‘Flip-flop’ faces new attacks as former wife beats cancer (KERRY UPDATE)

The Sunday Times ^ | September 19, 2004 | Sarah Baxter

[MadIvan]

Hmmmmm.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[nopardons]

I've heard the commercial and it's for real! It's a playing card firm and has NOTHING whatsoever to do with Rush.The git who wrote this overtly biased article,is no better than Dandy Dan Rather,who purports lies are facts and forgeries better than the truth.

It's awfully cavalier of the girls to be off campaigning for their father (who is also a Catholic,even though the article stresses that it was Terry who demanded the annulment),while their mother was battling cancer.

[Prime Choice]

Long after his divorce, Kerry went on to annul his marriage to Thorne in deference to his second wife, a Catholic.

Which means that his marriage to his first wife never happened and, for all intents and purposes, his children from that union are illegitimate.

Wonder how that makes the Kerry kids feel? Hell, wonder how it makes his first wife feel?

[Capricam]

How the hell can you annul a marriage that produced two kids? I'm confused. Kerry's an even bigger asshole than I previously thought!

[Ichneumon]

Hell, wonder how it makes his first wife feel?

“It was disrespectful to me, it was aloof to any emotional issues and devoid of any sense of the humanity of what this means to me and the children,” said Thorne.

[Ichneumon]

How the hell can you annul a marriage that produced two kids?

By paying a priest enough money...

[Salvey]

How the hell can you annul a marriage that produced two kids?

Ask Teddy Kennedy.

[Prime Choice]

“It was disrespectful to me, it was aloof to any emotional issues and devoid of any sense of the humanity of what this means to me and the children,” said Thorne.

Thanks for passing that along. It confirms what I thought of Kerry all along. The man has not a care for anyone's feelings save his own.

I don't know whether to feel sorry for him or kick him in the 'nads. (Okay, I do know...but I don't want a visit from the Secret Service, okay?)

[Prime Choice]

How the hell can you annul a marriage that produced two kids?

Money and political influence work wonders. Sad, but true.

Every time it happens, I lose that much more respect for the church.

[L.N. Smithee]

Some right-wing commentators have made hay with Kerry’s relationships, however. One of the most biting, Ann Coulter, has blasted the candidate as “just a gigolo”, “living off other men’s money by marrying their wives and daughters”.

This would be a cheap shot if such comments weren't often made in response to the constant portrayal of the Bush family as evil because of its fortune or not being deemed deserving of its wealth.

[L.N. Smithee]

How the hell can you annul a marriage that produced two kids?

Just say the four magic words: "A Kennedy Sent Me."

[AmericaUnited]

In another book, on depression, she described how she had contemplated suicide. “Five months after my 36th birthday, my mind ravaged by corroding voices, my body defeated by bone-rattling panics, I sat on the edge of my bed minutes from taking my own life.”

If I was married to that pompous blowhard, self-agrandizing Kerry, I'd consider killing myself too.

[patriciamary]

This makes you able to marry in the Catholic church,according to the rules you must never have had sex with your partner to get an annulment,or as others have statement give a large sum to the Catholic church

[patriciamary]

Sorry stated,so in the eyes of the church you were never married.

[Savage Beast]

"Republican dirty tricks may intensify now..."

"Republican dirty tricks" is another Democrat catchphrase spread throughout the partisan "Newsmedia"--like "gravitas" or "Ken Starr is out of control". Obviously this writer for the Times has picked it up. It implies a wide range of unspeakable doings without saying anything specific. It's designed to be parrotted by unthinking robots, useful idiots, and the malevolent, and the Democrats find many of these ready and willing.

[Bonaparte]

"...very grateful that people have respected her privacy."

I intend to respect her privacy by completely ignoring her. Can't get more respectful than that.

[maryz]

Just to clear up a common misconception: there is a difference between a civil annulment and a church annulment. I believe that for a civil annulment, non-consummation may be an important consideration (haven't heard of an actual civil annulment in years). A church annulment says that the marriage did not meet the standard for the sacrament of matrimony. While non-consummation may be an argument in some cases, it's far from the only -- or even leading -- argument.

I agree that the church annulment process has been widely abused, outrageously in the U.S. But it has no effect on civil categories: e.g., legitimacy of children, which is strictly in the civil category. This is why a person who gets a church annulment must also divorce to marry again legally.

[hershey]

The woman was a fool to marry Kerry, and it's clear he made a dead set at her the minute he found out how much money her family had. He hasn't changed in all these years, and neither has she. We hope and pray she's beaten cancer. It sounds as if she's had a tough time of it.

[MadIvan]

She's had some rotten luck, certainly - marrying John Kerry, going through having children with him, then being dumped and annulled, then getting cancer.

This isn't a pleasant turn of events at all. I hope she does recover.

Regards, Ivan