Former First Ladies Band Together To Decry Separation Of Migrant Families

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By Kate Riga | June 18, 2018 2:30 pm



The three most recent former first ladies have banded together to condemn the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the border in a bipartisan call for compassion in the face of the immigrants’ plight.

Laura Bush opened the salvo on Sunday with an editorial in the Washington Post, a rare public position on policy from the usually low-key first lady. “I live in a border state,” she said. “I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.”

Michelle Obama reached across the aisle to support her Republican counterpart on Monday with a retweet of Bush’s article. She captioned it: “Sometimes truth transcends party.”

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton had taken to the air Monday, devoting an award acceptance speech to her own Link to tweet
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[7962]

1. Oh, the great Orange hope wont like this!

[pazzyanne]

15. In the words of my departed father,

"Tough bananas". The spoiled one needs to understand that he is hated by all sane, compassionate people. He is not "special" and there are places in hell on earth/ hell for this evil man and his minions.

[Wwcd]

2. Hillary Clinton statement on MSNBC

Link to tweet

[Freethinker65]

3. I was hopeful this would happen

[IrishEyes]

4. The only other former First Lady left is Rosalynn Carter

She has not issued a statement yet. Getting these three first ladies united together is good to see.

[brer cat]

12. It is good to see them with a united front.

Mrs. Carter has been in poor health since surgery earlier this year. She is 90.

[IrishEyes]

16. She just made a statement.

Rosalynn Carter is a wonderful person. She and Jimmy have done a lot to help people and make the country and world a better place.

[brer cat]

23. I agree.

I adore them both.

[lagomorph777]

5. I hope somebody is listening.

Do RWers like Laura Bush?

[Habibi]

7. Only until she says something they disagree with.

Then she's a RINO.

[lagomorph777]

9. I wonder which way they'll go on this. "She's such a RINO - I support kidnapping babies!"

Or "Hmm, maybe concentration camps aren't such a great thing...."

[Jedi Guy]

17. Alas...

The former, I expect. Their train of thought will derail moments from the station when they realize that Mrs. Bush is siding with two former first ladies who are Democrats. Furthermore, one of those is Hillary Clinton, who is essentially the Antichrist to Trump's cultists. When you add Michelle Obama into the mix, the train of thought explodes shortly after it jumps the rails.

No matter what is being said, the presence of those two women will provoke a visceral "NO" reaction in your average Trumpanzee. The three former first ladies could be coming together to express their love of ice cream, and the reaction from Trump's true believers would be the same. Their loathing of Michelle and Hillary will utterly preclude the message.

[lagomorph777]

20. We only need those just above the 35% IQ percentile; obviously the Deplorables are useless.

Those in the 36-52 range should be somewhat more capable of at least pretending to act like human beings.

[Jedi Guy]

21. For what it's worth, the rank-and-file Republicans I know are aghast about this policy.

Trump's true believers are in so deep they won't or can't turn around. All of the card-carrying Republicans I still associate with are horrified that Trump is tearing families apart like this. The drift of sentiment is mainly that it's one thing to enforce immigration law, and quite another to do so in the cruelest way possible, apparently just for shits and giggles.

The #NeverTrumpers are still out there, but the Trumpanzees are getting all the bandwidth. Trump can count on his kooky followers if he lasts long enough to run in 2020, but I think a sizable chunk of the rest of the Republicans will sit it out or vote against him out of disgust. If I'm right, he'll take an electoral drubbing that'll be beautiful to see. There's a lot of division within the GOP because of him, even if it's not getting a lot of airtime at the moment.

[lagomorph777]

22. Thanks for restoring my faith in a portion of the electorate.

Hopefully a big enough portion to save the country.

[JI7]

25. not really, they see the Bush women as liberal since they tend to be pro choice

the Bush twins are liberals for sure though . and i think some of their female cousins .

but Laura might appeal to the non partisan types who don't pay close attention but say things like "both sides need to work together" . they are turned off by things that come off as too extreme in either direction.

[DinahMoeHum]

6. MAGA - Mothers Are Getting Angry

n/t

[Kind of Blue]

8. Awesome! Who better than the 3 First Moms. n/t

[Lonestarblue]

10. We need 4 First Moms.

Melania should stand up for her supposed beliefs and join these three ladies.

[LiberalBrooke]

11. Don't hold your breath.

That would take actual thinking about other children besides her own.

[DFW]

13. Trump will no doubt respond by bringing over Kim Jong-Un's wife

And she will promptly respond that the conditions in which the children are being held would be considered luxury accommodations in her country, so what's the problem?

[mr_lebowski]

26. Huh ... he has a wife?

There's actually a living, breathing, female human being ... that would snuggle up against that monster?

I honestly would not have guessed. Especially given the company he keeps.

[DFW]

27. Well, put it this way

There has been reference to a wife. Whether or not there really is one, or several women who have been selected to fulfill the role when called upon to do so is another matter. I couldn't tell you for sure which is the case. Ask Dennis Rodman, maybe?

[CTyankee]

14. This is beautiful.

[suffragette]

18. Rosalyn Carter has also spoken up against this. Maybe add to OP?

https://mobile.twitter.com/CarterCenter/status/1008805106287071232

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Statement from former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter on children separated from their parents at the border: <a href="https://t.co/WVg91SWutl">pic.twitter.com/WVg91SWutl</a></p>— The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) <a href="

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[oberliner]

19. Also Melania

[olddad56]

24. she doesn't count. Maybe Putin's wife should be there.