Heinz Kerry addresses (PA State) NAACP

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04297/400514.stm

Teresa Heinz Kerry scored points just by showing up.

The NAACP state conference kicked off its weekend in Washington County by inviting both contenders for the White House, or their surrogates, to speak to 200 delegates from throughout Pennsylvania.

President Bush, as he did this summer with the national convention of the nation's oldest civil rights group, ignored the invite. Sen. John F. Kerry, on the other hand, asked his wife to stand in.

Before she uttered a word, Heinz Kerry received a standing ovation.

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But state NAACP officials were upset that President Bush didn't show.

"He's sending a clear signal that we can be ignored," said Burrell Brown, state conference president. "On Nov. 2, African-Americans will show him that's not true."

[libbygurl]

1. Kerry has a lot of confidence in THK-rightly so-to stand in for him...

...as THK has proven herself a hugely charismatic and intelligent speaker many times over, starting when she had to speak extemporaneously for her late husband, John Heinz, who once was very much delayed coming to a talk.

Isn't it great to have such wonderful women for First and Second Ladies? Who are more than capable of going on the stump separately from their husbands?