Kerrys Call Questions About Wealth Hypocritical

[UpInArms]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/politics/campaign/12kerry.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1089604917-6A7ZySehXbf+bf7RXGxo6w

BOSTON, July 11 - Turning one of the Republicans' main lines of attack back in their faces, Senator John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, suggested on Sunday that it was hypocritical for their opponents to raise questions about their wealth and that of Mr. Kerry's running mate, Senator John Edwards.

"Those very same people never criticized my late husband for his money or his wealth - in fact, they used it," said Mrs. Heinz Kerry, who inherited an estate estimated at $500 million to $1 billion from her first husband, Senator H. John Heinz III, a Pennsylvania Republican who was killed in a plane crash. "His money was just dandy."

In an interview broadcast on Sunday on the CBS News program "60 Minutes," Mrs. Heinz Kerry added, "I find it un-American for people to criticize someone and say they're not deserved for any position, whether because they have too much or too little or because they're black or they're white."

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He asked: "Is this coming from millionaire George Bush and millionaire Dick Cheney? And millionaire Rumsfeld?"

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[fearnobush]

1. I love her.

[PartyPooper]

2. I saw the interview on "60 Minutes". It was priceless!

:dem:

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Stahl is a MOFO!!!! FUCK THE "LIBRUL" CBS!!!

[VolcanoJen]

4. It's a whole new ball game.

I've really been impressed by the transition into "open political season" made by the Kerry team, just after and ever since the Edwards announcement.

They're feeling confident, and they want to own July, politically. I think they're off to a smashing start.

[jean]

5. It was heavenly listening to the Kerrys and Edwards on 60 Minutes

These people can talk and think at the same time.

[cap]

6. fdr was a millionaire too

eeom

[BiggJawn]

8. As was Poppy Bush...As was Prescott Bush...As is TinMan Cheney...

Hey, Cheney gets what, $3,000,000 a year in "Delayed Compensation" (whatever...) from HALLIBURTON?

And HOW much of the Heinz-Kerry or Edwards fortunes are composed of NAZI money, like the Bush fortune is?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. As is...

Leslie Stahl.

[uptown ruler]

7. hehe...

Spreading The Word

[Wind Dancer]

9. What great responses from Teresa Heinz and Elizabeth

Edwards. They are smart, funny and willing to speak their mind as opposed to the Stepford dribble we have heard for almost 4 years.

[skippysmom]

10. Awesome

I heard that on 60 Minutes last night, and I was so happy that someone FINALLY pointed out that it was pretty hypocritical for the rich Repukes to be bitching about rich Dems.