OK, now it's personal.
USA Today has interviewed Teresa Heinz Kerry, inheritress and billionaire:
Q: You'd be different from Laura Bush?A: Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up. So her experience and her validation comes from important things, but different things. And I'm older, and my validation of what I do and what I believe and my experience is a little bit bigger — because I'm older, and I've had different experiences. And it's not a criticism of her. It's just, you know, what life is about.
From Laura Bush's biography, via the White House:
Laura Bush was born on November 4, 1946, in Midland, Texas, to Harold and Jenna Welch. Inspired by her second grade teacher, she earned a bachelor of science degree in education from Southern Methodist University in 1968. She then taught in public schools in Dallas and Houston. In 1973 she earned a master of library science degree from the University of Texas at Austin and worked as a public school librarian in Austin. In 1977 she met and married George Walker Bush.
Teachers and librarians take note: the would-be First Lady of the United States either thinks your work is not a "real job" or thinks you are not yet "grown up." As my very polite mother said of THK two weeks ago, "She's just asinine. I can't imagine her as First Lady." Right on the mark, Mom.
Tip via NRO's Kerry Spot
UPDATE: THK backtracks.
Posted by Alan at October 20, 2004 12:14 PM