Why did we think America is ready to accept a foreigner for a First Lady?

[doubles]

I heard Teresa Heinz in an interview with her thick foreign accent and was surprised her accent is so strong.

Before you jump on me, I am foreign with a thick accent but I do know that after 9/11, America does not want a foreigner near that White House, far less a First Lady who is foreign.

To top it off, she was explaining in the interview that she would have been stupid not to get a pre-nuptial agreement before getting married.

Folks, this could be another problem we have to deal with!

[DAGDA56]

1. If it is, you can pretty much forget any run for the Presidency...

...from Jeb. Hell, to some people Kerry has an accent.

[Dookus]

2. I think America is ready

for a bright, committed, educated, outspoken first lady. The last one now calls herself Senator.

[jobycom]

10. What about Laura?

She's educated, and may wind up committed if she doesn't loosen up a bit. And I'm still hoping for the outspoken meltdown, where she reveals what Bush has REALLY done to her. But they won't let her near a camera, and probably for that reason.

[Dookus]

16. lol...

good points.

[Vickers]

22. Aw jeebus, I just started a thread with that idea!

D'oh!

:toast: great minds think alike!

[jobycom]

33. So do mediocre minds!

Not that that would apply to us! :-)

[newsguyatl]

3. i think teresa's a LOVELY lady

an especially passionate and activist woman.


HOWEVER, i do believe the rnc is planning an upcoming attack on her as well... and they will be vicious.

[jobycom]

4. At least her accent is real

Bush's is fake, and he got almost-elected.

She's fine. People will think it's cute after awhile. We wouldn't get the racist xenophobe vote anyway.

[NMDemDist2]

5. no way-- She is wonderful!

we need a little more cosmopolitan feel in the WH. May make a few people less "nationalistic"

We haven't had style and grace in a first lady since Jackie O (my apologies to Hilary, she is smart and tough but style wasn't her strong point)

[doubles]

29. I know she is wonderful but middle America wants someone homebred

and able to bake cookies....

[NMDemDist2]

30. middle america LOVES strudels and danish

she is danish right? how can she go wrong? and as another poster noted, it sure didn't hurt Ahrnold in CA

and my husband thinks she's a BABE! "Sultry beauty" were his exact words

[Kool Kitty]

40. What makes you think that she can't bake cookies?

and if baking skills are the only things that make you fit to be a First Lady, then I definitely can do that job. I'm a hell of a baker.

[Generator]

45. Oops, you might want to actually know something about her

Pick up Newsweek. She was a stay at home wife to her first REPUBLICAN husband and remained Rep until last year. (she doesn't like abortion but remains pro-choice)

It wasn't even a divorce. The man that give her the millions died. How conservative of her! (she earned her money the old fashioned way, inheritance)

The freeps are barking up the wrong tree.

[movonne]

6. Oh please what a bunch of rot. Are you kidding (I hope so).

[Delano]

7. Her accent is no weirder than Laura's

...and that bizarre frozen expression -YEESH!

[UTUSN]

Well, Guess Again

She's a genuine human and 'muricans like that when the chips are down. Think about it.

[whistle]

8. And Laura Bush does not have a thick accent?

...She also has beady eyes and a fixed facial muscle lock. Give me ten Teresa Heinze's for every Laura Bush any day...:toast:

[BiggJawn]

14. Too much Botox on the Pickle...

Her face has frozen.
So Theresa has an accent. And this is worse than a Prezident who sounds like he's doing a bad impression of Mel Blanc doing Foghorn Leghorn in WHICH way?

[alcuno]

17. I can't stand the way she says "important."

I just can't.

[madmax]

9. Nah, relax doubles n/t

[Nimble_Idea]

11. it would be an improvement of what we have now

a submissive southern woman for all the girls in america to aspire to be........right.

[blondeatlast]

12. She is a US CITIZEN. that is all of which we need to be concerned.

[doubles]

27. That certainly is good to know, if she weren't, Kerry would definitely be

in trouble

[seabeyond]

13. yes they are holding this to attack

closer to election and another i feel they are holding onto to attack closer to election is kerry's vote against bush 1 war and for bush 2 war

[Dookus]

19. Good

let them attack.

She has hundreds of millions of dollars she's ready to dump into the race if need be. She will NOT refuse to defend herself.

[seabeyond]

31. hey, she talks my talk

i like this woman and not intimidated by her success or money. i say kick their ass. i did hear they are going to bring it up, didnt say they would be successful. i understand she is pretty good at communication

will just be another attack mrs kerry, hillary, chelsey and ooooooh we all just love laura so. skin crawls

[Not Me]

15. Oh, it's different when it's an austrian born bodybuilder...

Didn't seem to hurt Schwartenegger in California.

[leesa]

18. Nice try, but I don't think it'll work here. Who cares?

[alcuno]

20. California accepted "Ahnold"

And I have NO idea what he is saying half the time.

[doubles]

26. Very true but we do know California is a very special place unlike

the rest of America....

