And now I’d like to add that NurseCarmen, if your boy sez she’s cool, I retract my comment regarding her love for children, and will take his word for it. I have known a four year old or two to be more insightful than me on occasion. 
I have the same off reaction to her as well. My opinion of her was colored by her last name. She kept the name Heinz after marrying Kerry. But when it became an issue in his campaign, she picked up his name. I want to scream, “Get a backbone, Teresa!”. Either she wants to maintain her first husband’s name, in which case she should have just stood her ground and let the voters get a grip, or she should have changed her name when she married. It makes me doubt her commitment to him and his choice to marry her. But I’m still voting for him. 
Yes, Mrs. Kerry looks as if she’s just come froim Monte Carlo and Mrs. Bush the Older looked like she came from a Quaker Oats commercial shoot.
though they Both look like they wouldn’t hesitate to take a swing at you!
Which of course is very small potatoes compared to Mama Bush who is reputed in Collage Station to be perfectly capable of cutting out your liver with a serrated knife, a dull one at that, if you cross her.
I agree. It may distract us from the important questions like whether or not they have dogs, cats, and the names of these companions.
And as long as we are cranking up the gratuitous defamation, my parents told be that in 1944-45 Mamie Eisenhower was an accomplished battle ax and the general terror of the officers open mess at Ft Sam Houston. Hillary Clinton has been the recipient of a fair amount of abuse on these boards and else where. The shine rubbed off Mrs Kennedy pretty quickly, just as soon as she quit being the grieving widow and became Jackie O. Nancy Reagan took a fair amount of abuse for being a hysterical and controlling spiritualist. No President’s wife, save maybe Mrs Lincoln, Andrew Jackson’s wife and Mrs Wilson, was subjected to as much partisan vindictive as Eleanor Roosevelt – even J Edgar Hoover was after her.
The simple fact is that if you are reduced to using a candidate’s spouse as a reason to support or reject the candidate then you have a pretty limited view of the world and think you are voting for homecoming royalty at East Harness Buckle High, not for the occupant of the most powerful, and potentially the most dangerous, office in the world. Some times it is difficult to take you people seriously.
She was sure pissed off at that little Edwards for sucking his thumb. She gave a glare that could have killed the kid and tried to pull his thumb out of his mouth and then kept on staring at him as if he was ruining her chance of living in the White House.
But you can learn a lot about a candidate based on who they married. And a lot of former world leaders have been greatly influenced by their wives when it comes to leading their governments. And some world leaders have been considered little more than puppets in relation to their wives.
Anyhoo…