Possibly the worst picture of Laura Bush ever taken

http://www.geocities.com/imb210/holdbook.jpg

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http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/01/theater.boygeorge.ap/story.boy.george.ap.jpg

I'd like to see her face at the moment:

June 3, 2006 -- WMR can report that a Mayflower Hotel staffer has confirmed that First Lady Laura Bush spent at least one night this past week at the hotel, which is four blocks north of the White House. Mrs. Bush reportedly moved out of the White House after a confrontation with President Bush over his on-going affair with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The Mayflower's official position on the story is that they can "neither confirm nor deny" the identities of their guests. Because it's penchant for security and secrecy is well known to the Secret Service, the Mayflower has become a reliable hotel for U.S. and international VIPs.

Some Washington observers believe that the recent flare up between Laura Bush and the president stems from the fact that her poll numbers are twice as favorable as her husband's (60 percent to 29 percent). Laura Bush's recent solo missions to New Orleans, Colorado, and an AIDS conference at the United Nations represent a virtual declaration of independence from the most unpopular president in U.S. history. "She's [Laura's] taking a page right out of Hillary's book," said one Washington pundit. Rice, on the other hand, has been very close and loyal to Bush since she signed on as his chief foreign policy adviser in 2000. WMR has been told of intimate encounters between Mr. Bush and Rice on trips to New York City (multiple occasions) and New Orleans following Katrina.

Mayflower officially mum on recent VIP guest and her Secret Service detail.

WMR has received numerous email from the typical right-wing political direct marketing operations with the same talking point: how dare we violate the privacy of the President and First Lady in time of war. To refresh the memory of the right, we offer this one peek into recent history:

Feb. 18, 1998 (CNN) -- . . . Clinton also faces a divided public. In the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, 54 percent of people surveyed said they would prefer to see the Iraqi crisis resolved by diplomatic pressure and economic sanctions. Maybe more importantly, though, the poll indicated a significant drop since early February in support for military strikes against Iraq, from 50 percent to 41 percent. At the same time, by about a 2-1 margin, people say if the U.S. does attack, its goal should be remove Hussein, not just to reduce Iraq's capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and threaten its neighbors.

And Clinton has another problem, and her name is Monica Lewinsky. In this public test of wills with Hussein, Clinton has tried to stake out the moral high ground. He has talked about "the chance to do the right thing for our children and grandchildren." But some of his political opponents think Clinton cannot claim the moral high ground, not now, not after the past month's lurid tales. As restrained as Republicans have been in discussing the Lewinsky controversy, there are signs that approach is ending.

In the GOP view of morality, Republican Presidents are entitled to more privacy than Democratic Presidents.

In another bit of GOP hypocrisy, on Monday, President Bush will hold a VIP ceremony at the White House to back a bill enshrining a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. The name of the legislation: The Sanctity of Marriage Act. WMR hopes the mainstream TV media will focus on Laura Bush's facial reaction when Mr. Bush proclaims his support for The Sanctity of Marriage Act, i.e., if Mrs. Bush is even present for the event.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com and http://mediamatters.org/items/200605260003

-- Horace Mann (handsomishbo...), October 1st, 2003.

Why don't you just come out and say it, you mean Mad TV.

-- NA (emmaa...), October 1st, 2003.
roffle!

"Oh man, all these poor, suffering dar--African-Americans...."

"I know, sir."

"It's kinda getting me hot."

"Oh, Mr. President!"

etc.

dude she's asexual.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/11/15/bonus_quote_of_the_day.html

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb248/nathanmorton_photos/MichelleObama2.jpg

that was kind of a lame thing for her to say although in my experience it's probably true. in fact I'd be interested in the closets there and I'm not a woman! I tend to forget that the White House is a residence and not just a big office building.

anyway, everyone likes this woman more than her husband, weirdly pinched and facelifted as she is.

"condoleeza rice is a lesbian"

dude she's asexual.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, June 4, 2006

i don't mean to come off like suzy here but i heard this rumor from my wife's primary advisor, who was close friends with condi when she was on faculty. (advisor is a married man, so it's not really what you're thinking)

That pic Ned posted needs to be animated with Michelle shaking her head.

NEW YORK — Former first lady Laura Bush writes in her forthcoming autobiography that she and her husband George W. Bush may have been poisoned when they became ill at a summit in Germany in 2007, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

Writing in her book "Spoken from the Heart," due to be released in May, Laura Bush says that the US Secret Service probed whether the presidential delegation may have been poisoned at the G8 summit.

George W. Bush spent part of the summit bedridden.

Doctors concluded that they had contracted a virus, she said, according to the Times report.

However "we never learned if any other delegations became ill, or if ours, mysteriously, was the only one," Laura Bush wrote.

