Blunt and Influential, Kerry's Wife Is an X Factor

It would appear that Mrs Heinz is half Portuguese and half German.

41 posted on 02/21/2004 2:48:57 PM PST by Chris Talk (What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will become.)

She pronounces herself ardently pro-choice, despite being a Roman Catholic, but in the next breath denounces the blunt language of some abortion rights advocates. "I'm old-fashioned," she said. "So I wouldn't use the phraseology of some people that say, `No, my body, I do what I want!' I find that kind of crude terminology, period."

Well thank goodness she had John Kerry seek that annullment... I'd hate to think of her being married outside the Catholic church. How would she hold her head up at her abortion rights events? By the way, I've never found any source saying the annulment was granted, though other posters have told me so. I've heard conflicting stories about it, and I'd really like to know the truth. And isn't it odd that in one paragraph she protests "crude language" and then in another, there is a reference to her own swearing. Wonder what she thought of Kerry's "f" word event? But I truly hope that both Kerrys, as supporters of partial birth abortion, at least have the decency to refrain from touting their Catholicism. Somehow I doubt it, though. I'm waiting to see if and how they will bring it up... either the Republicans are going to be "mean spirited" by "bashing" them for being Catholic or it will be yet another comparison to John F. Kennedy....

42 posted on 02/21/2004 2:49:03 PM PST by GraceCoolidge

Why? His prostate was removed .

All canidates can come down with severe illness when serving as president. But I would prefer a canidate who is as healthy as can be starting out. Cancer in remission is just that: cancer in remission. The presidency is a stressful job. In my opinion, cancer in remission and stressful job do not mix.

43 posted on 02/21/2004 2:50:31 PM PST by mlmr (Everything is getting better and better!)

To: Cathryn Crawford

She has a coarse feral look and demeanor.

Some folks will never learn that all the money in the world...even if earned through insemination...cannot buy class.

Poor dead Heinz...rich guys and gals: Choose your spouses wisely.

44 posted on 02/21/2004 2:53:19 PM PST by wardaddy ("either the arabs are at your throat, or at your feet")

To: GraceCoolidge

What would the familiar be for "Chutzpah"?

45 posted on 02/21/2004 3:11:57 PM PST by Thebaddog (Woof this!)

To: Cathryn Crawford

46 posted on 02/21/2004 4:18:15 PM PST by Liz

Come on! His doctors probably don't even speak French!

LOL. Actually the prostrate business is a cover story. Teresa found out about the "intern" problem and had John fixed. Cherchez la femme!

47 posted on 02/21/2004 4:33:28 PM PST by kabar

To: Cathryn Crawford

Teresa Von MoneyBags is very worried about the well being of the Al Queda terrorists,held at Gitmo. I bet she is sending them Care packages and arranging for lawyers. Since Mrs Von Moneybags is so concerned about the Geneva Convention, I wonder how she feels about John the Red executing a wounded VC.

By James Neal, Associated Press, 11/25/2003

SEATTLE -- The wife of Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry said yesterday that suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay should be given prisoner of war status.

"They were captured while fighting a war," Teresa Heinz Kerry said at an informal discussion with minority activists in Seattle. "They should have the rights that other prisoners of war have had."

Heinz Kerry said that denying the detainees the protections of the Geneva Convention is "insulting, ignorant, and insensitive" to the rest of the world.

She added that under President Bush, the United States, once known as the standard-bearer for human rights, is now considered a hypocrite.

"The arrogance shown by this administration on human rights and in its foreign policy is horrible," she said.

Some 660 people suspected of taking part in terrorist activity are being held at the prison on the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Many were captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan two years ago in the war on terrorism and are believed to be members of Al Qaeda or the Taliban.

The Bush administration has said its top priority is interrogating the detainees for intelligence on any planned terrorist attacks. A spokeswoman for the Kerry campaign said Senator Kerry supports his wife's position that the detainees should be given basic protections such as the right to an attorney.

48 posted on 02/21/2004 4:59:06 PM PST by Wild Irish Rogue

To: Cathryn Crawford

Republicans might continue to make an issue of Ms. Heinz Kerry.

Big mistake

49 posted on 02/21/2004 5:29:13 PM PST by thesummerwind (Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)

To: ServesURight

I would love to see Mrs. Ketchup dump Kerry when he loses in November. Then he'd have to search for a new gal to pimp.

Or as Mark Steyn says,

"Kerry was a blueblood of relatively minor means who married a woman worth $300 million and then traded up to a woman worth $500 million. If I were Teresa Heinz Kerry I'd be worried, now Massachusetts is introducing gay marriage, that hubby may start giving the come-hither look to some of the state's elderly bachelor billionaires."

50 posted on 02/21/2004 5:40:54 PM PST by thesummerwind (Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)

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