Posted by axxxr
This is for all the people of the world who think highly of George.w.Bush and are willing to employ him in future.
George W. Bush Resume
Past work experience:
Ran for congress and lost.
Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using tax-payer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.
With fathers help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.
Accomplishments: Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union. Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. Set record for most executions by any Governor in American history.
Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my fathers appointments to the Supreme Court.
Accomplishments as president:
Attacked and took over two countries.
Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.
Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.
In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.
Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/)
Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
My presidency is the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history.
Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleeza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her).
First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.
First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.
First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).
All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
My biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
First US president to establish a secret shadow government.
Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).
With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
First US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.
Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
In the 18 months following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.
Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
Records and References:
At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).
AWOL from National Guard and Deserted the military during a time of war.
Refused to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public review.
For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker (They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)
Posted by kimcheeboi
G.W. Bush=twat.
Posted by axxxr
Twat is too a moderate word for him!!
Posted by kimcheeboi
yes indeed! i cant stand that bastard!!!!!
he better get his ass outta office next elections
Posted by axxxr
Hope the S.O.B loses in november...millions around the world will be more than happy to see him leave.
Posted by kimcheeboi
millions
that's it?
thing is, he condemns muslims as 'religious fanatics' but hes trampling all over our civil and indiviual rights in the name of a god that doesnt even exist!!!!!!
this guy really pisses me off
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Posted by axxxr
Most of the population of the middle east'Asia'far east and most south american countries and to mention hundreds of thousands of europeans if not millions hate Bush.
He alone has created more misery not only for the majority of decent american ppl but millions around the world.
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Posted by kimcheeboi
i dont like his texas ass either
You know whats really scary? There's people that approve of Bush (i.e. hardcore Christian fundamentalists). I can't stand those people, theres quite a bit at the church my parents made me go to--until i started cussing at the youth minister for being a brainwashed bush loving twat motherfu*ker
Posted by axxxr
I myself cant understand why ppl like him...I mean just look at him and his track record!..Ppl who support really need to take a closer look judge him for his record and all the problesm hes created...Lets just hope and pray he doesnt get past november..here's Hopeing for John Kerry.
Posted by kimcheeboi
yes but it sure seems as if it is only us two that dislike bush
Posted by *Jojo*
Some of US President George W. Bush's Photos in my Archive:
Well, at any rate despite his very ridiculous resume, given a choice here, I would still go for him rather than choosing on John Kerry !
Posted by kimcheeboi
lmao
Posted by Payalnik
I'd prefer bill clinton who proved to be a man with that joystick blowing scandal
Posted by kimcheeboi
seriously! whats wrong with a guy getting a little action on the side compared to an asshole who invades countries for fun?
Posted by boto43
who cares about a bush in europe ?
Posted by ADT0079
I have a couple of things to say . Bill clinton left most of this mess for bush to clean up 2 dont belive in god dont really care for bush but john kerry just plan out sucks already proven to be a lier .and last look at all the conflicts in the world and 90 percent of them invole muslims so Fuck them they will always hate usa . Bush is the best choice at this time
Posted by *Jojo*
whoooooopeeee! I am not alone here, thanks for the last poster - for supporting Bush!
Posted by kimcheeboi
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allow me to dissect this post.
1. "muslims so fu*k them they will always hate usa"--already you depict yourself as a racist. There is no one stupid as a racist. Muslims are people too, how would you feel if someone came into your house, put a gun to your head (figuratively) and told you how to live?
2. "Bill clinton left this mess..."--no other president in united states history has done the things Bush has. So Clinton forced Bush to concealing prisoner abuse in Iraq? He forced Bush to invade Iraq and Afghanistan?
3. "Look at all the conflicts in the world and 90 percent of them involve muslims..."--well look at the majority of them and they also involve christianity, my little man. Muslims persecuting Christians, christians persecuting muslims, etc. etc.
4. "John kerry just plain out sucks...[he's a] liar..."--what about Bush's prior DUI convictions, AWOL from service, corporate scandals, massive bugdet shortages, etc. etc. Again, you logic is really quite sketchy.
