The concept no longer exists. Everyone is "fair game" for the 24/7 news cycle. The Beast must be fed!

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Listening to a woman who sits in the White House compare randomized, scientific surveys with her politically isolated and personal interractions and asserts their equality has just demolished her credibility. Without credibility there is absolutely no reason to take her seriously and therefore any time taken to challenge or "attack" her a waste of time. What I would really want to hear from Laura Bush is how she lived with an alcoholic for all those years and did not intervene to get him help. And when he did quit using alcohol for his addiction why she did not go to the library and read up on what recovery is really like instead of enabling him to use religion as his next addiction. Also she should share more with the public her peronal experiences after she drove her car through a stop sign and subsuquently killled another person. Finally, as for "challenges" we really have only those as a consequence of the extraordinarily militaristic response to 9/11 and they pale when compared to the great depression, WWII or the Cold War. Laura Bush may want to return to her library and read a bit more on the subject of American History

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We already know where Chris Wallace stands. We saw his dripping attempt during the presidential campaign of 2004. What a weak journalist and reporter. He doesn't deserve to be called either. He fudges and cuddles up to his interviewees with no real substance. He's a wimp!

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I can't help but think of the old saying, "Behind every successful man is a good woman" And the inverse?

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Laura Bush Has "NUTHIN COMIN" from me. She has been a willing, complicit crony to George's moronic plans that have devastated the globe while gutting our Constitution and Bill of Rights in the process. She deserves the same scrutiny, analyses and responsibility for what has occurred under her watch as George receives.
It'll be a fine day in paradise when i witness her and her halfwit hubby headed to Texas after his reign ends....or would that be Connecticut? Abu Ghraib, perhaps?

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I have been wondering does Geo Bush have cattle on his ranch. When it seen there never seems to be any . LBJ at least ran a few head. I maen if your a big macho rancer you got cattle or is it just bullshit that grows there?

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I have been wondering does Geo Bush have cattle on his ranch. When seen there never seems to be any . LBJ at least ran a few head.if your a big macho rancer you got cattle or is it just bullshit that grows there?

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I have been wondering does Geo Bush have cattle on his ranch. When seen there never seems to be any . LBJ at least ran a few head.if your a big macho rancer you got cattle or is it just bullshit that grows there? Lets see Laura Bush for what she is , A gold digging woman who hit the jackpot: like Kobe's wife. She is only doing her job of shuttting the f(&9K up until her man tells her to speak(black folks in the GOP Know about that one).

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Just as the media gave Dubya a free pass on his alcoholism and his going AWOL because he was afraid of flying F102s, they are now conveniently forgetting about Laura Bush's past. The prim little librarian used to be a real party girl, even killing someone while apparently driving while intoxicated. George's "get out of jail free" card was his claim to have been born again. So what sort of epiphany did Laura have that now makes her at all credible? Or is it simply that wealth and privilege have molded the carefree, "don't give a damn" girl into a loyal Stepford wife?

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Why all the focus on polling numbers and if Laura Bush believes the poll numbers? The questions should be directed at policy and how the policy is executed. Most of the media, especially TV and radio have a fixation on polls to the exclusion of real content. Let's look at the most recent tax cut, continuing failures in New Orleans, the clusterf**k in Iraq, the idiocy of our "I'm not talking to him" policy with Iran and North Korea.

If the news media could devote a little bit of intellectual effort to asking intelligent questions we might start getting some intelligent responses. The media needs to stop focusing on the person and their "feelings" and "perceptions" and start discussing what is really happening and why.

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to marry one. Nuff said. The problem isn't Ms. Bush, but the slack jawed assholes that pay any attention to either one of them.
Neither of those fools would be on anyones television if this whole country didn't have it's collective head up its ass; and that includes all the nice progressives and liberals and Democrats who didn't commit wholesale mutiny over the last "s-election", not only by Republican sycophants and criminals but by Democratic party apparatchiks.
There should have been rioting in the streets; but then of course it's not our kids who are being murdered in their beds...

