Posted on 11/04/2004 8:14:59 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 11/04/2004 9:39:43 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Kerry Laments: 'I Can't Believe I'm Losing to This Idiot'
Carville Leads Clintonistas' Coups, Implores Cahill to Step Aside or He'll 'Tell The Truth' About Campaign Woes On NBC's 'Meet The Press'
Daughter Alexandra Pleads to Kerry After Locking in Nomination: 'Will You Please Appreciate This Moment for 10 Seconds?'
(Excerpt) Read more at prnewswire.com ...
Have you been surprised by some of what’s been written about you?
I have always had good press, until more recently, when I remarried and I guess people thought I was fair game. That was the word used.
Why?
Because I married another politician. As a widow, I was untouchable. As the wife of John Heinz, my press was good. But now I don’t pay much attention to it anymore. I don’t take it seriously, you know? I just don’t.
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I’m surprised sometimes that in America, a liberated country, we expect the wife of a president of the United States to be, in essence, modern chattel. It’s not right.
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You are a good friend of former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill. Have you talked with him since the controversial book about him has come out?
No. But I would like to talk him and say, ‘Did you really mean all the things you said in the book? Of course you did. So what are you going to do about it?’ Paul is a very honest man, and a brilliant man. He is, in the best sense of the word, a CEO: totally practical and non-ideological. He has done amazing things for Alcoa. He is a person of amazing integrity.
Everything that he is is the result of determination, honesty, principle. I am sorry he took the job that he took because I didn’t think that was the kind of work [that he would be best at]. If he had been secretary of Commerce that would have been more up his alley. And I would rather have seen him be a governor. He would have been a great governor, because he really believes in an early childhood and a great education. He really believes in efficiencies. He knows we have a global climate change problem. He would be dogged about finding ways to resolve it. No BS. As an executive he’s brilliant.
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A few years ago I nearly died in a plane crash. Well, the plane didn’t crash but it almost did. It was about seven years ago and I was taking off from Idaho in a Gulfstream. We took off and we were pretty high and two geese came through one of the engines and killed it right away. We were over the trees by then and I felt I could almost touch them. I looked out and I thought okay, and I just said what one says in trouble, ‘into thy hands oh lord, here I go.’ I was able to call one child and I said, ‘look this is what’s happening, we haven’t gone down yet but I just wanted to tell you I love you all and I will call you when I’m down.’ Then the pilots explained what had happened. We had to fly very low all the way along the mountains to Boise. Just the week before a good friend was going to Brussels and they were in a Lear jet. Pffft!
Flying in small planes is unavoidable in a campaign. Given what happened to your first husband and what almost happened to you, aren’t you afraid of what might happen again?
You have to check out the pilots very well, check out the outfit, the maintenance. It was pilot error that killed [Heinz]. As much as is humanly possible, we do what we can do to check these people out or to check certain airports out. But you know what? You can only do what you can do.
I am savoring all this dirt. I just love it.
I'll bet the President reads this and laughs his ASS off.
I can hear him now... "Hey honey.. did you see where Kerry said he couldn't believe he was losing this to a fucking idiot?" ahahahahahhahahahahahha AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
Screw em.
This is simply blatant, self-evident liberal media bias. The media suppressed this information, knowing it would damage Kerry's campaign, until the election was over. It's a smoking gun.
When I read "I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot", I was reminded of the Saturday Night Live skit with Dukakis and George H.W. Bush at a debate. Bush speaks in a stiff manner, and Dukakis (played by Jon Lovitz) looks at the camera and deadpans "Can you believe I'm losing to this guy?"
This is so sad.
Teresa Heinz Kerry (she started using his last name after he decided to run for president) is certainly complicated. She can be neurotic and a little loopy, a bit of a hypochondriac, say her friends, and she is not always considerate of her staff.
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At times, Teresa's outspokenness has made Kerry squirm. A widely read Washington Post piece in June 2002 pictured Teresa ranting about her pet peeves while Kerry tried, awkwardly and not very effectively, to hush and soothe her. To some, Kerry seemed henpecked, if not emasculated, by his wife's willfulness.
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She can still be indiscreet and moody.