5. lastly, "bush is the best choice at this time."--so its the best choice to have someone in office who disregards the UN, breaks international law, tramples on civil and individual rights, and tries to govern us believing that its 'god's will?'
you need to catch up with the news, stop watching the telly and playing video games, and actually get some knowledge on whats going on in the world.
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Posted by kimcheeboi
oh and a coupla more things. islam is actually a peaceful religion, its also says in the Koran that jihad is not terrorism, its a religious war (for example when the christians invaded the middle east hundreds of years ago). THAT is jihad. Terrorists who have expectations of 72 virgins are gonna end up in hot places with pitchforks lodged in their asses.
In fact, its people like you that say "fu*k the muslims" that start these wars. I had a bible teacher at my high school that told us Muslims were all evil and that they deserved to be eliminated from the earth. Now, is that exactly "god's will?" I dont think any god, the President, you, or anyone else has the right to be genocidal, uneducated, and bigoted.
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Posted by ADT0079
Read from muslim who chopped head off of "civilian"
You've seen me on TV, but you don't know my name, and if you run into me in the street, you won't recognize me. That's because my face was covered while I was posing for the camera along with four of my comrades, assembled for the execution of an American. I am one of those responsible, whom your president promised to bring to justice. Good luck!
It may come as a surprise to you, but I felt some pity for the poor guy whose head we cut off. He knew what was about to happen and, yet, he went to his death without a fight, like a sheep. He couldn't have gotten away, of course; but, at the same time, he had nothing to lose, and there was little we could've done if he had decided to violate the dignity of our presentation by kicking and screaming, except maybe making his death more painful. He would've been killed anyway; but, at least, he would've died like a man, fighting. On the other hand, we had to make the video, and if he had spoiled it for us, we would've had to execute someone else.
Your president is sending your soldiers and civilians alike to die in Iraq in pursuit of the pipe dream of spreading democracy. Our warriors die fighting for the sacred goal of spreading Islam. But the symmetry ends right there. Just look at what all contemporary democracies have in common: they all exist in prosperous capitalist countries populated mostly by Christians or, in the case of Israel, Jews. I doubt this is just a coincidence, since every single prosperous capitalist country populated mostly by Christians or Jews is a democracy. Although India and Turkey are considered democracies, neither of them presents an example to the contrary. Indian democracy is forced to coexist with their ancient caste system, which will easily outlive their democracy as well as any other sign of Western influence. And if you think that Turkey is such a free country, why has no American ever emigrated there in search of liberties unattainable at home?
We, Arabs, lack the prosperity of the decadent West. We are not capitalists. We are dirt poor. We have always been poor and always will be. Our most coveted possession, oil, was worthless a few decades ago, before capitalism made the West so powerful, and it will become worthless again a few decades from today, when capitalism dies and the power of the West becomes a thing of the past. And, of course, we are neither Jews nor Christians. We are Muslims. Our desert soil will not support democracy. Nothing grows on it, but jihad.
Let me ask you, what on earth could possibly give you an idea that we want democracy? Have you ever seen us do anything at all that could be interpreted as craving for the personal freedom that Americans, in their arrogance, are so eager to spread and to defend with their lives? Of course, we are moving to Europe and your country in ever growing numbers, but liberty is never on the list of personal reasons that cause so many of us to tear our roots from the sand, cross the ocean and settle among our mortal enemies. Our great migration to the West is not a drive to freedom; it is jihad, pure and simple, albeit in its least spectacular form. When America and Europe do not come to Mohammad, Mohammad comes to America and Europe. Some of us achieve great success among the infidel, but most do not even bother, because we know that sooner or later your evil folly will fall apart, as easily and as completely, as the World Trade Center collapsed under our blows, and the world will revert to the simple, clear truth of the Holy Koran. Where will you run when we turn your land into desert? Where will you hide?
