Teressa Heinz Kerry- Page 2

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 9:29am

Now that's baaa-aaa-aaad.

No wonder his herder is lonely!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 10:57am

Smart woman. Doesn't take **** from anyone. Raised two handsome, intelligent sons.

Teresa will make a much better first lady than honorary Stepford Wife Laura Bush--she's the one who looks like she's been taking too Xanax!

[mominator]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 11:02am

Amen PalJ

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 11:16am

Interesing reading to me anyway:


Following is a brief background on Mrs. John Kerry. She hates being called that, by the way:

Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry. Married Senator Kerry in 1995. She only took his name eighteen months ago and she is an interesting paradox of conflicts.

Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician, was educated in Switzerland and South Africa. Fluent in five languages, she was working as a United Nations interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60's when she met a handsome young American, H. John Heinz, III, who worked at a bank in Geneva. He told her his family was "in the food business."

They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his family ran the giant H. J. Heinz food company. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of three terms in the United States Senate. A Republican, he wrote a burning diatribe against some of the causes backed by young House member John Kerry.)

Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane collided with a Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb. The senator, his pilot and copilot, and both of Sun's helicopter pilots were killed. He was survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons.

Four years later, having inherited Heinz's $500 million fortune, she married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal then-junior senator from Massachusetts. She became a registered Democrat and the process of her radicalization was set in motion.

Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required Kerry to sign a prenuptial agreement before they were married. John Kerry may not have check writing privileges on the Heinz catsup and pickle fortune, but he is certainly a willing and uncomplaining beneficiary of it.

A lot of hard-earned money, made through many years of hawking catsup, mustard, and pickles has fallen into the hands of two people who despise successful entrepreneurship and who believe in the confiscatory redistribution of wealth.

So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money?

Just one example:

According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4 million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money?

They support numerous antiwar groups, including Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he's tried.

They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the Tides Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from "terrorist" states.

They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders are known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.

They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist front during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has been arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic group whose primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to Mexico.

These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of our would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John Heinz, and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the 44th President of the United States.

Aiding and supporting our enemies is not good for America, regardless of your political views.

If voters will open their eyes, educate themselves and see the real Teresa Heinz Kerry, they will not appreciate her position as ultra rich fairy godmother of the radical left. They will not want to imagine her laying her head on a pillow each night inches away from the President of the United States.

Hopefully they love this country enough to decide that the only way these two will ever be allowed into the White House is with an engraved invitation in hand.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 11:18am

it's one thing to be partisan, it's another to ignore reality. even democratic strategists are calling it one of the more bizarre speeches in convention history. i mean she didn't even mention the nominee until the 13 minute mark? but they're happy she didn't go off. it was the typical condescending didactic speech given by one accustomed to people listening to her and not questioning anything she says. although i kinda like one of the bloggers theories that she's really a sleeper republican agent who's out to sabotage jfk2's run.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 11:21am

I loved her speech and I greatly admir her. The woman has class, buts he doesn't give a damn about pleasinga nyone and says what is on her mind. THANK GOD that se is no Stepford wfie like the shrub's

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 11:54am

Teresa's speech was great. It's getting raves today.

Some of the partisan spin here is ridiculous today. Teresa's appeal to the independents is palpable. Everyone's entitled to their opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts. The tracking numbers showed a bump for Kerry after she said "shove it" and another one after she spoke. The gender gap in this campaign is real and Teresa's speech widened it. (And since when is equal rights for women a 1970s concept? I believe that until women achieve real economic and political equality in this country, it is still very much a current issue. But, by some people's thinking, I guess gay rights is a 1960s concept...)

As for all the supposed criticism about the speech and the suggestion that she was doing her own thing up there, please understand that the whole thing was scrubbed and approved by the campaign before she gave it.

[Plum]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 11:56am

The gender gap in this campaign is real and Teresa's speech widened it.

There is, and not just in terms of women's rights. Half the mistakes Bush has made have been in a very stereotypically "male" effort to look macho, right down to his stupid cowboy attitude.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 11:59am

I love this woman and her speech was phenominal.

