Laura Bush Go HOME!!! In Italy today!

[leftchick]

A video plays at the link.....

Feb. 11 - Students staged an anti-Bush demonstration in the Winter Olympic city of Turin on Saturday during the official visit of the US First Lady Laura Bush.


Security was tight outside her first port-of-call, the University building, where some students were not backing the demonstration.

"These protests are absurd and completely useless," said one woman. "They should be working rather than protesting about everything."

The demonstration was peaceful and Mrs Bush's motorcade arrived without incident.

Said one protestor: "We are protesting here outside the University because the presence of these individuals in a place that represents critical thought and Turin's culture, are not welcome.

"They are a symbol of war, of exploitation, of oppression for many people around the world like, especially in the last few years Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian Occupied Territories. This is why today, we have decided to demonstrate outside Palazzo Nuovo (Turin's University), to prevent Laura Bush and the wars she simbolizes, from entering our university.

http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=f4c9e061181472e44005cf539f27de3e89169d08



U.S. first lady Laura Bush, center, and daughter Barbara Bush, right, sit with Cherie Blair, left, wife of Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, as they watch the opening ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Friday, Feb. 10, 2006. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

[dogday]

1. Laura will just pop another pill and go on smiling

she's a trooper, isn't she?

[Botany]

2. Is it me or does Barb look bored out of her mind?

Hey, closer to Iraq ..... maybe they can go on a meet & greet w/ the locals?

[MADem]

3. Bored, and a bit pissed off

Can ya blame the kid? Here she is, at the Olympics, with all those fine young athletes strolling about, partying, having a blast, and she's stuck with Ma and Tony's old lady....

[orwell]

4. Is it my imagination...

...she's been living so long with "the Joker" she's starting to look like him.

Where's Batman when you need him?

[Road Scholar]

11. I noticed that too. LOL nt

[leftchick]

no imagination required

[Bjornsdotter]

5. At the hockey game

Pickles is/was at the Women's Hockey game....they just showed her puss on TV.

Cheers

[ronnykmarshall]

6. Fuck off Laura.

Take your bitch daughter and get the fuck out of Italy.


Sorry, I don't hold back when it comes the fucking Bush skags.

They can all go to hell.

[sandnsea]

33. That explains it

I was wondering why the women's hockey game was the only damned thing I could find earlier. sheesh.

[Little Star]

7. I really like the label that the demonstrators laid on

them "symbols of war". We need to adopt that label, it is a keeper for sure.

[leftchick]

14. I agree

he wants to be the war president, label him that.

[mark11727]

20. I don't think the Italians much care for "war presidents"...

...just look what happened to this fella.

[MellowOne]

25. We need a T-shirt

BushCo major players on a T-shirt with "symbols of war."

[Cleita]

8. Good for the Italian students. I'll bet they don't have free

speech zones there. Shouldn't she be back at the White House, mixing *'s martinis, like a good little Republican wife?

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. I read once

that martini's were the drink of choice of the evening.

If anyone has Lexus Nexus, I'd love to find the article that mentioned this little tidbit. It was in SW FL Ft Myers or Naples when the Bush family went to Gasparilla Island for Christmas 2000. In one of the local papers laying around IHOP, was an article about the their vacation, saying that W played golf and fished that day and then in the evening he went to the store for a bottle of gin for his evening martini. I swear, that's what it said. I read the paragraph to my husband cause I could believe what I was reading.

[Cleita]

12. Why do you think they go to bed so early?

They're snockered by 9:00 P.M..

:-)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

27. I remember that, but they were talking about Poppy Bush

not shrub.

[DoYouEverWonder]

34. No it was definitely W

At least in this particular article because they were asking about what W had done that day since he was the new President-elect.

[SoCalDem]

24. You've heard of the apple-tini? Laura's drink of choice....

the Zoloftini:)

[Cleita]

29. LOL

Good one.

[SoCalDem]

30. She's got an eye for the drinkie-poos

[AllyCat]

9. Couldn't help but wonder what they thought of all the "peaceniks"

last night on the opening ceremony roster. I figured Laura was looking up the word "peace" in her dictionary to figure out what they were talking about. Do you think they left early or did they sit through Peter Gabriel and Yoko Ono? I'm sure they were wishing they were in Wisconsin when they made the white dove out of the aerial acrobats' bodies. There is open season on those pesky doves here (I'm not kidding).

Leave Italy NOW Bush Crime Family!

[adigal]

13. I just read in the NY Times

that poor little Laura only had one friend to sit with:

" So what happened to the United States' position as prom king? In the sophomoric world of the I.O.C., some preferences are decided by who is cool at the moment. Right now, it isn't hip to love America.

Part of this is the obvious. The geopolitical climate has left America as an outcast and left First Lady Laura Bush sitting with her only friend at the opening ceremony last night: Cherie Blair, her British equivalent.

But there is more than just world politics at play. This is "Revenge of the World Nerds." Many countries are envious of America's wealth of medals and its large slice of the revenue. "

I guess her daughter doesn't count - she probably cannot stand the Joker either.

[acmavm]

15. The blair hag looks like Cruella DeVille. n/t

[TomInTib]

17. My take was Officer Terri Weigle on Reno 911.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

16. Poor, misunderstood First Lady Pickles...

:evilgrin:

[Catshrink]

18. Where are they keeping Jenna these days?

Barbara is the only daughter showing up. Gotta wonder about the * spawn.

[TahitiNut]

21. Maybe she's vacationing at the Betty Ford Clinic.

The Bush Family should keep an entire wing reserved ... if even that would be enough.

[DoYouEverWonder]

22. She was last seen running out of a NYC nightclub

where some coke dealer ended up with her wallet.

[Catshrink]

28. Chip off the ole block, that Jenna.

[TahitiNut]

19. What an utter and complete waste!

When I think of the many millions for whom the opportunity to attend such events would be the thrill of a lifetime and see the disdain with which such elitist ignorati regard those around them, a wave of nausea washes over me. These over-privileged brain-dead invariably form the nucleus of a black hole into which good will and the joy of sport is vacuumed. Such venues should prohibit, on pain of death, putting such self-centered exhibitionists on camera. They should be relegated to seats behind poles (or Czechs). They go to suck the attention, not celebrate sport and human endeavor. The commercial and political exploitation of the dedication and skills of others knows no bounds.
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[SammyWinstonJack]

32. Indeed!

:applause:

[SoCalDem]

23. So , it's safe to say that her "rating" of 80% is not so much , there

[Joanne98]

26. The pro-Bush students are CHRISTIANS!

The Christian EVIL is going global!

[onecent]

31. Dear God! Just look at that face...valium or something better. n/t