Anyone else like Laura Bush?

There is a lot of invective directed at her and that is perfectly fine because of the nature of DU, but I for one actually have positive feelings towards her. She seems to be a nice woman and classy and doesn't seem too interested in the politics game like other first ladies such as Barbara Bush or Hillary Clinton.

I think she is too good for George Bush.

Mrs. Shrub makes my skin crawl...

...but that's not saying much.

;)

You're sure to meet many more like her.

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during segregation. They were polite and prim and sexually repressed and they knew how to keep black people in their place with politeness.

All in all, pretty horrible.

and other shows lately trying to help get her repulsive, criminal husband reinstalled in the White House.

Im fine with her, Barbara Bush as well, i think the women put up with a lot of stuff, just think of the pain she must go through. She was a teacher thats saying something, i just wish she would be more active, on the other hand maybe not, because she is the best thing the repugs got.

she put the itch in bitch. People just aren't aware of all the people she has insulted, treated badly and abused (generally verbally). As for laura - she is cut from the same cloth as any woman who allows her husband to abuse his kids - passive aggressive denial won't cut her any special privileges in case these crooks are ever prosecuted.

"But why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's going to happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Oh, I mean, it's, not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

The woman has no soul.

The best description of her I ever heard: "Gila monster in pearls."
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The West Wing" until long after she left office as 1st lady.

may i use it?

FLY.eom. :D

She taught for one school year way back before she got married. As soon as she got engaged to a guy with bucks, she quit working. She has had a very lazy life - and don't forget that she could have easily left him - great grounds during those decades of his alcohol and drug abuse - many women married to drunks/addicts got divorced and went back to work to raise their children free of the crappy homelife of sharing a home with a drunk/addict. You can see there is no normal parent/child relationship with their daughters. There are weekly pictures of the first couple off for a weekend with their dogs. I have never seen the kind of closeness and warmth in any family picture of the four of them that you regularly saw between the Clintons and their daughter, or LBJ and his family.
Laura Bush has spent her life as an enabler for the private and public destruction wrought by her husband on his children, not to mention the children of this nation.

And don't get me started on the No Child Left Behind act. In our state, many of the school districts are laying off teachers while struggling to comply with the unfunded federal mandates of this
bogus act. That alone shows you how much Laura Bush cares about education and teaching!

it drives me crazy when the ignorant praise her for that.
She's as much a teacher as her husband is a Vietnam vet.
A pox on both of them.

come ON! that woman is a beee-yatch, don't even try to rationalize her! :thumbsdown:

her daughter in law is a botoxed stepford wife...have you ever seen a photo of her frowning?

I don't care one bit for Laura Stepford.
Her blind obedience to one of the most evil men this nation has ever seen in it's history makes her an enabler in my book.

Laura Bush is kind of the poster girl for submissive wives.

The invective is payback for the 8 years of Hillary hating.

about her old boyfriend? Anyone else would be serving time. Why not her? Those twins have a fine set of parents and awesome family, don't they!-not!

I am unaware of hx of pickles former flames...

Laura Bush: 1963, ran stop sign & killed boyfriend
Source: AP

By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press Writer

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - At 17, Laura Bush ran a stop sign and crashed into another car, killing her boyfriend who was driving it, according to an accident report released to The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Mrs. Bush is the wife of Republican presidential nominee-to-be George W. Bush (news - web sites), the Texas governor.

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According to the two-page accident report released Wednesday by the city of Midland, Laura Welch was driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, 1963, when she drove into an intersection and struck a Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas.

Although previous news accounts have reported Douglas was thrown from the car and broke his neck, those details were not in the report.

The speed of Laura Bush's car was illegible on the report. The speed limit for the road was 55.

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The police report indicates no charges were filed. That section of the report was left blank.

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considering her future.

There is absolutely no substance to this woman..I think this is the only type of woman chimpy could ever get. He would be way too intimidated by a strong independent woman like hilary.

I will not give Laura any respect until the Repugs give Hillary respect. Call me stubborn but that's how they've made me feel after all they've said about Hillary over the years. I can't help but take it personally.

I still can't relate to her very well because she appears to me to be too submissive up front but looks like she could be a real polite but snobby b*tch if she wanted to be.