But let us forget for a moment that democracy in Iraq is impossible. Let your fantasy loose. Imagine that you somehow win and Iraq becomes an American-style democracy. Imagine even that it fights jihad on your side. Of course, based on the performance of its army in the two wars your Bushes have forced on our people, you might be better off with them fighting against you; but imagine that, against all odds, you manage to teach them to fight like you do, cowardly and efficiently. Here's the question: how is that supposed to make you safe from terrorism? How will it stop another bunch of Saudis, or Egyptians, or Moroccans, or Libyans, or Jordanians from flying another couple of jets into another couple of skyscrapers, or plant a few dirty bombs, or poison your water supply, or do any of the things we normally do whenever the opportunity presents itself?
The answer is, it won't. You can't win this war. Not the way you're fighting it.
Try looking at it from my perspective. The father of the executed American put the blame for his death on Bush and Rumsfield. I understand that you have little reason to trust anything I say; but you may believe me when I tell you that neither Bush nor Rumsfield were among the five men who beheaded the American. I know; I was there. I'm sure the father of the dead American knows it as well. Right now, he is probably going through the most painful days of his whole life, and you shouldn't judge him. God only knows what stupid things each one of us may do or say when forced to see his beloved son die without a purpose, while powerless to defend him and with no hope to ever avenge his death. Only the purpose gives us strength to face tragedy with dignity, like countless Palestinian mothers whose sons and daughters have martyred themselves fighting the Zionist occupation of their land.
But let's get back to the dead guy's father. He knows we, Arabs, killed his son, in strict accordance with our culture, our tradition, and our religion. Bush is the only world leader, trying to fight back, although with no chance of success. And yet, the grieving father blames your president. Blaming Islam, Arabs in general, or even just the five of us has never occurred to him or almost anyone else in the world. This is no exception. Whatever we do to uphold the glory of God, the world reacts as if the devastation we visit upon our enemies is caused by something absolutely beyond human control, like bad weather. Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, kill thousands of people each year, but nobody calls for retribution, nobody demands revenge.
That leaves me and my brothers blameless. We can murder infidels in front of cameras. We can cut them to pieces and pose with their body parts. We can do anything we want, and nobody, be he friend or foe, is going to blame us for it. Just think about it. You are so proud of your freedom, but in reality it's we who are the freest people on earth. If you believe we are going to surrender our absolute freedom in exchange for the chimera of American-style democracy, you are totally, ridiculously wrong, and I will gladly tear you apart, preferably with news photographers present, to prove it.
I remember how at the beginning of the war your newspapers kept guessing if the Iraqis were going to turn on you or greet you as liberators. We adored Saddam, but not because he did anything good for us. He robbed the country blind; his thugs tortured people to death at his whim. This is what a ruler does. This is what any man would do in his place. Only no other man was smart enough to get in his place. That's why we admired him so. And when the Americans came, we greeted them for two reasons. First, we expected to be punished if we failed to extol the new rulers. Second, you had beaten the man we thought was unbeatable. In your country, when a challenger knocks down the heavyweight champion of the world, you all love the winner, don't you?
It took us time to realize that, despite your awesome arms and the excellent training of your soldiers, you are weak. You don't have what it takes to win a war against Arabs. You don't understand your enemy. Your president promised to bring me to justice. He might or might not get lucky, but killing or capturing me will change nothing. I am a warrior; I expect to die at the enemy's hands, and I am not afraid of my fate. But how will my death or capture help you? You captured Saddam; did it help you?
I, on the other hand, given the opportunity would not only kill your president, but wouldn't miss a chance to butcher your grandmother either - not because she posed any danger for me, but because this is a war, and in a war you do not miss a chance to hurt your enemy. I hope you understand there is nothing personal in it. This is jihad.
You thought you won the war when Saddam's army crumbled under your assault, unable to put up any real resistance. Now you know that by the time Saddam's army was completely demolished, the war hadn't even started yet. Now you have a real war on your hands, and you have lost it. It won't be easy to point out when it happened, because it happened gradually, but I can name the exact moment when you reached the point of no return. It was when you allowed Fallujah to survive the murder and mutilation of four American civilians. You failed to implement the only policy that would've given you a chance: submit or die. You failed to destroy Fallujah with all its population. What happened next? Muqtaba al-Sadr, a nobody, a man who has nothing to show for himself except his dead father's fame, challenges you and survives. Now even children are no longer afraid of you.
