Laura Bush- what is her problem? Now she's Miss Negativity

[Beaverhausen]

I even heard Howard Stern talk about her this morning. Specifically her comment on Larry King and elsewhere about how Stem Cell Research "really won't bring about any cures in the near future" what the fuck!

There is a good editorial from yesterday's LA Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kinsley15aug15,0,3403601.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

Michael Kinsley:
False Hopes Beat No Hope
Laura Bush weighs in on stem-cell study.


Maybe I missed it, but it seems as if Laura Bush has not had her Lady Macbeth Moment. This is the period, hallowed by tradition if not actually written into the Constitution, when the media discover that a president's wife is the power behind the throne. She is not the sweet helpmate she appears to be. Underneath, there is steel. In fact, she is a (insert a word — there are more than one — beginning with "b"). She is her husband's closest advisor and a fierce protector of his place in history. She curbs his partisan instincts or, alternatively, she keeps him on the ideological course. A well-known male rival for the president's ear has been fired on her instructions.

Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush all had their moments.

It was a challenge to fit Hillary Clinton into this template, but with a few little fixes (the demure helpmate stuff had to go), she was squeezed in as well.

But when does Laura Bush get her turn? For almost four years, she has loyally played along with the treacly conceit, assigned to her at the beginning of the administration, that her only public policy passion is libraries. As far as anyone knows, she has never questioned or failed to obey the instructions of the president's official advisors and spinmeisters. Of course, neither has her husband.

More at the link

[frankly_fedup2]

1. I figured she was in the same undisclosed location Cheney seems . . .

to be all the time. After all, where has she been the last 3-4 years? I haven't heard a peep about her. Only that Hillary Clinton was admired more than she was. Laura Bush needs to go back to her little corner of the world and not speak about things she knows nothing about. She only speaks the propaganda that her husband or Cheney decides should be out there. Just another pawn for this administration.

[AlCzervik]

2. Monkey's campaign sent out

Pickles to neutralize the stem cell debate, i figure that they figure people like her and she says stem cell is a no go than many people will believe her.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. "Stepford Laura"

[soup]

8. Good possibility

Just needs a few minor adjustments.




Everyone act like nothing is wrong ~ wrong ~ wrong

[Skidmore]

4. Laura's job is to make * seem like

Sweetness 'n Light, cause his negatives are so high and his policies stink. Just underscores the fact that he's a coward--the yellowest chickendoo you'll ever see.

[Tight_rope]

5. Like husband like wife!...It's an ole saying in Tennessee and Texas...LOL

[Killarney]

6. Someone else is writing and telling her what to say

because the public would believe her more than anyone else in the administration.

They need to neutralize the stem cell argument and she's their weapon.

[CBHagman]

7. The stem cell line is a right-wing talking point.

I heard the same claim from James Dobson, I believe, when he spoke at the National Press Club. The claim is that the type of stem cell research that Bush just happens to reject is not scientifically promising.

But let's be honest with ourselves here. If Nobel Prize-winning scientist came out and said this, then we'd listen up. But it's the usual political operatives.

Pretty disgusting display, and you can bet the Bush family hasn't had a heart-to-heart with the lab staff at NIH.

[skygazer]

9. I've always loved that line of reasoning anyway

How many cures does she suppose we'll find in the near future WITHOUT the research?