Laura the Lump Also a Stepford Wife-Abortion

[liveoaktx]

While we're considering what the W stands for, let's add WIMP.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5159912/

At the same meal, Stephens said, Laura Bush confided that she disagreed with the president's opposition to abortion.

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Who can admire such a clueless, suckup woman. Course there's always a possibility this remark was planted in order to appeal to those white married women for whom Stepford Wives is more than just a horror movie

[Wickerman]

1. Babs didn't agree with abortion either

and she was very effectively muzzled. Say what you want about them Bush* men - they sure can keep their women folk in line.

[MadinMD]

2. C'mon, this is silly

I don't agree with my signifigant other on a lot of issues either, that doesn't mean she or I am weak...just that we disagree.

[liveoaktx]

4. The weakness is not from having a difference of opinion, but keeping

it quiet when it could affect your pro-abortion husband's chances of winning an election in jeopardy. She's in line publicly behind her husband as he pushes his religious viewpoint on everyone instead of voicing her own view.

[dsc]

11. Yeah he kept it so quiet

that it is being discussed here. She is not elected to any office at all. Her opinions on issues of the day are wholly irrelevent.

[napi21]

3. I see no problem with Laura & Babs disagreeing.

I also think it's their responsibility to keep quiet about it, especially while their husbands are in office.

Laura is better at tactfully handling questions like this and others than Babs was. On one of the late shows last week Laura was asked about what she did in Las Vegas. Her response was "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Yes it was a copy from the LAs Vegas visitiors promo, but a good response.

She was then asked what things she disagrees with George about, and her response was almost the same...what happens in the WH stays in the WH.

I'm no fan of Laura, but I like her a lot better than George!

[liveoaktx]

5. Responsibility to keep quiet?

To me,that's the same type of rationale against others speaking up when one doesn't agree with the president. As in, if you speak up about ending the war, you're supporting the terrorist, so be quiet. I can certainly appreciate keeping things like one's sex life private (although that didn't work with Clinton), but if being pro-choice is a strongly held belief of Laura's, she ought to be able to speak up about it publicly, and not have it be considered responsible to shut up just because her husband is in office.

Her husband is working to take away her own freedom of choice (and that of her daughters). I hold that it is wimpy to keep this to herself and not a *responsibility* issue.

[dsc]

12. It is the difference between being elected

and not being elected. Our elected officials have all the business in the world giving their opinions on issues of the day, unelected people llke Laura, don't.

[liveoaktx]

13. I don't agree-any person in this country, including all of us

on this board, can give our opinions on the issues of the day. I'm not elected, neither (probably) are you. Beyond that, though, there are plenty of unelected people who are constantly giving their opinions about the issues of the day (including Laura in this latest campaign push)- you know all you have to do is turn on any cable news shows and see an endless source of pundits get trotted out to talk about events.

[Cronus Protagonist]

14. And when she consents to go on talk shows on behalf of the campaign?

Doesn't that change things a little?

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[demnan]

6. You know the first ladies

always get a lot of the blame and hate that should be hoisted only on their respective husbands. This is only human and will always be that way.

[liveoaktx]

7. Not hate, but she is putting herself out in the public eye and going

on the stump for her husband, including articles in magazines, talk shows, etc. She has no problem with speaking up for Bush's education policies as she sees it, in opinions that mirror her husband. Seems to me that if she is concerned about keeping her opinions in the White House, then she needs to stay in the shadows.

[napi21]

8. I agree, but she's married to the guy! Wants him to keep his job.

Your wife can call you an idiot, scream at you because she thinks you're wrong about anything.....at home, but you don't want her doing it at the office Christmas Party, now do you?

Even if you're the CEO of a large Corp. and your decisions affect a lot of people.

I'd love to hear her admit, in an interview, that she opposes W on a lot of things. All Dems would love it! That's just not goin gto happen. Laura is a little too "proper" than that....even if Georgie isn't.

[liveoaktx]

10. Difference between personally insulting her husband by calling

him an idiot or screaming at him, than stating in an objective way, her opinion. Heck, this is what Kerry is advocating in this election, to talk about the issues instead of personalities.

I understand that she will bury her own opinions in order to push her husband into his first elected position, but, again, this makes her a wimp rather than a person with opinions that can be expressed and appreciated, even when they differ from her husbands.

Side note that I never understood why she lied about * writing that lump poem. The poem wasn't all that good in the first place and insulted her.

[catzies]

9. Old ploy they're resurrecting. "W stands for women" but nobody's buying it

Totally transparent, shameless old GOP trick to fool women into voting for W. :puke:

[Malva Zebrina]

15. I think we should give Laura Bush every benefit of the doubt

there is no doubt that she is a closet Democrat. There is no doubt that she is on our side. There is no doubt that she is raking in millions of dollars for her husband's campaign because she has a disagreement with him. There is not a single doubt that Laura Bush is a real "strong" woman, who spoke out for women's rights when her husband , after only one day in office, cut off funding to women's health care worldwide by withdrawing funds from those clinics that ever would mention abortion.

Yup, she is on our side and uis being held captive, lest she blab it all out when George is not around.

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