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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Thu, 09-30-2004 - 9:22am

Marrying an American citizen does not make one an American citizen.

The first key to wisdom is constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.  -
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Thu, 09-30-2004 - 9:29am
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C'mon, she had to marry him before she could BEGIN to get naturalized, or are you telling me that she will be unable to vote for her husband on Nov. 2?

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Thu, 09-30-2004 - 9:46am

C'mon, she had to marry him before she could BEGIN to get naturalized, or are you telling me that she will be unable to vote for her husband on Nov. 2?


No, she does not have to marry anyone to become a naturalized citizen.

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Thu, 09-30-2004 - 9:51am
This is a trivial argument. Do you really think she would have become an American citizen unless she married Heinz? If you don't, no big deal. Obviously I believe that she would never have become a citizen had she not met and married a Republican. Spin all you'd like.
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Registered: 08-07-2004
Thu, 09-30-2004 - 10:27am
People all over the world yearn to become American citizens. She came to the US before she met Heinz, & like the great majority of people who immigrate here, she became a citizen. In your knowledge of these matters, how many people inmmigrate to the US & choose to not become citizens? If she hadn't taken the steps to become a citizen, you would criticise her for that. You appear to be disparaging her for immigrating to the US & becoming a citizen. Or were you disparaging her for marrying Mr Heinz, a republican? What is your point?
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Registered: 08-21-2004
Thu, 09-30-2004 - 10:47am
You are welcome to my opinion and I to mine. You seem to only liek the truth as give to you by certain specific sources that think as you do. I read
Donna

"Patriotism means to stand by the Country. It does not mean to stand by the President." -- Theodore Roosevelt.

Donna
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Thu, 09-30-2004 - 10:56am
"You seem to only liek the truth as give to you by certain specific sources that think as you do. I read"

LOL!!! And how many books have you read by sources that do not "think as you do"? For example, "American Evita" by Christopher Andersen? Or "Rewriting History" by Dick Morris, who used to work for the Clinton Administration? Something tells me they're nowhere near the top of your reading list ....

Bev

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Thu, 09-30-2004 - 10:57am
Arguing with your husband is not the same as getting in front of a microphone stating what you feel policy should be when you are not in fact the one running for office.

I hope you can see the difference.

I never said a woman should not speak up, but I do feel that it is not the job of the First Lady to be speaking openly about public policy and her ideals since she is not the elected official.

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Registered: 04-16-2004
Thu, 09-30-2004 - 11:00am
Arent her children all grown, and she is, afterall worth $1 Billion, so I am sure she has plenty of help....sorry the bleeding heart story doesnt hold too much water, when there are over a billion ways she has other help.
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Registered: 04-16-2004
Thu, 09-30-2004 - 11:01am
Actually, she was born in Mozambique.

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