Laura Bush: We know who you are

[linazelle]

Laura Bush has spent most of her husband's siege walking around in what appears to be a halcyon daze. Always smiling...the Mother Theresa of...er...um (I'm searching for a word other than first lady because that would imply that her husband is actually the president)...

Word: Women who have inhabited the White House.

Anyways...her scowling face and slits-for-eyes expression at both the King funeral and at the Press Dinner reveal the true ugliness that no face lifts or botox can remove. She is as evil and corrupt in the current ripoff of Americans as her husband and the rest of his gang of thieves. She is just like the lying, snarling Condoleeza Rice and hateful Ann Coulter. Scowling must be a prerequisite for the feminazis.

Laura we hardly knew ye. Too bad we do now.

[YDogg]

1. I don't know whether she's evil or just comfortable.

I'm leaning toward comfortable.

[linazelle]

4. "Comfortable"? Scowling is comfortable?

:shrug:

[skylarmae]

6. I'm with you! She's just as guilty as he is.

how can she tolerate the lies unless she is in on it???

[linazelle]

8. My point exactly. She seemed "nice" but she took off the mask.

Hillary never responded that way.

[YDogg]

11. I agree with you, I just don't see her as being as capable ...

... of pure evil as her MIL. Her MIL is vile and hateful, and I don't remember hearing laura bush spew that sort of hatred. Not that I'm a fan of laura bush; I'm not, but I think she just kind of glides through her happy, carefree life comfortable with who she is and who she is married to. She must have seen some damned ugly things, but she's part of the bush package.

[linazelle]

16. I know what you are saying, but the fact that she HAS seen those

things, and still scowls when people don't fawn over her and her husband is why I have a problem with her.

[YDogg]

24. She does seem to admire herself a bit much for my tastes.

I wonder what she and her husband will be doing in five - ten years. Realistically, not that I expect them to be doing five - ten in five - ten years.

I just cannot imagine them doing anything much for anyone other than themselves. What did Ford do after he left office? I cannot recall hearing about anything he did to visibly serve the country. Honestly, he may have, and I may have just missed it. Reagan was pretty much fried by the time he left office to do anything useful. The elder bush has at least done some fund raising for charitable groups, but has his wife done anything for anyone?? I doubt it.

Of course, I admire what Pres and Mrs Carter have done with Habitat for Humanity, and what he has done around the globe as an election observer.

And Bill Clinton has been involved in countless initiatives to benefit others, while Hillary Clinton has moved to a new level of service since the Clintons left the White House.

But seriously, what the hell will these bushes have to offer? Who would believe that they would do anything for the greater good, and not their own self-serving interests?

[kestrel91316]

45. Republicans don't believe in doing "good works" except when it serves

their political purposes, and then they are just faking it. They are incapable of caring about anyone less fortunate than themselves.

[goclark]

27. Hillary is intelligent

and alert.

Laura is an airhead that sold nickle bags in college.


She used many of those bags and now it's bags and botox.

[KAT119]

22. Was she ever charged w/ murder in auto accident in her past?

Either her passenger or the driver of the car she hit when she ran a red light was killed.

Forgotten bloody details....

[emcguffie]

32. Her boyfriend.... NT

[YDogg]

7. I think she's generally comfortable with her life ...

... and those around her. I think scowling episodes are a bump in the road for her delusional state. Overall, I think she thinks she's got a great life, and is married to a "heck of a guy."

[linazelle]

10. I'd have said that earlier--during the halcyon daze...

But her responses of late show her to be more than just happy to be living amongst the riches siphoned from taxpayers. She wants more than comfort--she expects people to submit like her husband. Somebody ought to tell her she can't have her cake and eat it too.

[babylonsister]

2. It always boggles my mind when the pundits claim she's

so popular. I don't get it, and as the years go by, she gets creepier and creepier to me.

[valerief]

3. Like mother-in-law, like daughter-in-law. n/t

[leftchick]

5. for sure!

slimy little stepford wife with a sword i her hand to protect the fuckhead.



