[Dialogue] Re: Kerry's wife

[aiseayew]

I find it fascinating the many forms that jealousy takes, especially when it
appears that the "other" has lived a more interesting life than you have.
Primarily, I listen to radio news which delimits the images with which I
must struggle.  I have heard negative comments rooted in mistrust for
someone who wasn't born in this country or of parents from this country.  I
have heard negative comments based on the fact that THK has no roots
(obviously anyone who speaks five languages can't have roots). Last week
there was a huge flap in some of the media because she commented in an
interview something along the lines that she would still rather be married
to her first husband than have him dead.  I never heard her words, just the
flap in response to what I considered a rather insensitive question to begin
with.  This week there was a flap because in one/some of the photo op
moments she reached over and pulled the thumb out of the Edwards' son's
mouth.

With those who have decided to be appalled by the amount of money she
inherited and controls through the Foundation,  I do not think there is
anything that can be said.  From the perspective of having watched the
horror of war in her native Mozambique, having lived in Africa and had it
steal my heart, I find her presence near the Democratic ticket very hopeful.
I have experienced her as a global citizen fully aware of the vast gap
between words and deeds.

Last week in an interview I heard Laura Bush talk about an accident she had
as a young woman in which she ran a stop sign and killed the person
(people?) in the other car.  Her emanation of remorse and the tone of
conversation about how that event changed her life, helped me realize why I
have never really been able to dislike her.  I am just sorry that she cannot
break free of either the guilt of events or the control of an individual
that I truly do not believe has ever had her best interests at heart or her
journey in mind.  If I thought he did, or that he ever listened to her, I
might not be so opposed to W.

At one point in our history, J. Edgar Hoover listed Eleanor Roosevelt as the
single greatest threat in the world to the future of the US of A.  (This, of
course, was his perceived vision of America's future.)  Apropos to earlier
conversations on this dialogue, I can only conclude that in many areas,
awakenment is still an issue.