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 Darling
I Love You,
But Give Me Park Avenue!
Nancy Salvato
May 14, 2004 |
Should the worse case scenario happen if
John Kerry is elected President of the United States, his wife Teresa Heinz
Kerry will be representing our country as the First Lady. Since she will be
in the public eye, it is prudent to understand the woman who would be
residing in the White House for the next four years. Here are some of the
ways she views her world.
She has been quoted, "Another thing that drives me crazy, and I hope I don't
offend anyone here, is WAL-MART," "They destroy communities.” Although Mrs.
Kerry holds one million dollars of Wal Mart stock, she evidently didn’t
consider herself liable when she made her accusation.
The Democratic hopefuls’ choice for First Lady is also quoted as saying,
"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." after she resigned
herself to allowing John Kerry’s staffers’ refer to her as Theresa Heinz
Kerry in campaign literature.
More gems from Mrs. Kerry include, "everybody has a prenup," and that if she
caught her husband cheating on her she would maim him. In Boston, neighbors
can recall when she had the city move a fire hydrant so she could have a
place to park. When asked if she would consider running for office after
John Heinz died, 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." I guess that would explain
why, only at the urging of John Kerry’s campaign manager, his she switched
her party registration from Republican to Democrat.
Philanthropic practices would indicate that the near billionaire Heinz Kerry
is sympathetic toward the fifth column because of her donations (through the
Howard Heinz Endowment) of more than $4 million to the Tides Foundation
between 1995 and 2001. Tides troubles me for the following reasons. Its Iraq
Peace Fund and Peace Studies Fund both support the War Resisters League and
Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. The latter sponsors
International ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice; run by long-time
communist revolutionaries. Ramsey Clark offered to defend Saddam Hussein.
Tides supports both the Democratic Justice Fund, created through the joint
efforts of Tides and George Soros, which seeks to ease U.S. restrictions on
Muslim immigration from countries designated by the State Department as
terrorist nations and the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a
group that bills itself as a "Muslim civil rights group,” but whose leaders
are linked to the terrorist group Hamas. Finally, Tides supports the
National Lawyers Guild (begun as a Communist Party front); whose member
Lynne Stewart was arrested for helping her client Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman,
convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, communicate with terrorist
cells in Egypt.
The Heinz Endowment donations are available to fund additional Tides
Foundation causes: The economic justice movement which promotes higher cost
of living wages, groups promoting abortion on demand, homosexual activist
organizations, the "Death Penalty Mobilization Fund which is working to
reform the death penalty and to abolish capital punishment, a group called
"Barrio Warriors"; a race-conscious Hispanic organization calling for the
"liberation of Aztlan” (the American southwest, including California, New
Mexico, Arizona and Texas), a variety of gun control groups, controversial
needle exchange programs, euthanasia and assisted suicide organizations.
Pamela Leavey says that at a campaign event which she attended, "When
Theresa Heinz-Kerry arrived, she handed me a pin that read in the center:
'Asses of Evil' with 'Bush,' 'Cheney,' 'Rumsfeld,' and 'Ashcroft'
surrounding it." In this writer’s wildest dreams, I can’t imagine any of our
former First Ladies engaging in this low brow conduct.
Although John Kerry is against shipping American jobs overseas, out of 79
factories that Heinz owns, 57 are overseas. The Kerry’s benefit monetarily
from the very types of business practices which he argues should be
eliminated.
My opinion is that either John and Theresa Heinz Kerry don’t understand the
implications of their behaviors on American society therefore they are unfit
to live in the White House or, they are deliberately affiliating with a
radical movement whose goal is to disavow our governing principles, and as
such; they are not only unsuited to live in the White House, they shouldn’t
be in any position in which they affect policy decisions for the United
States.
The woman who refers to herself as an African American (without the hyphen)
is quoted as saying, "I can't believe my family left Africa and came to this
country" and, "I can't believe I ever even married an American." It’s common
knowledge that she was against the idea of her husband running for the
office of President. It is only in the past year she relented. "A
politician's wife has a hard life," and "To become more of a 'thing' and
less of a person is terrible." Does this sound like someone who should be
First Lady of the United States?
Theresa Heinz Kerry might be willing to bolster the welfare payrolls with my
tax dollar but in reality the only welfare she’s looking out for is her own.
Nancy Salvato is a middle school teacher in Illinois and an independent
contractor for Prism Educational Consulting. She is the Educational Liaison
to IL Sen. Ray Soden and she works with national and local organizations
furthering the cause of Civic Education. She is a columnist for American
Daily, The Common Voice, GOP-USA, OpinionEditorials and The New Media Journal.us. Her
writing has been recognized by the US Secretary of Education. She has been published in
The Washington Times, The Washington Dispatch,
Iconoclast, Free Republic Network & Townhall.com., as well as other
nationally and internationally published media outlets.
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