Here's a lesson for you. Winning a war and keeping your armor shiny are two very different tasks. You are about to learn that when you are dealing with an enemy like us, these tasks are mutually exclusive.
Nothing exposes your innate weakness better than your refusal to do what needs to be done for fear of causing the hatred of Muslims. Do you think we hate you now any more or any less than we hated you on the eve of 9/11? Are you afraid of how the UN might react if you do the right thing?
Doesn't it strike you as strange that we, the obvious underdog, do not care whether you love us or hate us, although you can, in theory, blow us away in less time than it took us to film the beheading?
Think about it till we meet again. And we will, I promise.
Posted by *Jojo*
Look what this thread (resume) of Bush has brought us now . . . First, contemplating on his past and present performance as a president of the US, second - choice bewteen him and Kerry, third - exchange of sour words between religions and now - misunderstandings between members here @ esato. What will they think of next ??? The heading of this thread should have been -'Going around the Bush' !
Posted by jontyf
Come on guys
Posted by kimcheeboi
fyi that guy ws a fanatic, same as gw bush who does shit "for god." The Koran explicitly prohibits violence against women and children.
And stop posting goatse man-style shock text, the majority of muslims dont run around killing people. So, did you hear of the Muslim uprising in New York?
now lets hear YOUR words, or do you have nothing intelligent to say?
Posted by ADT0079
Think about that....Ur 1st point they did invade my home with planes
2.clinton knew of some thearts in relation to an attack on the us never released that info when he left office-still no way to stop them Bush nor clinton because of are willingness to let them in this country..it;s wrong that iraq pows if u want to call them that where abused but not bushes fault blame the 23 28 year old soldiers who thought it would be funny to show off some pics when they got home..bad choice but not his..muslims are in war with hindu,jews christians u name it they have confilt.look at the polls notice how u dont hear about kerry because the more he speaks the lower his weekly poll rating goes down...bush is in the spot light and still holds a lead on kerry.....so say what u will u have ur opinon i have mine thats why this post was started so dont cry and move on........IT'S BETTER TO BE PISSED OFF THEN PISSED ON"
Posted by buckle247
He is a twat, but he has done some good, like for instance the amount of executions is good. quite a few people in the UK want that introduced back over here. Saves wasting tax payers money keeping the scum alive.
Posted by kimcheeboi
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actually an execution is more expensive.
btw abt those pics--they were sitting on white house officials' desks in january, and all they did was try to conceal it. Oh, and youre condoning the use of violence against a people?
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Posted by ADT0079
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Posted by Payalnik
Is it true that the muslim religion itself doesn't say about war? I heard that somewhere that being muslim doesn't mean killing others!
Posted by Lynx69
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I have a couple of things to say . Bill clinton left most of this mess for bush to clean up 2 dont belive in god dont really care for bush but john kerry just plan out sucks already proven to be a lier .and last look at all the conflicts in the world and 90 percent of them invole muslims so f**k them they will always hate usa . Bush is the best choice at this time |
It just pisses me off when someone like you makes a judgment when you know f**k all about it.
@Kim is completely right. You have no right to be rascist like that when you obviously know f**k all about Islam.
You might want to read this because believe it or not, Islam is not about bombing planes and killing innocent people
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Muslims dont, and wont always, hate America, its just people like Bush that make them hate them, i mean have they found Osama yet? No and are they still looking? NO. They just left Afghanistan in ruins and its obviuos they werent only going after Osama, it was like an excuse. Just like the Saddam situation because they just wanted to put him out of power, they didnt find any WOMD, they just left Iraw in ruins. And you wonder why Bush is hated so much?
Also, you sound like a guy that thinks Islam is a religion that is just for terrorism but Islam does not permit extremists, it is against our religion to kill for no reason.
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Posted by buckle247
how can an execution be more expensive then paying to keep a crimanl locked up for 30+ years paying food, guards etc etc, not to mention building more prisons when they become over full.
Posted by kimcheeboi
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Um then why does he pray about it. There are recorded clips of him explaining that what he is doing is god's will.
