Cokie Roberts says Laura Bush is the most influential first lady ever

[Eric J in MN]

On "Hannity and Colmes" last night, Cokie Roberts, who is promoting her book about the first ladies, said that Laura Bush is the most influential first lady of all.

Both Hannity and Colmes seemed skeptical and gave Cokie Roberts a chance to explain her comment, but she didn't.

Does anyone believe that statement?

What policies could Laura Bush have influenced?

Laura Bush is from a Democratic family, but this is the most rightwing administration of the past 30+ years.

[benburch]

1. Laura must have been giving Cokie "head"

What else could explain a statement like that!

[The Zanti Regent]

36. Did Cokehead talk about Pickles driving skills?

or did little Cokehead cover up the fact that Laura Bush is a cold blooded murderer just like her husband?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Laura Bush is no Eleanor Roosevelt

what a crock of shit. :eyes:

[kodi]

20. you said that right

the extent to which eleanor roosevelt helped the poor and disenfranchised by pressuring and helping her husband is still being tallied.

imagine laura bush doing what eleanor roosevelt did to help have marion anderson sing in front of the lincoln memorial when she was denied the right to sing at the dar hall.

cokie roberts is full of crap.

[worldgonekrazy]

49. Or Hilary Clinton. Hell, she ain't even a Nancy Reagan

What a fucking joke. Laura's job is to be "seen, not heard."

[PA Democrat]

3. Laura the "librarian" can't even get her husband to fund

her "pet" issue- education! :crazy:

[suegeo]

5. In fact, he cut funding to libraries

And then in the poorly named "PATRIOT ACT" the junta allows federal agents to spy on what you are reading.

[LittleApple81]

4. I think Cokie is on coke (and not the drinking type). a nut case

that has used a USER (not this user anymore) SUPPORTED FORUM TO SPEW HER STUPIDITY AS REALITY.

[Gildor Inglorion]

6. Ol' Cokie must have got hold of some bad stash..

Laura Bush is "more influential" than Eleanor Roosevelt? Jackie Kennedy? Martha Washington? Hillary Rodham Clinton? Dolley Madison? My Lord, even Lady Bird Johnson had more of an impact.

[madrchsod]

7. wilson`s wife ran

the country when wilson became ill..i guess cokie forgot her. cokie is such a slut....

[stevedeshazer]

81. So did Crete Garfield after James Garfield was shot

Dolly Madison saved the White House from burning down.

Pickles?! She is not the most anything, except perhaps complacent.

[bkcc]

8. yeah, ok

Cokie is obviously sniffin' a little "cokie".

[koopie57]

9. most influential ... hummm

she certainly has influenced the fashion industry. And stock for polyester I hear is going through the roof.

[librechik]

10. That's a sad statement on first ladies. I guess she forgot about

Eleanor Roosevelt. Cokie is drinking the Koolaid again.

[NuttyFluffers]

11. that some mighty fine Kool-Aid.

care to share Cokie?

:dunce: :toast: :beer:

[kentuck]

12. Hale Boggs is rolling over in his grave....

because of his traitor daughter...

[Media_Lies_Daily]

24. If they knew where to find it.

[longtimedem25]

90. Absolutely... Hale Boggs just spun over a few times...

Cokie is absolutely off her rocker. Laura Bush the "most influential?" Over the previously mentioned first ladies? Please, anybody, name just one idea or one statement from her in the last three years... Can't do it? Times up!

[MSgt213]

13. Influential on what? What the hell has she ever influenced?

[opihimoimoi]

16. She influenced W to remain plain spoken and not to read

That poor Stepford Laura is in a world of her own.

[MSgt213]

19. Okay so this is like saying GWB is the most articulate President ever

[Jack from Charlotte]

77. She influenced her old boy friend to become........ dead.

[DAGDA56]

14. The only reasonable explaination...

...is that Laura's hubby is the most easily influenced pResident in US history. I mean, the guy's been under the influence alot.

[NNN0LHI]

15. Cokehead Roberts thinks she is the most influential news person too

What does that tell you?

Don

[Mikimouse]

17. Perhaps Cokie has a point...

After all, dear Laura has more than adequately demonstrated her leadership in defining what a first lady should NOT be.

[muchacho]

18. Cokie's a tool

too much time swilling gimlets at Georgetown swarays.

