistress" as part financial potboiler, part political thriller and part romance.

Kerry, she revealed to the Daily News this week, liked to cook seafood dinners for them in his Beacon Hill apartment and whisper sweet nothings in her ear - in French - during moments of passion. [Bleah]

Whitnum's Web site, hedgefundmistress.com, features a blog in which she worries that her novel - if published before Nov. 2 - might harm her one-time lover's election chances. Especially if conservative radio jocks exploit it to damage the Democratic nominee. "By the time John Kerry won Iowa, this novel was mainly completed," writes Whitnum, who tells me she has spent $15,000 out of her own pocket to self-publish the book. [what a surprise]

"There is a chapter on a character who dated a United States senator. When John won, my first reaction was: What do I do now? Shelve my book? Rewrite the book? That portion of the book is crucial to the story. It puts me in a strange situation because I do not want my personal experience with him to be twisted and I put nothing past the right-wing talk show hosts - especially in such a close election (I hate Rush Limbaugh - in the book I call him 'The Rash')."

Whitnum's Web site also features her "John Kerry Scrapbook," including several snapshots of herself and the senator, a couple of notes from Kerry and an account of their romance - along with with exhortations to support Kerry's campaign. "Vote for John!" the Web site repeatedly urges. Daily News