Pussyfoot Kerry? I thought Bush was the one who dodged service in vietnam. Why, may i ask, does Kerry have a silver star? Let me tell you, hes gotta lot more balls than you or i or bush.
im getting pissed off because youre so stupid.
Posted by ADT0079
US employers added 248,000 workers to payrolls in May, more than forecast, helped by the biggest gain in manufacturing employment in almost six years. The economy has now recouped all the jobs lost since the recession ended in November 2001. The unemployment rate held at 5.6 percent.
The increase follows revised gains of 346,000 jobs in April and 353,000 in March that were larger than estimated last month, the Labor Department said in Washington. Manufacturing employment rose the most since August 1998 and hours worked at factories were the highest since October 2000. Service and construction employment rose.
Needless to say this is going to complicate the storyline being spun by the Kerry campaign and the likes of the NY Times' Paul Krugman that Bush 's economic policies are an unmitigated disaster.
The timing of these job numbers are in many ways perfect for the Bush campaign, and despite all of the efforts in the press to create an atmosphere of gloom and doom this type of job growth five months out from the election will eventually seep into the general public.
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Yeah being a Muslim doesnt mean killing other people, it is against the religion.
read the first thing about it
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Posted by ADT0079
When Al Gore endorsed Howard Dean Tuesday, he delivered a swift kick to the gut of John Kerry, who hardly needed one. All but doomed in Iowa, Kerry finds himself sliding in the polls in New Hampshire, too; a recent Zogby survey puts him 30 points behind Dean. It's hard to pin down why, exactly. Some point to the squabbles of his campaign advisers or his tangled positions on the war. Others cite his fondness for rhetoric so lofty it floats out of reach like a lost balloon. But one way to understand why the Kerry campaign has faltered is to study the case of the candidate's wife.
From the outset, Kerry's advisers kept a wary eye on Teresa Heinz. As the widow of Pennsylvania senator and ketchup heir John Heinz, who died in 1991 when his plane collided with a helicopter, she inherited around $500 million and responsibility for the billion-dollar Heinz family endowment. As she waded into state politics, she demonstrated a knack for the salty comments that make for riveting copy: She denounced Rick Santorum as "Forrest Gump with an attitude" when the conservative Republican ran for her more moderate first husband's seat. When she married Kerry in 1995, her association with the two ambitious senators—and speculation that the fortune of the first might bankroll the presidential ambitions of the second—made her even more intriguing than your average workaday heiress.
Journalists began sizing up Heinz when Kerry was still just "considering" a presidential run. In June 2002, the Washington Post's Mark Leibovich interviewed Heinz and Kerry and delivered a dishy take on their relationship, insinuating that Heinz was still very much in love with her first husband and prone to walking all over the second. Leibovich noted that Heinz still referred to John Heinz as "my husband" and that his photo hung alongside Kerry's in the hall. In conversation with Kerry, though, Heinz "snaps," "raises her voice," works up "a full head of rage," and "mimics Kerry having a Vietnam nightmare," just moments after he denies having any. In response, Kerry "fidgets," "exhales a long, loud sigh," and "tries to play down his wife's agitation." When he suggests that she make peace with Santorum, she refuses: "I don't have to be that politic." At the end of the article, anonymous Kerry staffers wonders how to "handle Teresa" and sum up the dilemma: Her bluntness could become a problem.assessment Taking stock of people and ideas in the news.
Teresa Heinz
Why John Kerry needs some of his wife's sauce.
By Julia Turner
Posted Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003, at 3:57 PM PT
When Al Gore endorsed Howard Dean Tuesday, he delivered a swift kick to the gut of John Kerry, who hardly needed one. All but doomed in Iowa, Kerry finds himself sliding in the polls in New Hampshire, too; a recent Zogby survey puts him 30 points behind Dean. It's hard to pin down why, exactly. Some point to the squabbles of his campaign advisers or his tangled positions on the war. Others cite his fondness for rhetoric so lofty it floats out of reach like a lost balloon. But one way to understand why the Kerry campaign has faltered is to study the case of the candidate's wife.
