Posted on 10/20/2004 6:50:38 PM PDT by NCjim
Senator John Kerry's wife reinforced her reputation as a political loose cannon yesterday when she said President George W Bush's wife, Laura, had never had a real job.
Teresa Heinz Kerry appeared not only to make the politically hazardous move of disdaining the role of a stay-at-home mother, but also to forget that Mrs Bush was a teacher and librarian.
Her unguarded remark in the USA Today newspaper risks infuriating suburban housewives, the "swing" constituency her husband has spent the past fortnight wooing from Mr Bush.
Asked how she would be different from Mrs Bush, she said: "I don't know that she's ever had a real job. Her experience and validation come from important things, but different things."
To make the slightest of side swipes at Mrs Bush is hugely risky as she is wildly popular in America, with her appeal spanning party lines. Karen Hughes, Mr Bush's image maker, said: "Teaching is a real job. Working as a librarian is a real job. Staying at home and rearing a family is a real job."
In a statement last night Mrs Heinz Kerry said she honoured and appreciated Mrs Bush's service as First Lady and was "sincerely sorry" she had not remembered her "important work in the past".
Mrs Heinz Kerry is one of the wealthiest women in America. Her first husband, who died in a plane crash more than a decade ago, was the Republican senator John Heinz, the heir to the beans fortune.
She has long been known for her outspoken ways, to the delight of the grassroots, but to the dismay of the party machine.
With polls flickering back and forth yesterday, President George W Bush and Senator John Kerry rampaged across the same small patch of the heartland yesterday, seemingly trying to outdo each other in alarming voters.
Taking advantage of the sudden onset of wintry weather and a rash of colds, the Democrat seized on the shortage of flu vaccines to accuse Mr Bush of failing to protect the electorate from either war or disease.
"If you can't get flu vaccines to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bio-terrorism?" Mr Kerry asked in an interview with National Public Radio.
Mr Bush accused Mr Kerry of "old-style scare tactics".
But the most chilling sound-bite was from Vice-President Dick Cheney, who warned a rally in Ohio, the "Ground Zero" of the election, that terrorists could bomb an American town with a nuclear device, and suggested that Mr Kerry was not the man to counter such an attack.
The Democrats accused him of waging the politics of fear before promptly unleashing their advertisements and attacks which suggested that Mr Bush's leadership has made America more vulnerable, not safer.
In Iowa, a state Mr Bush narrowly lost in 2000, Mr Kerry made a direct appeal to the emotions of America's women, a normally reliable Democrat constituency which he has had difficulties wooing in the face of Mr Bush's emotive campaigning style and fears over terrorism.
"No American mother should have to lie awake at night worrying whether her children will be safe at school the next day," he said.
Simultaneously Mr Bush was addressing a rally 80 miles away, in Iowa, where polls show the candidates neck-and-neck at 47 per cent.
In the American media there was a unanimous conclusion about the spate of scaremongering: Halloween has come 10 days early.
"Shove it!"
"Wasn't she the maid, or nurse, or something like that before marrying up?" >>>"She was a translator for the UN."
For some reason this brings to mind the bumperstickers you used to see in TX/OK: "Please don't tell mama I work in the Oil Patch...she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse."
Nice follow on article.
There was an earlier thread on this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1251102/posts?q=1&&page=1#1
The gist of the many replies, most quite funny IMHO, was to rhetorically ask what job Mrs. Heinz Kerry has ever had, other than spreading her legs for rich men.
Ter-a-zah Heinz-Kerry has "Foot in Mouth" disease.
-Curtesy of my daughter.
OR she been drinking the juice when she eats her daily dose of raisins......
If Kerry wins we can look forward to four years of this bimbo shooting her mouth off. That will be the only compensation. Of course these people know what's best for the rest of us. They work in real jobs making decisions on how the rest of us should live our lives. Laura Bush is a lady; a concept unfamiliar to T. Kerry. Full time mothers do not work in their world. Of course teaching is an important job, motherhood is not. Your truely, JAS (just another scumbag)
Mrs Kerry had a real job...she's a rich widow. Keep on talking witch....just keep on talking. Mr. Kerry would lock her up if she lost all her cash. Keep talking......
Not Barney. They go for Barney and I'm gettin' my gun.
he and edwards have two of the ugliest wifes since clinton... I dont think I've ever seen an attractive Lib.. they all look like floosies to me....and dirty too...Liz Edwards looks like she hasnt had a bath in a long time...they attack the Republican ladies because they are jealous and thats the only thing they can do is attack them...
That's the best image-driven metaphor I've ever seen! I can guarantee you that it will be under-appreciated, even here. You earned your supper tonight with that pic. Kudos on a job well done!
I wouldn't be as kind as Sean in describing Teresa. It is similar to the First Lady's last name in that it starts with a B and ends with a H but it has 5 letters rather than 4.
I suspect she had a few too many hits of gin with her white raisins.
She's an Eurohag.
..too many hits of gin with her white raisins.
A little too much juice with her pickle.
LOL, Looks just like him and I bet they have the same personality.
LOLOL!! So funny reading this in a British Newspaper!! She is a disgrace!
She is one bad tomato crop away from Jerry Springer status.
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