[Gin]

22. I personally live my life by what Colie Roberts thinks and says..the

woman is sooooooo influential and informed. (NOT)

[DemLikr]

45. I DO TOO! Cokie is soooooo the total, complete BOMB

Her sour visage on television always brings to my mind the cover illustration of a well-worn 1959 Betty Crocker cookbook.

[LittleApple81]

52. Wouldn't it help if we write to NPR saying we won't support it any more

as long as they have people like this as their "correspondents", journalists, comentators, or whatever?
I stopped with my cotribution last year but never bothered to tell them why.
And it is too bad. I like their music, car talk, What do you know...

[Crunchy Frog]

84. She's one of many reasons that

I absolutely will not contribute to NPR. The reasons are too many to enumerate here. I have sent them emails concerning some of the other reasons.

I like listening to many of their news programs which are reasonably good by U.S. standards, but they are still the corporate media with an agenda, and my contribution is not going to change who their real master is.

My mother and sister have stopped contributing to them recently as well.

[Onlooker]

21. That's ridiculous

I don't think there's been a less influential first lady in decades. She's a throwback to the past. Hillary (health care, women's rights, etc.), Barbara Bush (literacy), Nancy Reagan (who many said told Ronnie what to do), Betty Ford (breast cancer and pro ERA), Lady Bird Johnson (ended littering in the U.S.), Jackie Kennedy (the arts), and Rosalyn Carter (mental health) were all far more influential. Maybe Pat Nixon was less influential? But, what has Laura Bush done?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

23. Cokie's gone 'round the bend.

[tigereye]

32. boy it sure sounds like it

what is her problem? She used to be pretty cool.

[0007]

25. What policies could Laura Bush have influenced?

The Midland Police Department and the Motor Vehicle Department of Texas.

Want me to elaborate?

Laura didn't want to set a bad example for the children, so policies were changed just a little tiny bit, kind of like the drunk driving arrest that junior lied about, remember?

Cokie Roberts is a Barkley Hunt. (Australia slang)

[jimshoes]

46. Does that mean what I think it means?

Bwahahahaha!

[PCIntern]

26. WHAT!?!!!!!!!!!!??????????

All right, you wanna be superficial, forgetting people like Eleanor or Mrs. Wilson, or Hillary(!) or even Betty Ford, who made it OK to admit that you had an addiction problem...what about Jackie Kennedy? She influenced fashion, the performing arts, (who else would have had Pablo Casals in, in those days), hats, beauty care products, etc.

Wotta creepy stupid ignorant lousy comment on the state of affairs that Cokie made -

That is the most ridiculous thing she's said...except for everything else she's ever said.

[gonefishing]

27. It's true

If she wouldn't have stopped gomer from drinking a while back he wouldn't be leaving a trail of destruction and devastation that will last for the next 100 years.

Influential does not always mean a good thing.

[Eric J in MN]

48. I never thought about that

How much better the world would be today if Laura Bush hadn't gotten George W. to stop drinking.

[Blasphemer]

58. Eh... we'd just have Jeb instead...

Or some other neo-con tool. * is expendable.

[mtnester]

98. And why do you believe he stopped doing that?

nt

[Tripper11]

28. How is being....

a subservient, Stepford wife with bad clothes and a shit eating blank grin "most influential"?

I am in Bizarro world I swear!

[PCIntern]

29. We oughta "DU" NPR

and have "Mahrning BAahb" Edwards ask her about this and PRESS her flat ass even flatter...

OUTRAGEOUS!!

[Octafish]

30. That's because she's the only one who can read in the family.

Her husband, the unelected moron, is little more than a drunken coke-whore. The rest of the Bush household has spent their formative years drinking up a storm along the riverfront in San Antonio. Although probably drugged herself since "accidently" killing her high school steady, Laura understands the power of the printed word and in its suppression.

[peekaloo]

31. LOL.....but does she read at her "grade level"?

[Octafish]

39. Perhaps, but she's definitely benefited from "Social Promotion."

On her wedding night, do you think Babs told her:
"Keep your silence about what you see, hear and know
and you can enjoy a good life as an incubus of the BFEE.
Got me?"



Once you're in, you can never get out.



Once you're out, you can never get in.

[Toucano]

33. It's one of two things.

Either Cokie's off her medication or she's taking way too much of it.

