First Lady Says No Plans to Seek Office

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20050427/ap_on_go_pr_wh/laura_bush

Despite her popularity, first lady Laura Bush says she's not interested in running for higher office.

Bush made the declaration Tuesday, telling "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno that she has no aspirations for holding office and doesn't even pay much attention to her approval ratings — though she tracks her husband's.

The first lady's approval rating hovered around 80 percent in February, according a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll, the most recent taken. By contrast, the president's overall approval rating is at 47 percent, a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Tuesday shows.

Does Bush ever taunt her husband because her ratings are higher? "No, but I might," she told Leno on Tuesday's program.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. Gawd

The thought of Pickles running for office boggles the mind. If you thought Liddy Dole was vapid and mindless...

[AFSCME girl]

3. I know

can you imagine?! :banghead:

[expatriot]

2. God she scares me. It scares me that she is "popilar" with the

American people. She is SO drugged... she's Stepford First Lady.

[Placebo]

4. Well I can certainly sleep soundly at night now!

How 'bout the rest of you?

:rofl:

[aquart]

10. Should we thank her?

I know it's a great relief to me.

[Placebo]

16. Couldn't you see her running for the US Senate?

I can see it all now...

Senator Pickles "Hit 'n Run" Bushie, from the great state of Texas.

C'mon, someone is going to have to take Kay Bailey Hutchinson's seat. ;)

[jdj]

45. she's too medicated to function in any real capacity.

hell, she may be a robot for all we know.

[demokatgurrl]

24. Yes, and God too while we're at it. n/t

[underpants]

5. Ha (chokes a little) that is the funniest thing I have read in a long time

Okay there was something funnier yesterday (can't mention it) but that is hilarious.

[Demit]

6. Leno looks thrilled to have her there, not.

He's probably thinking, "I've seen a lot of overdone Botox jobs up close, but that is truly impressive."

[Megahurtz]

30. Lol!

:D That's good!

[reality based]

7. That Leno is really an enabler isn't he?

[jdj]

44. yes, in an almost criminal way.

the time he had Limbaugh on his show, I think he took it too far.

[bullimiami]

8. oh really. how moronic to even pose the question.

just because hillary, an extremely educated and experienced lawyer and politician decided to pursue a career of her own doesnt mean the vaccuous, vapid, mind-numbingly dull, smiling armband on little hitlers arm should have similar aspirations.

[EFerrari]

9. It used to freak me out that Laura and Laughing Sal never

appeared together anywhere.

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/apr/musee/musee_slide4.html

[napi21]

11. I think the poll #'s are being misinterpreted.

She is exactly what a lot of Pubs want in a First Lady. She stays in the background, always walks a few steps behind her husband, tends to things like picking china patterns, flowers for the WH, and menus for WH dinners. Although I feel sorry for her...having to live with an idiot, she is the perfect non-controversial person.

I suspect, if she were to make any noises about any office, those ratings would plumet.

[underpants]

14. Right, it is the "return to the 50's" thing

which they dropped a long time ago when they found out that not everyone was all that crazy about their place in society in the 50's

[demokatgurrl]

23. too bad we have actually done it, though-

returned to the 50s that is. Just replace the word "terrorism" for "communism" and you're right back there with McCarthy et al.

[UCLA Dem]

19. yep. the repukes like their wives to be non-threatening.

egos are too fragile i guess.

[Rainscents]

12. USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll??? Pleazeeeeeee...

These polls are run by thugs and we are suppose to believe these polls???????

[Fridays Child]

13. Not even Secretary of Vacuous Expressions?

Rats.

[JohnnyBoots]

15. Are Stepford wives allowed to hold public office? Also,

if she did run I would like to see how they play down the fact that she pretty much skated away from vehicular manslaughter with out even a slap on the wrist.

[Javaman]

17. Just image that future...ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

Oh man, what a thought, I mean jeeez, damn, owwww, ugh, that one made my brain hurt. That would be breath takingly stupid in it's expanse.

