John Kerry's wife...

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John Kerry's wife...
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Sat, 08-14-2004 - 5:07pm
Following is a brief background on Mrs. John Kerry . She hates

being called that, by the way:

Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry. Married Senator Kerry in 1995. She only took his name eighteen months ago and she is an "interesting" paradox of conflicts.

If you think John Kerry was scary, he doesn't hold a candle to his wife. Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician, was educated in Switzerland and South Africa. Fluent in five languages, she was working as a United Nations interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60's when she met a "handsome" young American, H. John Heinz, III, who worked at a bank in Geneva. He told her his family was "in the food business."

They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his

family ran the giant H. J. Heinz food company. He was elected to the US House

of Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of

three terms in the United States Senate. (A Republican, he wrote a burning

diatribe against some of the causes backed by young House member John

Kerry.)

Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane collided

with a Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb. The

senator, his pilot and copilot, and both of Sun's helicopter pilots were killed.

He was survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons.

Four years later, having inherited Heinz's $500 million fortune,

she married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal then-junior senator from

Massachusetts. She became a registered Democrat and the process of her

radicalization was set in motion.

Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required Kerry

to sign a prenuptial agreement before they were married John Kerry may not

have check writing privileges on the Heinz catsup and pickle fortune,

but he is certainly a willing and uncomplaining beneficiary of it. A lot of hard-earned money, made through many years of hawking catsup, mustard, and pickles, has fallen into the hands of two people who despise successful entrepreneurship and who believe in the confiscatory redistribution of wealth.

So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money? Just one example: According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4 million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money? They support numerous antiwar groups, including Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he's tried.

They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the

Tides Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic

Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from "terrorist"

states. They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose

leaders are known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.

They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist

front during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has

been arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate

with terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic group whose

primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and

Texas to Mexico.

These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the

anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of our

would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John

Heinz, and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the 44th

President of the United States.

Aiding and supporting our enemies is not good for America,

regardless of your political views.

If voters will open their eyes, educate themselves and see the real

Teresa Heinz Kerry, they will not appreciate her position as ultra rich

fairy godmother of the radical left. They will not want to imagine her

laying her head on a pillow each night inches away from the President

of the United States.

Hopefully they love this country enough to decide that the only way

these two will ever be allowed into the White House is with an engraved

invitation in hand.

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Registered: 06-17-2004
Wed, 08-18-2004 - 10:31pm
There's plenty of research out there on the subject. If it's a factor, you should be able to produce something to back up your position.

Renee ~~~

Renee ~~~

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Registered: 04-18-2004
Thu, 08-19-2004 - 4:54am

That cryan.com link only cites 40 nations, not 52 like you claim.

Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 08-19-2004 - 6:32am
<<"In the Netherlands, which also has troops in Iraq, Dutch opposition parties critical of the conflict made significant gains, with losses registered for parties in the conservative coalition government. However, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende managed to stabilize the vote for his Christian Democrats, with his coalition partners suffering the heaviest losses.">>.... you just míght have noticed that this is about EUROPEAN elections? EU issues?

You could compare that with US state-elections and US national-elections. People often vote differently in either of our local, regional, national and EU elections, depending on the issues.

FYI, each and every party is critical of the conflict, only a small minority wants our troops to leave.

We have a responsibility and we take it véry seriously.

Look at the troops to population ratio that the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Netherlands has in Iraq? Your disdain in saying it's just <<"a handful of troops">> is disgusting me. It means that a larger percentage of the Dutch citizens has loved ones in Iraq, working to help build a better future and KNOWING that can never happen overnight.

Djie

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Registered: 06-16-2004
Thu, 08-19-2004 - 9:48am
Polls show otherwise. after 9/11 we were all rallied around the US. It changed DRASTICALLY when it started its plan to attack Iraq.
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Registered: 08-02-2004
Thu, 08-19-2004 - 10:57am
I am just saying as a possiblity, if they liked our country and admired our "superior" culture and human rights values, then they would assimilate. It is a logical conclusion to assume that some immigrants have chosen not to learn our language and our ways simply because they don't like them but they still move here to reap the benefits of living and working in our country.

It is not, however, logical to assume that their dislike for our country can be completely ruled out as a reason for non-assimilation.

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Registered: 08-15-2004
Thu, 08-19-2004 - 3:09pm
Well I'm sure you'd rather stay focused on the OP and the smear and fear campaign than the real issues like Iraq.

Stop hiding behind the troops. Those poor kids are over there doing the best they can in a horrible situation. I believe in those kids, I've worked with kids my entire life. The way Republicans are using them is disgusting. Every time somebody wants to address the problems of the Administration's policies, they stick the troops out in front to provide cover. I'm not surprised Bush is hiding behind the true service of those in the military, he's done it since he joined the guard instead of going to Vietnam.

The reason we don't have help in Iraq is because Bush set up a US puppet government and anybody with eyes can see it. It's the policies, not the troops. Criminy, we're fighting the exact same people in Najaf that we went in to liberate. Sadr City, formerly Saddam City, those were the poor people Saddam had treated so terribly and we were feeling bad for. Now we're doing the exact same thing to them that Saddam did? Iraq has just been a mess, there's alot more going on politically then we were ever told and until we get a President who tells the whole truth, I don't think we'll ever get the kind of approval we need from the world to make Iraq a successful country. Counting countries, playing games with numbers on ground forces and total contributing countries, even trying to make a comparison between 1991 and 2003 is senseless. We're bearing 90% of the financial and military burden now and that's a fact. We don't have the world's support, spin it anyway you want, but you just can't be that obtuse. As long as the bulk of the world doesn't visibly participate in Iraq, the chances of success are minimal.

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Registered: 04-18-2004
Thu, 08-19-2004 - 3:50pm

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If you noticed, this thread was not about Iraq, therefore should have never been an "issue" in it.

Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board

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Registered: 04-22-2003
Thu, 08-19-2004 - 3:59pm
Also Sadr was on US side before. He was more moderate but he didn't want to be US puppet like Allawi and now he is our enemy. Sadr's dad was assisinated by Saddam and his people. Now he is against US. There must be something US is doing wrong here. I think Sadr is not one of the terrorist. Somehow he is being made a bad guy by US. I think he is fighting for his people's freedom. It is not black and white.
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Registered: 06-17-2004
Thu, 08-19-2004 - 4:12pm
If you noticed, this thread was not about Iraq, therefore should have never been an "issue" in it. If you want to talk about Iraq, start a new thread, or even wiser, put it on a board that is actually for debating Iraq: (followed by a lot of stuff about Iraq)

...my comment is I really like Teresa Kerry.

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Registered: 08-15-2004
Thu, 08-19-2004 - 4:19pm
What a pathetic load. Your country doesn't want to be in Iraq. If we'd let Hans Blix finish, we could have went in with peacekeepers instead of bombs and the Iraqi people would have been much better off. The poor Iraqi suffering, give me a break. How much have they suffered as a result of this war?? And as I previously said, stop hiding behind the troops. If Bush cared about those troops he would have waited until they had all the equipment they needed and followed the advice of the military to execute that war. There was no hurry. He was just afraid the truth about the WMD would get out and spoil his little war. The Iraq policy is a disaster and it's been a disaster since Bush lied about the threat from WMD. That's what the issue is. By the way, what's your country's national debt as a result of this war? Do you still have health insurance for all your people? Paid maternity leave and parental leave? Family allowance? You have no idea what we give up in order to pay for these "liberations".

And I did provide a link for the ME countries that contributed troops in 1991. Who's being disrespectful of the contributions of other countries now?

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