[NuttyFluffers]

42. she's sharing Laura's stash of Xanax...

psst~ don't tell anyone!

:pals: :toast: :beer:

and washing it down with alcohol?! for shame.... :evilgrin:

[PCIntern]

34. I just e-mailed NPR

and asked Bob Edwards to ask her about this on Mon AM. I suggested that even if she's a buddy, that journalistic integrity should prevail. I mentioned that Hannity didn't buy it either. Nuff said.

[TahitiNut]

35. Cokie can't distinguish between 'influential' and 'enabling'.

Laura's an Inverted Narcissist and, in a textbook example of pathological codependency, enables the Nit-witted Narcissist with a constant supply. The Drunken Daughters are enablers-in-training and it remains to be seen whether they're able to grow emotionally beyond the pathologies of their 'family values.' The prognosis is poor.

[PCIntern]

37. Right from the DSM IV...

and Right On!

[GoldenOldie]

38. Cokie's brain damage from Chemo!!

Although....Cokie was way off base prior to her Chemo therapy. Laura Bush never had a passion for anything until Georgie became Guv of Texas. She is truly the "Stepford Wife". Her bio states that she was the sweet lil, uninterested, girl from Midland, Texas who was only interested in getting good grades and pajama parties with her friends. She has been given the title "librarian/educator", although she actually occupied these positions for a couple of years...not even time enough to become accomplished She was saved accomplishing any real deeds by marrying into the Bush family where her life would be programmed by Ma Bush....getting Georgie setup as Guv and giving poor Laura something to do..like...first lady of Texas, interested in books (Georgie doesn't read). Cokie Roberts is a product of Georgetown.....she has risen to fame through her own father and will do whatever it takes to remain on the A-List. Cokie Roberts used her father and his political accomplishments and the woman's movement to further her own personal fortunes, yet she shames these same by fawning over those that detract.

[Skittles]

40. there's really not much to say, is there Eric

I mean really.

[cosmicdot]

41. what has she done?

I declare, I'm just amazed how busy people like Cokie have the time to write books ... it's amazing ... how does she/do they do it? Do they buy ghost writers to do it for them? Do it on company time? Cut and paste using the Internet?

By the time one commutes to-and-from work ... buy the groceries ... do PTA ... shop ... do house chores ... do over-time work ... work weekends ... make a run to the nation's hardware cooperative, Home Depot ... most people don't have time to turn around ...

[Mountainman]

43. M Savage said that Hillary appointed women generals over male generals

and that's why all the good generals have quit the military.

Right wingers are so full of shit, Roberts included.

[goclark]

44. She reads to children

Pickles and her hubby like to read books to children.
She needs to tell him not to read with the book upside down.
She also needs to tell him that it is OK to tell little children that you will continue reading at another time,. Sept. 11,2001 would be a good example.

Both she and her husband should "READ" the riot act to their girls gone wild. She is certainly not a role model as a mother. She needs to READ the biographies of a first lady that was superb, Jacqui Kennedy. The brilliant Mrs. Kennedy knew the value of caring for your children, she made that her first priority.

Pickles is no Jacqueline Kennedy.

[Enraged_Ape]

47. Maybe by influential, she meant "under the influence"

Because I can get behind that.

[opihimoimoi]

50. I think Cookie is part of the Pub PsyOp Team. Just say it often

and people will believe.

We live in a bizzarre world where the masses are confused to the point Fantasy is Believable and accepted. Truth gets blurred with Deception, ala distortion.

Cookie is a Pub Whore.

[robbedvoter]

51. Cockie is right.

Without his lump in the bed, a giant pretzel might attack and chocke our fearless leader and then we would we be?
Think about it - the number of secrets Pickles know could change the world if revealed. That's influential!

[terrya]

53. Oh, PLEASE. Laura Bush is a warmed over Mamie Eisenhower.

That comment of Cokie Roberts' is one of the most laughably idiotic comments I've read in a long while. Who in their right mind would take such a suggestion seriously?

Terry

[gpandas]

54. always hated cokie, always will nt

[never_get_over_it]

55. This is beyond

the funniest thing I've ever heard....even her evil mother-in-law was more influential than Laura - where is she by the way I never hear a thing about Pickles

[Ms. Clio]

56. Oh, Cokie, Cokie, Cokie

I am simply awed by your whorish effusions.

