September 1, 2008, - 10:43 pm
On the First Lady: Is It Just Me . . .
By Debbie Schlussel
. . . Or are you almost as sick of Mrs. Laura W. Bush as you are of her hubby, George “Islam Is Peace”/Quintuple-Muslim-Immigration-and-Visas-to-America W. Bush?
I was never a fan and couldn’t understand the fawning, other than she was post-Hillary, so the benchmark was set low. That’s sadly symbolic of the way everything is with America these days. A lot of hype over sheer mediocrity, because we’ve set our expectations so low. That’s Mrs. Bush in a nutshell–she was mediocre. Average.
There’s a new novel out, which is fiction but is supposed to be about Laura Bush. The book sounds vapid and absurd, but it reminded me of something that’s always bothered me about Mrs. Bush. Laura Bush ran a stop sign and killed her boyfriend, into whom she crashed in an odd freak coincidence. And, yet, she never did a day of jailtime for it.
You think you or I could run a stopsign, commit vehicular manslaughter, and get away with it? Think again. It’s negligence, it’s manslaughter, and it’s not without consequences . . . if you’re one of the little people. We’d be ex-cons, if we were even “ex” at this point.
Let’s face it. This woman–after telling the press she’d never don a hijab on her phony Mid-East breast cancer PR tour–went and donned a hijab and pandered to the future payers of her husband’s high-dollar speaking fees and exorbitant Presidential Library: The Gulf State Emirs and Kings. And, just to make sure the future deals are sealed, she also smilingly posed with women in niqabs, or as I call it, “The Full Ninja” (complete face veil).
She also hinted–over the years–that she’s pro-abortion. And she and hubby surrounded themselves with liberals like Colin Powell and Condi Clueless.
And, most important to me, Laura Bush made fun of her husband when he said one of the few spot-on things he’s actually said in his administration (but didn’t follow), which was how he wanted Bin Laden “Dead or Alive.” What was wrong with that (other than not actually pursuing it)?
She said her husband was being too much of a cowboy and went up to him and said, “Bushie, are you gonna git ‘im?” Translation: With that one phrase, he was being too much of a man. And that masculinity ended with that, back in fall 2001. We know who really wore the pants in the Bush 2 White House. And she likes red lipstick. The guy was emasculated. And she was the emasculator, though in a much more behind-the-scenes way than Hillary Clinton was and Michelle Hussein Obama is.
A guy just murders 3,000 Americans on the same day, and the President’s shrew has a problem with wanting to get him no matter what it takes. If only he’d listened to his words and not to her criticism of them. It makes Nancy Reagan’s consulting of psychics for the Presidential schedule look like political mastery.
There’s a reason the Bush twin daughters are liberals who acted like Paris Hilton during their father’s Presidency and who say they might vote for Barack Obama. They think like their mother.
So, while it’s nice that Mrs. Bush is fundraising for people in the Hurricane Gustav area, big whoop. She’s the Prez’s wife. That’s what she’s expected to do. It’s the baseline, not the cherry on top. And so was her tour as the First Lady. She wasn’t as offensive or political as Hillary Clinton, so anything she did was acceptable. But, don’t fool yourself, behind the scenes she was as political as Hillary, minus the secret socialized medicine committee (she admitted she set policy in an interview on FOX News Sunday–funny, she wasn’t on my ballot; how ’bout yours?). Where Bush was never a conservative–if anything, he was a moderate Republican–she was even less so, your basic liberal-to-centrist.
Sorry, but in eight years, this tough, truly liberal, ex-librarian/teacher chick did not impress. And sadly, because I believe pillow talk is the most effective form of free speech, she had a forum even more important the that of the actual leader of the free world. She’s his boss.
I will not miss Laura Bush. Though, I know, if Michelle Hussein Obama is elected President, er . . . First “Lady”, we’ll forget it all. Most of us will, anyway.
Like I said, Mrs. Bush was lucky to arrive after the First Lady considered the bitchiest and most hated in recent decades. If Mrs. Bush is luckier still to be sandwiched between bitchiest and even bitchier (Michelle Obama), she’ll be remembered fondly . . . but far more fondly than she deserves.
In the end, President Bush listened to his mother, er . . . wife, like a good boy. He didn’t get Bin Laden–Dead OR Alive–and Al-Qaeda is stronger than ever and more decentralized. But, hey, Bush’s wife wore the Islamic female headdress of oppression. The manslaughter of one guy and a show of dhimmi solidarity with a whole world of hurt for the West that goes a lot further than the “accidental” death of a former boyfriend in Texas.
Really, she wasn’t that much better than Hillary after all. Just less openly offensive.
T Minus Four Months for them all.
Where are the Erica Jongs of the world, talking about the “pink men” who are supposedly so oppressive, when it comes the sick oppression of women in the Middle East?
Sue Denemme on September 2, 2008 at 12:09 am