Posted on 09/15/2004 3:35:27 PM PDT by quantim
NEW YORK (AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, encouraging volunteers as they busily packed supplies Wednesday for hurricane relief efforts in the Caribbean, said she was concerned the effort was too focused on sending clothes instead of essentials like water and electric generators.
"Clothing is wonderful, but let them go naked for a while, at least the kids," said Heinz Kerry, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. "Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes."
Heinz Kerry stopped by a market in the heart of Brooklyn's Caribbean community, where she spoke French with Haitian vendors and shook hands with volunteers busy packing food, clothes and other relief supplies to be shipped to several Carribean islands hit by Hurricane Ivan. Her husband's campaign donated water, blankets and first aid kits.
"I think it's important we help all the kids we can," Heinz Kerry said.
Ivan swept through the Caribbean last week, killing more than 60 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.
Dr. Roy A. Hastick Sr., president of the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and coordinator of the market's relief effort, said the visit helped make difficult days a bit brighter.
"It's a major boost for us and the community to show we have someone on a national level concerned with what's happening in the Caribbean region," Hastick Sr. said.
Supporters gathered on the sidewalk shouted "We love you," and "Good luck" as Heinz Kerry made her way to a waiting car.
And another thing, does this bimbo think that children want to go around naked. My grandsons age 6 and 9 are modest as is my 3 year old.They would die of embarassment to go out naked. Does she think Caribbean children are savages or something?
What a sicko.
Her health care plan is the same way. "Let them go naked, so long as they are insured. You idiot!"
They're overpaid.
Fresh off The Fax Machine From Abeline.
I'm so glad that she is a Dim.
Awesome tagline, ;-)
"Lord have mercy! Why all you rich white women all got them paralyzed faces? How you eat with that frozen mouth?"
Thanks for the ping-ping-ping-ping-ping! :)
Hey...with comments like that she's working for the Bush campaign.
BWHAHAHAH! I gave my mother this quote, "Clothing is wonderful, but let them go naked for a while, at least the kids," and she was *SURE* I made it up. HAHAHAHA. You can't make this stuff up!
Why do I get the impression that for TerAYzah, those people of color are just little monkeys? I mean, if they're not working at one of your estates as a gardener, do they really have much of a reason to live?
Teresa is profoundly disrespectful of commoners.
That said, is she gonna make all of us go naked? I wonder if this is why her son no longer speaks to her. The one who quit seeing her after his child was born. Maybe she gave the newborn child a generator and demanded he go naked.
Yeah...that's what we are doing.
Here's some more bizarre, impossible quotes from public figures.
"I don't see myself as a threat. I see myself as therapy." - Je$$e Jack$on
"The U.S.A. has some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that. We know that." - Ted Turner
"If a politician had lied the way Joe Klein lied, he would be out of a job." - Paul Begala
"Not only did he lie, he lied aggressively....Reporters can't lie." - Michael Tomasky, N.Y. Magazine columnist...
"I don't feel that was a crime." - Joycelyn Elders, on her son's conviction for selling cocaine.
"Reagan and Bush ran this nation into the ground" - Algore
FWIW-
Heinz's "Let them eat cake" moment.
Better than the Dean Scream.
What an idiotic thing to say. This woman needs to just go away. Never speak publicly again.
The crying and handwringing would be everywhere....every lying liberal fishwrap in the country would be spreading this story..and it would be the lead story for every lying clymer talking head.
It's just so blatant anymore...it's disgusting.
FRegards,
Let me get this straight. She stops at the Carribean community in NY who are getting together and sending supplies back to their families and friends on the island from which they came. A candidate's wife stops by and says they are focused on sending the wrong things. What arrogance. How large was the check she gave to buy the generators she wants them to have?
"Let them eat cake!" -- attributed to Marie Antoinette, 1789
Am amazing attitude toward the 'little people'.
[Ed. Note: Boy, that Karl Rove sure is one brilliant SOB to
get all these Democrats to say things that help Bush.]
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