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Laura Bush is the latest in a long line of "mythists" being platooned by this mythical administration. You can go for mythologist, but I prefer mythist, since it sounds like mist, which is what the stuff emanating from this crew on almost any subject amounts to...as soon as they're spoken, the words evaporate into steam....you know....hot air. They're weightless, without substance or credibility, but they often sound good.

In CA, state senator Sheila Kuehl (the former "Zelda" on "Dobie Gillis" for those of us of a certain age), who is openly gay, has introduced a bill requiring text books to discuss the accomplishments of LGBT Americans along side those of presumably straight figures in history. The chorus of right-wing opposition complains, among a host of equally bigoted and irrational objections, that the sexual orientation and private lives of historical figures do not need to be taught in the schools. In other words, for example, Lincoln's sexuality (recently held in question) is of no consequence at all to his behavior and achievements as president. Does this attitude really make sense to any thinking person? Of course not, but to a mythist, it fits neatly into a view of life in which sexuality is set apart from all other aspects of human endeavor...it's to remain unseen, unspoken about, "private" in the most regressive use of the word.

The merits of this sophistry notwithstanding, it highlights once again the rabid devotion to mythology on the right, the belief, for example, that John Wayne was a "war hero" because he acted in a dozen war movies while other men actually faught and died in WWII, or that any number of "rugged, masculine" movie stars were paragons of testosterone, when in reality many were leading closeted gay lives while publicly dating or even marrying, in order to perpetuate the hetero illusion for their adoring fans.

The point is that there's always been a queazy majority of Americans who bathe in the mythology of pop culture, who would rather believe in the fake "reality" of PR-fueled photo ops and scripted press releases than in the actual behavior of their idols or the facts of their lives. Guys like Chris Wallace, who's a far cry from the hard-news reputation of his father (who, in turn, was "outed" for his own ethical sellout in "The Insider"), are merely there to cynically promote these myths if it serves their purpose...in his case, to seek optimal ratings for his little corner of the Fox News propoganda machine.

Laura Bush is a heroine to a wide swath of red-state true believers, wannabes, church-going hyper-conformists and a host of extremist idiots and semi-literate, reality-show loving miscreants whose idea of news is what they're fed on Fox, the front page of USA Today or the local "news" swill cloned in all TV markets. To these mile-wide-inch-deep loyalists, anything Laura Bush says, however simple-minded, vacuous, propogandistic or merely deceptive, is taken as "gospel"....if she says it, it must be "true". She's the First Lady...why would she lie? To use Colbert's brilliant new noun, it's "truthiness" in full bloom.

I've come to understand after a lifetime of living in this culture that most of what we generally accept as history is actually myth, often made up out of a compendium of spin, inept analysis or interpretation of actual events and achievements, self-serving memoir and PR, obfuscation, and sometimes brazen, bold-faced lying (Bill Clinton? Henry Kissinger?). It requires considerable effort and thoughtfulness to even examine, let alone accept alternative views of history, which is why most of us are either incapable of doing so, or are simply too lazy, and would rather just drift along with the "conventional wisdom", which is often the most easily available and commonly held, no matter how "truthy" it might be. Laura Bush is the current First Lady of Truthiness, and she wears her crown well.

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Laura Bush seems to have failed to accomplish her own mission while she devoutly stands by her man. How many new reading programs do we have for children and adults since she came to the White House? It was well within her power to seriously address the literacy problem in the US. She was and still is well liked. But we don't like her enough to believe that her husband really is an OK guy. Sorry Laura.
Thanks, ANNA

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As a working librarian, I deeply resent Laura Bush claiming the title. Has she ever had to live -- and support a family -- on a librarian's pay? What is her long-term commitment to the profession? She is not one of us; she is a rich housewife. And yes, she's "fair game," just as Hillary, Betty, Mamie, and all the others back to Dolley Madison, were before her.

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Oh Laura..how thee do dissapoint and yet, could anyone expect less from the battered stepford woman you obviously are. From freewheeling, careless party girl to synchophantic, stand by your man, horsemilking super slave all in one lifetime. Your library pass is revoked for lack of bookiness.

