http://www.wikio.com/search=Teresa Heinz Kerry Wikio - Teresa Heinz Kerry http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62827702 Like Teresa Heinz Kerry, Michelle Obama does her husband's work on gay marriage. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:13:33 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62827702 editor@spectator.org (George Neumayr) 2008-07-03T04:13:33Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62809627 Cindy McCains wealth is becoming issue for her husband’s campaign. According to pollsters, “In 2004, Republicans demanded fuller disclosure about the considerable fortune of Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. This time round the republicans are trying hard to keep the lid tights investigations on Cindy McCains wealth become an issue. [...] Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:58:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62809627 2008-07-02T20:58:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62793945 Source: [b]The Huffington Post[/b] In 2004, Republicans demanded fuller disclosure about the considerable fortune of Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Now, the GOP is reaping what it sowed. Having established a recent precedent for increased scrutiny of... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:28:23 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62793945 2008-07-02T20:28:23Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62769843 From the Politico: The AP dusts off a very flattering photo of Mrs. McCain from April 24, 2008. Cindy’s fortune: An asset and a liability By: Kenneth P. Vogel July 2, 2008 In 2004, Republicans demanded fuller disclosure about the considerable fortune of Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Now, [...] Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:38:31 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62769843 2008-07-02T16:38:31Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62764226 With new questions about massive credit card debt and unpaid taxes, and questions still looming as to where Cindy invests her money and why she won’t fully disclose her tax returns, the McCain camp is becoming increasingly nervous that the lack of transparency may hurt them come this fall. Politico points out why this matters… During the [...] Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:21:11 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62764226 2008-07-02T16:21:11Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62764719 Politico - In 2004, Republicans demanded fuller disclosure about the considerable fortune of Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Read the full story Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:11:52 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62764719 2008-07-02T11:11:52Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62712844 Having established precedent for increased scrutiny of spousal finances, the GOP now finds its own presumptive nominee under the spotlight. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:17:35 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62712844 media@politico.com (Kenneth P. Vogel) 2008-07-02T09:17:35Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62604674 Republican cannibals are not eating their young in this case. They are eating John McCain. But, wait. That was a mere five months ago. Now they're all for him, even though they tarred him with the connection to George Soros, the evil LIBERAL who has done more for freedom than the entire GOP. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:49:02 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62604674 2008-07-01T13:49:02Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62603379 Astute observers are getting to play the "Watch for the (R)hetoric" game in a big way this election cycle. Poker players recognize the tactic as "(I got Nothin') I'm All In!" It's all bluff. There are no issues republicans can point to and say "We did a good job on that." The War, the Economy, Healthcare...They have done a really good job of helping the very very rich become absolutely stinking Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:24:32 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62603379 noreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek) 2008-07-01T12:24:32Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62241360 And then in May Michelle reacted to a question about Bill Clinton's use of the word "fairytale" to describe her husband's position on the Iraq war. After a slight pause, she blurted, "I want to rip his eyes out!" Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62241360 2008-06-27T14:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62107474 (Carey Roberts) - Does Michelle Obama remind you more of Teresa Heinz Kerry or former First Lady Hillary Clinton? Read on and decide for yourself. As we recall, First Lady wannabe Teresa had a habit of shooting first and aiming second. Remember when she wondered out loud whether Laura Bush "ever had a real job"?... Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:40:07 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62107474 2008-06-26T21:40:07Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62069192 Does Michelle Obama remind you more of Teresa Heinz Kerry or former First Lady Hillary Clinton? Read on and decide for yourself...... Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:56:50 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62069192 2008-06-26T16:56:50Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62032159 Does Michelle Obama remind you more of Teresa Heinz Kerry or former First Lady Hillary Clinton? Read on and decide for yourself. As we recall, First Lady wannabe Teresa had a habit of shooting first and aiming second. Remember when she wondered out loud whether Laura Bush “ever had a real job”? And the time she [...] Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:20:08 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=62032159 2008-06-26T11:20:08Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=61796072 by matttbastard It’s interesting…how John McCain’s hotheaded ways are admired as part of his so-called maverick qualities, a willingness to follow his passions and go against the grain; it’s part of his essential Americanness. Michelle Obama’s candor, by contrast, is seen as entirely foreign and not a little threatening. Yes, he’s given more slack because he’s [...] Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:13:21 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=61796072 2008-06-24T17:13:21Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=61269730 As a general rule, I don’t think a candidate’s spouse should be a large factor in choosing a president. Most candidates ask that the media not target their wives directly for ad hominem attacks. Of course, the Republican attack machine constantly attacked and vilified Hillary Clinton and Teresa Heinz-Kerry, and now is doing the same for Michelle Obama. (I’m not sure I can think of a similar example of a Republican First Lady or potential First Lady who was attacked with the same viciousness or by anyone in the mainstream liberal movement. ) But the obvious double standard is not the point of this piece; the point is that Cindy McCain keeps injecting herself into the campaign with ad hominem attacks on Michelle Obama . The first instance of this from back in February, in my judgment, could be forgiven - understood as a kind of knee-jerk or emotional response to Michelle Obama’s remarks. Michelle Obama mis-spoke and Cindy McCain immediately painted her as lacking patriotism : Cindy McCain told the crowd I “am proud of my country. I don’t know about you, if you heard those words earlier — I am very proud of my country.” I think Ms. McCain’s remarks on that occasion should be condemned, but that she as an individual could be given a pass - as her remarks followed so quickly upon Ms. Obama’s. They could be forgiven as a kind of mis-speaking similar to Michelle’s. However, Ms. McCain’s remarks yesterday - many months after her earlier comments - repeat the same point again - which makes this attack on the Obamas’ patriotism seem to be part of some greater plan. Cindy McCain again trumpets her own patriotism and muses about how: Everyone has their own experience. I don’t know why she said what she said, all I know is that I have always been proud of my country. Clearly, she is suggesting that Michelle Obama may not love or be proud of America; but she is doing so indirectly. She is speaking in the way of those who self-consciously consider themselves to be “upper-class” - making her point by indirection and by omission. I don’t think I’m someone who is overly conscious of class - at least conscious of class in the American setting in which I’ve been raised. But this comment by Cindy McCain struck me as a perfect encapsulation of a common sort of “country club patriotism” - a mix of cattiness, entitlement, and a disdain for those “lesser”. As an heiress to many millions, Ms. McCain (along with Mr.) is among the class of super-rich - and she has been her entire life. Insulated from many of the challenges of the majority of Americans, she brags about loving the country in which she has always been one of the elite few. I would think even the most ungenerous individual would have some appreciation for the country that had given them as much as America has given Cindy McCain. Michelle Obama, on the other hand, a descendant of slaves, was born poor but worked hard and assisted by affirmative action programs and through her own skill and determination, achieved a large measure of independent success. Yet she too has spoken eloquently about loving her country - a country that enabled her to achieve what she has despite the poverty in which she was born. This love of country that is informed by an intimate understanding of the harsher aspects of America is harder to understand and harder to convey than the Country Club Patriotism of those of whom America has given a great deal and demanded very little. There is an aphorism about the rich man who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. This sense of both accomplishment and entitlement are exactly what sets apart Country Club Patriotism from the run-of-the-mill Fourth of July and Apple Pie Patriotism and the traditionally liberal Critical Patriotism. Cindy McCain’s comments are unbefitting a potential First Lady (or a potential President for that matter.) For her to have brought this up several times is outrageous. If Mr. McCain wants his wife to be spared the mud that will be inevitably flung about as these battle over who will succeed Mr. Bush, he should counsel his wife to try to refrain from slinging mud herself. Other Ways to Share This Article Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:18:39 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=61269730 joe@2parse 2008-06-19T19:18:39Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=61232255 The would-be First Lady of the 2004 election cycle was often the target of criticism for her off-the-cuff remarks on the campaign trail, and for her support of left wing advocacy groups. So much so, in fact, that The H.J. Heinz Co. sent out 50 letters to news organizations to “squash rumors circulating on [...] Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:16:44 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=61232255 2008-06-19T16:16:44Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=61146349 Michelle Obama combated the notion that she is a little too authentic, the same way Cindy McCain went on to undercut the image that she is too fake. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:18:52 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=61146349 2008-06-19T01:18:52Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=60665142 The heat is on, and the stakes are high, with the potential first ladies' bake-off underway and organizer Family Circle magazine looking to see which way the cookie is going to crumble. In the past four presidential elections, readers of the magazine have successfully predicted who would be America's next first lady by favoring her recipe in the magazine's competition. Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:39:20 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=60665142 2008-06-15T09:39:20Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=60532554 Picking up on the media's meme that a vast right-wing hate machine is going at full-tilt against Michelle Obama , ABCNews.com wants readers to know that the Illinois senator's wife is " more Jackie O Than Teresa [Heinz Kerry]." The story made the "top headlines" lineup for the afternoon of June 13, along with a headline tease for recent video from Fox News Channel where an onscreen graphic labeled the mother of two as Sen. Obama's "baby mama." Online slang lexicon urbandictionary.com defines a baby mama as "The mother of your child(ren), whom you did not marry and with whom you are not currently involved." The "Michelle Obama 2.0" article begins by regaling readers with a look at life in the Obama household as given by Barack and Michelle on a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio. The Illinois senator joked about his wife speaking more endearingly of him on the campaign trail than she does behind closed doors: "She never says such nice things about me at home!" he smiles. "I really enjoy listening to her praise me like that because when I get home she'll remind me that I didn't make the bed." The article then continued by contrasting the domestic bliss of the young Obamas with those mean ol' conservatives dead-set on stopping the presumptive Democratic nominee by gunning for Mrs. O.: This is the Michelle Obama that the Obama campaign wants Americans to get to know -- not the "Mrs. Grievance" depicted with an angry scowl on the cover of the conservative National Review, or "His Bitter Half," as conservative columnist Michelle Malkin called her. Some of the conservative attacks are even less subtle. Fox News Channel depicted her loving fist-bump with her husband the night he clinched enough delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination as a "terrorist fist jab" and a chyron on Fox News identified Michelle Obama as "Obama's Baby Mama," urban slang for an ex-girlfriend with whom one has fathered an out-of-wedlock child. The Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune followed up with other stories probing why the woman once seen as a potential African-American Jackie Kennedy risks becoming more of a liability, a black Teresa Heinz Kerry. At a posh fundraiser for the Democratic Party's White House Victory Fund last night Obama told supporters, that their opponents are "going to try to make me into a scary guy. They're even trying to make Michelle into a scary person." As the general election kicks into gear, the Obama campaign wants Americans to instead meet the woman whom friends describe as clever and warm, who will pull up a sixth chair on "The View" next Wednesday to chat about "hot topics" and interview actor Matthew Broderick. (Michelle has been studying up on Broderick and his wife Sarah Jessica Parker in preparation.) She's been leading a number of public forums with military wives, which campaign aides say she finds rewarding and her husband sometimes refers to on the stump. Oh really? The Obama camp wants Americans seeing Michelle Obama on "The View" alongside ultra-liberal co-host Joy Behar who: ...has spouted off many false remarks, putting her leftist ideology before the facts. [For example,] Joy fed her viewers false information about the vice president's record on the Marriage Amendment and falsely charged the Bush administration with airing the "swift boat" ads . Behar has also, without evidence, smeared Republican presidential candidates of ties with the Ku Klux Klan and accused Republicans of giving Senator Tim Johnson a stroke. Sounds like a more Teresa Heinz Kerry-friendly venue than for a a modern day Jackie O. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:13:21 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=60532554 2008-06-13T19:13:21Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=60504322 If we learned anything from Hillary Clinton in the '90s or the treatment of Teresa Heinz Kerry prior to the 2004 election, it's this: Woe betide any strong, mouthy wife of a Democratic presidential candidate. Turns out you don't even have to be running yourself for the media to go apeshit trying to prove you unfit for the White House. And if white people have learned anything from Barack Obama's campaign so far (because people of color have already learned it the hard way), it's that we are nowhere near a "post-racial" society. Racism still lurks not only in our institutions but in many an unexpected heart. Put those two things together, then mix in a 24-hour news cycle, a thriving blogosphere, YouTube and the extra scrutiny that comes with a historic campaign, and it's clear that Michelle Obama has one hell of a hard road ahead of her as the first African-American wife of a presidential candidate (despite Teresa's boneheaded claims to that title). Good thing she looks fabulous! Sob . On the plus side, at least one Web site -- a spinoff of the excellent blog What About Our Daughters? -- has Michelle's back. Michelle Obama Watch , launched this week, will track the most egregious examples of racism, sexism and general WTF? directed at the potential first lady. (Heartbreakingly, there's already a category called "weeMichelles" to track those directed at Obama daughters Sasha and Malia, too.) Just a few days old, the site's not lacking for examples, and it's only going to get uglier from here. One positive thought, though, is that sites like Michelle Obama Watch (I know loads of bloggers will informally be keeping their own watches as well) and the Obama campaign's new Fight the Smears may indicate that Democrats have finally figured out how to get ahead of the inevitable campaign mudslinging and media feeding frenzies. Getting these out there now is a strong message that the left is not going to take the same old crap -- or the special new racist crap -- this year, that both campaign officials and Democratic voters will call it out and counter it as soon as we see it, instead of just hoping it will go away. Could that really be true at long last? Fingers crossed. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:05:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?rinfoid=60504322 2008-06-13T15:05:00Z