She is almost as bad as Babs. The difference is she has not spawned as many evil seeds. :puke:

[acmejack]

12. She ran over her ex boyfriend at intersection in the middle of no where

who knows?

[emcguffie]

33. Are you sure it was ex-boyfriend?

I'm not at all certain, but it seems to me everything I read said "boyfriend".

[leftchick]

35. I thought it was her friend's boyfriend

:shrug:

[kestrel91316]

46. I heard he had JUST broken up with her, and then she amazingly

forgot about the existence of a stop sign she had stopped at thousands of times. And hit and killed him. I'm sure she was VERY SAD.

[DoYouEverWonder]

36. It wasn't exactly the middle of nowhere

I was down the block from her 'boyfriends' house and she waited for his car before she blew the stop sign.

[Booster]

9. Most people I know STILL think Barbara is a really sweet little

old lady. I had her pegged during Poppy's first term. Evil, googly-eyed old hag in my opinion.

[Cleita]

17. My God are they deaf? Haven't they heard what comes

out of her mouth?

[Booster]

18. Yeah, but they just laugh and say "she's old". She IS old, but

she's evil too.

[Cleita]

13. She reminds me of Carmela Soprano, who play acts at

being the suburban wife and mother, and good Christian, all the while she knows that her husband is a murdering thief, whose actions, gets her nice things and a comfortable lifestyle, although she knows what he does and that he has other girlfriends along with a sleezy undergroung social life.

[linazelle]

19. I sort of get the Carmela comparison, but Carmela is a tough chick

You know who she is. Laura tried to act sweet and demure--to be submissive the way insecure men like her husband like their wives to be. But she's not who she seems to be.

[Cleita]

23. Laura is tough too underneath all that Texas sugar coating.

Remember she killed her boyfriend accidentally when she was a teenager, but seems to have no regrets about it. That's one cold calculating woman in my opinion.

[Cha]

14. I always knew that..sour

pickles' daze didn't fool me. That 1000 yard stare is creepy.

[0007]

15. The word insipid describes Laura Bush better than any thing

I can think of.

[Alamom]

20. Yep.....Two faces of that woman in the W*H

Always smiling.............




scowling face and slits-for-eyes expression

[B Calm]

21. Snopes covers the story of her running the stop sign and killing

her ex boyfriend.. It appears to be TRUE!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp

[YDogg]

26. Yes, it's old news.

Very, very sad.

[treestar]

44. No legal follow up appears to have been taken? Would that

normally have happened? Maybe her family was rich and well connected.

Even if it was an accident, it could have been vehicular manslaughter.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

25. Behind those demure smiles lies a repugnican bitch nt

[emcguffie]

34. What is so astonishing to me is --

-- that she came from a big Democratic family. Unless I have it all wrong. That would certainly make it easier to swallow.

[SPKrazy]

28. Damned Stoner Occupant Of The White House Was In My Town Today

to honor a Catholic school's 6th graders who have been doing a project to help seniors sign up for Medicare D.

When the local reporter asked her about the problems people have had with the Medicare D program, she just said "it's a new program" and it's good.

And she praised the young people because they can "help the old people use the internet"

What a loser she is.

Her eyes look like she had to be on something

[originalpckelly]

29. Well I think her true predecessor was Eva Braun,

and she was supposed to be nice as well. Bushitler uses her as a shield because she hasn't been directly soiled by the decisions of her husband.

[Yollam]

30. She's not evil, she's a carbon copy of my mom.

I feel like I know Laura, because she is exactly like my mom. They both went through the same schools for white, affluent to middle-class girls in Texas, both embody the Junior League ideal of "southern femininity", both are EXTREMELY superficial social climbers who work very hard at staying blissfully ignorant to the state of the world or why people like Laura's husband are largely responsible for that misery.

They grew up in the fifties, and they still think it's reasonable for a lady to live in a fantasy world where everyone is nice and polite and everything is safe, clean, and white, and one never associates with anyone outside their own class. She and my mom both married money (in my mom's case she had to leave my dad to do it) because you can't have social standing without money, and social standing is EVERYTHING to these women.

