Gore For President, Teresa Kerry For First Lady: Fix 2000 With Twist

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ON A LIGHTER NOTE: Gore had Kerry on his "Short List" but chose Mr. Wrong. Could we redo it and have him choose a little better?

I have been comparing the Wives to see what other influences we could get into the White House with a DEM ticket. My conclusion: I agree with Al Sharpton -- Mrs. Kerry is the PARTY!!

Since Yesterday, Teresa Heinz Kerry has become the biggest topic within my activist "cell" in arguments over which Candidate to support.

I have myself lived in 4 different countries during my youth. Nothing compares to being raised and educated in the “Transnational” community for giving one a sense of the world which affects all ones ideas on global matters such as environmental policy, international law, war and peace?

Teresa’s life story, being born in Mozambique, studied in South Africa, worked in Europe, fluent in 5 language, immigrated into the American political establishment, MAKES HER THE PERFECT FIRST LADY in these times of global turmoil.

Last night I asked my "Imagine America" friends: Which White House do you think is better able to renew relations with Old Europe, Russia and China:


Howard Dean and Judith Steinberg
Dennis Kucinich and Bachelorette No. 1

or

John Kerry and Teresa Heinz

The answer became pretty obvious:

John and Teresa could be an even better team for America than Hillary and Bill.


I pesonally still wish the Party would Draft Al Gore at the convention, because I thing Gore deserves the Presidency. Maybe we could do it with a TWIST.

>>>>>>>>Some clips from our Online Reseach:

For C. David Heymann, author of “A Woman Name Jackie,” there is only one first-lady-in-waiting who could bring Jackie Kennedyesque style and glamour back to the White House. And that would be Teresa Heinz.

”I think she would return to the White House some of the glamour, culture and stateliness lost over the past decades,'' Heymann told the Track. ``She possesses many of the same qualities as Jackie - sophistication, a stately appearance, a flair for fashion and charm if she wishes to use it. And then, of course, there's all that money.'' And she can speak French!


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EILEEN MCNAMARA
Kerry turns to better half
By Eileen McNamara, 11/23/2003

MANCHESTER, N.H.

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With her wild, flyaway hair and casual manner, she is the anti-Kerry, as comfortable in a Dominican barbershop as she is in the brown suede heels she wears on a walking tour of this city's small Latino neighborhood.


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Her ease is so clearly a matter of temperament, not political calculation, that she disarms even those most prepared to dismiss her in this three-block enclave of bodegas, Latin restaurants, and gift shops.

"She better not come over here," says Gary Fisher, a jocular black man having his hair trimmed by Tomas Barrera, the proprietor of the six-chair establishment. "I support the man in the White House."

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President Bush still has Fisher's vote, but Heinz Kerry has made an impression. "Smart," says Fisher. "Real," says Barrera, who, 21 years after emigrating from the Dominican Republic, has yet to become a citizen, let alone a voter.

Hector Velez, who owns Rincon Latino, a gift and music shop, says that kind of political passivity is yielding to more activism as the Latino population grows in this old mill city of 107,000 people. The 2000 Census put the Hispanic population at 6,000, but Velez, an unsuccessful candidate for alderman in 2001, thinks the real number is twice that.

"We have new immigrants all the time," he says, noting that the neighborhood bodega wires thousands of dollars a week to relatives in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Latin America.

Getting the presidential contenders' attention has not been easy. Heinz Kerry is the first significant figure from any of the campaigns to visit, he says. Velez does not miss the opportunity to tell this powerful surrogate what the community needs, everything from jobs to more interpreters at the Department of Motor Vehicles so Latinos do not have to go to Concord for their driver's test.

The latter role is one Heinz Kerry, a former interpreter for the United Nations, could fill herself. Fluent in five languages, she calls on at least three of them in her stroll through this stretch of small businesses and multifamily houses.

Once a thriving Greek neighborhood, the area has taken on a more Latin flavor in the last decade but is not exclusively populated with Spanish speakers, as Heinz Kerry discovers at the Don Quixote restaurant.

Greeting a man at the counter in Spanish, she is rebuffed in accented English. Recognizing a native of Haiti when she hears one, Heinz Kerry switches seamlessly to French. The disarmed diner smiles and shakes her extended hand.

Eileen McNamara is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at [e-mail].

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2003/11/23/kerry_turns_to_better_half/

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