Who Is This Woman, Exactly? (UPDATED)

An excuse to run this picture? Hell, we're not even sure this is Jeri Thompson, though it's been claimed as her image. (Compare & contrast w/ these, we think from 2006.) When was it taken? What happened to her hair? If it is she, she's been dropping the lbs. like husband Freddie has. (Or is it an old photo & she's gained a few lbs. & some hair length & Botox™ since marrying?) And here they are together, in Newton, Iowa, on Monday (1 October) from The New York Times. Interesting body language, expressions, etc. (Personally, we think the one above is a shot of Judith Light that's been misidentified, but it's all guesswork here on the web. First seen here, but no credit/attribution given.)
Oh, speaking of the NYT (pronounced "nit") looks as if "D. A. Branch" isn't exactly riding the Straight Talk Express. More like the Lead Balloon Special:

Then he stood face to face with a silent audience.
“Can I have a round of applause?” Mr. Thompson said, drawing a rustle of clapping and some laughter.
[...]
In an interview with Kay Henderson of Radio Iowa on Wednesday, in talking about Iran, he referred to the “Soviet Union and China.” (Ms. Henderson, at the end of her blog post on the exchange, wrote: “No, I did not mistype. Thompson said Soviet Union rather than Russia.”)

Freddie, you don't have much time to drag yourself into the current century.

Mr. Thompson said that perceived stumbles by him, like appearing not to know anything on a visit to Florida about a dispute over oil drilling in the Everglades, had been seized upon by rival campaigns who had begun coming after him before he even got into the race. Not, he was quick to add, that he had a problem with that. “As I like to say, it’s not my first rodeo,” he said.

May be your last, cowboy, may be your last.

We see that firedoglake, who apparently have to get up before 1400, were on this a bit earlier today.

UPDATE (19 October 2007 @ 1621): See the comments. The "mystery woman" is probably country vocalist Lorrie Morgan, who dated ol' Freddie a few yrs. back. Compare here, & witness the wonder of Photoshop™.