Reply #14: You know, I suspect people just project things on to Laura Bush.

[CBHagman]

I work for a newswire, and even after hearing Laura Bush speak and the like, she is still pretty much a cipher to me. I have impressions and opinions about various officials, elected and appointed, but still only the vaguest understandng of what Laura Bush is about.

I suspect that non-controversial is good enough for most people and that they just fill in the blanks otherwise. She's not a very public first lady.

By the way, I think she showed some of the famous Bush family ill will when interviewed by Time magazine during the the election of 2004. She was asked about the swift boat ads and opined that she didn't really think they were unfair, because -- wait for it -- her husband had been attacked a "million" times.

But I'll bet good money that Bush's ass never came within a mile of the Mekong Delta.