Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry, “has been forced to apologise after criticising First Lady Laura Bush.” Mrs. Kerry, heir to the $500 million Heinz fortune, told USA Today:

I don't know that she's [Laura Bush] ever had a real job.

In her apology, she claims “she had ‘forgotten’ about Mrs Bush's ‘important’ careers.” Yeah, and I “forgot” to pay my taxes. These are strange comments coming from “one of the wealthiest women in the world.”

Teresa knows all too well that Laura Bush worked as both a school teacher and a librarian. The Washington Post describes former Republican Teresa Kerry’s apology thusly:

But here Heinz Kerry just stepped into it deeper. Again, she was repeating that Laura Bush only had a job when she had a paying job, and not during all those years she was raising the twins, or supporting her husband, or being first lady, or all those other things one is not allowed to define as the opposite of job.

worldhistory.com provides more respectable details about Laura Bush, the woman who has supposedly never held a real job:

Laura earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1968 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. After graduating, she taught as a schoolteacher at Longfellow Elementary School in Dallas Independent School District until 1969. She then taught at John F. Kennedy Elementary School, a Houston Independent School District school in Houston, until 1972.

Bush earned a Master of Science degree in Library Science in 1973 from the University Texas in Austin. She is the second First Lady (after Hillary Clinton) to hold a post graduate degree. After that, she worked at the Kashmere Gardens Branch at the Houston Public Library, until 1974, when she moved back to Austin. She was a librarian at an Austin Independent School District school, Dawson Elementary School, until 1977. …

As First Lady of the United States, she has championed education causes and women's health issues, and launched the first National Book Festival. She also worked for women's and children's causes while she was the First Lady of Texas, when she established the Adopt-a-Caseworker Program and the Rainbow Room program. Bush has taken a decidedly less prominent role in policy-making than her predecessors.

In November 2001, she became the first person other than a president to deliver the weekly presidential radio address. She used the opportunity to discuss the plight of women in Afghanistan during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. In May 2002, she made a speech to the people of Afghanistan through Radio Liberty, a radio station in Prague, Czech Republic.