Oh, Mama! (Hubbell-Hubbell)

Teresa Heinz Kerry, with her salutation in five languages, her panegyric to extraterrestrial expansionism and her affirmation of universal woman-wisdom, may well have declared a candidacy of her own, making a fair bid at a previously unidentified constituency; call it Polyglot Cosmic Matriarchy (PCM).

P.S.  Her recent “shove it” remark has been deemed by the spinners “polite” by comparison to Dick Cheney’s now-infamous Capitol muttering toward Vermont Senator Pat Leahy.  Is it really?  Certainly, THK’s phrase appears prima facie more repeatable (I heard Jim Lehrer quote it, in primetime, on PBS, for heaven’s sake).  But isn’t the meaning, the referent action, the same?  The cognate may be more virtuous in, oh, Portuguese (I would yield to Mrs. HK there), but in English, as far as I know, the phrase has a connotation most caustic.  Color me prurient.