Does Teresa Heinz-Kerry Make You Feel Creepy?

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Coulter would slap you back and make that little fanny sore and red.

Laura Bush has had so many face lifts -- that's not a goatee she's wearing.

Her favourite role-play game is Scarlett O'Hara and Rhetoric Butler, kicky. I have this info from very good sources, the same ones she uses, as it happens. Apparently, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," turns her into a quivering mass of spankable goo. Go for it, man, do the world and yourself a favour.

Well, in uglyness my john candy avatar probably isn't quite as ugly as the hidious heinz, but it is a toss up (as in toss your cookies up).

quote="The Wizard of the flickering silver screen lights"]George Washington married into a wealthy family.[/quote]


He bought into a passle of trouble.

In about 1670 (although probably earlier), a man was born in Virgina by the name of Daniel Parke. He married a daughter of one of the wealthy and powerful first families, Jane Ludwell. He treated her like dirt, ran through all the ready cash, sired two daughters, and then abandoned wife and daughters to go to England. There, he wangled a staff position with John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough. After the famous battle of Blenheim [sic, another English pervision of placename--Blindheim in German], the Duke asked for a piece of paper to send a message to Queen Anne. Parke pushed forward, and thrust his tavern bill from the previous night at Marlborough, who scribbled a victory message to the queen, and then did Parke the honor of sending him to London with the dispatch. They were then on the banks of the Danube, and Parke rode by military post horses non-stop to England. Once there, he delivered the message to an elated Queen, who then asked if there weren't something she could do for him. The standard reply would be a mumbled "As Her Majesty thinks best," and the Queen would then give the messenger a reward of 500 hundred pounds sterling. But Parke was never standard--he went down on one knee, bowing his head, and said that a small portrait of her majesty would be the greatest reward he could hope for. The now aging queen, who with a Prince of Denmark, produced 15 children, the most still-born, and the remainder dead in early childhood, horribly afflicted with gout, fell for it hook line and sinker.

Parke was give 1000 guineas, which is more than twice as much as the usual reward. The Queen also sent him a minature of herself, painted on faience, and mounted in a cameo surrounded in diamond chips. A few years later, Parke was made the Royal Governor of the Leeward Islands, with a residence on Antigua. The Queen had not, or would not hear the rumors of his illigitemate son in London.

While on Antigua, Parke managed to convice a great many of the Planters that he was fooling around with their wives. They wanted to get rid of him, so in 1710, they instigated a riot of freedmen and commons on the island--which got out of hand: Parke was killed, and his personal journals and correspondence were scattered about the street. An enterprising and literate member of the mob gathered them up, and it seems that Parke was not schtupping a few of the Planter's wives, but nearly all of them, and most of their daughters as well. Additionally, his will acknowledged both the bastard son in London, and a bastard daughter in Antigua, fathered upon a mulatto woman.

Now enter fee entail. This is not legal in the United States, but it was legal in the British empire then, and in Virginia, an entail (a set of conditions for the inheritance of any testamentary wealth, real or liquid) could only be set aside by the House of Burgesses, who for reasons of their own were reluctant to do so. Daniel Parke entailed upon his heirs the obligation to take the name Parke, and put conditions on the sale or alienation of any of his estates, or any real or liquid assets purchased from the income thereof. To make matters merrier, his father-in-law's will entailed the estates which had gone in dower to Parke upon the heirs of his daughter's body, without reference to Parke. Are you starting to see the scene set?

While Parke was pursuing his career as monumental international rake, his eldest daughter married the wealthiest man on the eastern shore of Virginia (the two counties of Accomack and Northampton are on the end of the penninsula which forms eastern Maryland), John Custis. John and Frances Parke Custis produced a son. John hated his father-in-law, but was worried about the entail, and so named his son as to meet that term of the entail. Daniel Park Custis was the heir then to great estates in the heart of virginia, the modest estate his grandfather had possessed when he married, and the extensive lands of John Custis on the eastern shore, an estate which he had named Arlington, after the ancestral home in England.

In time, he met and married Martha Dandridge. They made four children, two of whom were still-born, and a son and daughter. When Daniel Parke Custis died in 1757, the still young and attractive widow soon caught the biggest "catch" in the Old Dominion in those days, the dashing former Colonel of the Virginia Militia, George Washington. They married in 1759.

Washington was already wealthy in his own right. He also had the most scrupulous sense of what touched upon his honor of anyone about whom i've ever read. He could have claimed all of his wife's possessions, and by extension those of her children, to his own use, and it would have neither been novel nor uncommon. Instead, he scrupulously managed the estates that Martha brought with her for her children, not even taking any compensation as executor. George was the very avatar of a decent man. The children of Martha's son, John, who died of a fever shortly after the Yorktown siege, lived with George and Martha at Mount Vernon, and they raised her grandchildren as their own. George adopted John's son, George Washington Parke Custis, as his heir. It was GWP Custis who created the Arlington estate, named for his great-grandfather's eastern shore estate, to house George Washington's effects as a sort of national shrine. It was there that Rober Lee met Mary Custis, whom he married. Oh, and the fee entail, it's been abolished. Wonder if them boys and girls is still named Parke, just in case?



