Why is the liberal blogosphere and radio obsessed with Laura Bush's cancer removal?

[Ian_rd]

I'm getting sick of hearing about it on Air America and coming across it on liberal blogs. And try as I might, I can't find a single problem with Tony Snow's position with the press corps that Laura Bush's skin cancer removal is:

a. None of our damn business.
b. No big deal, people go through it all the time.
and
c. There must be something more newsworthy to discuss.

Laura Bush is not one of our representatives. Her health is not our business. What the fuck? Give me some real news for Christ's sake!

[AndyA]

1. It's all a cover. Something else is going on that we're missing.

The real story is buried under Laura's cancer story.

She's a murderer. She's married to the worst pResident ever, one who's bankrupted the country, lied to start a war, spied on us, stripped us of our rights, and used signing statements to change laws to his advantage. She's raised two daughters that are sluts, tramps, and are just about as worthless as they can be.

There's a real story in there somewhere...

[Ellis Wyatt]

6. You are officially a left wing wacko

congratulations.

[AndyA]

14. Why thank you!

Better that than a Kool-Aid drinker. ;)

[Ellis Wyatt]

16. depends on the Kool-Aid

Bush is evil. All of his family is evil. All of his friends are evil.

None of them do a single thing in their life unless it somehow makes them money or gives them power.

Every one of them will do any single thing if it somehow makes them money or gives them power, no matter who is killd, tortured, maimed, or had their life destroyed.

No matter what the conspiracy, you believe. No matter what the facts (or lack thereof) you claim there is a conspiracy. If Bush says it's 2006, you know he's lying.

9/11? Orchestrated, planned, and executed by Bush
Johnson's stroke? Orchestrated, planned, and executed by Bush
Laura's growth? A lie.

That's "wacko" and I just want to make sure to distance myself from all irrational zealots on both sides.

[AndyA]

18. Do you have proof that all these things AREN'T true?

Because if you don't have proof, you have nothing.

It is a fact that Bush's Grandfather sold ammunition and weapons to the Third Reich after the United States ordered such activity illegal. And we all know where that went.

Laura Bush IS a murderer. Details of her "accident" just don't add up.

Neil Bush's Silverado Savings was one of the biggest scandals of the savings and loan fiasco. And he literally slipped out of town under cover of darkness. Like a slug.

And then there's George's insider trading of his Harken Energy stock. Sold it just days before a bad earnings report came out. That's a crime.

And we all know that George Bush is a murderer, the blood of all the soldiers who died in his lie of a war is on his soul.

And there's so much more. The outing of an undercover CIA agent, bankrupting the country, the abuse of the Constitution...

I don't see how anyone could possibly defend them, or entertain the idea that they are somehow righteous. BULLSHIT.

[Ian_rd]

20. Dude, you sound like a right-winger. Sorry.

"Do you have proof that all these things AREN'T true?"

I can't help but remember this interview about the Mark Foley affair when the Right was desperately trying to imply that it was all a Democratic ploy. I found this just for you: (Source)

BLITZER: Well, you don’t have any evidence <that this scandal was released by the Democrats>, though, right?
MCHENRY: Well, look at the fact points.
BLITZER: Yes or no, do you have any evidence, Congressman?
MCHENRY: Do you have any evidence that they weren’t involved?

And who could forget one of Donald Rumsfeld's most memorable gems on the bullshit reasons we went to war:
"Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

And for the rest of your post, y'know there is a pretty big difference between believing everything bad you hear about Bush and considering him to be "somehow righteous." If I said Bush was from an evil planet called Evildor, whose inhabitants were on earth to conquer and consume the human race, would you believe it for fear that the alternative was to consider Bush righteous?

[AndyA]

22. You lost me on that one.

I'm about as far from being a Right Winger as you can get.

You obviously saw something in my post that isn't there.

[Ian_rd]

25. Well, I did my best.

If you honestly can't understand what I was trying to say, then I lack the skills to help you out. The most important thing now is for us to band together to confront the threat posed by Evildor and their shapeshifting spies.

[Ellis Wyatt]

26. I understood your point

It could not have been more clear.

[AndyA]

27. If you're so fed up with this subject, why start another thread?

Could you have not "contributed" to one of the others?

When you run for public office, especially the top one in the world, you and your family give up a certain amount of privacy. It comes with the job. You know that going into it, and that's just the way it is.

And Laura Bush's health is a matter of importance to the world because if it deteriorated it could impact the pResident. Would that not have an effect on the pResident's ability to make decisions, especially since he seems so mentally challenged anyway?

[Ian_rd]

28. Despite your previous posts, you make the best argument I've heard yet

I understand that a First Lady (or Man for that matter) can expect to give up some privacy. But that should remain a side-effect of her husband's job and not a direct characteristic of her own position. The fact that Bush is president doesn't trump her position as a private citizen whose medical issues should remain her own business.

