Who is Karen Hughes to discount Theresa Heinz Kerry's apology?

[Tim4319]

-Snip-

Karen Hughes, a senior Bush campaign adviser, called Heinz Kerry's remarks "inappropriate."

"I think it's very nice that she apologized, but in some ways the apology almost made the comment worse because she seems to have forgotten that being a mother is a real job," Hughes told CNN. "I think it's just unfortunate to try to disparage women who have made the choice of making their families a priority."


http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/20/theresa.apologizes.laura/index.html

[rkc3]

1. And Karen should have pointed out being a whore is hard work too.

Why is this even an issue?

And where are my blood pressure meds?

[WI_DEM]

2. Is this going to become the issue now?

when Bush told Pat Robertson there would be no casulties in Iraq?

[highplainsdem]

7. Of course. More fake outrage, like the fuss over Mary Cheney

being mentioned by Kerry. They know very well that the media whores will obediently make this the big story for a news cycle or three.

[CO Liberal]

3. I Though Karen Hughes Had Quit To "Spend More Time With Her Family"

Guess her family got sick of her.....

:shrug:

[Virginian]

13. She's baaaaaaack. She came back for the Campaign.

Mama T has raised three sons of her own; and after their father died, she had to do it alone.
Mama T has also had to make her home warm and comfortable for her step daughters. Step parenting is not always an easy task either.

So who is Karen Hughes (mother of one) to think Mama T doesn't realize how much harrrd worrrk being a Mom can be?

[Vickers]

4. To hell with that repulsive man-cow

:eyes:

[splat]

5. Mother of sluts?

Terrible twins she raised, desperately in need of attention. Those kids have no core, no center of their own, so they party for love.

[ArkDem]

8. Yes. I used to be the same at that age. I really hate looking

back at those rudderless times. It's hard growing up with no parental leadership. Plus, it's fun to party.

[skypilot]

6. She's just taking the oppurtunity...

...to work in another "family values" talking point. Same as it ever was.

[KurtNYC]

9. And when is Boosh going to apologize to this kid....

Did Boosh apologize for saying there were WMD in Iraq? for saying Saddam was behind 911? Has he attended one funeral????

This kid lost his father to these frickin' lies and Boosh makes jokes about not finding WMDs underneath furniture. This is insanity.

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[Chiyo-chichi]

11. What everyone seems to be forgetting

is the fact that the day after she spoke at the Democratic Convention, GEORGE W. BUSH HIMSELF blatantly insulted Theresa Heinz Kerry. Surely somebody can come up with the direct quote, but he said something like "I think after last night we can see that one of the main reasons to re-elect me is so that Laura will be the First Lady for four more years. Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh."

That is as much of an insult as what THK said & THK was gracious enough to apologize. And this came directly from the mouth of the PRESIDENT!!!!! It was completely gratuitous and was a blatant insult. Why wasn't this a week long brouhaha?

[Tim4319]

12. True, very true!

[Chiyo-chichi]

18. You have to work pretty hard to even find a reference to Bush's statement

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14611-2004Sep11.html?nav=rss_politics/elections/2004/johnkerry

The public that knows "shove it" probably also knows what Heinz Kerry uttered a few days later, at a campaign rally with her husband. When hecklers started chanting "Four more years!" she said: "They want four more years of hell!" The Kerry crowd loved it. But the line was a new reason to say Heinz Kerry was distracting attention from the candidate. It also gave Republicans the ammunition to contrast the image of a tempestuous Kerry wife with that of first lady Laura Bush, the all-American Betty to Heinz Kerry's rich, exotic Veronica. President Bush not so subtly alluded to the contrast in his first campaign swing after the Democratic convention, when he told a crowd that the best reason to vote for him was to have Laura Bush as first lady again.

[skygazer]

14. She's a dumb bitch

Who thinks this way it's a no win situation for THK. Slam her when she makes the remark, slam her again when she apologizes. Typical Repuke logic.

[Tim4319]

19. At least THK is woman enough to admit and apologize for a mistake!

Unlike Laura Bush's husband, who had completely turned the word upside down, and still does not admit to making any mistakes.

[flordehinojos]

15. Hey ... Karen Hughes just because you turned down the WH to keep your kid

happy in Texas --while also being paid to consult with the Coward-in-Chief from your Texas ranch ...-- it doesn't mean that working moms are not making their families their priority.... IN FACT, LOTS OF WORKING MOMS ARE WORKING TO PUT FOOD ON THEIR FAMILIES' TABLE. I'D SAY THAT IS MAKING THEIR FAMILY THEIR PRIORITY!!!!!!!

[Radio-Active]

20. or in Laura Bush's Case

"MOMS ARE WORKING TO PUT FOOD ON THEIR FAMILIES"

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

16. F**k Her !

[GoSolar]

17. She's an idiot like the rest of the admin.

Trying to detract from the real issues of importance. Hopefully this will not have legs.