Laura Bush raises her voice (a bit)

[maxrandb]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-06-29-laura-bush-cover_x.htm

"Laura Bush never really was just a demure librarian. But a more confident, glamorous and outspoken first lady is now on display for what she wistfully notes will be her final campaign."

"The Betty Crocker hairdo has been replaced by a sleek coif with streaks of blonde. Her toenails, peeking out from comfy espadrilles, are bright red. She still prefers to talk about education and reading, her pet issues and avocations, but she can dish up justifications for the war in Iraq, too."

"Bush came onto the stage wearing a finely tailored sage green pantsuit to long and loud cheers. As she began to speak, one woman shouted out, "We love you!" Now her job is to humanize her husband, who has trouble attracting female voters. His campaign advisers are so confident she can help in that regard that she has been prominently featured in several campaign TV ads."



Mods, I think this is breaking, because it is front page of the USA Today, but also another clear indictment of our "Librul" media!

Where is the outrage? Does anyone remember the scorn and ridicule our last officially elected First Lady received because she changed her hairdo and clothes? Where is Rush and Sean to tell us how phony Laura is?

This puff piece should be plastered right next to all the vitriol Hillary got when she changed her style.

[CO Liberal]

1. "...a more confident, glamorous and outspoken first lady..."

Who the hell are THEY trying to kid?

:shrug:

[catzies]

2. Us, of course.

:eyes:

SOP for the GOP: trot out the wimminfolk when the men are in trouble.

[Kurt Remarque]

3. she's "new and improved," like laundry detergent

[Mike Niendorff]

5. seconded.

The woman is a walking, talking advertisement for Prozac.


MDN

[belle]

15. Prozac does not do that. Heavy tranquilizers with a sherry chaser do that.

[UpInArms]

18. frontal lobotomy ....... eom

[madaboutharry]

7. The same people

who believe all the other bullshit.

:puke:

[MrBenchley]

11. And remember she only killed that ONE ex-boyfriend

that anyone can prove....

[Sandpiper]

16. When we actually had a more confident, glamorous and outspoke first lady

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the GOP crucified her for daring to speak out and having opinions of her own.

[Malva Zebrina]

20. Oh well she wears sling back shoes

and wears bright red nail polish. Her badly botched

eye lift is waning making her look cross eyed ever the more,

but never mind, she waves, dutifully from the White House balcony, sending off
"her man" as he embarks on the more serious business of empire, something she has no cognisance of, and has no participation in being the "little woman" doncha know.

This poor woman is willingly a poor, ignorant Stepford of a woman.


She is a willing participant in her own image of stupidity.

She is manufactured down to her "glamor and her sling back shoes" That NEVER match the outfit she is wearing.

Actually, nothing matches in her outfits that are usually an insult to American women.

Ugh--it really is embarrassing''

Cannot a rich first lady be aware of her image and do something better than this?

Look at the fit of the pants. This is really not excusable.







Someone tells her what to wear and she does it. Apparently she never looks in the mirror.

as are her daughters who are interested in
fashion and who spend thousands of dollars on draping themselves in equally atrocrious and ill fitting, not flattering, designer clothing, as their fatassed mother, who insists upon wearing upholstry clothing, that em-phasizes her fat ass and her drooping breasts that with every photo, seem to be sinking further and further into her waistline.

What a pathetic image we are forced to accept as a first lady.


There are solutions to this problem of the drooping bustline, but she seems to care not about her drooping bustline, into the waist line, although she does have all the money in the world to do something about it and to make her appearance much more pleasing.

She insists upon dressing like a Barbie doll instead of a middle aged woman who is sure of herself.


She, apparently, has been assigned to follow the Barbara Bush, her mother in law, in the pursuit of getting the little poor children to appreciate reading.

This will be her "legacy" following in the footsteps of her mother in law. Not her own mother, but her "mother in law" who is the head of some reading program and is being promoted as an icon interested in children' This Barbara the Bush, the terrible with the "beautiful mind" appeared recently here in the
Farnsworth Museum,. Rockland , Maine, to read to children

Wowl, I am sure all the little poor children were flocking to the Farnsworth, snobby looking museum, to be read to by the bitch, Barbara Bush, who looks down her nose at them all I am sure.

How droll. How hypocritical and how supportive of a son of hers, who stole a presidency , who lies at every opportunity to cover up his inadequacies, while she says, publically, on a TV station that she does not want to bother her "beautiful mind" with the raw fact that hundreds of our soldiers are arriveing home in the middle of the nigth in flag draped coffinc, and the media is forbidden to take pictures and even talk about these warriors being snuck in , back to their home, without a single honor being given to them/.