[Cocoa]

57. Laura's a real power broker

I'm expecting Woodward's book to relate all the times she locked horns with Rummy and Wolfie over the war.

[West Coast Democrat]

59. Laura's the GOP's top fundraiser.....

in Republican-speak, this makes her "the most influential first lady ever."

[Blasphemer]

60. Oh please...

This is one of those BS statements people promoting something say to try to stir up "controversy". Like those lists naming the "Best TV show of all time", it's all about getting people talking. After all, who cares about yet another book about First ladies naming Dolly Madison and Eleanor Roosevelt as the most influential? Just a way to get people interested in her silly book. I'm sure she'll use the "Dubya stopped drinking for Laura" argument but only because that's all that can be said about Pickles. EVERY first lady has influenced their husband's rise to power but many others have actually contributed greatly to the country while their husband was POTUS. Laura hasn't done squat. It's very telling that Hillary was voted most admired woman in the last Gallup poll. Laura simply doesn't have the kind of influence or persona to make a lasting impact on the nation. Will anyone care about her 4 years after * is thrown out of office? Nope.

[Avalux]

61. She is the ideal for GOP wives

that's what Cokie meant - when she says influential, she means influential to all the republican women of America.

Devoid of opinion and heavily medicated.

[MikeG]

62. Can we have an embargo on saying nice things about pubbies

until after the frigging election? We don't need this shit now.
Someone lock Cokie Roberts in a closet until December.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

63. Cokie has went off the deep -end.

Id think, historically speaking, Mrs Woodrow Wilson was pretty influential. (although it was all behind scenes)

But, what about Dolly Madison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ladybird Johnson, and, of course, Hillary Clinton, who actually had an official role in policy formation.

[Pax Argent]

64. You know your off the bulls#$% meter when

Sean Hannity looks at you skeptically regarding a claim to Bush Administration greatness. I'm having trouble processing this. Has this ever been accomplished before?

[AspenRose]

66. That's what I was thinking.....

To totally ignore Eleanor Roosevelt is just plain SCREWED UP.

[Junkdrawer]

65. Any history buffs? I can't think of a LESS influential First Lady...

But I only go back to the 50s... :shrug:

[Blasphemer]

69. Here's an article...

Some scholars ranked the First ladies:

http://www.freep.com/news/politics/elaura31_20040331.htm

This article pumps up her supposed popularity as the anti-Hillary (while glossing over the fact that she comes in behind Hillary and Oprah as most admired) but the scholars opinion is far more accurate, though still way too generous. I don't see how she could be ranked above Nancy Reagan but that's probably just because of how many people disliked Nancy.

[no_hypocrisy]

67. Compared to whom? Lemonade Lucy Rutherford?

Laura Welch Bush can't hold a candle to:
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Dolly Madison
Edith Galt Wilson (who secretly ran this country while her husband,
Woodrow Wilson, was debilitated by a stroke)
Rosalyn Carter
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Abigail Adams

Puh-leese! Cokie better return to the library and do more research!

[ironflange]

68. Pickles is obviously into recycling

How else do you explain most of her outfits? They're clearly made from drapes and bedspreads that cheap motels throw out when they redecorate the rooms.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

70. The Naked Emperor has a wife? Hunh...golly.... n/t

[LibertyorDeath]

71. Could you say that again I'm not retarded yet.

It's hard to take anything serious that comes from an adult who voluntarily goes thru life with the name Cokie.

Ok so we've heard from cokie now what about Bert & Ernie.

If pickles intelligence is reflected in the least by what she chooses to wear then she is obviously dumber than her husband.

Hilary would eat her for lunch. IMO

[Wapsie B]

72. Sometimes I think

that Kookie is going so overboard to appease the right wingers in order to make sure that what happened to her daddy doesn't happen to her.

[burythehatchet]

73. I think Cokie is absolutely correct

Think about it. Barbara "my beautiful mind" Bush is the source of evil in this family at this point in time. For every generation of Bushes there must be a talisman of evil. I believe that when the beautiful mind kicks it Pickles will be IT.

She rules the chimp

[SemperEadem]

74. Laura Bush is the beigest first lady this country has ever seen

Beige meaning bland, uninteresting, unimportant...

Sorry, Cokie, but Eleanor Roosevelt has her beat by leaps and bounds, followed by Hilary Rodham Clinton and Betty Ford.

