Heinz Kerry rebukes heckler; crowd cheer

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Heinz Kerry rebukes heckler; crowd cheer
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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 2:10pm
Here's the orginial link: http://9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=36f146a1-0abe-421a-018e-f62f7c8edb48&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - A group of 600 Democrats crowded the 4H Auditorium at the State Fairgrounds Friday hoping to see for themselves whether presidential candidate John Kerry's wife was as outspoken and sharp-tongued as some have described her.

Teresa Heinz Kerry delivered for her supporters when she talked back to a heckler who implied her husband's a flip-flopper.

During a question and answer session, a young man demanded to know why Kerry voted to give Bush authority to attack Iraq but voted against an $87 billion appropriation bill to support the war effort there.

"Is that the kind of thing he would do as president?," the man asked.

Heinz Kerry sharply asked the man whether he had read the legislation that was voted on.

When he said no, she told him that Kerry had supported $60 billion in military appropriations for Iraq, but would not vote for the full $87 billion because he considered it a "blank check." Kerry was one of 11 Democrats to vote against the bill.

"And we knew they'd already given Haliburton millions in no-bid contracts," she snapped, referring to the company formerly led by Vice President Dick Cheney.

"If you want to say (Kerry) flip-flopped, just say so, don't try to hide," Heinz Kerry scolded.

The young man responsed with chanting "Four more years!" as he walked out of the auditorium. The partisan crowd's cheer of "Six more weeks!" quickly drowned him out.

Roberto Costales of Canon City liked the way she dealt with her heckler.

"Did you notice how she handled that one guy? I bet she doesn't back down from anybody," he laughed.

In appearances here and before a crowd of 1,700 in Fort Collins, Heinz Kerry echoed her husband's views about terrorism, national security, crime, health care and education.

She said the United States needs a different approach in the world.

"The way we live in peace in a family, in a marriage, in the world, is not by threatening people, is not by showing off your muscles. It's by listening, by giving a hand sometimes, by being intelligent, by being open and by setting high standards," she said at the CSU rally.

In Pueblo, Heinz Kerry sounded a similar theme, criticizing the Bush administration for sending warning signals to Iran about developing nuclear weapons.

"There are about 50 countries in the world that have the capability to build nuclear weapons. Are we going to attack them all?" she said.

Gina Maggrett, of Pueblo, liked what she heard.

"(She's portrayed) as this caustic person but I thought she was really warm and intelligent. A lovely person," she said.

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Wed, 09-29-2004 - 1:19pm
Keeps her mouth shut? As a female if I had an opinion about something and thought it wasn't fair whether I agreed or disagreed with my husband (I'm not married at this point in time, too young) I would stand up and argue with him about it. I don't like to keep my mouth shut and stand by my husband. He could be doing something illegal for all I knew and I wouldn't stand by him then! No way. This is the 21st century where women do have the right to speak out their mind. XOXO.
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Wed, 09-29-2004 - 1:20pm
"She could have easily been a First Lady like Mrs. Bush but she wanted to really get involved and stayed involved for her party."

No, she wanted to "stay involved" for her own power-hungry ambition. I cannot believe so many women are fooled into thinking Hillary has any other motivation. Why do you think she's stayed married to her a$$hole of a husband for as long as she has?

Bev

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Wed, 09-29-2004 - 1:23pm
How do you know why Mrs. Clinton stayed with her husband? Maybe she loves him and believes in him? Just because someone is an a-hole to someone else and did some things wrong isn't a reason to divorce them. Aren't you supposed to work things out with each other? Do you know Mrs. Clinton and why she's in politics? *shrug* I'm just wondering. XOXO.
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Wed, 09-29-2004 - 1:23pm
"We are the President" -- Hillary Clinton

Only a Democrat first lady could get a pass for saying that.

Here's an outrageous one from the disbarred impeached president:

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans."

President Bill Clinton, March 1, 1993, during a press conference in Piscataway, NJ.

USA TODAY, March 11, 1993

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Wed, 09-29-2004 - 1:25pm
You probably believe in fairy tales, too, huh????

Bev

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Wed, 09-29-2004 - 1:28pm


No, I don't know her personally. Do you know Laura Bush personally? But yet you judge her to be lacking in brains simply because she's not obnoxiously outspoken, so please don't tell me how I ought to form my opinions. I have read plenty of factual information about her that helped me form my opinion, no I'm not going to go searching the internet and posting all of it here so save yourself the post, it's ancient history, but I assure you I don't dislike anyone, Republican or Democrat, for their "strength" or "intelligence". In fact as I mentioned previously I quite admire the strong and intelligent Condi Rice, Christine Todd Whitman, Olympia Snowe, Elizabeth Dole, Barbara Bush, etc. etc. shall I continue?

But I don't assume as you seem to that someone whose life choice is to be a mother and wife and not be at the forefront loudly stating every thought that comes to her mind must be stupid. Some of the smartest and strongest people I know don't feel it necessary to make a big show of it. My own grandmother raised 6 children in a two bedroom house on a shoestring, she baked cookies and made dinner evey night and she was not an obnoxious opinionated person, but she was one of the strongest and most intelligent people I've ever come across.



I don't hate her, I dislike her, I dislike her political views, and I believe from all I have read and heard about her that she is not a very honest person.

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Wed, 09-29-2004 - 1:31pm
If I said "yes" would you say I was delusional person? Heh heh. Fairy tales are good for young kids but I don't hold much to them for truth. But there are some things out there that are true (like faeries for example), but you'd say I was just a delusional psycho person eh? XOXO.
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Wed, 09-29-2004 - 1:33pm
Just wondering, do you admire any democrat or are they all reps? I'm just wondering. XOXO.
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Wed, 09-29-2004 - 1:46pm
Unlike the other first wives, Teresa Heinz Kerry was widowed with three children to raise and has overseen the Heinz family's charitable endowments, in which role she has particularly supported environmental causes in America and internationally. She is personally and professionally far more accomplished than these woman and probably some of the men, before they became president. She has earned the right to speak her mind.

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Wed, 09-29-2004 - 4:00pm
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If you mean she married an American and gained the "freedom of speech" to which all Americans are entitled, then I can agree.

Otherwise it seems from your post that anyone who has not raised three children and overseen multimillion dollar family charitable endowments has not "earned the right to speak her mind".

T-Rex Kerry is an African-American by marriage and her "right to speak her mind" is guaranteed because of her marriage. Her first marriage. To a Republican. Not because she raised three children and watched over the family "endowments".

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