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Heinz Kerry: 'Only An Idiot' Wouldn't Like Kerry Health Care Plan
By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
September 10, 2004
LANCASTER, PA (Talon News) -- As Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry was touting his health care plan in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday, his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry was characterizing opponents of her husband's plan as "idiots."
While Kerry was saying President George W. Bush is out of touch with the common man by not doing anything about the rising costs of medicine in the United States and proposing to import prescription drugs from Canada and other countries, Heinz Kerry was in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on Wednesday proclaiming "only an idiot" would not support the Kerry health care plan.
When asked if she really meant to use the word "idiot" in her description of her husband's opponents, Heinz Kerry replied to the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, "Of course, there are idiots."
Kerry's ten year, $900 billion universal health care plan would supposedly cover 27 million Americans who do not currently have health insurance. However, Kerry has still not indicated how he would pay for this robust spending plan other than to roll back the tax cuts on the "rich."
Interestingly, Heinz Kerry said the "idiots" who oppose the Kerry health care plan in Congress would be voted out of office in the next election if Kerry is elected president in November.
"Only an idiot wouldn't like this," Heinz Kerry repeated to the Associated Press.
The would-be first lady traveled across the key swing states of Pennsylvania this week where Bush holds a slight lead over her husband in the latest polls.
When asked for her opinion of the Kerry health care plan, Heinz Kerry answered, "I don't have to sell it -- the people want it."
Confronted with her matter-of-fact campaign style, Heinz Kerry said she does not care what people think about her.
"The common man doesn't look at me as some rich witch," she told the AP. "I talk about what I see. It has always been so. You judge people not by their pocketbook but by their actions. Walk the walk."
http://www.talonnews.com/news/2004/september/0910_heinz_kerry_idiots.shtml
By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
September 10, 2004
LANCASTER, PA (Talon News) -- As Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry was touting his health care plan in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday, his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry was characterizing opponents of her husband's plan as "idiots."
While Kerry was saying President George W. Bush is out of touch with the common man by not doing anything about the rising costs of medicine in the United States and proposing to import prescription drugs from Canada and other countries, Heinz Kerry was in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on Wednesday proclaiming "only an idiot" would not support the Kerry health care plan.
When asked if she really meant to use the word "idiot" in her description of her husband's opponents, Heinz Kerry replied to the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, "Of course, there are idiots."
Kerry's ten year, $900 billion universal health care plan would supposedly cover 27 million Americans who do not currently have health insurance. However, Kerry has still not indicated how he would pay for this robust spending plan other than to roll back the tax cuts on the "rich."
Interestingly, Heinz Kerry said the "idiots" who oppose the Kerry health care plan in Congress would be voted out of office in the next election if Kerry is elected president in November.
"Only an idiot wouldn't like this," Heinz Kerry repeated to the Associated Press.
The would-be first lady traveled across the key swing states of Pennsylvania this week where Bush holds a slight lead over her husband in the latest polls.
When asked for her opinion of the Kerry health care plan, Heinz Kerry answered, "I don't have to sell it -- the people want it."
Confronted with her matter-of-fact campaign style, Heinz Kerry said she does not care what people think about her.
"The common man doesn't look at me as some rich witch," she told the AP. "I talk about what I see. It has always been so. You judge people not by their pocketbook but by their actions. Walk the walk."
http://www.talonnews.com/news/2004/september/0910_heinz_kerry_idiots.shtml