John Kerry's wife...
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| Sat, 08-14-2004 - 5:07pm |
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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Hey, YOU brought up the war and our allies in your attempt to smear Democrats, which is exactly what I said in my first response. Fear and smear campaigns, that's all Republicans run on.
Smear the rest of the world because they think Bush is an idiot and simply do not trust him to implement the right policies in Iraq. This is about policies, not what various troops do here or there. Bush can't hide his failed policies behind the kindness of our troops and I wouldn't think any soldier's wife would appreciate that. They let the troops take the heat for their policies on prisoner detainment. They're blaming a platoon of Marines for starting the recent fighting in Najaf. Every time something goes wrong in Iraq, they find the lowest reasonable rank and put the blame on them. I don't see how anybody in the military can support an Administration that does that.
I think you better look at the history of Sadr. His father was murdered for fighting against Saddam. The people around Najaf are the exact people we went to liberate. Are we fighting them and killing innocents because they object to the US controlled government or not? Those are Bush's policies, has nothing to do with the troops. Did you hear about the Iraqi soccer team? They want Bush to stop using them in his campaign ads, one of them even said if he wasn't playing soccer he'd be joining the fight against the US occupation. And you think everything is going swimmingly and it's just not being reported???
This isn't about the troops. It's about a failed Administration and a failed Iraq policy. It's about bearing 90% of the burden which is more alone than I'd ever care to be in a fight. It's about a bankrupt treasury as a result and a stubborn President who won't do what's necessary to fix it, raise taxes like we've done in every other emergency or time of war this country has faced. It's about everything Bush has done in Iraq, here at home and everywhere in the world being wrong. You can try to push the troops out in front and make them the target instead of Bush, but I'm not buying into that manipulative game.
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Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board
<<after 9/11 we were all rallied around the US. It changed DRASTICALLY when it started its plan to attack Iraq.>>
9/11 was a blip on the radar screen when the world felt sorry for us because we were bleeding.
Renee ~~~
I think most countries had a great deal of respect for us before Bush bombed Iraq for no Good reason - obviously some Bush supporters find a kindred spirit in our paranoid and vengeful president.
<<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. >>
Immigrants do not 'choose not to learn our language.' As it always has, how much language immigrants learn
Renee ~~~
LOL! Maybe you weren't aware of their opinion of us, but it's been there all along through Dem & Repu presidents. Reagan was the president who made 'cowboy' a bad word in the European press.
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