The would-be first lady who is refusing to keep schtum

The Irish Independent ^ | July 17th 2004 | Unschtumed.

[aculeus]

Teresa Kerry, the wife of the presidential candidate, has proved herself a key electoral asset ahead of the Democratic convention later this month, writes Nicholas Wapshott

Teresa Kerry is perched on a child's chair in the Fort George Community Enrichment Centre in Washington Heights, New York, with her knees uncomfortably close to her chest. Around her in a circle sit a dozen three and four-year-olds, mostly of Puerto Rican-born parents, reading in a Spanish sing-song the nursery rhyme Incey-Wincey Spider.

Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry is a shy woman who has been hurled into the limelight somewhat against her will, a fact she lets slip to the children sitting at her feet who only have the vaguest notion who she is. "Wouldn't you like your own cocoon?" she asks them. "Me, too."

[aculeus]

Schtum?

[King Prout]

"incey WINCEY"?

[Fenris6]

"Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry"

LMAO.

She's only reading to kids to help her gold-digging opportunistic hubby get elected.

[dano1]

Keep schtum = to say nothing.
Origin: A Yiddish expression, from German stumm meaning silent

[aculeus]

Keep schtum = to say nothing.

Origin: A Yiddish expression, from German stumm meaning silent.

Okaaay. But in an Irish national paper?

[Happygal]

Schtum!
Keeping schtum, is keeping yer big fat gob shut! ;-)

[Inyokern]

And she wears a shmateh over one shoulder.

[BenLurkin]

You know I always wondered about the origin of these lyrics:

All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter 'bout
Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I can't give it away on 7th Avenue
This town's been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered)

[Old Professer]

"eensy, weensy, teensy?"

[JennysCool]

Why so schtum? :-)

[trussell]

A few notes on Mrs. John Kerry (She hates being
called that, by the way!)

Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry.
Married to Senator Kerry in 1995, she only took his
name eighteen months ago. She is an interesting
paradox of conflicts. I thought John Kerry was scary,
but he doesn’t hold a candle to his wife ... Maria Teresa
Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in
Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician,
and was educated in Switzerland and South Africa. Fluent
in five languages, she was working as a United Nations
interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60’s when she met a
handsome young American, H. John Heinz, III, who worked
at a bank in Geneva. He told her his family was "in the food
business."

They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh
where his family ran the giant H.J. Heinz food company.
He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in
1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of three terms
in the United States Senate. A Republican, he wrote a burning
diatribe against some of the causes backed by young House
member John Kerry.)

Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane
collided with a Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia
suburb. The senator, his pilot and co-pilot, and both of Sun's
helicopter pilots were killed. He was survived by his wife,
Teresa, and their three young sons.

Four years later, having inherited Heinz's $500 million fortune,
she married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal then-junior
senator from Massachusetts. She became a registered Democrat
and the process of her radicalization was set in motion.

Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required Kerry
to sign a pre- nuptial agreement before they were married. John
Kerry may not have check-writing privileges on the Heinz catsup
and pickle fortune, but he is certainly a willing and uncomplaining
beneficiary of it. A lot of hard-earned money, made through many
years of hawking catsup, mustard, and pickles has fallen into the
hands of two people who despise successful entrepreneurship
and who believe in the confiscatory redistribution of wealth.

So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money?
Just one example: According to the G2 Bulletin, an online
intelligence newsletter of WorldNet Daily, in the years between
1995-2001 she gave more than $4 million to an organization
called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides Foundation
do with John Heinz’s money?

They support numerous anti-war groups, including Ramsey Clark’s
International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam
Hussein when he's tried.

They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the
Tides Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros.
The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim
immigration from "terrorist" states.

They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose
leaders are known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.

They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist
front during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart,
has been arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman,
communicate with terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind
of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic group whose
primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and
Texas to Mexico.

These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the
anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity
of our would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator
John Heinz, and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires
to be the 44th President of the United States.

If voters will only try to imagine a woman such as Teresa Heinz Kerry,
the fairy godmother of the radical left, laying her head on a pillow each
night just inches from the President of the United States, hopefully they
will decide that the only way these two will ever be allowed into the White
House is with an engraved invitation in hand.


Daniel F. Eckert

LINSCO/PRIVATE LEDGER NASD/SIPC

[mewzilla]

Ah, but Terayzah is more than happy to keep schtum when it comes to her tax returns, isn't she...?

[Snickersnee]

... a dozen three and four-year-olds, mostly of Puerto Rican-born parents,

Washington Heights, eh? Wanna bet?

[southernnorthcarolina]

Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry is a shy woman who has been hurled into the limelight somewhat against her will...

Sure. Which explains why she has married two U.S. Senators.

[al baby]

Schtum?


Nut sack

[TC Rider]

"I speak French and Italian, of course, and I understand everything. I try." She rattles off the states she has visited with large Spanish-speaking populations, then adds: "John is learning Spanish. It is easy for him to learn."

Of course, doesn't everyone speak French and Italian?

And John is so smart, everything is so easy for him.

[aculeus]

Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry is a shy woman who has been hurled into the limelight somewhat against her will...

She's been hurled!