Need rebuttle for RW Teresa Kerry E-mail Broadcast

[fencesitter]

Got this one today...Where do they get this crap?

Do you wonder why you don't see or HEAR Teresa on the campain trail????
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>Fw: This is very interesting and scary.
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>Subject: Mrs. John Kerry &husband
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>BEWARE -
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>Following is a brief backround on Mrs. John Kerry .. She hates being called
>that, by the way:
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>Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry married Senator Kerry
>in 1995. She only took his name eighteen months ago and she is an
>"interesting" paradox of conflicts.
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>If you thought John Kerry was scary, he doesn't hold a candle to his wife!
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>Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in Mozambique,
>the daughter of a Portuguese physician, was educated in Switzerland
>and South Africa. Fluent in five languages, she was working as a United
>Nations interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60's when she met a "handsome"
>young American, H. John Heinz, III, who worked at a bank in Geneva. He told
>her his family was "in the food business."
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>They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his family ran
>the giant H. J. Heinz food company. He was elected to the US House of
>Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of three
>terms in the United States Senate. A Republican, he wrote a burning
>diatribe against some of the causes backed by young House member John Kerry.
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>Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane collided with a
>Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb. The senator,his pilot
>and copilot, and both of Sun's helicopter pilots were killed. He was
>survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons.
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>Four years later, having inherited Heinz's $500 million fortune, she
>married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal then-junior senator from
>Massachusetts. She became a registered Democrat and the process of her
>radicalization was set in motion. Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling
>people that she required Kerry to sign a prenuptial agreement before they
>were married. John Kerry may not have check writing privileges on the Heinz
>catsup and pickle fortune, but he is certainly a willing and uncomplaining
>beneficiary of it.
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>A lot of hard-earned money, made through many years of hawking catsup,
>mustard, and pickles has fallen into the hands of two people who despise
>successful entrepreneurship and who believe in the confiscatory
>redistribution of wealth.
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>So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money?
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>Just one example:
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>According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of
>WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4 million
>to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides
>Foundation do with John Heinz's money?
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>They support numerous antiwar groups, including! Ramsey Clark's
>International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when
>he's tried. They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the
>Tides Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic
>Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from
>"terrorist" states.They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations,
>whose leaders are known to have close ties to the ! terrorist group, Hamas.
>They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist front
>during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has been
>arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with
>terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World
>Trade Center bombing.They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic
>group whose primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New
>Mexico, and Texas to Mexico. These are but a few of the radical groups
>that benefit, through the anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from
>the generosity of our would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican
>senator John Heinz, and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires
>to be the 44th President of the United States.
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>Aiding and supporting our enemies is not good for America, regardless of
>your political views. If voters will open their eyes, educate themselves and
>see the real Teresa Heinz Kerry, they will not appreciate her position as
>ultra rich fairy godmother of the radical left. They will not want to
>imagine her laying her head on a pillow each night inches away from the
>President of the United
>States.
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>Hopefully they love this country enough to decide that the only way these
>two will ever be allowed into the White House is with an engraved invitation
>in hand.
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>Instead of deleting this, pass it on. Let everyone know these people are
>unfit to represent this great nation. The uninformed will never hear the
>truth from the press, who wants Kerry elected!
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>Those who buy the Kerry facade, beware what you vote for - - - you may
>regret that you got it!
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>In God We Trust

[rocktivity]

1. Just trot out Mrs. Bush's driving record

:headbang:
rocknation

[jedicord]

2. Easy - Snope it every time

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/heinz.asp

[NYCGirl]

3. And for the 98th time this week, here's the snopes link:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/tides.asp

and just for good measure here's one directly from Tides Foundation:

http://www.tidesfoundation.org/press_rel_04.cfm

[jedicord]

4. Ooops, got the wrong Heinz Snopes link...

Let's just say I meant to do it - throw in another RW debunk for good measure!

Good job NYCGirl!

[NYCGirl]

5. An extra RW debunk is a good thing!

No such thing as too much truth!
:)

[jedicord]

6. PS - Love your Moore/Bush Beat Down Toon!

n/t

[NewJeffCT]

10. if we have to debunk it 99 times, then so be it

There is so much of this BS out there that it takes on a grain of truth if there is no rebuttal.

I'm guessing many Americans still believe the Sudan offered Osama's head on a platter to Clinton and was turned down.

[Bridget Burke]

7. Only the "tone" is wrong.

She's cultured & rich. That's true.

The Heinz fortune contributes to a variety of organizations. That's true. There's nothing wrong with any of those groups, despite the rumors stated in the message.

I thought the Republicans liked rich people?

[TexasSissy]

8. The Repubs had no problem with Teresa until she became a Democrat.

She only became a Democrat after she was offended by the Bush campaign's attack on Max Clelland's patriotism, a personal friend who lost three limbs in the war.

Kerry was extremely wealthy in his own right, before marrying Teresa. Let us be reminded that Laura Bush was a debutante before she married the privileged Bush Jr.

Despite being independently wealthy and from a privileged background, Kerry chose to volunteer to place himself in harm's way in the Vietnam War, and then to enter public service, when he could have gone the way of Bush Jr. and made a lot more money by evading both and entering the private business world.

Kerry and Teresa supporting terrorists? That's just too silly to respond to. Get real.

To the Repubs, it's, "You're either with the Republicans or with the terrorists!" That's as ludicrous as saying "You're either with the Democrats or with the terrorists."

[lapislzi]

9. Good thing she's not running for anything!

I received that one a couple of months ago and blasted the sender with a "reply to all."

[fencesitter]

11. thanks all....

Sent a couple replies to all from a few of my email addresses that appears it's coming from others besides me.