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”.
There really is a good explanation for Teresa'a ramblings on her husband #2...she admitted in an interview a while back that was quoted on Fox News a couple weeks ago as admitting that"I've only been married to John for 9 years so I really don't know him very well"
Seems to me that says it all!!
I thought that handwriting sample is Kerry's?
It came from the website his former girlfriend has. She has all sorts of "keepsakes" from John on the website.
This is one of her keepsakes.
Here's what the girlfriend has written underneath that sample.
*****A standard form that John's office sent to all of us. He
has such interesting handwriting. Maybe an expert out
there will do a handwriting analysis and email it to me.
I've always been kinda curious. :)***
uh, no. he meant she's on the sauce.....
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/3662484/detail.html
Newspapers Seek To Unseal Heinz Estate Records
POSTED: 8:59 am EDT August 18, 2004
If her FIRST husband was running, she would have an entirely different opinion.
Thank heaven, he didn't. Then she'd have been our crazy terezzzzza.
Thanks. Somehow I missed Mountaineer's post. And thanks for the link to the thread.
Kerry was on the verge of bankruptcy when he zeroed in on TerAYsa...indeed, those were not 'good days' for Botoxboy.
I've said this before.
I like Theresa Kerry. Why? She makes for a great soundbyte.
I like her, for the same reason I buy women's fashion magazines.
Pure entertainment.
Something I can flick through, laugh out loud, and then toss in the trash.
Leading lady material, she ain't.
But good for a laugh? Hell yeah! Give the woman a talk show!
IMO, Teresa should divorce John and take up with Ted (since he and Jane are divorced) in Pategonia. Then they can go quietly mad or alcoholic or whatever without interfering with the sane folks who are seriously trying to bring peace to the world. Come to think of it, all they would need is a Bob, Carol, and Alice to complete their drug-induced sixties fantasy nightmare.
And that says it all. Do I remember hearing that she only became a Democrat within the last year?
From a Useful Idiot Caption-A-Rama from earlier this year, captioning that famous pic where he was kissing her and she appeared desperate to get away:
I just have one question: He's not good looking, she apparently doesn't like to even hug him, she already had hot-and-cold running cash when they met, so WHY IN THE WORLD DID SHE MARRY THIS FREAKISH BASSET-HOUND-MANTHING?
I really do wonder. Not because he sucks (though he certainly does) but because there appears to be no reason at all for her to be married to him. None. Zippo.
Last week the Dems were living in 1968.
This week they had to update to the Cold War in about two minutes to explain to us all why we still need 200,000 troops in Germany.
And it appears that Teresa wants to go back to that period in between when people were saying that America was done and that the Presidency was just too much for any person to handle.
Perhaps they could join us in the 2is t Century someday, preferably after the election.
LOL
And a darn fine reason it is. She is an excellent 1st lady.
Another thought occurs...Can you imagine the media feeding frenzy if Laura Bush said we should vote for her husband because he's not as stupid as the other guy? We'd still be hearing about it in 2008.
Anybody have the website link for her interview in 2002 with the Washington Post? I think Mark Leibovich was the interviewer. It was a classic and I would love to see it posted as a thread on FR. Rush read it the day it appeared and it has been quite a predictor of her behavior. She's totally out to lunch. She's absolutely dangerous when off her leash.
LOL...Debt collectors???
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