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What would the media (not to mention the "religious right") say about any OTHER former "party girl" (she killed a person while driving drunk) who last year stood up before God and the world and cracked jokes about her husband's sexual inadequacies and his fumbling masturbation of a bull?

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"I see people. I see their response to my husband. I see their response to me."

Of course she does. But Laura doesn't see the people who are kept out of range of her for so much as sporting a bumper sticker criticizing an administration policy. Until now, I've been inclined to give her some degree of credit for having a little more common sense than W. But life in the bubble has clearly skewed her perspective.

Also, what do all the Hillary haters say about Laura's elevation to a prominent position on the New Orleans recovery? How is that different from putting Hillary in charge of healh care reform? It's just the type of thing the Stepford wing nuts swore would never happen with Laura Bush, because she knew her proper place as First Lady.

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Where do you guys get your vast reserves of indignation? Are you really surprised that Laura Bush is not credible, that she lies to protect her husband, that she's as good at cock and bull as Karl Rove? Is there really some question as to whether she is "fair game"? It's uncomfortable because she's poised and ladylike. But let's get over that. She lies like them; the blood is on her hands too.

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Saw her interview on "This Week in Washington" with George S. She comes off as oh-so-normal, oh-so-believable, the kind of woman you'd want your Mom to have over for tea, and probably would, a lot. Just another nice, sensible down-to-earth chainsmoking Texas woman married to an idiot loser a--hole. With a certain secret twinkle in her eye when she says the word "angels".

And you want to believe, Dear God, how you want desperately to believe that you've been wrong all this time, that she's just a normal pleasant loving wife and mother and Godfearing woman.

But then you remember the well-documented ear-to-ear Prozac grin that just would NOT GO AWAY in all the days and the weeks following 9-11, right up until AND DURING THE ENTIRE FURNERAL SERVICE FOR THE VICTIMS. FROM THE START TO THE FINISH. Like a Cheshire cat, where the woman disappeared and all you could see was that awful sardonic grin. What on God's earth was there to smile about?

And then you remember babies' brains blown out on the ground; entire families blown to bits in "Shock & Awe" in revenge for a crime they didn't commit, in search of WMD that didn't exist; children with their mothers in their beds in Falujah with the flesh burned off their bones while they slept from the effects of white phosphorus; mothers and their children riddled with American bullets, and blood screaming out to God Almighty from the ground, while her husband and his Vice President smirk, laugh, and growl all the way to their investment houses and his Secretary of Defense plays videos of contractors sodomizing young boys in Abu Grahib filmed by American soldiers over and over again, the screams never quite enough to satiate.

And the rabid salivating desire to do it all over again to Iran, only with nukes this time so there's no "insurgency" afterward to worry about.

Then she doesn't look and sound so sweet. Then the mask falls off and you see a reptilian fallen angel demon from Hell itself, with leathery wrinkled skin, strangely black strangely huge and strangely angled almond-shaped eyes that just can't possibly be from a bad facelift, and even the hair looks like a bad wig on a completely bald grey head. And then you remember how Condoleeza Rice looks more like a cobra than human, more often than not.

NEVER FORGET WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE, WHAT THEY ARE, WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN YOUR NAME AND IN THE NAME OF YOUR COUNTRY, AND TO YOUR COUNTRY, AND WORST OF ALL, IN THE NAME OF GOD AND GOOD.

It won't stop the payback, but at least you'll know WHY IT CAME and why it was JUSTIFIABLY and so HORRIFICALLY FATAL.

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Let Bush's bitch have it! Does anyone remember Hillary's treatment at the hands of the fascists?

What a moron. She thinks that Idiot Boy is beloved because the carefully prescreened and vetted people she run into think so. What a clueless, insight free moron. But how else could she stand to be around Monkey Boy?

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I'm sorry but I have no respect for either of the Bush's in the White House and Mrs. Bush is just as much on the hot seat as her man. If she is out there defending his atrocious decisions and campaigning while he hides behind her skirts then she should not be treated with kid gloves by either sex. I heard not one peep from anyone in the media about the way Hillary was treated. Hey, if you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.