From the outset, Kerry's advisers kept a wary eye on Teresa Heinz. As the widow of Pennsylvania senator and ketchup heir John Heinz, who died in 1991 when his plane collided with a helicopter, she inherited around $500 million and responsibility for the billion-dollar Heinz family endowment. As she waded into state politics, she demonstrated a knack for the salty comments that make for riveting copy: She denounced Rick Santorum as "Forrest Gump with an attitude" when the conservative Republican ran for her more moderate first husband's seat. When she married Kerry in 1995, her association with the two ambitious senators—and speculation that the fortune of the first might bankroll the presidential ambitions of the second—made her even more intriguing than your average workaday heiress.
Journalists began sizing up Heinz when Kerry was still just "considering" a presidential run. In June 2002, the Washington Post's Mark Leibovich interviewed Heinz and Kerry and delivered a dishy take on their relationship, insinuating that Heinz was still very much in love with her first husband and prone to walking all over the second. Leibovich noted that Heinz still referred to John Heinz as "my husband" and that his photo hung alongside Kerry's in the hall. In conversation with Kerry, though, Heinz "snaps," "raises her voice," works up "a full head of rage," and "mimics Kerry having a Vietnam nightmare," just moments after he denies having any. In response, Kerry "fidgets," "exhales a long, loud sigh," and "tries to play down his wife's agitation." When he suggests that she make peace with Santorum, she refuses: "I don't have to be that politic." At the end of the article, anonymous Kerry staffers wonders how to "handle Teresa" and sum up the dilemma: Her bluntness could become a problem.
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Kerry's fledgling bid was generating a nice murmuring buzz at the time, and the Leibovich story stuck out like a bad patch of static. The problem seemed evident. When the election rolled around, it wouldn't do to have Heinz sound so bossy and Kerry sound so whipped. Pundits argued that the unpredictable Heinz's strident manner and off-kilter comments would distract voters from the meat of Kerry's message. To his credit, Kerry has always said he considers his wife a political asset, but members of his campaign spoke with the press about reining her in. In September 2002, the campaign hired Chris Black, a former CNN reporter, to serve as Heinz's chief of communications. And in two moves that neatly showcased how Heinz was willing to make adjustments for the sake of her man, she switched her party registration from Republican to Democrat—even though she had long vowed she'd never "cross the aisle" for Kerry—and agreed to use the name Teresa Heinz Kerry in campaign literature. (According to Black, the move was intended to help voters "out of Massachusetts" realize that the pair are legally wed.)
But as the campaign wore on, Heinz proved impervious to media training. At a fund-raiser shortly after Kerry's successful surgery for prostate cancer, campaign staffers sought to breeze past any mention of the illness, hoping to keep voters from linking Kerry too closely with vulnerability or disease. But in a 20-minute, off-the-cuff diatribe, Heinz offered details about the surgery and urged all men to get checked out. At other fund-raisers, she waxed discursive on her favorite sunscreen (Clinique), the healing properties of green tea, and the charms of life in Europe. In a June 2003 profile in Elle, she said she used Botox and would consider plastic surgery, that "everybody has a prenup," that she would "maim" her husband if she caught him cheating on her. She also commented on changing her name: "Now, politically, it's going to be Teresa Heinz Kerry, but I don't give a shit, you know? There are other things to worry about."
Then something strange happened: Just after Labor Day, Heinz began to spend considerable time on the trail. She appeared in far-flung early primary states both alongside her husband and without him. She chatted about health care with suburban women, visited art openings and college campuses, and spoke Spanish and French with the patrons of a Manchester, N.H., barbershop. (Born in Mozambique to a prosperous Portuguese family, Heinz speaks five languages and has worked as a translator for the United Nations.) She's ruffled few feathers and seemed less like a distraction than an asset. This should not have been surprising: Heinz had already proved herself an able campaigner during her years in Pennsylvania. And when Kerry fought a grueling Senate re-election bid against Bill Weld in 1996, Heinz flew into action, giving speeches in Portuguese to local communities, meeting with the editorial boards of small-town newspapers, shaking so many hands at the Democratic National Convention that she inflamed the tendonitis in her right arm.
