But before you get the idea that Dennis picked her up in a Cleveland Hooters, here's a partial bio:
The year she graduated from high school, she flew to India to volunteer at one of Mother Teresa's homes for India's poorest children.
She returned to England and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Kent then spent 16 months in a rural Tanzanian village, where she lived in a concrete-block, tin-roofed house, and worked as an advocate for regional development.
"It was there, and in India, that I learned that people who our society thinks have nothing, and who live in the poorest conditions, still find so much joy in life," she says.
After she left Tanzania, she volunteered with a British Red Cross refugee unit; earned a certificate in peace studies from Coventry University; and got a job as a fund-raiser for a seafarer's charity in London. Often, her volunteer work took her to the House of Lords. That was where she heard financial analyst Stephen Zarlenga speak about monetary reform.She was impressed and soon was hired to become Zarlenga's assistant at the Chicago-based American Monetary Institute. It was that work that took her and Zarlenga to Dennis' office.
After eight years of watching a lumpy Texas librarian make apologies for her feckless husband's monumental screw-ups, it would be a joy to watch this First Lady bring the power of the office to bear on monetary policy and poverty.
Hell, it would be a joy to watch this First Lady do anything.
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Seriously. She was the greatest surprise of the debates, wasn't she?
Though I have to admit - it might be kind of fun to have Fred Thompson's trophy wife in the White House for awhile, too.
Jeff,
Why do I have this awful feeling that the 2008 election won't be the serious discussion of issues that I'd hoped it would be?
But yeah, Fred Thompson's wife has a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.
But yeah, Fred Thompson's wife has a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.
Now that's a serious discussion of issues.
Bryon,
I have given up and joined the American mainstream.
Did you hear Lindsay Lohan is back in rehab?
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