Posted on 03/09/2005 2:47:01 AM PST by ninonitti
WASHINGTON - The presidential campaign may be long over, but Teresa Heinz Kerry is still stirring the political pot.
The outspoken wife of Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] last weekend openly questioned the legitimacy of electronic vote counts, cited GOP dirty tricks and scolded the Catholic Church for assailing her husband's pro-choice views.
During a fund-raising event in Seattle, she charged it would be ``very easy to hack into the mother machines'' and steal an election.
Heinz Kerry said she was appalled by the attacks of some Catholic bishops on her husband's support for abortion rights.
``You cannot have bishops in the pulpit - long before or the Sunday before the election - as they did in Catholic churches, saying it was a mortal sin to vote for John Kerry [related, bio],'' she said, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Heinz Kerry said she doubted the accuracy of the 2004 vote, warning the 2006 mid-term elections are also at risk.
``I fear for '06,'' she said. ``I don't trust it the way it is right now.''
Reprising a familiar Democratic complaint, she alleged that ``two brothers'' who are ``hard right'' conservative Republicans ``own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States.''
Sen. Kerry has said that while there were irregularities in the 2004 presidential vote, particularly in states such as Ohio, he does not question President Bush's three-point re-election win.
Heinz Kerry's office, when asked to clarify her remarks, had no comment.
But a spokeswoman for the senator stressed Heinz Kerry was voicing her ardent support for election reform.
Said Kerry aide Katharine Lister, ``2006 marks the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and, in the spirit of this landmark law, she hopes Republicans and Democrats will work together at every level of government to ensure the passage of electoral reform and the preservation and protection of our voting rights.''
I think she needs to check into the Kitty Dukakis Spa and Detox.
But it is of course okay one week before the election for CBSNBCABCCNN, AP, Knght-Ridder to pound the President for non-events in the TX ANG and missing explosives in Iraq.
Guess the rest of the world is wrong..
I don't trust electronic voting either.
A blackhole with no physical audit trail.
Not good.
Teresa's still nuts though...
Maybe the Mother Machines are on the Mothership hovering in low earth orbit with Elijah Mohammed at the controls.
Get over it, Teresa ... your husband lost legitimately. The US is not, and hopefully never will be, ready for a communist-sympathizing, tax hungry, entitlement rich, unsupportive-of-the-military, elitist president, with a wife who spews insults at anyone who disagrees with him.
ROTFLOL!
No "mother machines, Mrs. Nut-Ball."
LOL-LOL-LOL
The "mother machines" are inside the "mother ship" that's parked just behind asteroid X41...
Excellent, backhoe, truly excellent.
Any election not won by Democrats is unfair.
Your kind words are appreciated, onyx. Although I truly hope that I will never again have to drag out that particular "click the pic" link. The last election was too close to a Bannana Republic fiasco for my liking.
You're right, here's a great interview with the daughter of the writer of "Votescam" (a very great book).
http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/21756.html
Teresas theme song...
Insane in brain
by Cypress Hill
Who you tryin' to get crazy with ese? Don't you know I'm loco?
To the one on the flam
Boy your temper just toss that ham
In the fryin' pan
Like spam
Feel done when I come in slam
Damn
I feel like the son of sam
Don't make me wreck sh*t hectic
Next to the chair got me goin' like General Electric
EEEN!
The lights are blinking
I'm thinking
It's all over when I go out drinking
Oh, makin' my mind slow,
That's why I don't f- wit da big four-o
Bro', I got ta maintain
'Cause a nigga like me is goin' insane
Insane in the membrane
Insane in the brain!
Insane in the membrane
Insane in the brain!
Insane in the membrane
Plenty insane
Got no brain!
Insane in the membrane
Insane in the brain!
Do my sh*t undercover
Now it's time for the blubba
Blabba
To watch that belly get fatter
Fat boy on a diet
Don't try it
I'll jack your ass like a looter in a riot
My sh*t's fat like a sumo slammin' that ass
Leavin' your face in the grass
You know
I don't take a dulo
Lightly
Punks just jealous 'cause they can't outwrite me
So kick that style: wicked, wild
Happy face nigga never seen me smile
Rip that mainframe
I'll explain
A nigga like me is goin' insane
Insane in the membrane
Insane in the brain!
Insane in the membrane
Insane in the brain!
Insane in the membrane
Going insane
Got no brain!
Insane in the membrane
Insane in the brain!
Insane in the brain
In the brain
It's because I'm loco
Insane in the brain
In the brain
It's because I'm loco
Insane in the brain
In the brain
Insane
It's because I'm loco
Insane in the brain
Like Louie Armstrong
Played the trumpet
I'll hit dat bong and break ya off something soon
I got to get my props
Cops
Come and try to snatch my crops
These pigs wanna blow my house down
Head underground
To the next town
They get mad
When they come to raid my pad
And I'm out in the nine deuce Cad'
Yes I'm the pirate pilot
Of this ship if I get
Wit' the ultraviolet dream
Hide from the red light beam
Now do you believe in the unseen
Look, but don't make your eyes strain
A nigga like me is goin' insane
Insane in the membrane
Insane in the brain!
Insane in the membrane
Insane in the brain!
Insane in the membrane
Plenty insane
Got no brain!
Insane in the membrane
Insane in the brain!
Insane in the brain
It's because I'm loco
Insane in the brain
It's because I'm loco
Insane in the brain
It's because I'm loco
Insane in the brain
It's because I'm loco
"...I think I'm going crazy..."
A blackhole with no physical audit trail.
I myself don't like electronic voting without no paper trail -- I like paper ballots.
However, Ms. Heinz's criticism of electronic voting has been of optical scanners, which do have a paper trail -- they even have a paper ballot, which can be recounted by hand if one likes. She's off the deep end on this one.
All the optical scanner does is count the paper ballot, which goes into a locked box and can be recounted by hand (or scanner) far more easily than the Hollerith style ballots with hanging chads.
How about voter ID swipe cards in a national database?
I tell you! I tell you! The Mother machines are invading us! We will all be destroyed!"
"Surrender the election immediately or all of Earth will be destroyed!"
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