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."

[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!"