How much does Laura Bush know? What do YOU think?

[burn the bush]

about the election and just about what shrubco is doing to the world. Other than being stepford, she seems ok to me. But how much about her sweet hubby and his cohorts do you think she knows about?
Do you think she knows little and truly believes her hubby is doing a wonderful job, or do you think she likes the power trip too and goes along with the bullshit? Seems like she would get a constant feed of the "good works" of this admin from the shrub family, but do they have her fooled?
What do you think?

[PinkTiger]

1. I think

It's none of our damn business. She's a wife. Let's leave her alone.
She is not reponsible for the actions of her husband's family.

[billie_]

6. what do you mean it is "None of our business"?

Laura Bush is responsible for HER actions and Her lack of actions, just like any other human being among us....why would she be exempt from responsibility and scrutiny?

I don't trash Laura Bush, or hold her responsible for the actions of her husband or his family, but i do hold her responsible for sleeping with and keeping the company of war criminals, thugs and murderers...

I hold myself, all of us responsible for W's atrocities, since we have allowed him to steal 1 election (possibly 2) and going to a war based on lies causing the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent US soldiers, Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi civilians.

We are all responsible for what we do and the company we keep....period...in the eyes of God and in a court of law.

No one is exempt....

[ebayfool]

17. I dunno 'bout that?! A spouse generally knows the strengths & ...

vulnerabilities of their significant others. She, I'm sure, is as aware as anyone of his methods of operation. She cannot be exempt from a critical eye if she is a willing enabler & cheerleader (by speaking on his campaigns, that - IMHO - makes her both). I've never known any spouse that wasn't aware when their S.O. did wrong, turning a blind eye doesn't make her any less culpable for the actions of her husband than does someone who claims it isn't their problem to speak out against a child abuser (i.e. - I saw the bruises but he never hit them in front of me, so it wasn't my place to turn him in!). This is a well educated woman, she's not ignorant. She fell for this being, with all his flaws. No one can claim, after that many years of marriage, that she wasn't aware of his dark side or weaknesses. That she still blows the trumpet for him doesn't show me a loyal wife. It speaks of a willing accomplice. She has blown this horn through years of Texas death sentences (i.e. the mentally retarded man that he wouldn't commute sentence for) on to the Iraq war, & still positively glows when speaking for him. She may not have the power to stop him, she does have the power to NOT be his champion. She has the ability to walk away & speak out, she chooses to stay. I would not judge a politician's child, his wife is an adult. The title WIFE is not a shield that exempts her from having to stand & face the judgment of the public after she laid out her opinions & exhortations to vote for *ush.

Sorry, no pass from me.

I try to affect change or protest when I see wrong, I expect the same from public figures (& she is just that). Could you see Theresa or Elizabeth not speaking up if they felt a moral compunction? Not likely!

[tsuki]

25. This is interesting. Female Bushco supporter that I know

love Pickles because she's a "stand by her man type of woman." They dislike Theresa and Elizabeth because they are just "too out there, too many opinions." (Too strong?)

On the other hand, they dislike Hillary because she "stood by her man."

Women who support Bush have me totally baffled.

[ebayfool]

26. Eva Braun stood by her man too. Guess she was a good 'republican'!

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/braun.html

I still believe that everyone that is silent, is complicit.

[donheld]

18. Laura made it our business

she when all over the country touting what a wonderful preznit W was. that makes it our business. :spank:

[madrchsod]

2. she once was a decent person

who fell in love with this loser. she might have thought she could "help" him or he would change or just hitching to the wealthy.but reality set in and she became resigned to her position as a baby sitter,a abused wife,and a mother with no support from her husband. life turned out to be alot different than she hoped. from what i have read about her before she was married and early into the marriage she was a happy out going lady that enjoyed life alot more than she does now. she`s resigned to the fact that this is her lot in life and she has to make the best of it. she has millions of dollars in her bank accounts to wash away her loneliness..in a way i feel sorry for her and in another way she has enabled him to destroy the world. but thru it all i will always make fun of the way she dresses......

[burn the bush]

3. thanks for the rrundown, I didn't know much about her.

She seemed to me like I said, maybe a little stepfordy but I thought she would make a good first lady to someone else.

[Hello_Kitty]

10. I've read quite a bit that she's has resumed smoking

And is quite the chain-puffer. Always out of camera range though. They say she was smoking quite a bit during the convention and the debates but of course, the so-called 'liberal' media allowed her to do it in private. Imagine if Teresa took so much as one drag near any camera....

