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A little while back worldnetdaily.com had an article which related how Teraaaaaza Heinz Kerry told the Democratic National Convention's "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender caucus" to call her Mama T. Teraaaza said "I know that I am welcomed and I am grateful to be welcomed. I'm grateful to you because you symbolize family. You symbolize strength and hope. You symbolize resistance. And you symbolize tolerance. For that we are all thankful to you." Speaking to the group she related a story about a man at a past campaign stop who told her, "I want you to be my mother." (BARF)...

http://www.jump2net.com/stuff/button.gif Is this collusion with a 527 by the Kerry campaign? You decide.

Thursday, August 19, 2004 WASHINGTON - Her husband may be campaigning to convince voters he's qualified to be president, but Teresa Heinz Kerry says he's not up for the job. In fact, she says, no one can live up to the awesome challenges and responsibilities posed by the powers of the presidency. ``I think nobody is truly qualified to be president of the United States,'' Heinz Kerry said in an interview in the latest issue of Reader's Digest. ``I mean, are you qualified to run the world - not to run it, but have that influence? No, nobody is.''...

Thursday, August 5, 2004 TERESA HEINZ KERRY 'Shove it' showed her true colors BY KEN KURSON Ken Kurson is co-author, with Rudolph Giuliani, of "Leadership." July 29, 2004 Since Sunday night I've waited for a single journalist to get this story right, this story of an ugly lie that's been reduced to an adorable quip. I'm referring to the shocking story of a First Wife wannabe lying to a reporter, insulting him and then getting not only a pass but an "attagirl" from a press corps so hungry for any sign of life from the Democrats that they've repackaged the...

Wise Irishman      "I am having fun listening to Teresa Heinz Kerry. The Democrats muzzled Hillary Rodham Clinton in '92 after the 'baking cookies' remark, but I don't think John Kerry will be able to do so with his meal ticket. When I was growing up, I had friends who wanted to marry girls with some wealth, but my dad, a wise old Irishman, told me: 'No one works harder for his money than the man who marries it.' "     — Irish-American Republicans founder and co-chairman Frank Duggan.

The time has long past for Teresa Heinz Kerry to end the free ride she has been enjoying ever since she used her immense inherited wealth for the second time in less than eight years to resuscitate her husband's faltering political career. She needs to reveal the details of her finances, which Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has deftly exploited to his maximum political benefit — first during his tightly contested 1996 Senate race and then during this year's Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses.

Bogus e-mail messages claim she's given millions to "radical" groups, some linked to terrorists, and located Heinz factories overseas. Both claims are false. 08.04.2004 Summary False allegations about Kerry's wife have been circulating for months, but the velocity of the Internet "whispering campaign" picked up substantially with the approach of the Fall campaign. One false message claims Teresa Heinz Kerry gave $4 million to a foundation that used the funds to support a list of "radical" groups including one with alleged links to Hamas and another that is said to have offered to provide a lawyer for Saddam Hussein. But...

“Isn’t she great?” said candidate Kerry in Milwaukee, following the “four more years of hell” remark of his wife Teresa. Lawyer Kerry surely knows that, technically speaking, he is asking a question, not necessarily paying  a compliment. “And by the way, how great was Teresa Heinz Kerry last night?” said running mate Edwards to the Democratic National Convention. Another lawyer asking another question, masquerading as a compliment. Teresa Heinz, as she still formally calls herself, (“Teresa Heinz Kerry” is her self-described “political name”) has emerged as a problem for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. Her husband, who advertises his diplomatic skills as...

It's only a matter of time before we witness another Howard Dean Moment in the Democratic presidential race -- but not, I predict, from any of the Democratic presidential candidates. Skulking in the campaign background is a ticking time bombette with a volatile temper and acid tongue who makes Dean look like Mr. Rogers on Prozac. She's the wife of front-runner Sen. John Kerry, Teresa Heinz. Formerly known as Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira, the hot-headed widow of the late Pennsylvania GOP Sen. John Heinz is self-aggrandizingly known among her wealthy liberal friends and fellow environmental radicals as "Saint Teresa" (and...

Before telling a reporter to "shove it" last week, Teresa Heinz Kerry complained that there were "creeping, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits" to the presidential campaign. Few people outside of Wilkes-Barre care much about the epithet "un-Pennsylvanian," but in dropping the "un-American" bomb she highlighted an important truth about today's politics: It is the Democrats who routinely question the GOP's patriotism, not the other way around. This makes for a fascinating stew of cognitive dissonance, transference, and probably odd psychological maladies yet to be identified and labeled. It's not easy to question the patriotism of people you are denouncing for...

MILWAUKEE ) - Teresa Heinz Kerry, the outspoken wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, pulled no punches on Monday in telling a rally what she thought of the Bush administration -- hell. And later, discussing the war in Iraq, Heinz Kerry subtly questioned Republican President Bush's intellect, saying: "It's vital for anyone with intelligence to acknowledge mistakes and change positions -- hello." When a Bush supporter with a bullhorn shouted "four more years" from the back of a large crowd packed into a downtown Milwaukee park, Heinz Kerry, who was introducing her husband, responded: "They want four more years...

Teresa Heinz Kerry, the morning after.BostonWITH THE EXCEPTION of Jimmy Carter, Teresa Heinz Kerry probably got the worst reviews of any prime-time speaker at the Democratic convention. Will Saletan of Slate criticized her for talking about her late husband John Heinz, the Republican senator from Pennsylvania. Andrew Sullivan called her speech "condescending, unnecessary, and pointless." Off-the-record comments were even more devastating. And who can blame reporters for mocking a speech that featured lines like this: "With John Kerry as president, global climate change and other threats to the health of our planet will begin to be reversed"?Journalists weren't the only...

BOSTON - "How do you solve a problem like Tere-zah?" All week I've been whistling the tune from "The Sound of Music," mentally substituting the name Teresa for Maria. "How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? How do you find a word that means Teresa? A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the-wisp! A clown!" Not that Mrs. Kerry is any of the above - far from it - but finding the right word to describe this unconventional potential first lady has spinmeisters and wordsmiths politely stumped. Democrats' protests to the contrary, she is a bit of a problem for the...

I am curious about Mrs. Kerry's citizenship. Is she a citizen of Mozambique as well as a citizen of America? Does anyone know off the top of their head? Thanks.

Excerpt - BOSTON -- Teresa Heinz Kerry told this editor to "shove it" yesterday moments after she addressed the Pennsylvania delegation to the Democratic National Convention here. [snip] A review of an audiotape recording made by Patriot-News political reporter Peter DeCoursey shows that Heinz Kerry used the term "un-American traits." [snip] Said Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editor Frank L. Craig: "Colin McNickle did just what any good reporter does -- he asked questions. The tape of her speech shows she used the word 'un-American,' even though she denied it. It was a legitimate question for McNickle to ask. It is unfortunate that...

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"You mentioned un-American ... what did you mean?" McNickle asked. "I didn't say that," Heinz Kerry responded heatedly three times. Shove-It!!! Place your vote --- Was Teresa's comment Appropriate or Inappropriate GO TO THIS LINK and VOTE http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/politics/3576908/detail.html

Undecided about whom to vote for for president? Simple. Just place a mental image of Laura Bush alongside that of Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz-Kerry. Then ask yourself: Do you really want to trade in America's first lady?