First lady criticized for swift boat remark

[onehandle]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Kerry campaign Sunday criticized first lady Laura Bush for what the campaign called her "statement in support of the swift boat smear ads."

The campaign was referring to a new Time magazine interview in which Mrs. Bush is asked about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads attacking Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry's war record and his comments upon return from Vietnam.

In the interview she is asked, "Do you think these swift boat ads are unfair to John Kerry?"

"Not really," she replies. "There have been millions of terrible ads against my husband."

President Bush has praised Kerry's war record but has refused to condemn the attacks in the group's ads.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/29/kerry.firstlady/index.html

Classless. Totally classless. At least CNN picked it up.

[yardwork]

1. Millions of ads against her husband?

I wish that were true.

Apparently Laura can't add. Or she just likes to lie.

[onehandle]

3. Classless. Stupid. Deceptive.

Bush family defining traits.

[physioex]

2. Guess....

They will have to up the dosage of Zoloft and Prozac now....

[name not needed]

4. Is she still running over old boyfriends?

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. That one is a piece of work

Tries her best to look like JR's mother on Dallas, hairdo, mannerisms and all.Always expect a snitty smarmy answer from her and you won't be dissapointed.

[loathesomeshrub]

6. Nice, Laura. Very Christian. Even if true, which it isn't, there would

be at least 2 reasons why you are wrong.
1. Kerry has been too kind to that moron you're married to, and unlike him, his campaign has hardly put out any negative ads.
2. If you really were a Christian, you would turn the other cheek, instead of going for an eye for an eye.

[lebkuchen]

7. Laura means "millions of people"

Finally, she is cognizant of the fact that the planet hates her husband's guts.

When was Laura's first anti-Bush protest? Quebec City 4 years ago? She's a slow learner, just like the rest of the family.

[Only Me]

8. Wonder how the stations will present her remarks, if at all.

Viscious hag. I am sure very little will be made of
her nasty remarks. They make me sooo mad. :mad:

[Kool Kitty]

9. For everyone that thinks we're too hard on

Laura Bush, this is one of the reasons. She doesn't know what she is talking about. (I'm thinking of her stem-cell speech. You don't know what will happen until you do the research. If everyone had her lack of curiousity and foresight, the human would not have advanced one second in the past thousand years. Just like her dolt of a husband, intellectually incurious.) For a librarian, she sure doesn't seem to read or learn much.

[MnFats]

10. this one is worth emails, letters, phone calls to white house..

that is absolutely moronic. and an obvious lie.
compare her to Mrs. Kerry for a moment.
who would leave a legacy the country could be proud of?

[PurityOfEssence]

11. They're mean to me; I have the right to lie

It's all relative, and it's all spin, so if they're saying unfortunately true things about me, I can destroy you with whatever I please.

[Erika]

12. Her Husband Didn't risk his life.

Her remarks were terribly insensitive and shallow.

[VolcanoJen]

13. Dupe... locking

Please continue discussion within the original LBN thread on this topic, which can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=786219&mesg_id=786219

Thanks!

VolcanoJen
DU Moderator