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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SiouxPal who wrote (49886)	9/22/2004 8:46:22 PM
From: Ron	Respond to of 81568

And intellectually slow, insecure men are particularly defensive about strong, intelligent women. I'm sure there are some right here on SI who come to mind :) ------- As presumptive candidate for first lady Teresa Heinz Kerry took the stage at the Democratic National Convention, tottering on precariously high heels and wearing a suit in fire-engine, take-no-prisoners, Nancy-Reagan red, it felt a little like watching the Olympic gymnastics final competition. Would she hit her marks? Would she stay within the lines of competition? Would she complete the triple-back-flip dismount equivalent of referring to her husband as John Kerry, and not John Heinz? She nailed it. And more than that, she elevated the sport of having the wife of a presidential candidate prove her mettle in front of party delegates from all fifty states to a new level. The pressure she faced has been building over a year that has garnered her a reputation as unpredictable, dangerous, batty, and, as she put it on Tuesday, "opinionated." Heinz Kerry has already shown that she is a broad with a set of brass balls. She has steadfastly refused to shut up, cursed at inappropriate moments, talked about abortion and Botox, voiced her frustrations with a Republican party of which she was a long-time member, pulled little Jack Edwards' thumb out of his mouth in front of cameras, rhapsodized about her heartbreakingly obvious love for her dead husband John Heinz, and been unable to control her habit of looking like a distracted housecat during her husband's stump speeches. On Tuesday she told NPR's Susan Stamberg that not only had someone in her office supplied Family Circle's First Lady bake-off contest with her supposed recipe for pumpkin spice cookies, but that "somebody really made it on purpose to give a nasty recipe." "I never made pumpkin cookies," Heinz Kerry said. "I don't like pumpkin spice cookies." Her biggest headlines of this week's convention came after she got pissy with a reporter from a right wing Pittsburgh newspaper and told him to "shove it." What all this has gotten her was a sweaty-palmed, high-anxiety build-up so dramatic that she could have feasibly made an Elvis-style walk through the Fleet Center hallways a la Bill Clinton in 2000. Instead, she appeared quietly after a touching introduction by her extremely handsome youngest son Chris Heinz. In her lilting accent she began by evoking the ever-present ghost of her first husband, and telling her sons that he would be very proud of them. She greeted delegates in each of the five languages in which she is fluent. Then, rather than demonstrating how well she's been domesticated by Team Kerry, she talked about herself. She declined to discuss fireside chats with her husband, or his devotion to their Brady-Bunch batch of kids, or his penchant for renting Jim Carey movies, or something equally humanizing and fuzzy and dopey and controlled. Heinz Kerry instead told the nation about how she spent her student years in the late 1950's protesting the encroaching apartheid regime in Johannesburg, South Africa, and lost. "I learned something then, and I believe it still," she said. "There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anyone may be noticing and whether or not it is a risky thing to do." It was a clever note to strike, since these days, everyone notices every stand this woman takes, and they are all more than a little risky. Then, almost unthinkably, she decided to use her platform to gracefully stick a shiv in everyone who has attacked her over the past week, and over the past months. Citing her credentials as an immigrant and naturalized citizen, Heinz Kerry voiced her "personal feeling" about America and about "how precious freedom is." www.salon.com She'll make a great First Lady.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (49886)	9/22/2004 8:46:24 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I think you have a point there and a song for you on that note from Cat or that new name of his ~ CAT STEVENS lyrics - "Hard-Headed Woman" I'm looking for a hard headed woman, One who will take me for myself, And if I find my hard headed woman, I will need nobody else, no, no. I'm looking for a hard headed woman, One who will make me do my best, And if I find my hard headed woman I know the rest of my life will be blessed -- yes, yes, yes. I know a lot of fancy dancers, people who can glide you on a floor, They move so smooth but have no answers. When you ask "Why'd you come here for?" "I don't know" "Why?" I know many fine feathered friends but their friendliness depends on how you do. They know many sure fired ways to find out the one who pays and how you do. I'm looking for a hard headed woman, One who will make me feel so good, And if I find my hard headed woman, I know my life will be as it should -- yes, yes, yes. I'm looking for a hard headed woman, One who will make me do my best, And if I find my hard headed woman...