[LittleApple81]

21. I am an American born in another country...Will I always be a "foreigner"?

n/t

[BiggJawn]

23. They would rag Kerry's wife if she was a former Miss Murika...

They would rag kerry if he was single and dating someone. They would rag kerry if he was single and devoted to his pets and lived a Monastic existence. They would rag Kerry if he was widoed. They would rag Kerry if he had been married and his wife sought an annulment and took Vows....

In short, they would even find some reason to rag Kerry if he choked on his dinner and...

He has the AUDACITY to run against Saint George of GAWD, and that's all the reason they need.

[eleonora]

24. How racist

They'd better not even make a peep about it.

[KC21304]

25. ANYONE who has children from a previous marriage

would be STUPID not to have a prenup. And anyone who is not stupid would know that.

[BiggJawn]

35. Guess I'm stupid, then....

But then again, I'm not as "flush" as some of the "Limosine Liberals' around here, so I wasn't worried about losing my kid's
"empire" in a Divorce.

I'll agree with you to a point. I was damned stupid for getting married the second time in the first place....

[dsc]

42. actually there are plenty of good reasons

aside from money. Medical decisions and sentimental objects are also good reasons for a prenup in cases where one already has children.

[BiggJawn]

46. Yeah, you're right there....

I lost a BUTTLOAD of possessions and Heirlooms and Weregilds when I was told to vacate the premises last time...

Somebody remind me again why I'd consider a 3rd marriage?

[Bridget Burke]

28. Gosh, friend, thanks for the warning!

Do you know how many of us would be glad to stop feeling sorry for Poor Laura? Maybe she will be able to Get Help if she can move back to Texas.

[Hepburn]

32. Prolly...

...thinking the Chimp has a spot picked out for her at the Stepford Rehab Clinic for after the election - to get her back in program after the thrill of having been First Lady. BTW: WTF have the Bush twins been? Remember them? Think he has them out being Stepfordized somewhere?

[brook]

34. Big deal.

"Those people" can't stand intelligent, cultured, independent and stylish in any sex, much less a woman like Teresa Heinz Kerry. The love they lavish on Midland's "Ms. Manslaughter of whatever year" with her frozen face and frumpy attire, who can't seem to get above third grade level in reading material ought to tell you something.

As for the pre-nup, what do "those people" know about complicated things like inheritances, trusts, separate property anyway? Mrs. Kerry has a resposibility to her children and to the estate of her dead husband. She seems to recognize that. More power to her.

This is the kind of poop one sees from those who cannot debate the issues...maybe it's because their noses are still caught in the Big Dog's zipper. Ya think?

[robbedvoter]

36. Wow! Thanks for opening my eyes! A furriner! The horror! French?

Please, tell me she ain't French!
No matter. I saw the light. Point me to the nearest kool-aid center!

[trof]

38. Gahdam FURRINERS!

Really startin' to piss me off.
WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING FURRINERS.
"Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses..."

[smirkymonkey]

44. I think she's of Portuguese descent,

born in Madagascar, and an American Citizen.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

37. When you say "another problem we have to deal with"...

...exactly who is the "we" to which you're referring?

[BabsSong]

39. Oh, they are definitely cooking up a special hell for her............

Notice they say nothing now?? Get ready about Septemberish. This is the trademark of the Bushs. Papa let everyone know that Kitty Dukakis was a DRUNK. They let everyone know that McCain's wife was ON DRUGS AND WINK, WINK WHERE DID THAT KID COME FROM. They made Hillary a national symbol of EVIL (Salon traced all the various 'Clinton scandles' a few years ago and they all ended up leading right back to Papa's front door). These big brave macho men "go for the women" and publicly destroy them. I keep praying we have comebacks--or first strikes. How about let's look into Laura's fatal car crash where late at night with no one on the road she just happened to hit broadside and kill her former boyfriend who was in that other car. Or, how about the emergency appendectomy the blonde twin had when he was on the campaign trail and neither he no Laura ever flew there to be with her during it or after, etc. (give me an A B O R----get the idea). It's going to come down to that and I'll bet everything I own that "it's coooooming". I think Theresa could give Barbara a run for her money though in defending her family. The first thing they should say is "I'm not running one of the biggest state's in the nation with my 'foreign' accent".

[MrSlayer]

41. Quite frankly, who cares about the First Lady?

I couldn't care less about who the first lady is, she isn't running the governmemnt, the President is. The President could have a harem or not be married at all for all I care.

[kskiska]

43. We've already had a foreign born First Lady

Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams

Only First Lady born outside the United States, Louisa Catherine Adams did not come to this country until four years after she had married John Quincy Adams. Political enemies sometimes called her English. She was born in London to an English mother, Catherine Nuth Johnson, but her father was American--Joshua Johnson, of Maryland--and he served as United States consul after 1790.

A career diplomat at 27, accredited to the Netherlands, John Quincy developed his interest in charming 19-year-old Louisa when they met in London in 1794. Three years later they were married, and went to Berlin in course of duty. At the Prussian court she displayed the style and grace of a diplomat's lady; the ways of a Yankee farm community seemed strange indeed in 1801 when she first reached the country of which she was a citizen. Then began years divided among the family home in Quincy, Massachusetts, their house in Boston, and a political home in Washington, D.C. When the Johnsons had settled in the capital, Louisa felt more at home there than she ever did in New England.

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