Laura Bush seems to be blaming victims car for 1963 car accident and death

[WI_DEM]

“It was sporty and sleek, and it was also the car that Ralph Nader made famous in his book Unsafe at Any Speed,” she states. “He claimed the car was unstable and prone to rollover accidents. A few years later, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration went so far as to investigate the Corvair’s handling, but it didn’t reach the same grim conclusions. I was driving my dad’s much larger and heavier Chevy Impala. But none of that would ever ease the night of November 6. Not for me, and never for the Douglases.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36818869/ns/politics-the_new_york_times

[Marr]

1. She also blames the accident for her subsequent 'unchristian' behavior. It's actually very funny.

She says the fact that god ignored her pleas at the accident scene made her 'lose her faith for many, many years'. I assume she found it again when she got too old to party.

[Subdivisions]

4. 'It was the first time that I had prayed to God for something,

begged him for something, not the simple childhood wishing on a star but humbly begging for another human life. And it was as if no one heard.

Well...duh!

[Orsino]

2. Are we sure she only married into the Bush family?

She blames the victim like a champ.

[Ian David]

8. She also blames god. n/t

[mitchum]

16. Sociopath by insemination

[PCIntern]

3. None of that would ease the November night her Hubbo was 'elected'...

for me...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Nader should have called it "Unsafe When T-boned by a Person Running A Stop Sign?"

What a crazy bitch.

[hlthe2b]

6. She blames everyone and everything, but herself--despicable

Yes, how dare he not be driving a tank, knowing that this narcissistic, self-entitled teen would load up her friend in the family's heavy duty Chevy impala, barrel down the road while chatting up said friend and blow through the stop sign, broad-siding him into a lethal twist of metal. No, no, it wasn't her fault-- it was the dark road she'd obviously traversed countless times, the small stop-sign (when has there ever been any variation in the size or shape of a stop sign). Then her parents wouldn't LET her reach out to the parents, wouldn't LET her go to the funeral, apologize or EVER show any contrition. Anyone else seen a 17 yo so unwilling to cross their parents?

Absolutely despicable. I hope those who still held her in some esteem--tried to divorce her from their deserved disdain for her fool husband or the truly horrid thing that is her mother-in-law, Babs Bush*... I hope you take note. This woman is every bit as self-entitled, narcissistic and despicable as Babs* and certainly as her husband, George. It is unlikely her daughters will escape the same horrible learned trait, but one can hope.

[slampoet]

10. she hit him in an Impala? No wonder he died. They have Rules Against Impalas in Demolition Derbies

A friend of mines sister entered a Demolition Derby and i helped as a shleper, but in the rules, and they DO have a lot of rules, there was a list of cars specifically banned for use in the demolition derby. At the TOP of that list it said, "No Chevy Impalas, No Chrysler Imperials." and then it went on to also list that vans trucks and suv's were out.

Oddly the Imperial and the Ipala were the only two actual nameplates they listed.

[dkf]

7. What's with all this Laura Bush stuff?

Old news. Can't wait for W's book tour right b4 the midterms though. Yay!

[felinetta]

9. Hillary Clinton did not murder Vince Foster but the Repugs ran hard with that story. And

we never pointed a finger at Laura Bush who was actually
responsible for this man's death. Dems are so different from
Repubs!

[AnArmyVeteran]

11. Can you imagine what the right would do if Michelle or Hillary killed someone?

Right wingers would be yelling non stop 24 hours a day if Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton killed someone when they were teenagers. If I recall correctly, Laura Bush was presumably drunk while driving and caused the death of her friend. Of course, the right wing never even mentioned Laura's responsibility (or lack thereof) in the killing of another teenager, but would savagely attack any democrat involved in a similar situation.

Now it seems as if Laura Bush is blaming the car's design for her friend's death and not herself. What a disgrace. Conservatives are against any regulations or modifications that make cars safer. They hate people like Ralph Nader because he tries to make manufacturers responsible for the products they make. But leave it to a hypocrite like Laura Bush to blame her (probable) drunk driving and death of a friend on a car's design.

[Jokerman]

12. First generation Corvairs DID have a design flaw...

that made them prone to rollovers but that has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with being hit by some idiot who runs a stop sign.

[Walk away]

13. I guess we are lucky she married George....

It changed her from being a dangerous drunk killing people on the roads into a zombie on Prozac being driven around by a professional babysitter.

It was the last time that a Bush moving into the White House saved lives instead of cost them.

[Cybergata]

14. I drove a Corvair for a couple of years, and . . .

my Corvair didn't kill me. Of course I wasn't anywhere near Laura Bush, thank Buddha. ;-)

[la_chupa]

15. I wish any of this surprised me

I'm not real clear on why she wrote a book.

[cilla4progress]

17. I gotta say -

I love the cynicism here! I'm right there with ya!

[LeftinOH]

18. Corvairs had a design flaw that caused them to get broadsided by other cars?

I don't recall that detail in Nader's investigation.

[glitch]

19. Yes - but only if the other cars were driven by very recently exed-girlfriends.

It's a very specific flaw, very fine print.

[gmoney]

20. Impalas back in the day were real war wagons. Impala the Impaler?

I had an accident with my '67 Impala where the other driver ran a stop sign in some tiny car (Fiat? MG?). Pretty low speed, 25-30 mph, which did zero damage to my Impala (maybe a busted headlight) but turned the front of the other car into a ball of tinfoil. Nobody was hurt luckily, although the other driver turned out to be the younger brother of a girl I fancied, and it was the car they both shared, so sort of spoiled any chance I might have had with her.

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. "But" is a funny word.

It either means that everything before, or everything after, is meaningless.

[bullwinkle428]

22. Funny how those Corvairs tended to roll over when they were

broadsided by the equivalent of a speeding locomotive!! :eyes:

[Gormy Cuss]

23. It's really sad that she's still grasping at straws to place blame anywhere else but on herself.

I hate to Frist but this women needs therapy.

[Rex]

24. Of course she does, Repuke Queens are unable to take responsiblilty

for killing people - just like their Repuke Kings. Repukes DON'T take any responsibility and who can blame them, it is not like anyone is punishing them for their misdeeds. If you don't punish a spoiled brat, they just get worse.

[earth mom]

25. None of that "personal responsibility" for Laura. Oh HELL no.

What did we expect from a sociopath like her anyway?

[Javaman]

26. me thinks she protests to much. nt

[struggle4progress]

27. It was decades ago, and none of us would know about it if she hadn't later married W

It's one of thousands of tragic "kids in cars" stories. Personally, I wish the age to get a license was 20 or 21.