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Her Observation:
"It's sort of mesmerizing, really. She's unlike any other political wife I've ever seen — unscripted and ready to do as she likes, in her intriguing, world-weary way, even as her second husband introduced his running mate at her adored first husband's 88-acre, $3.7 million "farm" in suburban Pittsburgh. The white-columned colonial mansion and swimming pool were out of sight and bales of hay strategically placed to give a populist touch.
She doesn't gaze like Nancy or glare like Lee Hart or look appraisingly at her husband like Elizabeth Edwards. She doesn't always seem to notice he's there. When Mr. Kerry moves in for a nuzzle or a kiss, she sometimes makes a little face.
She's easily distracted, waving and mouthing "Hello" at the audience and languidly arranging her hair and the red-and-blue "John Kerry for President" scarves she designed.
She siphons attention from a husband who has a hard enough time getting it. Yesterday, she distracted the audience when she seemed to be trying to get young Jack Edwards to stop sucking his thumb. Sometimes she'll laugh and smile in inappropriate places — she once chuckled while her husband talked about curbing tax breaks for the rich.
Teresa has the air, as Chris Matthews noted, of an old-fashioned European movie star. She projects a quality like Marlene Dietrich or Jeanne Moreau, a sultry touch-me-and-you-die look with an accent to match: a rare political perfume of I don't give a hoot, I'm worth a billion dollars and you're not and he's not and the Bushes are not; of I have four mansions and he doesn't; of I'm so confident I can admit to using Botox and I can wear Chanel while my husband complains about manufacturing jobs' going overseas."
MoDo answers her own befuddlement and doesn't realize it. Or, giving her the benefit of the doubt, is in complete disconnect with her analysis. Mrs. Kerry Heinz isn't like any other political wife.
She's nervous at presenting themselves as a couple and seems a bit overwhelmed. Who can blame her? Her husband undoubtedly has apprised her of the desperation and fear and the longing for leadership reverberating throughout the country. She's an internationl personality aware of the hardship and bad will Bush has placed on the world.
Sen. Kerry has taken on a tremendous responsibility in trying to straighten out everything thats wrong with the country. I see Mrs. Kerry as taking his responsibility as "their" responsibility to the voters of our country. This lady is a do'er, not the Stepford wife, who smiles mouthing scripted text for the cameras.
The first thing Mrs. Kerry said, after the introduction on the front lawn of their farm announcing Edwards as his running mate, was aimed at helping people in her state and the neighboring states suffering loss of jobs and the economic woes that come with it.
Give her time, I say...she'll take a step back and realize she has to do everything through a process. It may take her more than a moment to digest the fact her husband, after he's elected, will be the most powerful and well respected leader in the world.
We're lucky to have her. She's a wonderful women who has the potential to do so much for our country. She'll settle and relax, give her time, she'll find her stride.
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