Posted on 07/31/2004 10:14:14 AM PDT by quidnunc
Teresa Heinz Kerry made it through her unprecedented speech at the Democratic National Convention without losing control of her famous temper, losing her place in the well-rehearsed speech, or otherwise providing dramatic entertainment. But she was just plain weird.
Leave aside the weirdness of having the wife of a candidate give a major speech two days before he accepts the nomination. We’ll return to that subject shortly. She is a strange person, and the mysterious and off-putting nature of her eccentricity was heightened by her performance before the mildly cheering crowd at the Fleet center.
She began by leaning out from behind the backdrop, seeming to peek at the audience as the cameras focused on her entrance. Slightly bent over, she walked out with her hand over her heart, then patting her heart, as if to reassure herself that her big moment was actually happening, and that she would be just fine. Blowing kisses to the applauding audience, she embraced her son Christopher, stepson to the presumptive Presidential nominee, who had declared his love for her in his introduction of her.
She was dressed in a near-ketchup red suit. The crowd waved ketchup red placards with “We love TERESA!” printed in big white letters. What is the message in this choice of colors? That her fortune is based on a tomato-derived sauce? That she is hoping to relate better to red state voters? That she is nostalgic for communism?
Acknowledging the applause, and maybe the signs, her first words were, “Thank-you. Thank-you. I love you, too.” Nothing about how honored she is to be addressing the convention and the nation. Just an acknowledgement of the assumed love for HER. Though the crowd had already stopped cheering and applauding, she gestured with her hands to quiet them, as if her body were programmed in advance to do so. The hands lingered a few moments too long, hanging there in front of her while the audience was silent.
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Is it my imagination, or does Mrs Kerry look heavily medicated in all of her public appearances?
Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry , was in the spotlight at the party's convention after again revealing her outspoken nature(AFP/Getty Images/File) 
Democratic presidential candidate US Senator John Kerry (R) kisses his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry 25 July 2004 in Boston(AFP/Getty Images/File) Kiss me damnittttt!!!! You're a candidate's wife!!! Sir, I KNEW Mel Brooks. And that woman's NO Mel Brooks! 8~)
Right. I'd forgotten that.
The Weasel Brigade.
Sadly.
Someone in another post brought up a good question. Does Teresa have dual citizenship?
As an American friend told me once who had dual citizenship -- "I've always kept my Swiss citizenship; you never know when you might have to leave the country fast."
She probably has more than two.
Is it my imagination, or does Mrs Kerry look heavily medicated in all of her public appearances?
The Washington Post did a profile on her 2 years ago and it reported that she took Prozac after the death of her husband.
She's probably increased her dosage significantly for the campaign.
BUT -- today on CNN (if you can imagine that) reported they think the hampster story is a rip off of Eddie Murry's in the first Doctor Doolittle where he does CPR to save a hampster. Give he ripped off stories from Bush and Breck Girl ripped off Cheny stories makes sense to me they'd rip off a hampster story.
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