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All this hooha about that worthless slut, Laura Bush, only serves to distract from real problems. If ANYONE else had killed someone while driving drunk, running a stop sign, whatever, they'd sit awhile where she belongs. Reality check, folks.

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What can you expect from a woman who married, stayed married and had children with this contemptable man? She had to have distorted her reality a LONG time ago, to cope with her situation.

I believe she is fair game. Now that she has put herself on the record politically, why not?

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Should the First Lady be fair game in the press? Most definitely! She is representing President Bush when she blatantly uses an ultra right wing network (Fox) and a panty waste reporter like Mike Wallace to espouse the party line and ultimately campaign for her husbands agenda and to prop up falling pole numbers for him and congressional Republicans. The news media had no mercy on Hillary Clinton when she was helping her husband early in his presidency to attempt to pass healthcare legislation as well as dragging her into investigation after investigation trying to dent President Clinton's popularity. The Republican's mouthpieces on Fox News, O'Reily and the no spin bullsh**, and talk radio, pill popper Rush Limbough, spent 8 years assasinating President Clinton's character. The Clinton's weren't perfect, but recent polls on CNN showed that people have a higher regard for the former president than for the current resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Let Mrs. Bush take the heat like Mrs. Clinton did. Unfortunately Mrs. Bush will not undergo the scrutiny for as long of a period because the press gave her husband a free pass until after the 2004 election and the Republican party hasn't had to prop up this current presidency until now.

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One day Bush walked into the bedroom of the Crawford Ranch with a sheep under his arm.

"Honey", said Bush, "this is the pig I have sex with when you have a headache!"

"George,", said Laura, looking up, "that's a sheep!"

"I wasn't talking to you!" Bush snapped!

(See how easy that was?!!)

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GW Bush actually did grow up mostly in Texas. His father moved there to get into the oil business. I think he grew up mostly in Midland. so, for better or worse, he is, more or less, a Texan. George Sr did have a house that he lived in while GW and the others were growing up.
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People seem to forget the following:
From the Dallas Morning News, May. 4, 2000:
"Report Finds Fatal Crash Attributable To Mrs. Bush"
"The wife of Gav. George W. Bush was responsible for a traffic accident that killed a high school classmate in Midland 37 years ago, according to a newly released accident report.
Investigators said a 1963 Chevrolet driven by Mrs. Bush - then Laura Welch, a high school senior - ran a stop sign and struck a Chevrolet Corvair driven by Michael Douglas. Copies of the accident report - parts of which are illegible - were released Wednesday by Midland City Attorney Keith Stretcher after state Attorney General John Cornyn held that the information was public.
Mr. Stretcher, the Midland City Attorney, initially declined to release any information about the accident on the grounds that it involved minors and therefore was exempt from disclosure under Texas law.
He also contended that disclosing the information would violate the parties' privacy rights.
Police listed two violations as contributing to the accident, both by Mrs. Bush.
One checked box read, "disregard stop sign or light," and the other was illegible.
Both drivers were Robert E. Lee High School students.
Neither was drinking and no citations were issued, according to the report."

Omitted in this version was that Mr. Douglas was Mrs. Bush's former boy friend.

So she may be charming, but her hands aren't clean...

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I can see Hillary Clinton, Princess Diana and even Margaret Thatcher being chosen as "the most admired woman" in polls, but I have never been able to figure out what Laura Bush has going for her which would gain her this title. She is nice woman who is interested in literacy, they say. It seems to me that, if she had any influence at all, there would be more money being spent on education. However, the only thing she ever seems to do is smile a lot and tell us how wonderful George is. She is cited as the epitome of a good wife and mother. However, I will say that if I ever made the kind of comments, even as a joke, which she made at last year's Press dinner, my husband and my mother would have been very embarassed.

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She is not worth the effort it takes to even listen to her. She is a typical Repuke pseudo Christian wife, up her husband's butt ( and that of his party). One of the reasons the right (wrong) wing hated Hillary so much is because she was her own woman. She was not content to walk in her husband's shadow, she had a brain. Laura lost her brain a long time ago, she sold it to marry into a rich family. I have no respect for the bitch, or for her a-hole husband. The entire Bushit family can go to Hell.

