Laura Bush says "This is the same man that I met at....

[silverlib]

a backyard bar-b-que in Texas thirty-five years ago and married three months later." (Or something close) What does that statement say? Thirty-five years ago, Bush was a drunk.

[hippiegranny]

1. you claim bush was a drunk

and I raise you one coke-snorting drunk.

[Southpaw Bookworm]

2. I'll see your coke-snorting drunk

And raise you a boorish frat boy living on his daddy's friends' good will.

[fdr_hst_fan]

5. I can beat that with

a cushy TXANG posting and an AWOL 1st LT!

[Dogmudgeon]

I'll see your cushy TXANG posting and an AWOL 1st LT

and raise you a pregnant 15-year-old schoolgirl AND an illegal abortion paid for with a check signed "George W. Bush".

--bkl

[LuminousX]

3. Which explains why he ended up with valium addled Laura

instead of someone worthwhile.

[Stephanie]

4. So he's still high?

Just as we thought.

[Kat45]

6. Why did they get married so quickly?

Hmmmm--I could think of several possibilities.

[fdr_hst_fan]

7. You're not suggesting

that "Pickles" was EASY, are you?

[Dogmudgeon]

12. Easy, you ask?

Not easy ... desperate.

Laura was in pretty sad shape in her 20s. The depression she went through must have been horrendous, because in pictures of her at that age, she is quite good-looking. By rights, she should have been able to bed down with half the male population of Austin and receive propositions of marriage from enough of them to keep the diamond business fat and happy through the decade.

I don't think Laura Welch was jonesin' for some hot, stiff, military-clad man-meat. I think she believed she was unlovable and beneath contempt and was as much grateful when Good Ol' George dragged her off to bed, then to the altar.

It's a shame what self-loathing will do.

--bkl

[Avalux]

8. Poor Laura

I watched part of "Biography" about her on A&E. My take - she was very traumatized by the death of her boyfriend (although a freak accident, messed up her head). She spent years thinking she'd never find anyone then met charming George. He took advantage of her vulnerability with his 'charm' and she let him because she was desperate and afraid of being an old maid.

[lebkuchen]

9. Laura does a fantastic imitation of Joan Allen in "Pleasantville"

Laura missed her true calling.

[Kat45]

13. Yes, you're right! I hadn't thought of that. n/t

[guitar man]

10. Hmmmm

So all the stories about him quitting drinking and being "born again" are bogus. Just as I thought.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. God, I wish she went by any other name.

I want my name back!!!!!

:hi:

[allalone]

14. that's the problem