[TwentyFive]

4. Like Carmela Soprano....she officially knows nothing.

What she does know, I'm sure she rationalizes it away. Like the stolen election, she probably thinks that if George didn't steal the election, Al Gore would have.

People close to criminals have a way of just rationalizing it all away. If not, that's what pharmaceuticals are for.

[212demop]

5. judging by the vacuous look in her eyes I'd say she knows very little n/t

[disconnected]

7. for some reason she's always annoyed me

i've never figured out why really, i'm ashamed to admit i've always had the urge to push her face forward in a toilet and flush it...i don't hold her responsible for her husbands actions or his stupidity though.

[GRLMGC]

8. Don't push people's faces into toilets and flush

it's not nice.

[212demop]

13. Yes, he's an arrogant imbecile in his own league

She's just vapid, an empty vessile. I wonder if he winds her up in the morning. Or does Condi do that for him too?

[donheld]

19. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[bvar22]

9. Pickles has been in a valium/alcohol daze for years.

She is beyond caring about anything but the next fix.

[OutsourceBush]

11. Laura is also a killer

She killed her 17 year old (or there abouts) ex-boyfriend. Ran into him with her car. Killed him dead. I guess it was good practice for later in life.

[auntAgonist]

15. pot shots, ....

is that really important now? I don't know what her traffic accident has to do with today ...

I think it's wrong to trash her on that. Hold her accountable for something you've witnessed her doing in the past years as a Governors wife and First Lady .. but lay off the pot shots.

[billie_]

16. i agree auntA...stick to the facts, no pot shots! n/a

[auntAgonist]

21. welcome to DU billie_

[billie_]

22. Thanks auntA :) n/t

[OutsourceBush]

37. Hey, I have never killed anyone, have you?

Facts is facts. She killed someone.

[msgadget]

12. I think being married to a politician must be brutal (OEM)

[212demop]

14. Certainly being married to that particular one.

[boi1946]

20. She is the model Stepford wife.

She might have a few opinions of her own, but they are hers---and his opinions are the ones she would ultimately go by. And she looks like she stepped out of an early 60's magazine--too perfect, and very brittle.

[rainbow4321]

23. His swollen eye..

Personally, I like to think that pic of him last week with that mark by his eye was from her fist after she found out about the Black Tuesday fraud and that they really WILL be moving back to Crawford in January.

:evilgrin: :bounce:

[JI7]

24. like Chimp, i just don't think she cares

[Warren DeMontague]

27. I suspect she knows where the Marlboro Red Packs are hidden

that's about it.

[Piperay]

28. I think she is unhappy & miserable

and she kills her pain with alcohol and prescription drugs, she sold her soul to the devil and now she is paying for it. If the rethugs hadn't been so hateful to Hillary, Tipper, Teresa and all the other Democratic wives I would allow myself to feel sorry for Laura but I will follow their lead and save my sympathy for those in my own party.

[Zorra]

29. Laura wants to be the Queen. n/t

[Tennessee Gal]

30. I think Laura is an empty-headed dolt.

I don't think she gives a damn about Americans. She just goes along with * like a good little wifey.

[readmoreoften]

31. I think she knows her A-B-Cs. I bet she can read (slowly). n/t

[nascarblue]

32. WHere does Condi fit in all this??? NT

[nascarblue]

33. What about the daughters? You'd think between Laura and...

..the twins, he'd get some semblance of sanity... YOu know?

I've always thought that he has even less of a role in running things then we're led to believe. I think it's a lot more Cheney, Rummi , Wolf, and his murderous NWO NAC dogs. Condi spends all her time coaching him on how to pronounce Abu Ghraib in a cowboy slang.

[ebayfool]

35. "..the twins" I don't hold kids up for scrutiny. They don't choose ...

their parents. When they are adults (as these 2 are,now) that's different. ButI haven't heard much in the way of stumping from them, just 'I love my daddy - so vote for him' stuff. When they start stating actual opinions, then they are fair game. Mommy is different, she's well aware of the evil in her bed. I do think you have a point on who's running the store, though. Lots of blame, lots of shopkeepers to shoulder it.

[ebayfool]

36. duh - dupe, sorry!

[ebayfool]

34. In the 'guest house' out back! n/t

[DS1]

38. A hair more than she wants to.

Probably wanted to be ignorant to it all, but when stuff is happening in the house you live in, questions arise.