My neighbor's daughter went to D.C. awhile back and was able to see Laura up close and took a personal photo of her. My neighbor was showing to everyone she could and everyone was ooing and awwing about how "attractive" she was. I don't think she's that attractive if you ask me. I don't like those catty slitty eyes and I hate her hair. Needless to say I ignored the whole thing and had no comment.

She also reminds me of those females who pick the most popular guy as a boyfriend no matter how rotten he is and then they stick with him no matter how badly he treats her. I think people like that are absolutely dumb and never truly happy in life. That's how I picture her....riding on her hubby's coat tails.

...as the kind and mild-mannered librarian is promoted for the purpose of making her husband seem like a better person than he really is.

In any case, whatever else she may be, she's the very worst kind of sellout for remaining with him.

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Please don't compare Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. They're comparable only in the sense they have been married to the guy in the White House.

Laura is probably more in the Pat Nixon role. Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan were similar (Poisonous Harpies, although Nancy is now coming around). Hillary really is more in the Eleanor Roosevelt/Roslynn Carter mold, but with more personal ambition.

They all know they have to perform, OR ELSE. Very, very sad.

What kind of person would be married to the president and NOT be interested in politics?

And Laura Bush, in case you missed it, has been campaigning a lot for her husband lately. She is featured in a series of internet ads promoting the "No Child Left Behind" education fiasco, which is nothing but political.

the person who started this thread seems of the opinion that a wife with political opinions/aspirations would be less appropriate to the position of first lady - rather she should aspire to be the perfect "preachers wife".

I'm just saying to me it seems she is not into politics like some of the others. Kind of like she has been dragged into it because of her husband.

He was governor of Texas before being appointed president. He's doing everything he possibly can to be reelected. I don't hear her complaining. I don't see her separating from him.

I'm puzzled about your point. I'm not trying to flame, just asking a question.

But a person's spouse says everything about them. Laura is married to someone no one here could even tolerate being in a room with. She sleeps with the moran!

As far as being too good for george bush, anyone is too good for george bush.


Cher

just like her husband is....

I'm sure there's an address for the pickles fan club but you won't find it here.

doesn't seem too interested in the politics

LOL that's a good one.

i know people call her that. but i don't know where it came from and whether it is supposed to mean something. can anyone explain it ?

she is no-one like her husband really is

Everything about her makes me cringe.

Stepford indeed. That nailed it.

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simper: (v) to smile in a silly affected way; to say with a simper; (n) a silly or affected smile.

She appears to have no influence on his policies. Thus she has no influence on my life. Thus she is none of my business.

Not that I blame her--I would be tempted to hide from the reality of being married to him by using qualudes or some other heavy duty mind-altering drug, too. But I find that wooden smile and those glassy eyes creepy

SAD.....


(in a truly pathetic kind of way....)

But, I don't think she earns a total free ride, though I don't join in on the "fashion" critiques and other criticisms that are fairly inconsequential. She IS active on the campaign trail and belies her own beliefs (pro-choice, for example) in order to help her husband and his party turn us back to the era of coat hanger solutions. She has definitely been the recipient of very special treatment (along with the twins), yet has no problem when her husband invokes punitive measures that are devastating to children of poorer families (e.g., harsh drug sentences, loss of financial aid for any prior drug conviction, decimation of early childhood education, libraries, etc., etc).

It is hard to argue that she is not at least partially culpable for the actions of her husband and his party, since she gives political coverage in so many areas. Whether or not she is fair game is arguable, I suppose. But I don't think she should be totally absent of ANY criticism.

a whole barrel of monkeys.

if nothing else, her choice in spouses is spectacularly bad.

and a moron.

she and all of her in-laws can go to hell

her. She seems more like the 1950's wife rather than a contempporary role model (ala HRC) for young women.

I'm sure Eva Braun was a real nice German girl, too.

No

She tries to provide a "compassion" boost for the moronic little dictator and grave digger.

their wives are just other people who I'll make no judgement on until they are in the political spectrum like their counterparts.

women.

You remember him. He was her first fiance and a football star at her high school.

Sharing Dubya with Condi.