She also wrote about a fatal November 1963 car accident when she was 17 in Texas and at the wheel of a car that hit another, killing the driver, a fellow student.

"I lost my faith that November, lost it for many, many years," she writes.

"It was the first time that I had prayed to God for something, begged him for something, not the simple childhood wishing on a star but humbly begging for another human life. And it was as if no one heard."

The book is also devoted, according to the Times report, to rebutting critics of her husband. She calls insulting comments by the Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid "uncalled for and graceless."

http://booksblog.dallasnews.com/bushcover.jpg

AHHHH!!!!!!

“In 2004 the social question that animated the campaign was gay marriage. Before the election season had unfolded, I had talked to George about not making gay marriage a significant issue. We have, I reminded him, a number of close friends who are gay or whose children are gay. But at that moment I could never have imagined what path this issue would take and where it would lead.”

what a stupid title!

i can feel her eyes crawling around in my soul

Looking like a corpse there - who put in her eyes? Could have been straighter, imo.

My favorite First Lady of the last thirty years, actually: I like her voice, demeanor, and skin tone. She won my heart when she said some surprisingly perceptive things about Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor a few years ago.

That photo is fucking creepy though.

I like her voice, demeanor, and skin tone.

Kraftwerk songs are running through my head for some reason.

The thing about gay marriage in 2004 is that it wasn't really a cornerstone of the presidential contest -- to the extent that it was a factor in the result, it was because of state referenda on the issue that had the consequence (intended, I'm sure) of getting out the vote.

Kraftwerk songs are running through my head for some reason.

someone plz post Laura Bush's face on a model

yeah im sorta w alfred -- i think laura bush is pretty redeemable

If you are able to look past her choice in spouses, yes. She does not strike me as having been a particularly bad person.

Admittedly, part of my attraction was defending my favorite First Lady of the last thirty years against the worst president of the last hundred years.

wasn't she basically a democrat?

I got that impression, yes.

her choice in spouses

secret mormon?

Finally -- and this isn't inconsiderable -- she's the only First Lady who could plausibly have written at least a portion of her memoir.

choice in a spouse.

touche, douche.

michiko thinks the non-politics part is excellent
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/books/29book.html

Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife, a novel about a woman whose life strongly resembles that of Laura Bush -- was pretty good, although I sometimes wondered if she made the character more liberal than Laura Bush actually is for the purposes of making the character more compelling/sympathetic. Or maybe it was just wishful thinking.

Is the Bushes having mixed marriages a family tradition? Barbara Bush was pro-choice wasn't she?

her husband was too until he changed his position to get in line with the dominant right-wing of the party

See, now I'm curious.

Laura Bush’s new memoir, “Spoken From the Heart,” is really two books. The first is a deeply felt, keenly observed account of her childhood and youth in Texas — an account that captures a time and place with exacting emotional precision and that demonstrates how Mrs. Bush’s lifelong love of books has imprinted her imagination. The second book is a thoroughly conventional autobiography by a politician’s wife — a rote recitation of travel, public appearances and meetings with foreign dignitaries that sheds not the faintest new light on the presidency of the author’s husband, George W. Bush.

Throughout her tenure in the White House, Laura Bush was often described in faintly condescending terms as an old-fashioned first lady, as “the perfect wife,” as the anti-Hillary who “knows her place” and wanted only to stand by her man. At worst, she was described as a Stepford wife with a faintly medicated aura; at best, as a gracious foil to her blustering frat boy of a husband. Commentators found it hard to believe that her favorite book was “The Brothers Karamazov,” or if they did, they wondered what she was doing married to that language-mangling gut player, George W.

Some weird photoshopping around her mouth on that book cover.

I've always felt sorry for her -- she seems like she blundered into a life with this buffoon and feels stuck.

Eh -- I can accept that she loves this man. Her public appearances suggest that she lacks the political resources to feign devotion. By all accounts she reads The Magic Mountain in the study while he snores in the boudoir.

This is how wars start, you stupid cow.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,692452,00.html

i'm sorry, i know love is mysterious and all that, but you don't stay married to a criminal like that and come up smelling roses.

the most sensible summary description i've heard about this woman was that she perhaps lacks some critical self-esteem

'Hey Man, Good Food'– G-8 Chefs Baffled By Laura Bush's 'Poisoning' Claims

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/05/04/oprah-winfrey-is-laura-bush-a-secret-bob-marley-fan/

The Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, appeared, greeting the nation with breathy giggles. Both praised their mother’s memoir, and talked about how much better they now know her. They opened up a bit. Jenna let slip that her mom is a secret Rastafarian and likes to listen to reggae great Bob Marley.