Barbara Bush could care less about the poor children or their literacy, and neither does her stupid son., Why should she bother her beautiful mind about the poor and their reading abilities if not to promote herself as a wonderful, caring old gramma. All that is important is that her name is attached to some ersatz reading program for the poor children

and Laura is assigned to follow this. She has been assinged to some reading program that follows the parameters of Barbara Bush, in order to anchor the image, the manufactured image of an otherwise banal and subservient, first lady who did nothing all of her life but sponge off her marriage to a rich husband.

[PaDUer]

31. Send her back

to the pig farm she came from and let her don her usual upholstery clothing! Had enough of these two and their mob prancing the world over on our expense!

[Virginian]

44. Open up Marianne - tell us how you really feel.

Sometimes a little rant is good for the soul.

Since she is just a lump in the bed, will they remain married after he leaves office? I don't think it is much more than a marriage of convenience now. He would rather be with his father and brother than with Laura any day -- a real man's man.

I don't know whether to pity her of dislike her.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Stories about what a fine person she is have been sneaking out a lot

The first time I heard one of these I thought, "They must be far more desperate than they act if they are dragging out the pResident's wife to shore up his image."

It's as if they are saying, "Would this fine, stable, W.A.S.P. ever marry a mass-murdering, cold-blooded, brain-damaged, comtemptuous, disrespectful @$$####?"

Your point about Hillary Clinton is very well taken.

[Divernan]

6. "Finely tailored"? - What, she took out the Made in France label?

I can't wait to see a picture of her in something other than her Mao Tse Tung uniform look. Really, she COULD look great if she had ever developed any sense of style.

[calimary]

42. But she looks like she's adopted the Nancy Reagan "helmet hair"

style. Unfortunately for our Stepford First Lady, she will always stand in the shadow of her imperious (queen) mother-in-law.

Same thing for young george. little bushie will always stand in the shadow of his twerp father. He'll always be the second bush. He'll always be JUNIOR. Except when statisticians start rolling out all the "firsts" - as in: First war of aggression. First war we were so blatantly lied into. First to lower taxes while we were facing and then fighting war. Boosted the budget deficit farther than his dad. Boosted outsourced jobs farther than his dad. Bigger terrorist attack on his watch than on his dad's. A second Iraq war. Torture this time, too. Something his dad can't claim.

[Realityhack]

8. Laura is a liability...

and they know it so they tried to avoid showing her and now they are trying to clean her up enough to reduce that effect. But I doubt we will hear too much from her. Its likely to be simmilar to 2000.

RH

[PaDUer]

32. Wait til the twins

hit the campaign trail..Wonder if they're going to have their flasks with them and their pipe? Oh, what a campaign this is going to be, and if the old bat babs tags along and gives them a nudge to "stand up straight", I wouldn't be surprised if they tell her to "cheney you"!

[smirkymonkey]

9. "But she can dish up justifications for the war in Iraq, too."

Wow, she really is something. I'm impressed.

And since when is a sage green PANTSUIT considered glamorous????

[maxrandb]

12. Yes, and apparently

she is tough enough to stand up to her man too! They tried to show how she is not just a Stepford wife in the article.

"When the president was asked why his wife was not with him, he said, 'The President of China is coming, and she has to sweep the porch'. Later when Laura was asked if she like her hubbies joke, quietly mouthed the word 'no' and shook her head."

My Gawd!! If I had said something like that about my wife in front of a million people, she'd have hit me in the head with a bag of pretzles....Hmmmmm, wonder if that is what really happened to *.

But, she sure is a tough lady, and a true "Texan" from Midland. Maybe someone from there can tell me, what the Cheney is a "true Texan"? I thought the shrub was from Connecticutt?

[Sequoia]

25. Can't "dish up" any "Betty Crocker" cookies, eh?

[MisterP]

45. or her aqua one or the burgundy or the taupe or the beige or the eggshell

or the rose or the sherry pink or the robin's-egg or the rarely-seen salmon or the...
however, all the pantsuits are identical except for color

[riverwalker]

10. her eye job kills me

if her eyes get anymore slanted towards the back of her head, she'll start walking sideways.
she's got Joan River's eyes...

[sendero]

13. I find ...

... her Joker smile unnerving. I think she's as unhinged as her hubby :)

[leftchick]

22. do you mean this one?

uncanny isn't it?

[PaDUer]

33. Had to open her eyes

because they'd close from the prozac.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

14. not Betty Davis eyes?

no so catchy.

[belle]

17. maybe Bette's pet goldfish's eyes.

[SeattleDem]

19. did anyone check out the slide show at the link?

12 photos of Laura, the last one concludes with her saying "no matter what happens in November, we'll be okay", meaning her and George.

Sounds to me like she might be expecting defeat....

[maxrandb]

23. No Matter What Happens in Nov, We'll be OK

Well what about the rest of the world you Cheney-twit?