I can't believe, even for a repuke, someone had the nerve or the stupidity or perhaps they were pulling a prank, to ask such a question. Ugh, I mean, UGH!

There are no words to describe such a bizarre and strange question.

Deep somewhere in the whitehouse a gaggle of reporters gather for a first lady press conference....

Pickles: thank you for coming. Yes, Bob in the front row...

Bob(reporter): How do you think your role as first lady has played toward the American public?

Pickles: Well...I think...I enjoy plays...and...I believe the American public does too...next question.

Bob is visibly speechless, sits down. The gaggle jumps up to ask a question.

Pickles: Jeff G in the front row...

Jeff G(not a real reporter but plays one on the net): Do you have aspirations to run for office?

The room falls dead quiet. An aghast reporter next to Jeff G(not a real reporter but plays one on the net), stares at him with mouth agape.

Jeff G(not a real reporter but plays one on the net): What? It was a valid question.

The first lady pears out across a room of reporters with mouths collectively agape.

Pickles: Umm...I enjoy running...I have run an office...so perhaps I will do that again...

The room is silent.

[jahyarain]

36. OMG, dude!

that was hilarious!

[Javaman]

39. Welcome to DU :)

Thanks for the compliment

[UCLA Dem]

18. Can't be too threatening to our men, now can we??

:puke:

Does anyone else feel like we're in a flashback to the 1950's?

[AlCzervik]

20. Maybe she'll be heading up the anti-gang unit of the lapd?

[flordehinojos]

21. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT LAURA BUSH IS A POPULA FIRST LADY ...

is it because she just carries the name BUSH?

IS IT BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T CREATE WAVES?

IS IT BECAUSE SHE LIES FOR BUSH AND COVERS UP FOR HIS IMBECILITY?

it surely cannot be because of any merits she has accomplished on her own rights.

the american public appears to be so fickle.

[Massachusetts]

22. Aw shucks!

[shantipriya]

25. First Lady for an Office

Thank god!Otherwise i'd have to leave the country NOT so much because she is elected to an Office BUT because I cannot live in the same country as the morons who elect her!!!

[BiggJawn]

26. Saw a clip of her walking up the steps to AF-1 last week...

I can't help it, but OMG!!!!
I'm an ass man, and that woman has an ASS on her!

OK, so she's qualified in giving BiggJawn a stiffy. What Public Office does THAT mesh with?

[JNelson6563]

27. Hilarious!

Imagine Pickles running for anything!!! <snarf>

[DrDan]

28. well, I personally think it is a shame she won't

The PTA's are always in need of new leaders

[Megahurtz]

29. Oh God I hope not.

n/t

[LibDemAlways]

31. Leno's got a look on his face that says

"Jeez, I thought I booked Laura Bush. This looks like they sent a figure over from the Hollywood Wax Museum. How the hell am I supposed to interview it?"

[antonialee839]

33. Ditto

see below

[antonialee839]

32. Is this a House of Wax Promo?

[AndyTiedye]

34. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!

Could install her in 2008?
:puke::puke::puke:

[madmom]

35. that just shows even a box of rocks can think of running for prez.

[lebkuchen]

37. Well, her husband did.

History repeating itself.

[CottonBear]

38. Can you run for office if you killed someone with your car?

Just asking? In all fairness, I don't think that she was charged with any crime or ticketed by the police.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

40. I would please me to no end

to see both Pickles and her pet monkey running for the border, pursued by an angry mob armed with pitchforks and torches.

[monobrau]

41. oh please

This is an obvious attempt to somehow equate her with a capable woman like Hillary or Libby Dole, and it's pathetic.

[onehandle]

42. Her future career is set in stone.

Just like her facial expression.

She will hunt Batman and terrorize Gotham City.

[Love Bug]

43. In other words: "I'm not Hillary! I know my place!"

I never watch Leno. This is one reason why.

[Malva Zebrina]

46. You know

all I could do was laugh when I read this OP. It is really funny. Bwahahahahah

[wicket]

47. kick

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