Bushette might be influencial in the circles of the mundane and mediocre--considering her ill choice in marriage and her failure to raise law abiding underage children who don't use fake I.D's to go out drinking and carousing, I can't say that she's got enough sense to make a dollar.

[lumpy]

75. Sure, Laura is as influential

as Bess Truman who wanted Harry at home in Independence. She was not entranced with the first lady job at all. Eleanor Roosevelt was probably the most influential first lady, Roslynn Carter was outstanding and gotta' hand it to Nancy Reagan for keeping Ronnie propped up.

[mitchum]

76. Apparently Cokie is even more stupid than Pickles

[devinsgram]

78. Is she talking about this *'s wife

or another Laura Bush.

[Trajan]

79. Laura WHO ? ...

[jackkendem]

80. She's a worthless piece of rotten arm candy

All she does is try to look demure (which she fails at -- she's DEFINITELY no Jackie!), and CLEARLY doesn't have the brains of a FLEA!

[CabalBuster]

82. who believes that media whore!!! n/t

[Junkdrawer]

83. A Prozac soaked Stepford wife who is far less informed than...

my pet Shitzu. An embarrassment to this nation and, indeed, womankind world wide.

And don't get me started on Laura Bush...

[mmonk]

85. well I hear she's a great gardener

Maybe alot of people in the US love to be in the garden and that's why she's so influential.:shrug:

[No2W2004]

86. No Way!

Please, I thought that she said "Laura Bush is the most residential first lady." You'd have to be totally messed up on Liquid Plummer to say "Mrs. sorry I ran that stop sign and killed your kid" was more influential than anyone else...

[latebloomer]

87. This is why I love DU!!

Laughed my ass off reading this thread. You guys are hysterical, and right on the money!!

[dsc]

88. wow

She is a librarian whose husband doesn't read. That really says it all.

[nolabels]

91. Brutal concise analysis

:D

[w4rma]

89. Is Cokie a fangirl? (nt)

[Barbara Ann]

92. You must be kidding

She must be the most boring First Lady ever???

Laura Bush is insignificant as a First Lady.

???

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

93. How in the world has she been influential at ALL?

Much less the most influential first lady?

That's a slap in the face to a LOT of first ladies, in my opinion.

This little love fest makes me so sick.....why don't they just have a little orgy and get it overwith? You know, let Judy Woodruff and Cokie and Paula Zahn get it on with both Chucklenuts and Pickles, let all the guys who adore him go ahead and give him a BJ on camera and get it overwith. That way they all get it out of their system.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

94. Thinking about this further

I will say this: I think she has been the QUIETEST, most deer in the headlights first lady.

And I appreciate her relative silence.

[Piperay]

95. What the hell, even comparing

Stepford Wife to other repug first ladies she is the worst of the worst, I can't even think of a repug first lady that wouldn't rate above her. :wtf:

[pinniped]

96. Hillary Clinton immediately comes to mind...

where the hell has Kooky roberts been for a good part of the last decade?

[fujiyama]

97. Cokie

is representative of everything wrong with American "journalism" today. Absolute nonsense that passes for "political commentary" nowadays.

Laura Bush is absolutely, and completely IRRELEVANT. I won't even waste time talking about her.

[captain_change]

100. Very unqualified

I cannot think of a pundit that has less real credentials than the Cokester. She got her first job though political connections and has been riding the gravy train ever since. Her father and mother must be rolling in their grave. I have firmly believe that faux catholics like Cokie and Russert (not to mention some idiot bishops) will get theirs in the next life

[FlyByNight]

99. More vapid nonsense

Does she say anything worth listening to anymore? Doubtless, she's angling for some kind of interview and/or special favor. She enjoys the elitist Washington trappings and in order to maintain her status she feels she has to say stupid, unsupported things.

:eyes:

[jmowreader]

101. The Bush boy wouldn't even let her be First Lady for eight months!

The photo op at the elementary school on 9/11? A classic First Lady job. Who was there? Dipshit.

[liveoaktx]

102. I dunno-Laura the *Lump* has passed into our household's everyday speech!

So she sure has influenced our view of the presidency in a lasting way by mentioning this poem that it turns out Bushie-The-Illiterate didn't even write! http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031003-22.html

Lumpie had to find *something* to brag on about her hub, even if she had to lie to do it.