The American Spectator

New Hampshire Under Siege

Gassing Poetic

By Shawn Macomber on 12.30.03 @ 12:03AM

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One woman launched into a three-minute tirade about how Bush Administration policies were giving children asthma, before finally saying, "But what I really want to know is what you'll do about the deficit." It's no wonder Kerry's campaign is suffering from schizophrenia -- his support base is, too.

PERHAPS THE MOST INTERESTING thing about the long event was Teresa Heinz Kerry's inability to mask her boredom. While her husband was talking she sauntered out back and stared off into the parking lot. She slumped in a chair, head in hands, looking at the floor. She whispered back and forth with Time magazine's Joe Klein.

One of the last questions Kerry fielded was whether he would take month-long vacations while president, as George W. Bush has done. Kerry answered a plain "no," and looked confused when the audience broke out into raucous laughter. Teresa had come to life, and was nodding crazily, "yes, yes, yes." Kerry lost his smile for the first time in three hours.

"No, really, the answer is no," he said. But Teresa just kept bobbing, and the audience kept laughing, and John Kerry frowned, as if he couldn't decide whether to draw his sword or his quill.

Then the poet cowboy got on the Real Deal Express and rode off into the fading twilight.

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