Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton Unite to Fight for Women's Museum in D.C.

[DonViejo]

Source: Newsweek


BY HARRIET SINCLAIR ON 5/18/17 AT 5:39 PM

Former first ladies Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton have joined together to press forward on the idea of having a National Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C.

Bush added her name to the cause during a Women Making History Awards event on Tuesday night at the Carnegie Institution for Science, where she was honored for her advocacy work. Bush said at the event it was important to “redouble our efforts to make sure there’s a women’s museum right here in our country” The Washington Post reported.

She added: “It's really important to have a museum that focuses on women because half of the population is left out from American history. We need to figure out how we can encourage women to run for office and to run for president.”

Former secretary of state and fellow former first lady Hillary Clinton appeared via video link to praise Bush for “her example, and her leadership,” stating she wanted to take her grandchildren to a museum honoring women.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/laura-bush-and-hillary-clinton-unite-fight-womens-museum-dc-611829

[DURHAM D]

1. What???? No mention of Melania. nt

[onetexan]

23. screw the idiot's trashy wife

but they should include Michelle O though. Where's Michelle in this?

[mountain grammy]

2. K & R

[Skittles]

3. thanking Ms. Bush

I didn't think she was a very effective First Lady but I do like her, in spite of her asshole husband

[LisaM]

4. I go hot and cold with her.

I do think she was mis-cast into that family. What bugs me the most about the Bushes in general (other than stealing the 2000 election), was that they have no compunction running on issues that don't reflect their personal beliefs, choice being at the very top of the list.

[Skittles]

5. the only first ladies I really disliked were Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush

it was obvious she had a lot of influence on her husband, but she did nothing to get him to do anything about the AIDS crisis. Unforgivable in my mind.

Barbara Bush - fuck, do I even NEED to explain???

Laura, she just always seemed like a piece of furniture, something in the background. Just very ineffective.

[LisaM]

6. I disliked Barbara Bush - and the way she behaved post-Presidency was even worse.

Oh, she looked all affable and grandmotherly, but I think she can be cold as ice. And then the way she acted afterwards just bore that out.

[Skittles]

7. OMG, editing!

I had put that hateful woman clean out of my mind.

[LisaM]

8. Understandable - I think she became dead to a lot of us after Katrina.

Really, her behavior was execrable.

[Skittles]

14. you are correct

I was so horrified by Katrina - I work nights and saw it all unfold on TV in real time.....Dubya's inaction and Barbara's casual indifference literally made me feel sick.

[LisaM]

17. Still pisses me off.

Sigh.

[Skittles]

18. whenever people start that "W doesn't seem so bad now"

I think of Katrina and Iraq.

Fuck W all to hell, ALWAYS.

[Alice11111]

13. GWB said once, you think my dad's tough, he's nothing

compared to my mom. She's the one we have to answer to...I'm paraphrasing.

[crazycatlady]

9. So far I dislike Melania Trump

For her costing the taxpayers money while she plays Rapunzel and basically being a do nothing FLOTUS.

(I do like the younger Barbara Bush).

[Skittles]

11. I'm torn on Melania

on the one hand, I think she is a gold digger getting what she deserves but......I really think she did not want any of this and is trying to protect Barron (very likely autistic)...whatever is going on, it cannot be easy having to deal with that sick fuck husband of hers, no matter what luxury she lives in

[Wabbajack_]

20. I don't think she should be forced

to live in DC and do "First Lady stuff" if she doesn't want to.

But Donnie should fucking pay the security costs himself.

[LisaM]

22. I disagree.

If we have to live with the consequences of this nightmare, so should she. Besides, she was on the birther bandwagon and had no problem going on the air back then and talking about it. So now we have to handle her with kid gloves?

[Alice11111]

10. At least Nancy came out in support of STEM cell research.

It was in the typical Republican way, once it happened to her family. I always hated her, but at the end, I had more respect. She became more open minded.

Laura Bush was a librarian, and so literacy was a perfect topic for her, but I don't think she took it very far.

[Skittles]

12. yeah, only when it affected her beloved asshole husband

Nancy was disgusting...if she had cared at all about life she would have spoken up about the massive AIDS casualties

[zentrum]

15. Laura was absolutely an enabler

.....of W's illegal war in Iraq. She gave him a more benign image when he was murderous.

Will never, ever forgive her or him for the damage they did to thousands and millions of people here and in Iraq.

[JI7]

16. that had nothing to do with laura

But with his compassionate conservative campaign strategy.

And him just being a fool.

Laura wasn't that influential. She wasn't some beloved first lady type.

[GulfCoast66]

19. I hope when I do bad things

People do not blame my wife.

Maybe you read some things I did not see, but I never had the feeling she steered him in a bad way. And the few things he got right like all the money he gave to prevent AIDs in Africa, I heard she was behind. And as much a war criminal he was, he gave more to Africa than any president prior.

And I like the literacy thing.

But here husband will always be in the top 5 worse presidents.

[zentrum]

21. So about that little war....

.....there are wives in this world who would have been out in the street protesting that invasion.

I'd have been one of them, if in her position.

Her constantly smiling face and "harmlessness" helped sanitize and normalize his calculating sociopathy.

I presume the bad things you do do not result in the deaths and sufferings of thousands. If so, then your wife would, in my book be part of enabling you.

Marital vows do not trump death and war profiteering.