If you want to understand Laura Bush, go to a Junior League meeting anywhere in the south. JL is FULL of women just like this - it's like they're living in a freaking time warp.

But it really isn't evil. They are the product of a generation when affluent girls were taught that proper young ladies didn't concern themselves with politics and the like. They were to make a beautiful home and make their important husbands look good. I'm not trying to justify that, but that is the culture she is a product of, and like my mom, she doesn't know how to be anything else. She sure doesn't know how to be REAL.

Seriously, Laura and my mother have the exact same accent, mannerisms, frozen-faced smile and everything. It's uncanny.

[madrchsod]

37. ah those were the days weren`t they?

but a problem upset her vision of the "the knight in shining armor". she married a self centered drug and booze addled mental midget who failed at everything he did. his failures college,jobs,marriage,and raising his children and his years of abuse is written in her eyes. there is nothing left in her to give. i feel somehow sad for women like this,they never understood until to late that there was no "happily ever after".

i grew up with women just like laura and they withered then died inside years before their time

[Yollam]

38. Yes, I feel sorry for my mom as well.

I know that she cares for her kids, but it's very hard for her to let her facade down, even enough to just express some affection in an open, genuine way. She had a nervous breakdown when we were little kids - she was hospitalized and we didn't see here for weeks. She wasn't really cut out to be a mom, but had kids because that what just what you were supposed to do. She still walks around with the frozen grin, never letting up. I don't think she's happy, but I don't think she even knows what happy is. At least her right-wing Limbaugh-loving husband dotes on her, so I'm thankful for that. The rest of us can only take her in small doses.


I do feel sad for her. It must be grueling keeping up that facade ALL THE TIME.

[Cha]

41. How do you know

"she's not evil"?

[Yollam]

43. Okay, I 'think', I don't know.

But I'm INTIMATELY familiar with the personality type. My mom would behave exactly the same in the same situations. My mom has met with Laura and George on several occasions and has photos of them together on her shelf. She says Laura is "lovely" and "gracious". Not surprising you think so, SINCE SHE'S YOUR CLONE, Mom.

[splat@14]

31. I don't think she's a bad person, but I do think she has been so insulated

from reality she has no concept of the consequeces of her husbands and cronies actions. She thinks things are wonderful and can't understand why so many are unhappy. Bet she hasn't bought a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk, gassed up a car, or waited in line for anything in 15 years.

[stanwyck]

40. Totally agree, Splat.

She, like her husband, is clueless. She doesn't ever have to worry about money. That's a huge divide between her and the rest of the world. She doesn't have to worry about her children having food, medical care, and a safe environment. She doesn't have a child in the military. She doesn't have to clean a house, fix supper, do laundry, or shop for groceries. She has a staff. 24-7.
She does have many responsibilities as First Lady. But, like you say, she's insulated. She's not out talking to us. Her world is carefully managed. She sees only those who adore her husband and her. She receives compliments to her face. Not confrontation.
She doesn't have to live this way. Rosalyn Carter didn't. Hillary didn't. They got outside the First Lady box. They weren't the "flower in the lapel". They dug in and got their hands dirty. The job was more than decorative mate who speaks soothingly and looks at her husband with Nancy Reagan mooncalf adoration.
Laura has chosen the passive role. It suits her.
(by the way....we haven't heard much about her "ending gang violence" have we?)

[linazelle]

42. About being clueless...

I don't believe Laura or ** are clueless. If I believe that, then I give them a get out of jail free card. Bush's base loves that he is clueless--just like them. They love thinking that he is as dumb as they are. I don't think he is--it's an act. Laura's scowl proves she's not clueless either. They know what they are doing--they just don't like it when you call them on it.

[jdelullo]

39. Reading my mind

"slits-for-eyes expression"

I've always said Lar00a was either cross-eyed or given some type of facial muscle stimulants. And the glazed over look in combination with the half dumb-fuck accent and intelligence of a librarian really pull it all together.