MonsterMark
April 26th, 2004, 01:22 PM
I'm a pretty political guy but I must admit, for the shear enjoyment alone, I would love to see the flipflopper whose married to the flipflopper, do a little flipflopping in the White House.
Could you imagine Kerry at a State of the Union doing something like this?
Er, a, yes, on the national defense issue, well, er, a, let me get out a coin here and decide what were going to do as a country.
It would be good entertainment.
By Melinda Henneberger
Newsweek
May 3 issue - Just before Democratic presidential contender John Kerry takes the stage at a recent fund-raiser in New York, his wife folds her arms around him and, as they canoodle for just a second, whispers some quick instructions about what he should do with his hands while addressing the crowd. Asked about the coaching later, she doesn't hesitate to repeat what she told him: "I was reminding him that there are some movements he makes that are very inviting and some that are—forceful." Oh? "Inviting: think the Italians," she says, giggling—warm, alive, fully animated. "And not: well, Hitler. That would be the extreme," she adds, and laughs again, presumably at herself for breaking one of the simpler rules for political wives: never mention your husband and the fuhrer in the same sentence.
[/url][url="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/newsweek.national;kw=national;sz=300x250;ord=23552 ?"]http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/newsweek.national;kw=national;sz=300x250;ord=23552 ? (http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v2|30f9|0|0|%2a|x;7458066;3-0;0;8600601;4307-300|250;5108453|5126349|1;;%3fhttp://web.tickle.com/forward?sid=1813&supp=300x250_IQ_Lightning_98_03&test=uiqogt)There are a lot of laughs on the road with Teresa Heinz Kerry, actually. Though maybe not so many back at Kerry HQ, here despite protestations to the contrary not everyone thinks an aspiring First Lady ought to be quite so ... spontaneous. Kerry's no-nonsense campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, has confided to friends that she's slightly unnerved by his wife's candor. And when Cahill tells me, "She's great with women and children in small groups," it's hard not to hear that as: we'd lock her in a closet if we could.
Eight weeks after he effectively sewed up the nomination, Kerry remains undefined for many Americans—and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, just your basic polyglot philanthropist, is even more of a mystery. Kerry's wife was a registered Republican until last year, muses publicly that she's not reflexively pro-choice (she used to be pro-life) and, perhaps most shockingly, when asked a question, generally answers it. Even the wife of the guy running for city council knows to say it's clear her man will win. But Teresa, when asked for her read on how things are going in her husband's race, says: "I can't tell. The only people I see now are Democrats."
Posted in jest, so take it light and easy....
Could you imagine Kerry at a State of the Union doing something like this?
Er, a, yes, on the national defense issue, well, er, a, let me get out a coin here and decide what were going to do as a country.
It would be good entertainment.
By Melinda Henneberger
Newsweek
May 3 issue - Just before Democratic presidential contender John Kerry takes the stage at a recent fund-raiser in New York, his wife folds her arms around him and, as they canoodle for just a second, whispers some quick instructions about what he should do with his hands while addressing the crowd. Asked about the coaching later, she doesn't hesitate to repeat what she told him: "I was reminding him that there are some movements he makes that are very inviting and some that are—forceful." Oh? "Inviting: think the Italians," she says, giggling—warm, alive, fully animated. "And not: well, Hitler. That would be the extreme," she adds, and laughs again, presumably at herself for breaking one of the simpler rules for political wives: never mention your husband and the fuhrer in the same sentence.
[/url][url="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/newsweek.national;kw=national;sz=300x250;ord=23552 ?"]http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/newsweek.national;kw=national;sz=300x250;ord=23552 ? (http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v2|30f9|0|0|%2a|x;7458066;3-0;0;8600601;4307-300|250;5108453|5126349|1;;%3fhttp://web.tickle.com/forward?sid=1813&supp=300x250_IQ_Lightning_98_03&test=uiqogt)There are a lot of laughs on the road with Teresa Heinz Kerry, actually. Though maybe not so many back at Kerry HQ, here despite protestations to the contrary not everyone thinks an aspiring First Lady ought to be quite so ... spontaneous. Kerry's no-nonsense campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, has confided to friends that she's slightly unnerved by his wife's candor. And when Cahill tells me, "She's great with women and children in small groups," it's hard not to hear that as: we'd lock her in a closet if we could.
Eight weeks after he effectively sewed up the nomination, Kerry remains undefined for many Americans—and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, just your basic polyglot philanthropist, is even more of a mystery. Kerry's wife was a registered Republican until last year, muses publicly that she's not reflexively pro-choice (she used to be pro-life) and, perhaps most shockingly, when asked a question, generally answers it. Even the wife of the guy running for city council knows to say it's clear her man will win. But Teresa, when asked for her read on how things are going in her husband's race, says: "I can't tell. The only people I see now are Democrats."
Posted in jest, so take it light and easy....