NBC nightly news just rolled out Pickles

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

to defend *, in Andrea Mitchell's report. I think they're really getting desperate.

[Blasphemer]

1. Oh brother...

What did she have to say?

[buff2]

2. Sweet Geesus!!!!

I am so glad I am watching CBS!

[yardwork]

3. ROTFL!!! Did she stand by her man?

...er, chimp?

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

4. Paraphasing here, but something along this line:

My husband did everything he could, and if anyone else thinks otherwise, they're just plain wrong.

Good God, what a simpleton!!!

[Blasphemer]

5. Barf....

and how the hell would she know? Maybe they should roll out Lynne Cheney instead - SHE was the one in the thick of things.

[CatWoman]

6. Silly Pickles

Tricks are for kids.

[proud patriot]

9. ROFLMAO

:D

[dae]

32. 9.9 on the dae Retort scale.

:D::thumbsup:

[Vickers]

11. "My husband did everything he could"

"He cleared brush, he got blisters from his new cowboy boots, he sunburned his ears...I declare, it was about the roughest vacation month we've ever had!!!"

[Arkana]

19. Laura is good for nothing

I'm no misogynist--God knows, I've defended Hillary Clinton often enough, and growing up in a house with an ultrafeminist mother, I'd be shot for any chauvinist leanings.

But Laura is useless. Every picture of her shows her smiling like an ass. I think her teeth are going to get sunburned. She has absolutely no worth as a First Lady whatsoever.

[PaDUer]

24. THis was on earlier...

I had to look at the tv after I heard her voice...sure, she's defending her man..she's likes getting facelifts, liposuction to the gut, thighs, and whatever else.Plus, all those "vacations" out of the country courtesy of the people..Oh, can't forget those shots of liquor either, the best stuff..

[tabasco]

7. Is it just me?

Or is that woman on heavy medications? She acts like a freaking zombie or robot.

[ezee]

8. MY god

Its now a "family affair"....there goes the family value card.

[Mari333]

10. Ken Lay rolled out his wife too

they get desperate and grab the wives to soften their image...not in this case..if anything, all they will do is show her to be a medicated fool spouting off her Prozac riddled mutterings.
this is a majorly desperate move on their part.

[Malva Zebrina]

12. Right, she attended all of those meeetings

too so she knows for sure he did everything he could. Reading Ron Suskind's book and this woman does not have the slightest idea of what is going on at all. She is as dumb as her husband if not dumber.


She sat on her ass waiting for the taxpayers to pay for her jaunts to Europe to "eat and shop"--that is about the extent of her knowledge of politics and what went on. This is truly a Potemkin goverment. Can't wait until they take theri sorry asses back to Crawford.

She doesn't have a clue--this smells like Karen Huge.

[oasis]

21. That's it, a Karen Hughes production.

[grasswire]

13. ohoh.....Ma Bush is not far behind, then

When the going gets rough, they send out the enforcers.

First Poppy will get teary and claim how much it hurts to have "our boy" criticized unfairly.

Then Bar will scold America for daring to speak ill of George W.

(Remember, she told new bride Laura that NOBODY criticizes George W. NOBODY.)

Nasty bunch of grifters with their bag of tricks.

[PaDUer]

26. That's right...

was just telling someone today that it's not going to be a long time before old babs rears her ugly face and mouth!

[suegeo]

36. Poppy is right on schedule

Just as you predicted...
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=4704789§ion=news

Emotional Elder Bush Attacks Son's Critics

Mar 30, 6:22 pm ET

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - An emotional former President George H.W. Bush on Tuesday defended his son's Iraq war and lashed out at White House critics.

It is "deeply offensive and contemptible" to hear "elites and intellectuals on the campaign trail" dismiss progress in Iraq since last year's overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the elder Bush said in a speech to the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association annual convention.

"There is something ignorant in the way they dismiss the overthrow of a brutal dictator and the sowing of the seeds of basic human freedom in that troubled part of the world," he said.

The former president appeared to fight back tears as he complained about media coverage of the younger Bush that he called "something short of fair and balanced."

[BabsSong]

14. EXCUSE ME--they couldn't stomach Hillary because she had her

busy body nose in the government when everyone knows she should have been baking cookies. So is this Pickles admittance that she is part of running the White House. OH MY GOD---she's another freakin' Hillary. Hate, hate hate...come on Stupid White Men of Limbaugh--you tell that bitch to get her ass "outta her husband's business". And if she wasn't there, then the stupid bitch needs to shut the fuck up. Yes..they are desperate.

[GregW]

15. They'll probably rollout Raygun next

I mean, literally roll him out ... then present Nixon in an ashtray

:eyes:

[James T. Kirk]

16. Pickles? Huh?

Maybe I missed a memo or something. Why is she called "Pickles"?

[htuttle]

17. That's been the subject of some speculation...

...but it's George's nickname for her, so who knows.

[Eurobabe]

18. maybe she's sour...ewwwww!

[CatWoman]

20. my theory is that is what he uses to get her off with

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

25. 'Pickles' goes back to the campaign of 2000

when reporters made a big deal about * giving everyone a nickname -- not all flattering, BTW. It was part of his "just folks" charm.

It was never revealed what *'s name for Laura was, so Bartcop gave her one: "Pickles"

The name caught on, and now it's become the de facto reference for the Librarian-in-Chief.

Now, do you want to know why Bart calls Paul Harvey "a horse-fucker"?

[acmavm]

27. Yeah, I want to know.

.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

31. Paul Harvey made the statement that you could tell that

* and Pickles were in love "just by looking at them", and you could tell that Bill and Hillary weren't in love "just by looking at them."

Bartcop reasoned that if Paul Harvey could tell about a person just by looking at them, then it was obvious -- just by looking at him -- that Paul Harvey was someone who had sex with horses.

Which became "Paul Harvey, Horse-fucker" in Bartspeak.

[kskiska]

22. Whatever happened to her trip to Afghanistan/Iraq?

I thought she said she was going in March? Not a word since.

[Unknown Known]

23. This is a sure sign of desperation

when they roll out "the little woman". Remember when they brought out Nancy after Reagan was shot?

[skooooo]

28. Who's "Pickles"??

..pardon my ignorance.

[alcuno]

29. It's Bush's nickname for his wife, Laura.

And welcome to DU.

[skooooo]

33. Thanks for the welcome!!

It's a little hard to know where to jump in, guess it will just take a little time.

[newyawker99]

34. Hi skooooo!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[skooooo]

35. Hey, can you help??? Please post this story on main board!!

I can't create a thread because I'm new, but here's a good one:
==============

Bush Campaign Seeks to Regain 'Compassionate' Image

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040330/pl_nm/campaign_bush_forums_dc_2


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing a tight re-election fight over the next seven months, President Bush (news - web sites) has quietly revived the kind of cozy voter forums that helped craft his image as a "compassionate conservative" in 2000, analysts and Republican insiders say.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

30. I've always heard this stuff about

Pickles being on rx meds.....is it just conjecture or based on a story I missed or what?