[Izzy Dunne]

.. And I thought she would go for Sharpton...

[Betaille]

"my mind ravaged by corroding voices, my body defeated by bone rattling panics, I sat on the edge of my bed minutes from taking my own life."

I think I would feel like that too if I had to listen to John Kerry for more than 10 minutes.

[boxerblues]

"The day our first child was born, my husband started law school thirty-five miles away. Stuck studying in the library until the early morning hours, he often did not come home.

He cant make the 1/2 hour drive home to help out with a child he brought into this world. jerk

[MarketR]

In her 1996 book, "Change of Heart," Thorne said that playing the role of wife to the rising political star had made her so depressed she wanted to kill herself.

Clearly, not a person who can feel for another human being. Even the person supposedly most close to him.

This may well be the issue which destroys him. Can you imagine how this will play with the so called "Soccer Moms"?

[HenryLeeII]

But in 1997, when Sen. Kerry sought to have the marriage that had produced their two daughters annulled...

I guess the kids are lucky that he didn't try to have them annulled!

[bobo1]

If this was the story of a conservative politician, the news would have read:

"Senator's Neglect Drives Wife To Suicide."

"Wife With History of Mental Illness Backs Ex-Husband".

blessings, Bobo

[Ruth A.]

Most of the other candidtates had to drop out before she endorsed him. Hmmm...

Lots of contradictions in this story. What a sorry couple.

[mewzilla]

Here's a link to a NewsMax article about Kerry, Thorne, their divorce, and what Douglas Brinkley thinks about Kerry's private life and the campaign.

[joesnuffy]

Stuck studying in the library until the early morning hours, he often did not come home.

35 miles away and he "often" did not come home... He was cheatin on her...and she knew it...that's more likely why she divorced his sorry ass democrat...

imo

[per loin]

I had heard that she had mental problems.

[mabelkitty]

Is Kerry the first divorced man to run for President?

[mass55th]

Sounds like John Boy was an absentee husband and father, just like his own father before him.

[oldcomputerguy]

Opps, sorry. I thought this article was about Kerry's current wife endorsing him...which *would* be a newsworthy event.

I would say the annulment issue is potentially an explosive personality indicator and really shows his true colors.

[SunnyUsa]

But in 1997, when Sen. Kerry sought to have the marriage that had produced their two daughters annulled, Thorne was furious at being asked to acquiesce.
In an interview with the Boston Globe she said the request "was disrespectful to me ... and devoid of any sense of the humanity of what this means to me and the children."
"I cannot look my children in the eyes or stand before them with integrity and know in my heart that I have contributed in any way to a process that invalidates and nullified the union from which they were created," Thorne raged.
Still, the spurned ex-wife decided not to contest the annulment

Her endorsement looks like she's still being a doormat for him - the fact that he sought to annullment after 2 children to marry the ketchup queen speaks volumes about his lack of character.

[Tacis]

I am certain that the media will insist on knowing about the circumstances of the annulment and of the decree that surrounded it. It seems to demonstrate an amazingly flexible view of ones committment to vows previously given.

Maybe the African-American wife didn't want to be married to a divorced man. Does an annulment automatically turn the legitimate cgildren of what once was a legal marriage into bastards? Does their name change automatically or do they have to petition to have it stay the same as when they were born even though the father no longer recognizes them as his/legal?

Sure, the media will ask!!!

[Jhensy]

Let's see...Kerry's wife suffered from depression, as did Tipper Gore; Joan Kennedy fell into alcoholism, Kitty Dukakis drank FREAKIN' PAINT THINNER ... Hillary, Jackie Kennedy, Gary Hart's wife all got cheated on and humiliated...

I'm sensing a pattern here.

[Ed_in_NJ]

He obviously doesn't give a rip about ANYONE but himself.

[Cate]

Great.... another nut job moves here to Montana... Geeesh.