Heinz Kerry's Campaign Balancing Act

[Nambe]

Teresa Heinz Kerry was talking, and so the entire room at the St. Moritz restaurant was dead silent, the back rows leaning forward as if the floor itself were tilted.

This held for nearly an hour, the whole time Heinz Kerry spoke. Her voice was so soft that pity the person who coughed. People would turn to the offending noisemaker with faces that said "shush -- or leave."

She was thorough, wonkish. She talked about universal health care for children, "wellness" programs, affordable prescription drug plans and other ideas she said her husband, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), would carry out as president. When she finished, pushing her auburn waves from her face to flash a smile, the 80 people who sat so still for her stood and applauded.

The event received little notice. But a comment Heinz Kerry made later that afternoon to a Lancaster newspaper sure did. "Only an idiot wouldn't like this," she told the newspaper, speaking of Kerry's health care plan. "Of course, there are idiots."

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[wurzel]

1. ANYTHING that be constured as "negative" will be used against Kerry

That reporter probably had health coverage so couldn't care less what Heinz had to say. The media is the enemy.

[Rose Siding]

2. Our media is an insatiable monster

It will cost us civilization altogether in the end.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Katherine Graham was a "Mediawhoremaster"!

:puke:

[DeepModem Mom]

4. After reading the entire article, I find it quite SUPPORTIVE of Teresa...

It points out that a few off-hand remarks get press, while her appearances, which reveal a woman of substance and expertise, at which audiences are completely won over, go unreported.