Is it true that Laura Bush was a dope dealer?

[burythehatchet]

Someone told me that and I was surprised that the first lady used to deal nickel bags.

[petronius]

1. Well, I've never seen any credible evidence that she wasn't

George must be getting his stuff from somewhere, right? :shrug:

[sce56]

2. Don'y know about that but I do know she killed her boyfriend back in 1960

Ran a country road stop side and center punched the drivers door of the guy she broke up with a week prior to the accident!

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3910b26e685a.htm
Report: Laura Bush in 1963 Car Wreck
By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press Writer

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - At 17, Laura Bush ran a stop sign and crashed into another car, killing her boyfriend who was driving it, according to an accident report released to The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Mrs. Bush is the wife of Republican presidential nominee-to-be George W. Bush (news - web sites), the Texas governor.

``It was a very tragic accident that deeply affected the families and was very painful for all involved, including the community at large,'' said her spokesman, Andrew Malcolm. ``To this day, Mrs. Bush remains unable to talk about it.''

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Mrs. Bush did say in March, when asked at a campaign stop about the crash, ``I know this as an adult, and even more as a parent, it was crushing ... for the family involved and for me as well.''

According to the two-page accident report released Wednesday by the city of Midland, Laura Welch was driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, 1963, when she drove into an intersection and struck a Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas.

Although previous news accounts have reported Douglas was thrown from the car and broke his neck, those details were not in the report.

The speed of Laura Bush's car was illegible on the report. The speed limit for the road was 55.

Neither driver was drinking, the police report said.

Laura Bush and her passenger, Judy Dykes, also 17, were taken to a hospital and treated for minor injuries, according to an accident account printed at the time in the Midland Reporter-Telegram.

The police report indicates no charges were filed. That section of the report was left blank.

``As far as we know, no charges were filed,'' said Midland city attorney Keith Stretcher. ``I don't think it's unusual that charges weren't filed.''

The police report was released after an open records request was submitted to Midland officials in March. City officials had declined to release the records because the victims were under 18.

News accounts from 1963 reported the young man as having been thrown from his car and dying of a broken neck; he was pronounced dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital. According to various biographies of Mrs. Bush, the boy's father had been travelling in a car immediately behind his son's and witnessed the whole thing.

The two teen girls were taken to the same hospital and treated for minor injuries that amounted to bumps and bruises.

Michael Douglas, the young man who was killed, had been a member of Laura Welch's crowd at high school and her friend. He had been a star athlete, excelling in track and football, and was looked up to by his peers not just for his athlete prowess, but for his personality and intelligence too. By all reports, he was likeable, outgoing, and funny. He was nominated as the school's most popular boy while a junior, an honor that almost always went to a senior.

There has always been speculation about the nature of his relationship with Laura Welch. One rumor asserts the two had never dated, but that Laura had been romantically interested in him. Another claims he had been Laura's boyfriend when he died, and another that he had once been her boyfriend but the couple had subsequently broken up. (The latter theory is advanced in the 2002 biography of the Bushes, George and Laura: Portrait of an American Marriage, which states Laura Welch and Michael Douglas had dated throughout early and mid-1963, but by the fall of that year Michael was going out with Regan Gammon, one of Miss Welch's closest friends.)

The accident is difficult to understand it that it took place on a clear night on dry pavement at a crossroads described as "the middle of nowhere," where the view was unobstructed and the stop sign that faced Laura Welch was clearly visible. (The intersection was a two-way, not a four-way, stop.)
There are those who want to believe the future First Lady deliberately and with malice aforethought murdered her (ex-)boyfriend over some now forgotten teen tiff and who point to what they view as the suspicious circumstances of the accident and the subsequent lack of prosecution as proofs of their supposition. Yet to entertain such a hypothesis is to believe the young woman would have attempted to kill another by doing away with herself. (As the driver of what was intended to be a murder weapon, she would have had no reason to believe she would survive a collision severe enough to be fatal to her prey — that events turned out that way doesn't mean that outcome could have been reasonably foreseen.) Although the theory of "I'll kill you even though I have to kill myself to do it" might still play in a person sufficiently vengeance-minded (e.g., a suicide bomber), it is far better discounted in cases where an innocent life would also be taken (e.g., a passenger in the car). Those intent upon acts of revenge are generally impelled by a misguided sense of justice, and there is precious little justice (misguided or otherwise) in causing the death of innocent parties.

[patrice]

19. The accident that killed her ex-boyfriend was probably more like

a two young people thinking s/he could beat him/her through the intersection.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Uh...

I heard Gandhi was a dope dealer, too. Seriously, I'm all for attacking the Republicans where it's warranted, but I never heard any evidence that Laura Bush was dealing weed, or anything else, for that matter.

[laylah]

17. What you said

along with we got pissed when the 'pubs tried to use Kennedy and Chappquiddak (or however the hell it is spelled)...history, it is all history. Find a valid issue.

Jenn

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

33. Get around more.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

34. ...

