First Lady Laura Bush is an idiot
December 28th, 2008The sad thing about this, I’m not making this up. First Lady Laura Bush is calling her husband’s Presidency a success and says “…I don’t really feel like I need to respond to people that view it that way” to those of us who believe otherwise.
Wow. And here I was trying to see the good in people for the holiday season.
First off, I’ll give credit to where credit is due. Bush did two things right - appointing John Bolton be our UN Rep. Good. The UN is a chronic waste of money and Bolton believed in accountability, which is why he didn’t last very long there. The second - John Roberts to the Supreme Court. A strict Constitutionalist. What we need.
Now, what went wrong? Well, just about everything else.
We’ve had seven years to find Osama bin Laden. Had Bush not been such an idiot, bin Laden’s head would have been on a pike on the White House lawn years ago. Instead, we get involved in a war that has NOTHING to do with bin Laden and our resources are spent elsewhere. If that’s not a failure…
Constitution? Do I really need to elaborate here?
Economy? Wow. Has anyone else seen their retirement accounts drop 40% in one year before?
The border. The country’s morale. Bush’s Presidency been one disaster after another.
Heh. Last night, one of my favorite fellow political junkies and I were talking about a trend in VP selection. The trick - pick a VP that is so horrible that no one in the right mind would assassinate you because no matter how much you hate the President, you realize the VP is even worse.
Reagan did that with Bush Sr. Bush Sr did it with Dan Quayle. Clinton did it with Al Gore. Bush II did it with Cheney. And now Obama’s doing it by having Joe Biden.
I’m no fan of Obama, but Joe Biden? There are only four or five people tops in Washington I hate more than Joe Biden.
Life insurance policies. Very clever, I’ll give them that.
season’s blessings to you and yours…
I’m not so sure that Laura Bush is as much an idiot as she is blindly loyal to her husband. I think she should have kept her mouth shut though - she has been able to keep it zipped this long, why open it now? What’s that old saying? Better to be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
Hope your holidays were good,
Mike
If he had been my husband I would be divorced!
Well then she is one big lier for saying Bush’s term was a successful one. I can’t understand how she supported or tolerated all his stupid decision he made duing his presidency. She probably doesn’t care much in the first place.
Nways A very Happy New year to you and your family. I hope the year 2009 is peaceful, happy and prosperous for all the people around the globe.
Now I understand McCain’s choice of Palin! ;D
Ya can’t blame Laura Bush for trying to whitewash her husband’s image. I mean, we can wash our hands of him now, but she has to live with her choice for the rest of her life. Yeek.
SME - Yikes. Poor lady.
Tchoden - You too.
Miladysa - I can’t imagine marrying someone that incompetent.
Mike - They were. Hope yours were too.
That’s the thing. She has been silent this long. She should have stayed that way.
Laughingwolf - You too.
This is probably the worst presidency in history. It’s not his fault. The American people voted him in… twice.
The rest of the world saw this before it happened. To quote Chinese President Jiang Zemin of China about Bush, he said Bush was “logically unsound; confused and unprincipled; unwise to the extreme,”
Raemius - Yeah, it’s pretty bad when a tyrant calls you “logically unsound; confused, and unprincipled.” I don’t think Bush has principles. If he did, the Executive Branch would be going after corruption.
$700 billion spent on the bank bailouts that Bush was for and $1.6 billion went to execs and he’s not even investigating that? They’re probably friends of his.
Happy New Year ZS
Miladysa - You too.
Rachel Maddow’s take on the Laura Bush interview (and Condeleeza Rice’s) was that these two women were the only Republicans left that anybody had any respect for, so they were sent out on the Polish W’s Legacy tour…too bad they sold their souls. Not that I have any great respect for Rice, but apparently Rachel did or does.