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Posted on 09/15/2004 8:44:00 PM PDT by mlbford2
NEW YORK - 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 (news - web sites). "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 (news - web sites) 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.
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I learned to be very afraid of you people......And all I had was a short course instead of the full version.
Im just a commoner but let me think a little about this.
Water? Its raining a lot of drinkable water right? Food? Yes but you can go a long time without food. Clothes? Yeah, your wet, your cold. that is an immediate threat. Generators, that may be right up there with clothes.
I dunno. Who the hell is she to decide this stuff?
She is a volunteer for ONE DAY.
Why did Terezah go to K-Mart? She heard there were little boy's pants half off!
An ally & friend of Michael Jackson perhaps??
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LOL! I had to go through the full course myself, not by choice though. Even after having been permanent party for a year prior to going, they tricked me up left and right. But, the jammies prepared me for life as one of the newly discovered "Pajama People"...:))
LOL, I just saw that on Drudge. Wonder if she ran around naked when she was little!!
You can bet she has visions of her and Johnnie boy running around naked on the rotunda of the White House, Linconl Bedroom, White House lawn . .
She wasn't volunteering... she was "encouraging"...
Theresa Marie-Antoinette-Heinz Kerry: "Well, then let them eat cake Go Naked.
Whoah! What a pushy b**ch!
OOH Please....my eyes, my eyes!! Or rather, my mental vision of that sickens me, LOL.
Food: again, uncontaminated supplies are needed, but you can go a couple of weeks without.
Electrical power: to get the water purification, communication, refrigeration, medical, and sanitation infrastructure up and running so you don't have to ship as much water, medicine, and food.
It is not uncommon for children in third world tropical climates to go without clothing for much of their childhood. People have survived years without much clothing at this lattitude. It really has little to do with sensibilities, and much to do with essentials.
I'm no troll, and definitely no newbie. Only to be more fair to one of them than they would be to one of us, and to give credit where credit is due, I think she has her priorities pretty close.
After all, she is not from Nob Hill, but Mozambique. Even the priveleged in Africa know famine and disease.
The French Lieutenent(jg)'s Woman.
GO naked so they can be bitten by flies, mosquitos? Or is that She and her Husband take joy in naked children?
Idiot.
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