Laura Bush "Knows Her Place"

[GiovanniC]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&e=3&u=/nm/20040901/pl_nm/campaign_hamster_dc

"I think Laura Bush is the most elegant first lady we've ever had," said Trudi Dickert, a delegate from Virginia. "She is ... a Southern lady in many ways. She knows her place."

I'm not really an ultra-hardcore feminist or anything like that, but comments like this tend to sicken me. She "knows her place"?

Another interesting thing:

"We had a hamster too," Bush's daughter Barbara said. "Let's just say ours didn't make it."

So... if we want to go into extended metaphor-land... let's just say that

HAMSTER = COUNTRY

[Darth_Kitten]

1. Difference between the Bush and Kerry hamster story.....

The Kerry hamster had a name. Licorice. :hug: :) And a dad who saw that a little pet meant something to his kids. :)

My guess is that poor Bush hamster got sent back to the pet store when Barbara Bush, heartless matriarch, found a little hamster ka-ka in one of her slippers.............

[LisaL]

7. Hmm.

I think "didn't make it" clearly means the hamster is dead. Whether of neglet or deliberate, I have no idea, but I don't think he went back into the pet store.

[Darth_Kitten]

10. I was trying to be generous and open minded......

thought surely they would do the right thing, but alas, I'm afraid the little sweetie didn't make it. I'll have to accept that now. :(

[MaineDem]

2. "She knows her place"

I think I'm going to scream!!!

Stepford wives...all of 'em!

[Minimus]

4. I know her place too!

The difference between her and Theresa are so amazing! Repub wifes are so blah! Dems have great women: Roslyn, Hillary- women with brains and a conscience.

[Minimus]

3. I can't believe the y brought the hamster

thing up. I read somewhere that Karen Hughes watched the Kerry girls and commented on how good they were. I guess she and Rove decided to use the hamster story.

Oh please!!!

[Gman]

5. Laura is the severely codependent wife

of a raging abusive alcoholic. Its likely she was abused (verbally, physically or otherwise) by her dad which is why she always accepted the abuse from W and passed the codependency down to her daughters. I think the daughters' immaturity stems in a large part from having their emotional development impaired by their abusive father. If anything, Laura and the twins are tragic.

[shoelace414]

6. What do republicans have against strong independent women?

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/img/16/0,1886,2293968,00.jpg

[Bettie]

8. Well, I'm an uppity Yankee woman....

And I know my place too and it ISN'T as the quiet, meek, helper-monkey!

WTH does it mean? "Knows her place"?

Oh, no opinions of her own, no character, no personality....I kind of feel sorry for her and all the other women who "know their place".

As to the hamster, daddy probably smashed it in a drunken rage.

Ugh. These people are revolting.

[TOhioLiberal]

9. I know her place, too...

Crawford Texas, on Jan 21, 2005! Kerry on!