Candidate’s wife thinks more Americans want to be part of process

[JI7]

<The Bush administration is too heavy-handed when it comes to issues such as education, Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, said Tuesday in the Quad-Cities.

She said there is a greater need for programs to help children and there should be less moral pressure on women to stay home and care for their children rather than go to work. “You can’t moralize about whether a mother should stay home to raise a child or not,” she said, adding that, too often, it is not financially feasible anyway.

She also accepted a drawing of her husband given to her by 11-year-old Terry Jordan of Davenport. When she flipped the paper to see the other side held a rendering of the White House labeled “Kerry’s,” she smiled and her eyes widened. “That’s cute,” she said. It was one of several drawings she collected from the children.

“I think the biggest failure has been … the overemphasis on didactic, proscriptive solutions and not on any kind of conversation with the American people and listening and involvement,” she said. “I don’t think the American people want to be told. I think they want to be part of a larger conversation.”>

http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1030194&t=Nation+%2F+World&c=26,1030194

[struggle4progress]

1. Yeah, I too am really fed up with this right-wing ideological stuff.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a real country again?

[JayS]

2. Not just right-wing but left-wing and center also. n/t

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