A Complex Greeting from John and Teresa "Heinz" Kerry

Washington Post ^ | Jan 4,2007

[AmericanMade1776]

Nothing is ever simple when it comes to John Kerry.

The senator from Massachusetts and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, sent out 75,000 Christmas cards with pictures of trees at each season. The Kerrys gushed over their "gratitude for the beauty of these trees and the life they represent."

But it didn't end there.

The card came in an odd-looking envelope, one of those with a return-mail flap and instructions to send it to . . . well, to a recycling company, so "it can be made into new carpet tile."

Carpet tile?

We want a "world without waste . . . where every product either returns safely to the soil or becomes a new product."

[AmericanMade1776]

The Christmas Card came with a To Do List...

"1. Remove this panel and insert it along with the card into the envelope. 2. Expose adhesive strip and fold the flap over to seal the envelope. 3. Drop this mailer into any U.S. mailbox." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010301545_2.html

[SlowBoat407]

Okay, why send the card out in the first place? It seems like the only purpose of sending it was to have it recycled.

[AmericanMade1776]

This Past "Holiday" Season John Kerry, how many trees did you kill and turn into Carpet Tile????

[yldstrk]

ewwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Wolverine]

 

The Christmas Card came with a picture...

[dayglored]

What the heck is wrong with tossing the card and envelope in the regular paper-recycling pile after New Years?

Makes you wonder if he's got a kickback from the Carpet Tile folks.

Kerry is just plain weird.

[Carolinamom]

"Recycle" is the key word....as in recycling Kerry's bid to become President.

[AmericanMade1776]

I think they said a Picture of trees, not stumps.

[bondjamesbond]

How much fuel is burned to mail this card to a recycling facility? How much ketchup has to be consumed in order to make enough money to mail this card to a recycling facility?

Compare this to the microscopic environmental benefit of recycling the card.

This is just stupid enviro-weenie posturing.

[Arpege92]

"We want a world without waste"

So that's why the Ketchup Queen married that big pile of shiite!

[Kenton]

Don't forget who paid for those cards to be sent. At .39 each postage, Kerry's franking privileges for those cards cost the taxpayers around $30K.

[InvisibleChurch]

Typical libs, never thinking about unintended consequences. Now people are going to waste gasoline, add to evil global warming, time, possibly plow into a line of shoppers at the mall because they're in a hurry to do jfk's bidding, or they leave the stove on and burn down the house.... any number of things could go wrong just because jfk just can't say "Merry Christmas" and be done with it

[basil]

This has got to be the funniest thing I've read in a very long time. Does anyone really take these people seriously--or do they just keep them around for their entertainment value? They almost seem like caricatures of people on the left.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Posturing describes Cerry's entire life.

[MinuteGal]

Nature worship through the environmental movement.

It's by design these pagans fasten themselves like leeches to Christian holidays. It's a recruitment technique.

I can picture Jon and Teresa dancing around a redwood tree by moonlight clad in flowing diaphonous rainment.

Leni

[AmericanMade1776]

Can't you just see this "politically correct" "holiday" card, with a Pristine scene of beautiful trees, ironically made of same such trees, with instructions to recycle into Carpet tile...hahaha.

[Thrownatbirth]

where every product either returns safely to the soil or becomes a new product."

He wishes this was true for Standard Form 180.

[moonman]

Let's see... 75,000 x $0.39 = $29,250 for original mail-out. Another $29,250 for return re-mail. Estimated cost per greeting card $0.25 each x 75,000 = $18,750. Total cost of greeting equals $77,250.

Arbor Day donation anyone?

[BenLurkin]

Naw.

Use it for kindling in the fireplace.

[Dixie Yooper]

This has got to be the funniest thing I've read in a very long time

I guess you never read John Kerry's joke about getting stuck in Iraq? Real side splitter!

[timsbella]

Are her Ketchup bottles being recycled into LL Bean polar fleece vests?

[theDentist]

Directions so simple, even a U.S. Soldier in Iraq could do it...

1. Remove this panel and insert it along with the card into the envelope. Soldiers, ask your Sergeant for training if needed.
2. Expose adhesive strip and fold the flap over to seal the envelope. Soldiers, ask a buddy if you get confused.
3. Drop this mailer into any U.S. mailbox. Soldiers, do not put these into Iraqi mailboxes. If you'd studied in school, you wouldn't even be able to find an Iraqi mailbox.