This is so typical of these sociopaths. It is always about them. Screwed Grandma out of her life's savings by manipulating the price of electricity...but if you're Kenny Boy Lay, laugh it off from your Chenying mansion.

If your kid gets killed in an ill-conceived and unnecessary war, that's too Cheneying bad, because my kids are traipsing through Europe after drinking their way through college with full Secret Service protection.

If we lose in Nov, we'll be OK. Never mind the fact that it will take three generations of Americans working their fingers to the bone to get back our wrecked economy, rebuild our infrastructure, rebuild our schools, and most importantly, rebuild our reputation in the world. WE'LL BE OK!

I'm so Cheneying pissed right now.

[SeattleDem]

41. excellent rant

you captured exactly how that quote made me feel too, only I was unable to put it into words.

Yup, to hell with the rest of us, they'll be okay, with their ill-gotten gains and cronies to support them the rest of their days.

[kskiska]

29. Somehow I don't think they'll be okay with it if they lose

Poppy and Bar still aren't over it, and a second one-termer in the family won't sit too well. Jeb's political career will be in the toilet. They'll probably line up his son, who won't be going to Iraq, for a third try at it. He's graduated from law school, and is about to marry, just as his uncle did when he decided to run for office.

[leftchick]

21. Sage my ass. Glamorous in her PICKLE colored outfit?

:puke: She gives me the creeps...

[qb]

46. The red lipstick and that key lime nightmare...

make her look even more like the Joker!

[goclark]

51. This is WalMart Sage

It fits no where. It is a nasty color and has less style then the Walmart catalog.

She is a mess as a first lady.
Glad she is in the garden. She could get with her sage garden gloves and start pulling weeds.

[daleo]

24. I thought the writer might have slipped in a dig here:

"Her motorcade is modest: just four vehicles and a police escort that doesn't use lights or sirens. She stops for traffic lights."

[latebloomer]

26. "now her job is to humanize her husband"??

Ain't no way in the world to make a man out out of a drooling chimp!

(Apologies to chimps everywhere)

[54anickel]

35. At least they are admitting he could use some help in that respect. He's

neither human or humane. But I'll bet they'll play the theme to "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" each time she walks out on stage. :eyes:

People let me tell you 'bout my best friend,
He's a warm hearted person who'll love me till the end.
People let me tell you bout my best friend,
He's a one boy cuddly toy, my up, my down, my pride and joy.

People let me tell you 'bout him he's so much fun
Whether we're talkin' man to man or whether we're talking son to son.
Cause he's my best friend.
Yes he's my best friend.

Yada, na da da da da da nada

[leftchick]

27. any person that can knowingly sleep with a mass murderer is....

either delusional at best or, horror of horrors a psychopath like her hubby*.

[0007]

34. I hope Laura has many lonely nights while junior is in the Hague

playing cards with Slobodan Milosevic who's during 13 years of hard time as a war criminal.

[leftchick]

36. agreed triple 0

gawd she creeps me out almost as bad as dumbface*.

[progressivebydesign]

28. 'I like my first ladies a little on the trashy side'...

Oh this is so stupid. If the republicans can call Hillary, "a pig in a pantsuit", I could care less what people say about stepford pickles.

[mike1963]

30. "Humanize her husband"?? It'd be easier to humanize Barney, but those

'red toenails' sound pretty hot. Too bad they're 3 inches long...
:eyes:

[The Zanti Regent]

37. If Teresa Heinz was a POOR LATINA who did what this killer did

Teresa would have had the needle stuck in her arm decades ago in Tex-Ass.

Yet this MURDERER walks scot free...

[Hotler]

47. Laura Bush-murder??? someone fill me in.

Thanks

[devinsgram]

38. "Humanize her husband."

Please help me stop laughing.You can't humanize something that ain't human.

[DemoTex]

39. Oh, oh, oh ...here comes dinner! R-A-L-P-H!

:puke:

[Tight_rope]

40. So she got a make-over..she's still married to a criminal!...

[Kimber Scott]

43. Who the hell is Laura Bush?

nt

[BiggJawn]

48. Yeah, but she still wears clothes made of HERCULON!

Hello? Herculon is for SOFAS! NOT Suits!

Stepford One needs to have her Xanax dosage adjusted.

[wildeyed]

49. Laura Bush is a cipher to me

and red toenails and streaky hair won't make her any less so. But I guess I am not Rove's target audience. LB always seems so spaced out and disconnected. Barbara Bush, for all her faults, always had a shape in my mind.

Have you noticed that, despite all the RW chatter about "family vales", this 1st family seems really disconnected from each other? All the crap they gave the Clintons, but they really seemed to connect as a family.

[noonwitch]

50. RR's funeral-Laura touched Blair on the arm on her way up the aisle

She didn't single out anyone else for personal contact-what's up with that?

Would that be the funniest thing on earth, if something was up between them?