Does Teresa Heinz Kerry Want Her Husband To Win?
It’s hard not to wonder about that, after you read these quotations from a recent speech. “He actually does feel at ease in the world,” Heinz Kerry said. “He likes people, in spite of whatever people might think. He’d make the best nursery school teacher in the world, bar none.” Heinz Kerry also called her husband “magical with children,” adding, “That’s a new revelation to me.” . . . Heinz Kerry took veiled aim at Bush, saying if Kerry is elected, he will go to the United Nations and “represent this country with great pride, but no arrogance.” “He will never, ever, ever send any children, or men — as he was with young men in Vietnam — into harm’s way without being the first one to go out on the boat,” she said. Addressing terrorism, she said, “We’re not going to fight terrorism with missiles, we’re going to fight terrorism with ideas. And I think that John knows that, deep down.” Let me take these in order. In the first set, she admits that there is reason to think that Kerry might no
