Obama....like Heinz Kerry's husbands?

[DixieBelle]

PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- Teresa Heinz Kerry joined Michelle Obama at a rally at Carnegie Mellon University today, saying she hoped the state would support Obama the way it had voted for both of her husbands.

“Pennsylvania voted for both of these good men,” she said, referring to the late John Heinz, a former Republican senator in the state, and Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 presidential candidate. “And this election, I hope Pennsylvania will join me in casting a ballot for another great and good man, Sen. Barack Obama.”

It was Heinz Kerry’s first event on Obama’s behalf; her husband endorsed him before the South Carolina primary. The rally was also Michelle Obama’s first campaign stop in Pennsylvania.

With Obama now leading in the national polls, Michelle Obama said she has seen how the bar for her husband has been consistently raised this year, and how he has met each of the challenges.

“The irony is that’s what’s going on for regular folks in this country,” she said. “The truth of the American experience today for many regular folks is that folks are trying to reach a bar that just keeps moving.”

But, Obama said she still believes her husband is the underdog in the race.

“We are gonna need Pennsylvania,” she said. “Because in this ever-shifting, moving bar, Barack Obama will always be the underdog. No matter how much money he raises, no matter how many wins he pulls together, no matter how many delegates he accumulates; he is still the underdog. It’s the way it works.”

Obama spoke to a group of about 600 people, a wide mix of students and community members. She was joined on the rope line after the event by Heinz Kerry, who earlier hosted her at a private luncheon.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/02/852311.aspx

[Lord Undies]

How odd that the Hussein Obamas would bring out a weird woman who had to be hid by her husband in 2004.  Do they just not care any more? 

[Wretched Excess]

vote for the, um, blarock orama.  he's, no wait, not the waiter, umm . . . the other one . . .


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[Wretched Excess]

How odd that the Hussein Obamas would bring out a weird woman who had to be hid by her husband in 2004.  Do they just not care any more? 

well, teddy and mrs. heinz II did so well for The BarackStar! in massachusetts that I suppose he was hoping for the triple play of incompetence.  you are right, it really does seem strange. 

[Wretched Excess]

for heaven's sake.  tuh-RAY-zuh is no less of a lunatic now than 4 years ago . . . . read the quotes
from her speech.  we are "numerical".

PITTSBURGH -- Teresa Heinz Kerry welcomed Michelle Obama to her adopted hometown today, passing a torch from one occasionally controversial first-lady-in-waiting to another.

"You know there are not many people who have gone through this who you can reach out to and say, 'What is this going to be like?'" Obama said, praising the last spouse of a Democratic nominee as an "exceptional mentor to me personally" who has "been so generous with her time and emotions."

While Senator John Kerry has campaigned actively for Obama since endorsing him in January -- and will be touring Pennsylvania this weekend on behalf -- his wife has been largely silent this campaign season. Heinz Kerry has surfaced largely as the object of skeptical comparisons to Michelle Obama, as independent spouses whose provocative remarks have proven occasionally distracting from the candidate's message.

"Michelle and I have become good friends mostly through the Blackberries," Heinz Kerry -- introduced only as "Teresa Heinz" -- said at a gym at Carnegie Mellon University, where she serves as a trustee and her late ex-husband, Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz, taught before seeking public office. "Because she's not busy and neither am I."

Yet each found a dramatically different voice to make her case. Heinz Kerry spoke in a miasmic whisper, beginning her brief speech where she frequently started when campaigning on her husband's behalf in 2004: discussing how prized American elections are to her as an immigrant from Mozambique whose father was unable to cast a vote for much of his life.

"In our society, we tend to be so numerical -- everything is inches or dollars or whatever," said Heinz Kerry, a former Republican who has proven an occasionally forceful presence in Pennsylvania politics, as she made the case against those who discount Barack Obama as inexperienced. "I know the most important things are not just what you know but what you do with what you know."

Michelle Obama brought a politician's cadence to her fifty-minute speech, delivering spitfire observations that built naturally towards applause lines, devoting much her speech to a detailed accounting of her husband’s successes as a candidate in numerical terms, citing the size his contributor base and the share of counties he won in South Carolina’s primary.

"Barack Obama will always be the underdog. No matter how much money he raises, now matter how many wins he pulls together, no matter how many delegates he accumulates, he is still the underdog," she said. "That’s the way it works."

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and I still don't get how The BarackStar!, who has a lead that will be almost impossible to surmount, and has
become the establishment backed candidate, can possibly be portrayed as "the underdog" without making
people laugh.

[DixieBelle]

And that bar they keeping talking about must be the one Hillary is going to use to employ the "Tonya Harding" option.

[Wretched Excess]

"[no matter what] . . . he is still the underdog," she (obama) said. "That’s the way it works."

if that isn't a subliminal message, I don't know what is.

[Wretched Excess]

And that bar they keeping talking about must be the one Hillary is going to use to employ the "Tonya Harding" option.

speaking of which . . . nancy kerrigan may have been a better skater, but I'll bet you tonya was much more fun at parties.

[DixieBelle]

Oh you know she was!!!! Bet she could down a six pack, skin a deer and arm wrestle!!!

[Lord Undies]

And that bar they keeping talking about must be the one Hillary is going to use to employ the "Tonya Harding" option.

speaking of which . . . nancy kerrigan may have been a better skater, but I'll bet you tonya was much more fun at parties.

She looks like tons of fun!

[Wretched Excess]

And that bar they keeping talking about must be the one Hillary is going to use to employ the "Tonya Harding" option.

speaking of which . . . nancy kerrigan may have been a better skater, but I'll bet you tonya was much more fun at parties.

She looks like tons of fun!

please append the words "in her earlier days" to my earlier comment.

[Wretched Excess]

Oh you know she was!!!! Bet she could down a six pack, skin a deer and arm wrestle!!!

good heavens.  forget that I brought that up.

[Lord Undies]

Oh you know she was!!!! Bet she could down a six pack, skin a deer and arm wrestle!!!

good heavens.  forget that I brought that up.

Oh my.

[Wretched Excess]

Oh you know she was!!!! Bet she could down a six pack, skin a deer and arm wrestle!!!

good heavens.  forget that I brought that up.

Oh my.

jarring, isn't it?  and she completely beat down the poor girl in the background.

 

[Lord Undies]

Oh you know she was!!!! Bet she could down a six pack, skin a deer and arm wrestle!!!

good heavens.  forget that I brought that up.

Oh my.

jarring, isn't it?  and she completely beat down the poor girl in the background.

She's only 37.   

[DixieBelle]

Hey, didn't she box Paula Jones? As in "that" Paula Jones? The woman Bill Cinton assualted??

Tonya has been rode hard and put up wet!!!

[Chris_]

I can't believe it's been 15 years.  Damn, Tonya, put down the KFC.


Nancy Kerrigan is still hawt...
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Events/5926/13404434_400.jpg

[Wretched Excess]

Oh you know she was!!!! Bet she could down a six pack, skin a deer and arm wrestle!!!

good heavens.  forget that I brought that up.

Oh my.

jarring, isn't it?  and she completely beat down the poor girl in the background.

She's only 37.   

yeah, but there's at least a couple of hundred thousand miles on that odometer.

[DixieBelle]

^werd!!! We're the same age. And my odometer is nowhere near turning over.

[Wretched Excess]

Hey, didn't she box Paula Jones? As in "that" Paula Jones? The woman Bill Cinton assualted??

Tonya has been rode hard and put up wet!!!

she fought someone that I recall wanting to kick her ass.   paula jones sounds about right.  paula (or whoever) didn't have a chance, though.

[Wretched Excess]

^werd!!! We're the same age. And my odometer is nowhere near turning over.

I doubt you have had anywhere near as many owners, my dear.

and besides, mileage builds up on delivery trucks.  the little sports cars and such, not so much.

[Chris_]

^werd!!! We're the same age. And my odometer is nowhere near turning over.

I doubt you have had anywhere near as many owners, my dear.

and besides, mileage builds up on delivery trucks.  the little sports cars and such, not so much.

Delivery trucks... rentals... leases...

[DixieBelle]

LOL! That true.

[Chris_]

Obama: THE candidate of the ugly woman