And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

History is a pure dee hoot . . .

poorer is my guess...

too bad we pay any attention at all at the LOOKS of politicians and their wifes, and the looks of people in general. what are we looking for , MOVIE IDOLS ? perhaps politicians that want to be interviewed or participate in discussions should all wear a mask to disguise their facial features, how about appearing as HERMAN, THE MUNSTER ? hbg

I feel certain that Teresa Heinz Kerry is spending a lot of time worrying over whether or not the men of A2K find her attractive

Anyway, I didn't mean her looks.

Just something about her that creeps me out.

Maybe its just me.

Did anybody see the 60 Minutes Interview with Kerry and Heinz? And after about the 3rd time she mentions her ex-husband, Kerry starts getting this little smirk on his face every time? It was almost high-school. "My ex-husband this...My ex-husband that..."

Isn't there some sort of rule not to rub your current mate's nose in memories of the ex?

That was just weird. Their handlers gotta coach them on that. Well, since she's monitoring this thread she'll probably stop now.

You're not the only one, tcis. I thought the repeated references to the ex-husband a bit odd also.

I mean, if you go on a dinner date with another couple, and the wife brings up her ex-husband more than twice or so during the evening in conversation to everyone, doesn't that feel a bit strange for the group?

I am looking forward to more Teresa interviews. I keep hearing she's a Dean-like personality.

I think they're trying to muzzle her--but I don't think it can last. She quite a Francophile--and I'll bet she says some really crappy stuff over there about Americans before the election. She has the potential to end Kerry's race.

He has called her a couple of different names. Therese---(I guess her preferred pronunciation.) And in the same paragraph--Teresa.

I bet they have quite an interesting arrangement.

But, I think she looks fine; she's not a movie star, and I have a feeling Elizabeth Edwards will be a big draw for the team. Looking forward to hearing her speak at the Convention.

How magnamious of you to put words in her mouth and hypothetical actions into play so you can try , and convict her.

Last time I checked a woman's appearance had nothing to do with her intelligence, or anything for that matter.

Teresa Heniz is an intelligent woman who unlike Laura Bush has actually seen something of the world and understands it. She is outspoken which I find refreshing from the Stepford like appearance of Laura. Could she be a loose cannon? yes but you know what Americans need to get past this purtrantical idea of what a First Lady should be. You would think Hillary broke that mold but along comes Laura Bush in here pasted on smile and glazed over look and once again Americans view the first lady as some kind of china doll that sits there on the shelf never to be taken seriously.

I like Teresa Heinz because she doesn't mince words, and she doesn't try to be anything other then she is. We should welcome such behavior and require it from all our represenatives. I don't know about the rest of you but I'm sick and tired of this slick, phoney persona that is glued to the faces of politicans, celebraties and the elite. Give me real anyday.

Let's leave appearance out of the equation too, it's petty and shows Americans as shallow.

ROTFLMAO, pot kettle black!

You're obviously not black, just discountable.

Redheat-- I didn't say anything about her appearance, but that she looked just fine. I happen to agree that looks shouldn't be an issue, or childrens' looks or lives. However, when the other side engages and opens silly sidelines, they are fair game.

Karzak was right. You show your hypocracy by casting aspersions on Laura Bush, who IMO has been a perfect model of how a spouse in her position should conduct herself. We didn't elect her, and she doesn't act as though we did.

I am content to wait and hear what Teresa says. Didn't put words in her mouth; I merely laid a bet that she would say something negative about Americans to her French friends--and it will make its' way into the news. Actually, I think there are some juicy quotes from Teresa about America/ Americans already in circulation, pre-Presidential sweepstakes. Will browse for them.

Re: Does Teresa Heinz-Kerry Make You Feel Creepy?


I've met John Kerry a couple times. Both times I got a slimy used-car salesman vibe.

I'd still prefer he be in office than the alternative.

Spouse in her position? you mean submissive? she should be seen and not heard? My comments were general not specific to her looks. I didn't say she was ugly, had thick ankles etc... that is what I mean by appearance. Maybe in the future I should be more clear, you got me on that one.

Jacklyn Kennedy greatly influenced Americans AND she certainly did have a huge impact on the office of the Presidency. She was also a product of the 50's and we are in 2004. Laura Bush would fit in nicely in the 50's kind of era but in today's world I don't care to witness a woman so ready to give up her identity.

By dressing nice and turning a blind eye to her husbands affairs, like a good wifey should?

Hitlary is another fine example of an upstanding first lady. She turned a blind eye to her husbands many affairs while secretly having many lesbian affairs of her own. All in the name of "shared power". Makes me sick to my stomach.

So much so that you keep bringing it up...