-John Effin' Kerry, Candidate for U.S. President

[Neoliberalnot]

Check the waste this hypocrite SOB has in his many mansions. Let us consider the resources per inhabitant as an index of waste and target those who waste the most.

[RockinRight]

We want a "world without waste . . . where every product either returns safely to the soil or becomes a new product."

Care to be the first two volunteers to return to the soil?

[fhlh]

OH GOODNESS!!! I wonder how many trees had to die for John Hienz's 75,000 christmas cards!!!

Tha Hoorrraaa... tha Hoorrraaa

[bannie]

It was junk mail. Just another one of those advertisements you toss before you even look at it.

I won't say anything about the postal rate he had to pay because, I believe, congressmen don't have to pay postage.

[Beagle8U]

Am I the only one here that has never seen paper carpet?

[AmericanMade1776]

Beagle8U wrote: Am I the only one here that has never seen paper carpet?

INSTANT RECYCLING CARDS FROM JOHN KERRY

[BenLurkin]

I'm guessing the chance of the Kerrys ever living somplace that was floored with 'carpet tile' is non-existent.

[freekitty]

The Kerrys probably get to tax deduct these cards even though we pay for them or atleast postage and recycling.

[SlowBoat407]

It's by design these pagans fasten themselves like leeches to Christian holidays. It's a recruitment technique.

Well, to be technically accurate (and I am a Christian, by the way), Christmas was grafted onto a pagan holiday to make it more accessible, hence the tree.

I still think Kerry's card was sad and funny at the same time, though.

[mkjessup]

"1. Remove this panel and insert it along with the card into the envelope. 2. Expose adhesive strip and fold the flap over to seal the envelope. 3. Address envelope to 'Ohio Secretary of State, Borden Building, 180 East Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215, 4. Drop this absentee ballot into any U.S. mailbox."

[The Lumster]

Hey Hey Johnny K
How many trees did you kill today!!!!!!

[Beagle8U]

I'll bet that every room Kerry has is carpeted with baby seal skins.

It still seems like paper carpet would look and feel nasty and be totally unwashable.
( I guess it could be a choice for someone with kids and crayons?)

[freespirited]

We want a "world without waste . .

Well, Jean-Fraude, giving up the private jet would probably do more toward that goal than recycling a bunch of Christmas cards.

[AmericanDave]

Liberals don't want to travel on public transportation, cause they either:

A. Have to complain to much.

B. Have made too many enemies.

C. Both.

[Fair Paul]

His hand must have been tired after signing 75,000 cards

[weegee]

How much gas is wasted in transporting that postcard BACK to the recycling center by mail?

[weegee]

It was mailed out to make YOU feel guilty about NOT recycling.

It is a rich man's prank.

[Phantom Lord]

How much gas is wasted in transporting that postcard BACK to the recycling center by mail?

To paraphrase Arrianna Huffington, 'none. They were going there anyway!"

[VRWCmember]

Special "holiday" cards celebrating trees: $18,750
Postage to mail out "holiday" cards: $29,250
Postage to return "holiday" cards for recycling: $29,250

Getting a happy environazi feeling by wasting over $70,000 without actually doing a damn thing to benefit the environment: Priceless

[Phantom Lord]

Getting a happy environazi feeling by wasting over $70,000 without actually doing a damn thing to benefit the environment: Priceless

I would like to know if he actually spent a single penny, or if he used his congressional franking privelege to sent them out.

[smonk]

the online version of the card, for what it's worth.

[AmericanMade1776]

Thanks Smonk...it is worth a lot, Thanks to smonk we now get to see the 75,000 non Christmas Cards that John Kerry sent out.

We feel gratitude for the beauty of these trees and the life they represent. We cherish our friends and family and hope that 2007 for you is brimming with possibility, health and happiness. Lastly, we pray that Peace reigns in the hearts of all mankind." John (Kerry) & Teresa (Heinz)

[moonman]

LOL Good one!

[El Cid]

"non Christmas Cards" indeed.

We feel gratitude for the beauty of these trees and the life they represent. We cherish our friends and family and hope that 2007 for you is brimming with possibility, health and happiness. Lastly, we pray that Peace reigns in the hearts of all mankind." John (Kerry) & Teresa

Weren't we supposed to be celebrating/honoring somebody's birthday??
This card was more appropriate for Arbor Day ...

[mylife]

What a complete tin eared DOOFUS!