Did Laura Bush really carelessly run a stop sign and kill her boyfriend?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

What's the story?

[Oceansaway]

1. .

i saved this link....dunno if its detailed

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38bf3b5e5aac.htm

[otohara]

2. Yes

imagine if Hillary Clinton would have done the same thing as a teen

[Democrats_win]

10. Hillary is a model American we can all be proud of.

[otohara]

40. No Shit?

But if Hillary would have done the same thing, the OP would not have been hearing about this for the first time.

[central scrutinizer]

3. yes, when she was 18

easy to find links with google or ask

[Hubert Flottz]

13. The GOPers are all saying that 18 is not a teenager in Folegate.

No longer a child I believe they'd claim. 18 year olds are dying in Iraq...

[jdlh8894]

22. So are 50 year old citizens!!!

[seabeyond]

53. and 40 yr old behavior youth indiscretions n/t

[Avalux]

4. Sort of -

The official story is that it wasn't her fault, she was traveling along a dark Texas farm road without any other traffic, didn't see her ex-boyfriend and they crashed. No charges were filed.

[Justitia]

14. Correction: It WAS deemed her fault, she ran a stop sign.

But she didn't receive so much as a traffic ticket.

[Avalux]

33. Yeah - I said "official story" -

Most people would have been cited for running a stop sign and held accountable. :hi:

[Justitia]

36. Yes you did. Didn't mean for that "correction" to sound abrupt, if it did

Just wanted to get out there that she wasn't even ticketed for the obvious offense of running a stop sign (to say nothing of actually killing somebody).

:hi:

[Avalux]

49. Nah not abrupt -

didn't want you to think I was defending her, lol. I do wonder how influential her parents were in Midland; if they had any pull to get her off. I really don't know. :hi:

[Monkeyman]

5. Yes

And she might of been high no one confirmed that but it was talked about

[rhiannon55]

7. or drunk n/t

[Oceansaway]

6. .

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

[Richard Steele]

8. Yup.

http://www.bartcop.com/pickles.htm

The accident occurred Nov. 5, 1963, when Bush was talking to a friend while she was driving to a party in her hometown of Midland, Texas, the New York Post reported.

At an intersection, she apparently failed to see her boyfriend, Mike Douglas, driving south. The vehicles collided and Douglas was thrown from his doorless Jeep, breaking his neck. He died instantly.

[vireo]

15. Snopes says he was driving a Corvair

:shrug:

[Richard Steele]

18. Yeah, that's quite a puzzling disparity, isn't it?

Whichever it was, how could it possibly
be mistaken for the other?:shrug:

Of course, these type of mistakes can happen
when the OFFICIAL reports are all missing
or classified.

[brook]

20. How's this for macabre?

The "accident" was Nov. 5, 1963 and Laura married * on .........Nov. 5th! (more than a dozen years later...but I find that extremely weird).

[Richard Steele]

25. I never noticed that before!

And you're quite correct- that's MACABRE with a capital "M".

Who the hell DOES that?

[Critters2]

30. My guess is that the day meant nothing to her when she chose it

for her wedding. The heartless thing had moved on with her life to the point that she didn't even remember the date herself. It just didn't register. The life of another was just not that important to her.

That's my theory.

[Richard Steele]

34. Well, my GUESS (if I cared enough to make one) would be:

Laura didn't pick the date- Dubya did.
And he picked it SPECIFICALLY because
of the boyfriend-killing incident.

That's EXACTLY the type of thing that
a twisted little frog-n-firecracker
sociopath like him would derive ghoulish
GLEE from.

[brook]

35. umm...you may have hit on it! n/t

[Critters2]

38. Hadn't thought ot that

You may be right.

[BlueCollar]

43. they wanted to celebrate

Guy Fawkes day?

Give me a break

[China_cat]

44. I've always said that marrying Dubya

was her sentence for killing the boyfriend.

[Xenotime]

26. I'm thinking there is something linked there...

Things like that don't just "happen"

[seabeyond]

52. correction.... accident NOV 6. accident report down lower on thread

[SpiralHawk]

32. Ahhh, the boyfriend was former. He had recently dumped Dime Bag Laura

if memory serves...so he was not exactly at the top of her popularity list, if memory serves.

Wonder if she was checked for Reefer Madness? Could Pot have been a factor?

[elfin]

9. Yes, as I understand it --- can you imagine

if this were in HILARY'S past??????

Despite my negative opinion of Pickles, I do not hold this against her - I am sure it caused her much sadness, guilt, remorse etc. Nonetheless, I do not think she "paid" in any other way and has been given a pass by all the press on this unlike any Dem who had the same horrific experience in their background.

[Richard Steele]

12. Oh, she PAID in at least one way...

Look at who she eventually married.

That karma is a real BITCH sometimes, innit?

[WinkyDink]

48. I'd say she did extremely well, $$-wise at least,

for a 30-something librarian.