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Now she is bracing herself for GOP smears aimed at her wealth. "If they keep doing this to people, they are not going to get anyone but thugs to run for office," she told NEWSWEEK, her eyes flashing. "And I will say that! I'm not afraid! I'm not afraid."
I saw the writers on CSPAN tonight. They were given unfettered access to both campaigns, on the promise that they would not report anything until the election was over. That is why none of this came out before.
WASHINGTON — Teresa Heinz Kerry is small and soft-spoken and supportive of her husband as they sit in their Georgetown garden, sipping peach iced tea. She wants to help him. She is ready to campaign for him. But it's clear a presidential campaign is not her first choice of how to spend her time.
"Basically I am a shy person. I like people, but I am very private." Then the proper political spouse kicks in. "But I also am engaged in ideas and trying to solve problems. And this is an arena in which you can do that."
She's talked about her serious work on education, pensions, the arts and the environment. But she's also discussed her prenuptial agreement, her Botox treatments and how she'd "maim" an unfaithful husband. She's said she'd be a "ninny" if she didn't have strong opinions at her age (64, five years older than Kerry).
Heinz Kerry made no secret of her disdain for politics even as she was married to one senator, then another. Her stock response to their presidential ambitions was "over my dead body." But here she is on her patio, calling Kerry "sweetie" and clasping his hand, discussing her philanthropic work and what she'd bring to a Kerry administration.
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She called political campaigns "the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises."
"I don't think politics is worthless," she says, but "the general tone of campaigns has not gotten any better. One can try. John is trying to set a standard."
A question for Senator Kerry: If you loose an election to a man you call an idiot...a man who you said repeatedly can't do more than one thing at once... THEN SIR, WHAT DOES THAT MAKE YOU????"
Heinz Kerry's registration switch will enable her to vote for her husband in the Pennsylvania primary next spring. But she says the impetus behind the change was anger at the way Republicans conducted the elections in 2002. She says she feels "alien" from the conservative tilt of the party. She was upset about attacks on Max Cleland, then a senator from Georgia, a Vietnam veteran who lost three limbs in battle. The upsetting tactic? "You know, that he was unpatriotic," she says. She does not add, as she did in January to the Boston Herald, "Does he have to lose a fourth limb to be patriotic?"
She is trying to say nothing interesting enough for gossip columns.
"I like boring. I'll take boring," she says, and looks at her famously studious, long-winded husband. "I'll talk the boring, and he can talk the fluff."
If Kerry is too ignorant to realize that statement is indicative of exactly why he - and many other Dems - lost, then it's going to take 15 or 20 years for the Dems to come back to Earth.
Bet they attack W. more than KutandRun. This is just to get you to read it. I'll wait for the movie.
Kerry Laments: 'I Can't Believe I'm Losing to This Idiot'
This reminds me of the Dukakis Saturday night skit where Dukakis (Lyle Lovett) during his debate with Bush senior says (after George Bush talks about a thousand points of light): I can't believe I'm losing to this guy.
As soon as I saw this I knew it was fiction. The sort of fiction women can spot.
This probably came from one of the daughters...maybe Kerry himself.
While some of the other tidbits have the ring of truth to it, demonstrating that input came from many others within the campaign, this bit about the ex-wife feeling Kerry's wounds...well this is a lie and a woman would know this straight off.
Julia Thorne hates John Kerry. What woman wouldn't hate a man who left her for a richer one?
Kerry is at his most vulnerable on the Vietnam purple heart thing. He knows it and face it, the man is still a Senator from Massachusetts. Thus he has to at the least keep up the lie about his purple hearts and dishonorable discharge. All the crap about his presidential campaign is water under the bridge but the Vietnam bit really hurt him. I mean, who knows, someday even the folks in Mass. might get a clue and not want to vote for a man who faked his purple hearts and put his fellow Vets in danger.
His politics are anathema but his wit and bravado are legendary. I would not have thought him a girly-man.
It's not like his dog got run over or anything.
This "family" is about as wholesome as "The Osbournes".
bttt
LOL! Awesome!
"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny."
Seems like most of the Democrats never watched Star Wars, or at least they never bothered to heed the wisdom of Yoda!
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