She really is a terrific person. Good God, what a difference a Kerry White House would be from this one. The Squatter's administration seems to revel in its own cultural isolationism.
Teresa Heinz Kerry would be a huge breath of fresh air, with her internationalist outlook (5 languages? Bush couldn't name 5 nations without a teleprompter) charm (there is a great story of when she spoke to a crowd of cartoonists and so won them over that one wrote an article entitled 'Teresa Heinz I Love You'), wit, passion for the environment and numerous other causes, her steely determination and her irreverence, the days of Chimpy and Pickles would just seem like a bad dream.
From Bob Rogers article on Teresa:
"Here is a list of the top five things to remember when drawing my husband, John Kerry: Number one, when you think of our next Democratic president of the United States, remember, he does not have blond hair."
A cartoon of Hillary Clinton was then projected on a large screen.
She went on to explain that her husband should not be depicted as a groundhog, a basset hound, or coming out of a Heinz ketchup bottle, each time pointing to a cartoon example of what not to do. She encouraged us instead to remember Kerry's "dignified stature, his noble chin, his focused gaze, and his compassionate smile." In other words, "draw him like this":
An adoring, Mt. Rushmore-like sketch of John F. Kennedy appeared on the screen.
She had them eating out of her hand. I was falling in love.
The rest of her speech was amazing (although I'm surprised I remember any of it since I was daydreaming of Teresa and I sipping lattes in a Paris cafe reminiscing about our recent work reducing greenhouse gas emissions).
http://www.robrogers.com/aaec03/hlove.html