Laura Bush

[Seamus]

Does anyone else think Laura Bush is really Asian? Here's a disturbing thought: she looks exactly like my mom, only my mom has darker hair. To make things worse, a lot of my friends think she is/was hot.

In order from best to worst, the first ladies in my lifetime are

HRC
LB
BB
NR

I love Hillary. I was born during the last part of the Carter administration but have no idea who Carter's wife was or what she did. And every time I think of Nancy Reagan I have this image of her with a rubber glove doing a cavity search of this black teenager while smiling into the camera and saying "just say no." And Barbara Bush is just plain gross.

And has anyone here ever met Chelsea, Jenna or Laura Jr?

[sageb1]

check out this whopper:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031003-22.html

Dear Laura,

Roses are red, violets are blue, oh my lump in the bed, how I've missed you.

Roses are redder, bluer am I, seeing you kissed by that charming French guy.

The dogs and the cat they miss you too, Barney's still mad you dropped him, he ate your shoe.

The distance my dear has been such a barrier, next time you want an adventure, just land on a carrier.

I'm happy to be the inspiration behind this poem. Someone or something always inspires an artist and this is true for tonight's distinguished speakers.

***Yup, and Laura wrote that poem to herself!

Q: Now, who could have written that poem, huh? I mean, what ...

A: Well, of course, he didn't really write the poem. But a lot of people really believed that he did. That evening at the dinner, what some woman from across the table said: "You just don't know how great it is to have a husband who would write a poem for you."

—Laura Bush on NBC's Meet the Press, Dec. 28, 2003 (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3823359/).


http://slate.msn.com/id/2093466/

Laura's like retro Mrs. Cleaver, using any method to bring liberal Christian ideals to everything from social welfare to fibbing to make her husband look good.

Yet I think she's hyping Dubya as moronic, because that's cute and it sells copy.

Me, I feel Dubya's no dummy when it comes to profit.

Love ya Laura!

[Shogun Empress]

Does anyone else think Laura Bush is really Asian? Here's a disturbing thought: she looks exactly like my mom, only my mom has darker hair. To make things worse, a lot of my friends think she is/was hot.

In order from best to worst, the first ladies in my lifetime are

HRC
LB
BB
NR

I love Hillary. I was born during the last part of the Carter administration but have no idea who Carter's wife was or what she did. And every time I think of Nancy Reagan I have this image of her with a rubber glove doing a cavity search of this black teenager while smiling into the camera and saying "just say no." And Barbara Bush is just plain gross.

And has anyone here ever met Chelsea, Jenna or Laura Jr?Tell me. How in the world can you leave out Jackie Onassis Kennedy? What is wrong with you? She was the definitive authority on class and loyalty.

[rice cracker]

He was talking about first ladies in his lifetime. He wasn't born when JFK was in office.

[Faithless]

In case you missed it, Mrs. Bush made her husband, you know -- the so-called president, look like a dolt.

If I were president, don't know if I'd liked to be joked about jacking-off horses. :frown:

Slap Hubby In Public (http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/ellsworth/2005/05/slap-hubby-in-public.html)

Sunday, May 08, 2005

I have always been a fan of our first lady. Laura Bush is intelligent, classy and ladylike. I may revise that opinion on the basis of her speech at the April 30, White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. I realize that everything was scripted and timed by speechwriters. However, it seems that the first lady must have some veto power over the content. Some of her remarks seemed designed to be "hip" and "edgy" in order to pander to the lowest common denominator among the audience. The result was that portions of the speech were tacky and tasteless.

The thing that bothered me most was that she made some very cutting remarks about her husband. When I heard clips of the speech and read the transcript, I felt like I was witnessing a marital spat. I understand the concept of a roast where the guest of honor is lightheartedly teased. Some of the first lady’s jokes were entertaining. "I said to him the other day, George, if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you’re going to have to stay up later" was amusing. I thought "Andover and Yale don’t have a real strong ranching program" was hilarious. "George’s answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chainsaw" was also funny. Those were perfectly acceptable little jibes, but some of the other remarks crossed the line.

I didn’t like the way she began the speech by interrupting President Bush with, "Not that old joke – not again." She followed that by saying she had been quietly sitting through these dinners for years followed by "Well, I’ve got a few things I want to say for a change." Those comments were meant to be humorous, but they fell flat because they portrayed the President a bad light by implying he doesn’t let her talk. The comments were unsuited to Mrs. Bush’s position as first lady although they probably pleased the "female empowerment" contingent in the audience.

One of her jokes was downright mean: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife. I mean, if those women on that show think they’re desperate, they ought to be with George." Ouch! Talk about a cheap shot. It reminded me of that old, tired "Take my wife, PLEASE" line, not to mention that I don’t want to think about what does or doesn’t happen in the first couples’ bedroom. The joke about President Bush trying to milk a male horse with its unsavory sexual implications was truly tasteless, (I’m sure the Bush haters loved it). Few Bush supporters wish to imagine the president grabbing equine genitalia in a beastiality situation. We had our fill of unseemly presidential images when Clinton was in office.

Publicly upstaging or mocking one’s spouse is tacky. Fortunately, it usually backfires and generates sympathy for the attacked spouse. A husband or wife will make his or her spouse look bad in public for several reasons including 1) to express hostility without risking a confrontation because the other won’t want to make a scene. 2) To make himself or herself look better by deflecting others’ attention. 3) To pander to others present in order to be "one of the guys" or "one of the gals". As for the First Lady’s remarks, I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she was pandering to liberals in the audience rather than venting hostility or propping up her own ego. The problem with pandering to some is that it can be distasteful to others. People are often judged by how they treat others.