[leftofthedial]

11. "carelessly"

or intentionally?


she did it.

[Canuckistanian]

21. She seems to do a lot of things carelessly

Driving, picking outfits, remembering deadly hurricane names, marrying....

[theoldman]

16. Take it from me you can get away with a lot if you are from a

prominent family. My wifes nephew committed suicide but her brother in law convinced the sheriff to call it an accidental death. The kid was on drugs at the time of his suicide and the family wanted to keep it a secret.

[helderheid]

17. wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dutton_Douglas

[cureautismnow]

46. Wiki says both were 17 and the date was 11/6/63.

2 weeks and 2 days later an older and more prominent man was intentionally struck down in Texas. :-(

[ThomWV]

19. No, She didn't "carelessly" run the stop sign, she did it on purpose

Notice who was killed in the other car. It was the boy by whom whe was pregnant; her with an embryo which would never take a first breath. Ever notice that Laura never offeres an anti-abortion opnion. Did you ever wonder why?

[helderheid]

24. Woah, she was pregnant and had an abortion?

[rinsd]

39. Yeah she hit another moving car in the dark...

..at roughly 50 miles an hour. Having of course recognized his car from that distance.

Sure........:eyes:

[LSK]

23. if Ted Kennedy "murdered" that girl then Laura "murdered" too

I'd rather nobody go back to this on either side but if the assholes want to drag Kennedy's name through the mud then its fair to drag Laura's name through the mud.

[dogday]

27. She was aiming for the stop sign

and hit the boyfriend instead... Makes sense to me right? :sarcasm:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

28. You have to give Laura a break on this one.

She has a long history of alcoholism and sexual abuse.

[Horse with no Name]

29. What is really an interesting caveat is that the state of Texas

obliterated both George and Laura's driving records when he became Governor and issued them both new licenses. This is not a usual practice and it was said it was done for "unspecified security reasons".
His I can understand, but you have to really wonder why they did away with hers.

[dogday]

31. And was an accident report filed on this incident?

Or anything official to search for?

[Nederland]

41. Yup

It's big, depending on your browser settings, you may not be able to read it.

[chat_noir]

37. sensationalism at its best/worst

Laura Welch Bush, driving east on Farm Road 868, was approaching the only highway in town on a clear night with a bright moon. She lived only a couple of miles away and had been through this particular intersection hundreds of times in the years her family had lived in Midland, Texas. On her left Laura Bush could see her boyfriend's car approaching the intersection for the entire time he turned off of Solomon Lane, where he lived, and onto the highway. She knew it was her boyfriend's car driving south, because of the unique headlight configuration of his 1962 Corvair Sedan. Laura Bush knew her boyfriend, she knew his home, and she knew his car--the headlights are low slung and a full 9-inches narrower than any other car on the road. The entire profile of the car is small and easy to distinguish anytime, day or night.

Michael Dutton Douglas, 17, had driven only half a mile before America's Black Widow of the Night deliberately ran the stop sign at high speed, striking the small car with such ferocity that her boyfriend was ejected from the car and into the dirt. Laura Bush, "America's First Murderess of the Land," had literally ripped a hole in her boyfriend's neck. Michael lay there for eight minutes staring at Laura and her once loving arms, while Laura stared back wondering, "Is the head dead yet?" "No child left behind," unless it is Michael Dutton Douglas gasping in the dirt. To date, there has never been an adjudication of this wanton murder, even though there is no Statute of Limitations on murder. Laura and her girlfriend had conspired to murder Michael Dutton Douglas and been laying-in-wait for his car. To this date, they are engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

http://tinyurl.com/5anaw

[slackmaster]

42. Not true - She wasn't Laura Bush at the time

:rofl:

[ThomWV]

51. True .... however who else had the personality to become Mrs. Bush?

Just about any stone cold killer, I suppose.

[Crunchy Frog]

45. This is a good link.

An excerpt from:

The Perfect Wife
The Life and Choices of Laura Bush
By Ann Gerhart http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?isbn=0743265262&sid=33&agid=2

[MzNov]

47. wasn't this on her birthday?

too much birthday celebration maybe?

[RamboLiberal]

50. I hate when Dems bring up this story - you sound like a bunch

of stupid Freepers. Give me a break it was a friggin' traffic accident. I suppose all of you are perfect drivers. Never ran a stop sign on a dark road!

There but for the grace of God or Karma that could've been any of us. We all were such wonderful, safe drivers as teens and continue to be as adults! :sarcasm:

I cringe any time I hear some liberal caller bring this story up on talk radio. I'm no fan of Laura Bush but give the story a rest. Sounding as stupid as the Freepers continually pounding Chappaquidick is not the way to fight back!

[B Calm]

54. The cons have been great teachers

[Raine]

56. Yeah we learned from the masters

hopefully we can surpass them, that seems to be the way to win.

[mtnsnake]

55. aah shaaaaaaaaaaadup

[MzNov]

57. LOL

:rofl: