USA Today: "a more confident, glamorous and outspoken first lady"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Laura Bush raises her voice (a bit)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=2&u=/usatoday/20040630/ts_usatoday/laurabushraiseshervoiceabit

In private, she has always been more independent and opinionated than the docile public persona she perfected for her husband's first presidential campaign. 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The Betty Crocker hairdo has been replaced by a sleek coif with streaks of blonde.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.

Some critics see a bit of Nancy Reagan in the loving gazes Laura Bush casts at her husband when she shares a stage with him. And in a biography, The Perfect Wife, that was published this year, Washington Post reporter Ann Gerhart concluded that the first lady has been too indulgent a parent, permitting 22-year-old twins Jenna and Barbara to get away with bad behavior. The twins, recent college graduates, both got into trouble for underage drinking after their father became president. They will work on his campaign this year - their first venture into politics.

[Politicub]

1. She's SO glamorous

Look at those long arms in the second photo. MMM.... luv those long, glamorous and ape-like arms with sexy man hands.

[quinnox]

2. Although not a popular

thing here, I like Laura Bush, she seems to be a nice woman. Doesn't seem political like "Babs" was. Too bad her husband seemingly doesn't share any of her qualities.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. I don't mind her either. She's just a bit Stepfordish for me is all.

[Tosca]

3. Eeeww.

"Some critics see a bit of Nancy Reagan in the loving gazes Laura Bush casts at her husband"

Passez-moi le barf bag.

[goddess40]

4. Glamorous?

If the suit she is wearing in the picture is the "finely tailored" suit they mention something is out of whack. It looks baggy and doesn't fit her well.

[DemoTex]

5. Bell-bottoms

So kule! Not! So 60s. She needs a tie-dyed t-shirt, some sandals, a bandanna, and a bag of weed.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Excuse me for a sec. I just need to............

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[diamond14]

7. that suit needs an IRON...it's shameful that with a HUGE staff of maids

and personal assistants (at taxpayers expense), pickles can't ever seem to get her clothes ironed...

a nice crease always adds a little professionalism, even to the most Wal-Mart special outfits....

it's sad to read that laura's most fashionable attire is her "bright red toenails"....pickles is SO EMBARRASSING to OUR country....


totally embarassing the USA, as they arrive on the Emerald Isle...nothing like a little 'sage-green' slap-in-the-face to the Irish...the bush* criminals never stop insulting others, in attire, gestures and words....it just never stops...



and the Irish were kind enough to return the bush* insults...copies of the Irish mainstream press...stuff you won't see in USA....

[Kong]

8. Brood Sow

I think here positon is clear, Brood Sow.

[Cannikin]

9. "who has trouble attracting female voters"

I dont know too many women who are attracted to the clueless type.

[greenbriar]

10. excuse me

while I go hurl

[gasperc]

11. I thought she was a robot

she's a real person? like the lady at the end of Stepford wives, sorry if I gave away some of the twist

[Connie_Corleone]

13. Different robot

I think Bush replaced the old robot with a new one in order to get the female vote.

[SoCalDem]

14. So are they trying to make all the women in the US...lesbians??

Are we supposed to start lusting after her in our hearts??

or are the pimping her out to all the hunky Nascar dads?? ("Rufus, is that "tobbacky juice" on your chin, or a scab from when you fell off the maytag on the front porch "?)

[donhakman]

18. Her Larry King interview

"As you know Larry I was a libraian and encourage reading eery chance I get. I constatnly read everything I can get my hands on"

King: "Have you read Hillary's book?"

Laura Bush: "No."

[Neshanic]

15. I'm gay and now I think I will go straight for her...she's HOT.

[Fenris]

16. She looks like a frumpier Jamie Lee Curtis on acid.

"Glamorous" is hardly the word - the woman can't even wear a pantsuit properly.

[DrWho]

17. she killed

she killed someone cause she ran a stop sign

[donhakman]

19. Where is the manslaugter case?

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