:wtf:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

37. The rumors of Laura slinging hash are old.

:shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

38. There's still verified things that we can bash her on.

And I don't consider being a small time weed dealer in college even worthy of a mention, for anybody.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

39. Agreed.

Unless you're fronting the opposite.

[Ksec]

4. Ive heard that one

But seen nothing that was concrete evidence...

But I would still like to know the odds of someone hitting and killing their boyfreind at a intersection? That would have to be astronomical odds.

[Poiuyt]

28. Especially a boyfriend who she had just broken up with and who is now

dating one of her best friends.

[crikkett]

5. what's a nickel bag?

:shrug:

[Ksec]

6. Five dollars worth of marijuana

At least thats what it used to be .

[catmandu57]

13. I thought it was dime bags

Her nickname was dimebag.

[AlCzervik]

7. that was from Kitty Kelly's book i think.

[Cleita]

25. It was. But there was scuttlebutt out there about this before

Kitty Kelly's book was published.

[Rosemary2205]

8. I'd like to see her prove she never sold dope.

Who was the RW asshat who just this week used this logic toward the Democrats and Foley? --- He wanted every Democrat in DC to prove they never knew about Foley. :crazy:

[Bozita]

29. iirc, it was Patrick McHenry (R-NC) who sees himself as smarter-than...

... -everybody-else.

He's quite taken with himself.

[Kenergy]

9. I heard about that from a review of

Kitty Kellys book about the Bush family. Sorry, I don't recall the name of the book or have a link
handy, but you should be able to google it.

[NightOwwl]

10. Some people say....

Laura Bush is a drug dealer.

So it must be true.

[Mabus]

22. don't forget the "Cavuto Mark"

Was Laura Bush a drug dealer? Is she still?

Jon Stewart, that keen observer of American journalistic practices, has revealed the use of a new kind of punctuation mark by Fox News -- the Cavuto -- which Stewart says is cleverly used to turn any statement, no matter how outrageous, into a simple, seemingly fair, question. With video.

On the "Daily Show" on Wednesday (September 13, 2006), Stewart aired a segment on the increasing use of question marks in the chyrons of 24-hour news channels. He ribbed CNN a little for its use of questions on the lower third of its screen -- questions such as "Can Your Purse Make you Sick?" or "What If ... ?"

Stewart's real target, however, was Fox News. He strung together a number of examples from Fox News' Neil Cavuto's "Your World" show to demonstrate how Fox News uses questions to ask attack questions about Democrats and other news media and supportive questions about Republicans. Examples: "Have the Democrats Forgotten the Lessons of 9/11?" "Is the Liberal Media Helping to Fuel Terror?" or "The Best President?"

"Technically that's not really a question mark at the end of that. It's a similar punctuation symbol known as the 'the Cavuto.' It's named for the 'journalist' who pioneered its use," Stewart said.

http://www.newshounds.us/2006/09/14/jon_stewart_explains_the_cavuto_mark.php

[NewJeffCT]

27. you mean like, "Neil Cavuto, journalist?"

that was a great segment.

[Quantess]

36. more like Neil Cavuto, boorish fat head

Neil Cavuto wins 1st prize for ugly American commentator.
(With extra emphasis on the word ugly.)

[NewJeffCT]

41. well, I was going to say...

Neil Cavutor, asshole journalist, or just plain asshole?

[Quantess]

43. LOL, I get it now.

:rofl:

[leftofthedial]

11. before becoming an upholstery model

she was the biggest pothead party girl in West Texas.

[AlCzervik]

14. "upholstery model"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[blue cat]

12. Kitty's Book

And yes, there are real live people who went to college with her that confirmed this for Kitty's book. It was the 60's after all.

[jeff30997]

15. Well she's a murderer so...

I don't care if she sold dope!

[AlCzervik]

16. She deals with Bush everyday, so yup, she's a dope dealer.

[Nikki Stone 1]

18. ::rimshot::

:)

[Ninja Jordan]

20. And a master satanist to boot!

[TheBaldyMan]

21. she married one n/t

[mtnsnake]

23. Yes, she started selling dope 3 years before becoming a hooker.

[Cleita]

24. It's documented in Kitty Kelley's book , "The Family".

She was able to get testimony from a few of the students who went to college with Laura Bush. She said that Laura was known as the go to person for dime bags.

:shrug:

[LostInAnomie]

26. Well, if she was she sure couldn't keep out of her own supply.

[Swamp Rat]

30. and a cannibal

:D

[ProgressiveEconomist]

31. When and how did she meet Dubya? Did he score coke from her?

Was she to Dubya what Cathy Smith was to John Belushi during his last days?

[Dinger]

32. I Heard She Started In 2nd Grade

Seriously.

[B Calm]

35. She sold pot in college...

[sweetheart]

40. have you ever *seen* that woman?

She's drugged up to the eyeballs, painted like
ronald macdonald with horrible pancake makeup,
paxil'ing us all a wave from beyind those
stained glassy eyes.

[crikkett]

42. that is just poetic.

and fitting. I hear she likes "po-ims".

[Laughing Mirror]

44. How you do think she met George?

At the library?