Laura Bush: Just bizarre

[Ms. Toad]

"I'm sorry the first ladies are being attacked," she says. "I don't think I ever was really, or at least if I was, George didn't ever tell me about it.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/laura-bush-think-george-makes-easy-target-102714428.html

I don't know which is more unbelievable - that she was not aware that she was attacked (death of driver in a car she hit, clothing looks like draperies, just to name two examples), or that her access to anything anyone says about her is apparently filtered through her husband.

[brewens]

1. Just think about what kind of drugs most women would need to tolerate

George H.W. Bush's boy. That should explain how her mind works.

[msanthrope]

4. Think what you would have to take to tolerate Babs Bush as your MIL? nt

[chollybocker]

2. What "first ladies"?

There is only one first lady. Her name is Michelle Obama.

[msanthrope]

3. Xanax is a helluva drug.....nt

[liberal N proud]

5. She must be getting into Georges stash

[snooper2]

6. You think they would ever let her near a computer?

That little bit a liberal in the back corner of her brain would kick in after 3 hours of reading online


Stepford wives have to have low access to information-

[lpbk2713]

7. Laura Bush and bizarre on the same line ... now there's a first.

Kidding

[cali]

8. she wasn't attacked. the MSM was quite kind to her

and I know it's not popular here, but I don't have a problem with Laura Bush never did, though I can't say I think much of her taste in men.

[Ms. Toad]

11. My definition of attack is not limited to the MSM

And I don't think the context of the discussion (attacks on Michelle Obama and Ann Romney) limits it to the MSM - and she certainly was a target of many in the left for both things I mentioned. (Whether she or they should be fair game is a different question.)

[Rose Siding]

9. Does she get at all that Ann Romney, um, isn't a first lady?

A recent target in this election cycle has been Ann Romney. Bush's advice to the presumptive Republican nominee's wife is to enjoy the campaign, and the opportunity to travel around the country and meet people everywhere.
"I'm sorry the first ladies are being attacked," she says. "I don't think I ever was really, or at least if I was, George didn't ever tell me about it."

I'd blame it on the drugs I've always suspected she takes but GeeDub might let it get back to her.

[Enrique]

10. she is being positive

she comes off good in the interview imho, especially the work with AIDS and cervical cancer in Africa.

By the way, she was asked about Ann Romney and she answered in the plural so she is including Michelle Obama in her sympathy.

[Ms. Toad]

12. I wasn't suggesting anything about Laura Bush

other than that I find it hard to believe that either she was that oblivious or that everything she heard was filtered through her husband.

[SidDithers]

13. Wow...

How can a person be so completely unaware of the world around them.



Sid

[karynnj]

14. She was not attacked other than in places on the extreme left

The media fostered the theme that she was part of what "reformed" W and she was praised even though she did less than most previous first ladies. Remember her bizarre and demeaning "funny" comments at one roast where her comments would have been called inappropriate had the speaker been Hillary, Michelle or Teresa. Yet not one word of disapproval was said. (Here's the transcript - http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-05-01-laura-bush-comments_x.htm and a youtube -

)

While it is true that Michelle and Hillary were trashed unimaginably by the far right - which has more outlets than the far left, they were also criticized by some in the mainstream. (Even more drastically, compare the treatment of Ann Romney and Teresa Heinz Kerry. )

I do agree it is weird that she said George never told her.