Posted on 08/18/2004 2:24:25 PM PDT by MadIvan
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”.
I agree..There are rumors that he has cheated on her too. I wonder how she got the Heinz money. It seems like the kids were ...sort of left out.
I thought Botox and Detox were Kerry and Kennedy...
Yeah, that chick should be committed!
It gets worse. Consider: I'm more qualified for the job than any Democrat who has run for it since the Cold War, and several of the Republicans who have, and I'm freakin' 33. If the chips were down you could count on me and probably 90% of our fellow freepers to at least not screw the country up, but we can't say that about anyone the Dems put up for Prez this year. Scary!
Very likely correct, but they're not married are they? (g!)
August 17, 2004, 8:25 a.m.
The Candidates’ Diaries
The Ladies Edition(tm) (Part One). (“The Long View”)
By Rob Long
EDITOR'S NOTE:
This article appears in the August 23, 2004, issue of National Review.
From "My Campaign Diary," as dictated by Teresa Heinz Kerry:
...which was absolutely nuts and I told him so, really, just flat-out said that there's no way, no way, I'm going to pay fifty dollars for a paraffin hand dip when I have Estrella back at home — the one in Washington — who will do it for free. Well, not for free, but as part of her regular duties around the house — the one in Washington — while I'm on the phone or whatever and she's ironing the sheets or whatever she does to them that makes them smooth and smelling like I like them to. And he looked at me and said, "Ma'am, at salons in Ohio, a paraffin hand dip is fifty dollars," and I was about to say, "Well, you can take your Ohio and you can shove it up your..." but just then John appeared alongside me — I think he had gone into the pastry shop next door to shake hands with some of the people who mill about these kinds of places, and to buy one of those roundish fried pastries that fat people eat so many of, what are those? The round things? Estrella would know. She's fat. Why is it that so many people are fat? Anyway, he appeared with some kind of cardboard valise containing, I suppose, those round pastries, and guided me out of the salon before I really had a chance to get into it with the man who wanted fifty dollars for a hand dip, which was really outrageous. If people know you have money they just think they can get away with the most insane behavior...
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No, John's the fake. Teresa is the real deal.
Glad to brighten your day!
I LOVE that woman, she needs to speak out about Hanoi John MORE!
BWHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!
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