Instead of treating Heinz like a pariah the Kerry campaign should have made her one of its biggest stars. No one knows how much a larger presence from Heinz could have moved the polls for her husband's campaign. But in its efforts to "handle" her, the Kerry campaign did what it always does: It made cautious, mincing steps in response to its critics. Flustered by the teapot-sized media tempest about how Heinz would play on the trail, Kerry's campaign tamped down just what it should have played up.
Perhaps what the Kerry campaign could have used, in fact, was not just a bigger dose of Teresa Heinz herself but an infusion of her devil-may-care attitude. In the face of withering criticism, Heinz tends to stamp her foot and do what she wants. (Ask her Boston neighbors about the time she had the city move a fire hydrant so she could have a place to park.) Trailing badly in the polls, Kerry has mounted a last-ditch effort to appear similarly fiery, giving an obscenity-laced interview this month to Rolling Stone. But it's much too late for that. He should have gone to his wife for daily talking points all along.
Heinz's sterling résumé exceeds that of your typical political wife—in fact, it exceeds that of your typical political candidate. She testified before Congress about pension policy, lobbied members of the first Bush administration about lead poisoning, and persuaded Massachusetts to adopt a prescription drug program that was developed with Heinz foundation money. When her first husband died, she took charge of the Heinz fortune and significantly revamped the group's giving strategy. She focused on the environment, and in 1993, one of the Heinz endowments put up $20 million to found the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, which brought together businessmen, academics, and environmental advocates and sought to find nonpartisan solutions to ecological problems. She subscribed to the pragmatic and controversial belief that environmental solutions were useless unless they might one day be adopted by industry. It was not what many environmentalists wanted, but Heinz did it anyway.
In fact, as Kerry's wayward campaign putters along, you have to ask: Is the wrong Kerry running for office? After Heinz's first husband died, Bob Dole and Arlen Specter encouraged her to run for his Senate seat as a Republican. She seriously considered a 1994 bid, before having the good sense to opt out. She explained: "Today's most creative thinking is not happening in Washington. Today, political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises." It's too bad her husband's campaign hasn't taken the critique to heart.
Posted by kimcheeboi
@ADT-that sure makes up for 2 million jobs lost, plus budget overspending, plus all 50 states gone broke, plus rising schooling costs, plus inflation, etc etc etc blah blah i could go on forever.
Lets say that bush levied an extra 2.5% tax on the top 5% of the wealthiest Americans. Whoops! Where did the budget defecit go? Bush just became a magician! But last time i remember he was giving tax cuts to the rich... (i.e. the people that contribute to his campaign
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Posted by Lynx69
Im lucky i dont live in America @Kim...your unlucky
Posted by *Jojo*
MAY THE FORCE OF PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL GUYS - Christians and Muslims alike !!!
Posted by kimcheeboi
um @ADT stop posting other people's shit. Are you too stupid to forumlate your own analysis and opinion?
@lynx-im proud to be an american.
Posted by Lynx69
Lol i was just joking
Posted by kimcheeboi
@jojo-lmao
Posted by *Jojo*
@kimcheeboi - C'mon mate . . .hold your horses !!! Opinions regardless of conformity must be very much respected here mate. Just look what happened to these ever famous US personalities . . . they change their religion to that of Osama's ! (teheheheh) !!!
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Posted by ADT0079
No i think its funny watching u get all pissed off because u think u know the world........Have fun voteing for kerry .......Just dont think he will win and two yeah he has his medals but took and threw away two other soldiers medals and not his ...yeah he's got balls
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Tyson did, i didnt know about the others 
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Posted by kimcheeboi
@adt-stop being an idiot. you really that stupid?
@jojo-:lol: LMAO LOLOLOLOL
Posted by ADT0079
And Axxxr I like all ur post on hardware and other cool stuff Keep going
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Theres only one thing that you like, that i also like
Posted by ADT0079
I like SE And hate Nuk's or what ever u call them nokias
Posted by Payalnik
@kim dont get so angry. Quoting is not stupid at all. Why are u proud 2b american if you didnt choose where to be born?
Posted by *Jojo*
Good thing that the issue is a bit being diverted . . .now. Would any one care for a McChicken - head ???