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Politics : The American Spirit Vs. The Rightwing

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To: American Spirit who started this subject	9/24/2004 7:26:35 AM
From: longnshort	of 1904

The Teresa factor "Should wives matter in a presidential campaign? Is it trivial to weigh Laura Bush's gentle, Xanax-like demeanor, her faultless librarian's poise and sincerity against the imperious sexuality of Teresa Heinz Kerry? We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives .... "But the iconography that candidates' wives create is important and a serious medium through which a modern candidate can send out his message. ... "Teresa Heinz Kerry's [Democratic convention] speech, which all but ignored her husband, did more to emasculate him than the opposition ever could. ... Listen to what the Republicans are hitting Kerry with: Indecisive. Effete. French. They are all but calling this tall, accomplished war hero gay. "The charges are sticking because of Teresa Heinz Kerry. Let's start with 'Heinz.' By retaining her dead husband's name — there is no genteel way to put this — she is publicly, subliminally cuckolding Kerry with the power of another man — a dead Republican man, at that. Add to that the fact that her first husband was (as she is herself now) vastly more wealthy than her second husband. Throw into all of this her penchant for black, a color that no woman wears in the heartland, and you have a recipe for just what Kerry is struggling with now: charges of elitism, unstable family relationships, and an unmanned candidate." — Naomi Wolf, writing on "Female Trouble," in the Monday issue of New York

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