New media frenzy coming up. (re: THK about Laura Bush)

[AlinPA]

Asked how she would be different from Mrs. Bush if Kerry won the Nov. 2 election, Heinz Kerry said: "Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job -- I mean, since she's been grown up."
In a statement put out later by the Kerry campaign, Heinz Kerry said she had forgotten Mrs. Bush's work as a teacher and librarian, "and there couldn't be a more important job than teaching our children."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&e=8&u=/nm/20041020/pl_nm/campaign_firstlady_dc

[tomfodw]

1. Uh-oh

It'll be "Marygate" II, only on steroids.

[grasswire]

2. yep

Tucker Carlson led with it.

[dogtag]

4. Tucker Carlson - bow tied defender of

Republican Women! How gallant, how dashing, how phony!

[Warren DeMontague]

7. He's a dick.

n/t

[librechik]

28. Dicker Carlson n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Is Pickles "grown up?"

How long did Pickles teach and why does she allowed her husband to leave any child behind by not funding his pet project, NCLB?

[Stephanie]

5. THK was confused - It's GEORGE who never had a real job

Please let that be her answer!

[displacedtexan]

6. Laura was the Peggy Hill of teachin' and liberryin'!

Laura was a substitute.

[Cocoa]

13. her Spanish is probably equally bad

:-)

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. LOL!

:evilgrin:

[qanda]

8. Does anyone know how long she taught or worked as a librarian

I saw her bio on the White House website, but it doesn't mention her length of time at either of these job.

[dogtag]

14. Back in the day -

that's what wimmin did while waiting for a husband to show up, if they didn't get their MRS while still in college.

[IChing]

29. librarian

3 years or less.

[Chiyo-chichi]

9. crapola.

Pat Robertson says that Bush said there'd be no casualties, but now all we'll hear is this till Monday.

Has GEORGE Bush ever had a real job? One that his daddy didn't get for him? One that he has actually PERFORMED? He was a failure (x4) as an oilman, a failure as a guardsman, and a miserable failure as president.

[gcomeau]

10. Jeezus... don't even MENTION this crap!

Why spend a single sentence worrying over what the GOP is going to try to saturate the airwaves with when we just got handed one of the all time gift-on-a-silver-platter quotes from Pat Robertson of all people!?!?!?!?

Screw whatever the GOP tries to distract us with, hammer the "there's not going to be any casualties" angle.

-Grant

[LisaM]

11. Was she a teacher or a librarian?

I keep hearing both. I thought she was a librarian at the time she married. She clearly wasn't committed enough to keep working, even though she claims all their early arguments were about money and things that George wouldn't let her buy.

[Lilli]

12. She apologized and praised her

but Im sure they'll try and spin it

[Shrek]

15. She's already shut down the possibility

"I had forgotten that Mrs. Bush had worked as a school teacher and librarian, and there couldn't be a more important job than teaching our children. As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are. I appreciate and honor Mrs. Bush's service to the country as first lady and am sincerely sorry I had not remembered her important work in the past."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/10/20/politics1527EDT0650.DTL

[JI7]

16. she apologized, So what does Bush say about Pat Robertson's comments

about what bush said ? bush must tell us if he said it or if pat robertson is lying .

[Cocoa]

17. brace yourselves

get ready for the onslaught of female (and Ann Coulter too) RW pundits to weigh in: Kathleen Parker, Mona Charen, Linda Chavez, Michelle Malkin, etc. etc.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

18. We're voting for Kerry, not his wife

and the comment wasn't so off base to turn anyone away from Kerry anyway.

[sandersadu]

22. THK

Theresa needs to shut up until Nov. 2nd. I'm sorry, but it's an unnecessary distraction.

[Catfight]

19. Bahaaahaaa....whatever....the media is pathetic, political hacks!

[ClintonTyree]

20. As long as she didn't say she was a Lesbian.................

it should be OK. Republicans seem to be very touchy about Lesbians lately.

[Lilli]

25. LMAO n/t

[shelley806]

21. Aol Poll on first "ladies"

Results at about 3:00 pm

Which do you prefer? A traditional or a non-traditional (whatever that means--an independent thinker, likely) first "lady"?

70% traditional
30% non-traditional

Do first ladies make a difference in the election results?

Some 45%
little 45%
none 8%

about 155,000 total votes had been cast.

[okieinpain]

23. yes sir, the poll numbers must be really bad in the repug camp

drudge is pulling out all of the stops. they are going after everything. I know some of you here don't like drudge, but you should check his page. man if kerry burps, it something bad against him.

hell thk apologies, and what does drudge print, "she forgot to mention mothers in apology". hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. they are losing it people, I hope kerry/edwards are ready for the hurricane of bs that well be headed their (our) way as we get closer to 11/2.

[Bridget Burke]

26. Laura's "career" chronology.....

She attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1968. After college, she worked as a teacher at Longfellow Elementary School. In 1969, she moved to Houston, Texas, where she taught at John F. Kennedy Elementary School until 1972. She received a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973.

After earning her master's, she worked at the Houston Public Library until moving back to Austin in 1974. She worked as a librarian at Dawson Elementary School until 1977, when she met George Walker Bush at the home of mutual friends. They married in November 1977 and made their home in Midland. In 1981, their twin daughters Barbara and Jenna (named after their grandmothers) were born.

www.biography.com/search/article.jsp?aid=9237049&search=bush

In short, she tried teaching briefly, then tried librarianship. Quit that when she married & never worked again.

[Rambis]

27. This is great

I had some older folks tell me "she needs to shut up!" "I will note for Kerry but I don't like that THK" Common sense would say don't give the pugs any ammo at all. It isn't like they have anything else to run on. I guess they did have "it's the trial lawyers fault that there aren't enough flu shots". Zip it!

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Did she call her a Lesbian, or something?

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[flpoljunkie]

31. Bully Hughes interrupted Woodruff to bring this up today...can you say...

desperate?

Anything to change the subject from Pat Robertson's damning "revelation" about Bush's incredibly naive and arrogant statement that there would "no casualities in Iraq!"

[robbedvoter]

32. She forgot her career ad a dimebag lady! Shame, Theresa!

What BS!