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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-04 12:19 AM
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Heinz Kerry, in a bottle (Good article from a Pittsburgh columnist)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04297/400459.stm

Yesterday was drearily predictable. Heinz Kerry showed up late for a speech before the convention of the Pennsylvania Conference of the NAACP. She delivered, in her tiny voice, a speech that, with quiet assurance -- statistics, facts, personal histories rolled out with precision -- took the crowd in her hand.

"We still have two school systems, separate but unequal," she told them. "You cannot promise to leave no child behind and then leave the money behind." She took a shot at minimum educational achievement standards set by the Bush administration, but left largely unfunded. "Otherwise, all they become is traps."

This sense of exclusion runs deep among members of the NAACP, who are tired of hearing about how well off they are, when unemployment for black Americans is double the national average and infant mortality remains a scandal with numbers to prove it.

This crowd loved Teresa Heinz Kerry because she behaved like herself -- unapologetically and in the most personal way. She talked about growing up in Africa and marching against the move in 1959 to segregate her university in South Africa, and ended with a coda straight out of the NAACP's language.

"When John Kerry is elected, he will lift every voice, because he knows every voice matters," she said. She promised a face of America this crowd seeks: "A face that is compassionate but not condescending, a face that is strong but not threatening, a face that is proud but not arrogant."
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Katherine2 Donating Member (319 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-04 12:33 AM
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1. It is shameful the way she is treated
by the media. Could you imagine if cable news or talkradio hosts called Laura Bush a lunatic, or said she looked like a bag lady, and all the other disgusting stuff they say about Teresa? And I love it how they criticize her for all her houses, which she inherited from her Republican husband. Besides the house she bought with John Kerry, she hasn't bought anything else. I don't see anything wrong with her AT ALL.
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dogtag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-04 12:39 AM
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2. They can get away with it because they show next to
nothing of Teresa other than out of context bits in which she says something they can misconstrue. Shameless whore slimeballs.
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sushi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-04 12:53 AM
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3. I look forward
to his leadership!

"A face that is compassionate but not condescending, a face that is strong but not threatening, a face that is proud but not arrogant!"

With that attitude JK would make a great world leader, and have no difficulty at all in getting other countries to cooperate in solving the world's problems. Right now the world sees *'s leadership as condescending, threatening, arrogant, and patronizing!
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