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Why not go after the Bush daughters and their dog too! The Democrats seem to want to attack people rather than focus on the issues...no wonder they lost the last election.

If the GOP wasn't in sorry shape they would easily win the next election. Expect Bush, Rove and the rest of the Neo-Cons to whip some magic out of their pockets for the next election while the Dems focus on petty stuff...and lose once again. We need someone better than Dean in charge of things. What a mess....

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When I hear Laura Bush with her librarian background talk about politics, I think of her as the enabler. It's hard to understand how people can be fooled by her. Her husband has been lying his whole life. His mother, father, wife and daughters must know that he is not doing a good job. Or else the entire family refuses to face reality.

Her softball interviews are completely controlled. No hard questions, must be the agreement made when she schedules an interview.

I normally switch the channels when any Bush is being interviewed, because I know the content will be shallow.

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dumber than a sack of rocks.

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What's all this talk about the problems with this lady? She is nice, her smile and clothing are as pressed properly as Nancy Reagan's and last time I checked she did not have any problems ordering expensive China made in China. This nice lady is helping her poor husband. He did not mean to make America mad. This nice lady has worked for charity somewhere, I'm sure. And she read some books to her poor husband who even has a learning disability that makes him prefer comic books and game boys. This great lady, I mean she is better looking than Barbara, and can say words almost as big as Hillary although not quite as quickly, she will help us all as a role model for the United Stepford Wives of America.

Do not, I repeat, do not, ask her about Condi, and that "working wife" stuff. She does not like that question. Or about Karen Hughes, except that's not so bad because even though Karen is married and Condi is not, Karen looks like a butch lesbian so that's ok.

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including children,wives,mothers,sister in laws and of course pets,the only way to get the congress back is to get in the gutter with these sneaky bastards

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For use as background for publication:

Mrs. Bush is not obviously high, nor does she suffer from a personality disorder marked by detachment and inappropriate affect.

Our First Lady does not spend most of her time in the White House enshrouded in privacy in her bedroom and private sitting room. When outside the gates of the Nation's Home, she does not shun all but the most essential personal appearances, and is not incapable of holding a real issue-oriented conversation without falling apart. Laura Bush does not spend 89% of her time outside the White House walls in expensive retail shopping establishments which have closed to accommodate her.

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she is an air head!

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""Former first lady Hillary Clinton got pilloried for 'vast right-wing conspiracy.' So why doesn't first lady Laura Bush get the same treatment..."

Little Marian the Librarian is, mm how to put his...not the brightest bulb in the pack and I think most people, realizing that, back off criticism of her out of politeness. It would just seem mean-spirited to attack a person we know doesn't have the intellectual wherewithal to even realize she's stupid.

Where Hillary Clinton can hold her own in any fight, and win, we would only succeed in making Laura cry.

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Laura should be fair game, what is she a two year old? If she can get on TV and support her husbands lame ass policies then she should be questioned about them, intensly..not like she's some kind of sweet old lady.. because by far she is not..

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Laura Bush may be a goofball, an apologist for her husband, daughter-in-law of the Gorgon (how scary!), but why do people go after her for defending, however mildly, her husband? She's not a politician; she's a wife, for gods sake. And the wife of a sadistic, heartless creep at that. Why don't we all lay off and go after those who make this mess? Or is it just another blame a woman thing? Let's see: Eve, Pandora, Mother (always, just ask Freud and the military), the Sirens, the Succubi, ad infinitum. Oh, right, and the male ego, male violence, male fantasies of omnipotence and immortality, gang wars, war in general, bottomless greed and power lust, rape, torture---all are the fault of women. As if. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

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Well, now that there's that hit Black Eyed Peas song about W's "Lady Lumps", we can only hope she appears next on SNL: hitting Gore with the car, fighting with Barb over who gets to read W his bedtime story, oblivious to increasingly disturbing events visible to her from the window of her rolling carriage.

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