[Shut It Down]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:03pm

I had the pleasure of meeting her at a fundraiser. She spoke to a small group for 45 minutes, covering topics from education to the economy to the environment, without notes and then did a Q&A. I was blown away by how smart and articulate she was. Very soft-spoken, but very powerful. Funny, too.

It didn't translate 100% to a big format, but I thought she had some great moments. What a refreshing change she will be as First Lady.
Glad the GOP is invading NYC? Don't show up.

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:05pm

Was this the fundraiser in Chelsea on 7th Avenue in those richie rich guys' apartment?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:05pm

i didn't mean that the issue of women's rights was a 70's issue (although anyone pretending that great strides have not been made when we had a female atty. general, sec'y of state and nsa director is kidding themselves), but that she framed it with 70's era rhetoric. to hear her tell it, it sounded like women were being banished to the kitchen and kept barefoot and pregnant while being locked out of schools (although this is the approach used by most arabic countries not currently containing a huge american troop presence). george stephanopolus on abc called it the most feminist speech ever given at a convention.

i don't think that anything is going to be decided at this convention or at the rnc convention either (unless we get rick santorum "unleashed" which could hand the election to kerry on a platter), but will depend on the debates and events ove which both parties have no control.

and plumsy, some of us like the cowboy attitude and image. "i got spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle..."

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:12pm

Just hear those cowboys jingaling, ring-ting-tingaling, too
Come on it's lovely weather for an election together with you....

[Shut It Down]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:15pm

Zola. Yeah
Don't bring your hate to my doorstep and expect a Welcome Mat.

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:17pm

Ahhhhhhh, Zola was there with the boyfriend. I wonder if we know each other....

[Plum]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:54pm

unless we get rick santorum "unleashed" which could hand the election to kerry on a platter

Hehe. That's what I've been hoping for ever since I hear he was going to speak at the convention. I'm thinking Buchanan in 1992; how about you? :)

[Shut It Down]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:55pm

I didn't really know anyone there except Andy Tobias. I brought my friend, actually that was the night that we came up with the ShutItDown idea. We were feeling powerless against the GOP coming to NYC to celebrate their failures as victories and thought
What if they threw a party and nobody showed up.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 1:08pm

oh plumsy, you're evil. i thought the exact same thing and said as much in a torrent of emails to party leaders the volume and vitriol of which were only rivaled by my torrent after trent lott decided to ram both feet down his throat while burning a cross, tying a noose and trying to keep strom thurmond seated upright. li'l ricky ought to know and the gop has got to know that he'll be played and replayed and replayed until kalahri bushmen can repeat his speech verbatim without even understanding what they are saying. but unlike the dems, they seem bound and determined to keep throwing red meat long after the time to switch over to salad became glaringly apparent.

[Plum]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 1:12pm

"oh plumsy, you're evil."

*preens*

I try. :)

[Shut It Down]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 1:19pm

I thought I saw that Man-Dog Santorum and Kitty-Killer Frist were both speaki, er spewing their hate at the convention. I was so glad, because I had my Draft Pat website all ready to go. I was really worried that all we wouldn't get to see the GOP in all of its glory, but it looks like we still might. Now if only Marilyn Musgrave could get a spot.
September 1st Declared Citywide Holiday

[Broadwaybaby614]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 3:23pm

I think some of the things Mrs. Kerry says are a little...erm..."out there", but I like the fact that she's very independent, she's not quietly standing in John's shadow, and she takes crap from no one. I don't dislike Laura Bush, she seems like a perfectly nice woman, but Teresa's got this spark that I like. Screw John, maybe SHE should run...

[Plum]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 3:29pm

If you want to talk independence, look at Mrs. Dean. Though supposedly the fact that she stayed with her practice instead of going campaigning with her husband hurt his campaign. People on this board might like an independent First Lady, but many people still prefer them quiet. Just look at the two most independent First Ladys of all time- Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton were also the most divisive.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 3:33pm

not me, i like a drunk. gimme betty ford anyday!

[Shut It Down]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 4:14pm

I like a drunk as well, George W and Dick Cheney notwithstanding.
Send the RNC a Message in NYC

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/28/04 at 4:17pm

I made a Betty Ford cake the other day, right outta the box, tasted like it was homemade!

Hic!