I can appreciate that her condition could affect the president's state of mind. But while we are perfectly justified in needing to know our president's mental condition, there is no need or justification for us to have that concern extend into someone else's privacy. Plenty of things could affect his state of mind - the health of his daughters, parents, friends, Barney, whatever.

Just to take it to an extreme, let's say Laura's potential cancer caused Bush to have a total mental breakdown making him incapable of doing his job (yea, I know - he already is mentally incapable, but that's a whole other discussion). Our right to know about his condition doesn't mean we have a right to now about his wife's too.

[Ellis Wyatt]

21. three things

First, you can't prove a negative. It's foolish to even suggest it.

Second, I'm not denying or debating any of the situations you've mentioned above.

Third, when someone says that her skin procedure was a coverup for no other reason than she's part of the Bush Crime Family.

That's left wing wacko.

No basis for the assertation. No reason to put it out there. Just utter wackiness.

Just like the people who were suggesting that somehow the republicans caused Johnson's stroke.

[AndyA]

23. Believe what you will.

I still don't think there's much that this bunch won't do. And that's based on their past history.

From the tone of your posts, I'm beginning to wonder if you aren't on the wrong board. Or maybe not. :tinfoilhat:

[EST]

2. Probably because they are all committed to becoming

irrelevant.

[napi21]

3. It's customary for any WH to release serious health information

regarding the Prez, VP, and their immediate family. I think you're hearing so much about it because it's just another example of how damn secretive this WH is about EVERYTHING, even when there's no need to be.

[Taverner]

4. Beats me

This is one issue where I'm on Bush and Snow's side...

Another is the Bush twins. Until they make a bid for office, their personal lives are none of our damn business.

[shain from kane]

7. "I didn't think their personal lives was any of my damn business, until I started pissing blood."

Overheard on my last trip to Argentina.

[Taverner]

8. Moral: Don't sleep with the Bush twins

;)

[quiet.american]

5. It seems "skin cancer removal" is part-and-parcel of being wealthy these days

I can't see what the urgency is either. Every time you turn around, some wealthy politician or CEO has had skin cancer removed from their nose, or hand or whatever. The price of spending so much time on golf courses, I guess.

[Left Is Write]

24. You know, sometimes the unwealthy get skin cancer too.

[quiet.american]

29. Of course.

But my point was, that this is so common amongst the wealthy, and it always ends with them having no further effect after the removal of the site of the skin cancer, that the urgency around this particular instance of it in Laura Bush escapes me.

Now, I would LOVE to see a story that focuses on how the average person has to deal with this -- without benefit of the status of being a multimillionaire -- and in the all-too-often scenario of having NO health insurance -- now there's an urgent story to be told. But to report on someone who has every effin' benefit in the world -- much of it on our dime -- and who will in ALL likelihood have no further issue with it because they can afford the VERY BEST HEALTHCARE in the world, while at the same time saying "let them eat cake" to those who have no recourse -- I don't see the urgency here.

[snogirl]

9. in europe, it's a non-issue

sorry, but over here this has not been much spoken about...
i didn't even hear about this until i came across it on this site!...(yester)...

y all the scuttle?...i think she is a pretty decent lady (in the true sense)...

i wish her the best health...

[whistle]

10. Same reason the German people back during WWII were so obsessed

...with what was happening with Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun I suppose.

[The Stranger]

11. Like everything else the Bush Crime Family does, it is secret, secret, secret.

So let everyone talk about it fucking endlessly -- stop the secrecy and the sickness.

[Hav]

12. .

Besides wishing her well, I don't have anything to say. I agree, it's a private matter.

My aunt (I never met anyone again who enjoyed life as much as her) eventually died of skin cancer. After an apparently successful treatment, it returned after several years. It was a slow and cruel death after it metastasized to the other organs and her brain. I wish well for everybody who has to fight it.
It was a shattering for all relatives and her husband died only a few months later because of his heart as he couldn't live without her.

[Warpy]

13. Why did YOU post about it?

That's your answer.

[Ian_rd]

15. I'm basically searching for a legitimate reason I might have missed to cover this story.

I'm not a TV pundit, I'm just a dude on a discussion board asking a question. And so far, no one else seems to know why the press should be covering this.

[TheCowsCameHome]

17. What about the cancer she married and currently lives with?

That's is our business, unfortunately.

[Ian_rd]

19. I recommend that cancer be removed as well.

Unfortunately, the "cancer" would not survive the procedure. Haha. That'd be cool to see Laura walking around with a band-aid on her ring finger.

[Ernesto]

30. Wait till she gets lung cancer

for her #1 addiction.