Mrs. Bush ended her speech in her usual gracious manner by describing her husband and family in glowing terms. That was the first lady who I am used to. A woman who seemed to be a completely different person than the woman who began her speech with "Not that old joke – not again." It sounds like she could use a new speechwriter.

Liberals see conservatives as humorless because some jokes offend them although liberals seem just as humorless when exposed to "politically incorrect" jokes. Locker room humor, put downs and potty humor are more juvenile than funny. Why do so many people only find humor in material meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator? There are types of humor other than burlesque. If political speeches continue to follow this track, what can the White House Correspondent’s Association look forward to at next year’s dinner – the Bush’s shoving cream pies into each other’s faces?

Copyright Eva Ellsworth, 05/08/05, all rights reserved

[thaite]

Oh, dear Buddha, no!


I saw Margaret Cho perform last weekend. She spend a good five minutes on Laura Bush. I can't repeat what she said, because I'm at work.

[Faithless]

So, Laura is a closet smoker. But why lie about it?

Laura Bush's Puff Piece (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15655-2005Feb10.html)
Laura Bush used to be a smoker, and last week, when she sat down with editors from Time Inc.-owned mags -- including People -- to discuss women's health issues (a pet cause of hers), she remembered those days: "Yes, I smoked. I smoked. A lot of my friends smoked. George smoked."

She said she quit when she was trying to get pregnant, People reports, but would cheat a little here and there after the twins were born, then eventually quit cold turkey. How? "Well, I think because my husband got elected" governor, she recalled.

Mrs. Bush also said that she knows who the smokers are in the White House press corps: "Because I can see out of my window," she said with a laugh. "Do you want me to tell the ones?"

'Ex-smokers' keep at it on the sly (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050731/LIVING/507310377/1007/LIVING)

July 31, 2005
...
Secret smoking isn't just sitcom fodder, either. No less a public figure than Laura Bush was pegged as a secret smoker (her press secretary would neither confirm nor deny press reports) as recently as last year, long after she supposedly gave up cigarettes in the early 1990s. According to an October 2002 Washington Post article, the first lady has been known to reach for a cigarette in times of stress, provided no photographers are there to catch her in the act.

The White House Weekly published a February 2004 article suggesting Bush was still struggling with the habit. According to the report, a White House waiter admitted scrambling to find the first lady a cigarette during a fundraiser at the presidential residence.
Poor thing.

[returntosender]

Mrs. Bush is very scary in a Stepford Wife-ish kind of way.

[moser]

If she's happy with the way she is, then I have no beef. Though I do like a more outspoken first lady better.

[Faithless]

Dishing more dirt on the claim that LB sneaks sigs. Plus other gossip.

According to Newsmax --

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/4/125620.shtml

The biography of Laura Bush by Ronald Kessler called Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady," jumped an incredible 1,800 rankings on Amazon.com, zooming to #29 on the online retailer's list.

The jump is even more phenemomenal considering the book was just released Tuesday.

Book: First Lady sneaks smokes (http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_3676474)

By MEREDITH B. MAZZOTTA | For the Daily Record/Sunday News

Apr 5, 2006 — First Lady Laura Bush exudes poise, politeness and the occasional stream of cigarette smoke.

Although she officially quit the habit ten years ago, Bush still sneaks a smoke now and again from friends and White House aides, according to a new biography on her life in bookstores Tuesday: "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady" by Ronald Kessler.

But Jack Hayes, a member of the board the York chapter of the American Cancer Society, said Bush's actions are "dumb."

"There are 4,000 chemicals in one cigarette and when she smokes that cigarette she harms not only herself but everyone around her that isn't smoking," he said.

Hayes, 71, smoked a pack a day for 36 years, then stopped "cold turkey" after learning he had cancer of the larynx. Too scared to ever pick up another cigarette, Hayes found comfort in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

In 1994, Hayes' larynx was removed and he now breathes and speaks through a small hole in his throat.

Bush "is making a bad example to the teenagers," Hayes said. "They think if the First Lady is smoking, I can too and it must be very fashionable. That's what we've got to stop."

Kessler's book describes how the first lady's opinions have "brought budget changes to a range offederal agencies," as well as more personal details such as her smoking lapses and her difficulty in conceiving children, according to the book's publisher, Random House.

A Dover resident, Al Meskunas, has tried to quit smoking and said the first lady's occasional puffs humanize her.

"I think every reformed smoker would like to have one now and then it's just that you don't want the floodgates to open and start smoking all over again," Meskunas said. "I admire anybody who quits, because it's very difficult, very difficult."

Nearly 23 percent of Pennsylvania adults smoke cigarettes. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, accounting for approximately one in five deaths, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

Carl Kassar has run a treatment program for smokers at Hanover Hospital for the past two and a half years. A reformed smoker, Kassar does not advocate taking occasional drags to his patients.

"I tell them either you smoke or you don't. Leaving that door open still means that you are a smoker, you just don't do it as often."

Kassar said smoking now and then is risky and can lead to a relapse.

"Bush's smoking, despite her high profile, only underscores the insidious nature of nicotine," Kassar said.

Vickie Zeiler, a coordinator of the tobacco education program at York Hospital, agrees. "It's one of those things that she's fortunate that she's been able to keep it to just a few. But for most people, they cannot."

The FDA Web site states that a smoker who makes a serious attempt to stop has a less than 5 percent chance of being tobacco-free a year later. And almost half the smokers who undergo surgery for lung cancer resume smoking.

[anjala]

she is definitely german at least by her looks