"I can't believe my family left Africa and came to this country" Teresa Heinz Kerry

[Sharon (Premo)]

It didn't take long for the rigors of the campaign trail to sour first lady-in-waiting Teresa Heinz, who fumed yesterday that she "can't believe" she moved to America and married an American politician.

Buh bye!

[Tonio]

Before everyone gets their panties in an uproar, here's the full interview:

http://nypost.com/gossip/cindy.htm

I'm not a Kerry defender (I don't like either Bush or Kerry). But I do believe that NewsMax missed the obviously light-hearted tone of the interview. Cindy Adams and other gossip columnists tend to write in a giddy, playful-bantering style. My guess is that Mrs. Ketchup was just reflecting on the oddness and strangeness of being in a presidential campaign:

...And I can't believe we're embarked on this journey."

This journey, does it ever scare her?

"Yes. What people don't know is that I am basically shy. I never wanted to do this. It all seems so bizarre."

[tlatchaw]

Hunt's ketchup has never tasted so good as it has lately.

[vraiblonde]

If she thinks the campaigning is bad, what's she going to think of being First Lady?

She and Kerry both are a couple of lightweights. Thin-skinned, snooty, fragile, out of touch with reality. I take back my fear that Kerry will beat Bush - I can't imagine why anyone would want this pair of hot-house lilies in the White House.

[Tonio]

Good point, Vrai.

Here's a question--why should the First Lady have to be in the public eye at all, whether or not she wants to be?

[SmallTown]

Originally posted by vraiblonde
If she thinks the campaigning is bad, what's she going to think of being First Lady?

She and Kerry both are a couple of lightweights. Thin-skinned, snooty, fragile, out of touch with reality. I take back my fear that Kerry will beat Bush - I can't imagine why anyone would want this pair of hot-house lilies in the White House.

Clinton got a second term, so who knows what can happen.

[Toxick]

Does this mean she's African-American?



If they win, we can finally say we've had at least an African American First lady?

[tlatchaw]

She's every bit as African-American as Olie Kolzig!

[vraiblonde]

Originally posted by SmallTown
Clinton got a second term, so who knows what can happen.

Bill and Hillary were NOT lightweights by any stretch of the imagination. People can say what they will about the Clintons but they were the ultimate political team. Hillary could be a little thin-skinned but, frankly, the way the tabloids took her apart about her choice of hairstyle and dress, she had a right to get a mite cranky.

Tonio, the First Lady IS a public figure - the mother of our country, if you will. If she's not on board with the campaign, the candidate might as well throw in the towel. Teresa Heinz certainly knew the ramifications of campaigning, with the ultimate goal of her husband being elected to the highest office in the country, if not the world.

Or maybe not. I've always felt this was just another lark and fun thing for her to piddle with. I don't think she ever thought it would go this far - with there actually being a possibility of her becoming First Lady. I think she's been supportive of Kerry just for fun, not because she really wants him to get elected.

It's a lot different being a Presidential candidates wife than it is being a Senator's wife. With a Senator, you only belong to a particular state, and you're sharing that with another Senator, a Governor and various Representatives. With President, it's all you and it's the whole country. Who here can name Sarbanes' wife or Mikulski's husband? Very few, I'll bet. But EVERYONE in the whole country knows the First Lady.

[Tonio]

Originally posted by vraiblonde
Tonio, the First Lady IS a public figure - the mother of our country, if you will. If she's not on board with the campaign, the candidate might as well throw in the towel. Teresa Heinz certainly knew the ramifications of campaigning, with the ultimate goal of her husband being elected to the highest office in the country, if not the world.

I wasn't talking about whether she supports her husband's desire to become President. I'm saying that once a President is elected, the First Lady should have the right to control how much she's in the public eye. Laura Bush has not been a public figure as much as Hillary and Nancy Reagan were. And that probably suits Laura fine.

Vrai, imagine if you were elected President. Would you want the press to harass First Gentleman Larry Gude, pick over every detail of his life to find something bad? I think Larry would just say "Phuque it" and spend all his time on the golf course.