Laura Bush Says Gay Marriage "Shocking"

[kskiska]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Laura Bush says gay marriages are "a very, very shocking issue" for some people, a subject that should be debated by Americans rather than settled by a Massachusetts court or the mayor of San Francisco.

Asked how she feels about the issue personally, Mrs. Bush replies: "Let's just leave it at that."

In an Associated Press interview, Mrs. Bush also endorsed sexual abstinence programs for teens, which are slated to get double their current funding under the president's latest budget proposal.

Abstinence should be extensively discussed alongside contraception, she said. "We know it works. It's 100 percent fail-safe."

(snip)

On another political subject, asked whether the president's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, will ever run for president, she replied, "I doubt it, but I have no idea."

Mrs. Bush said she and the president have been feeling a bit "nostalgic" as they watch the Democratic candidates campaigning in the snows of New Hampshire and Iowa.

"That's a much more upclose and personal campaign because you get to actually be with so many of the voters," she said. "We both miss that."

more…
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=4&u=/ap/20040218/ap_on_go_pr_wh/laura_bush_interview

[htuttle]

1. If she think's that's shocking...

...she should take a look at what her husband has been doing to the children of Iraq and Afghanistan. But of course, she'd never sully her Beautiful Mind with those images...

Just take another Xanax, Laura. It will all be over soon, and you'll be back in Crawford.

[kskiska]

5. Those things aren't 'shocking,'

they're 'wrenching,' in Laura-speak.

[Whoa_Nelly]

81. Laura "Library Lady" is shocking...and callous and disgusting

How dare she speak out at all about gay marriage, or any issues, when she has shown such grave disregard for human diginity and welfare.

From the post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=372204

Mrs. Bush Is 'Library Lady' for the Day

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- When first lady Laura Bush, a former librarian, read aloud to children here Wednesday, she picked an appropriate book: "Tomas and the Library Lady," a story about a Texas migrant boy whose trip to a library opens his eyes to the world of books.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-laura-bush-reading,0,815606.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

While First Lady of TX, this is what was going on:

The Real Bush Record with Texas Hispanics
<snip>
Fact #3: Bush has never visited a single colonia. In his acceptance speech, Governor Bush did not mention colonias--sprawling shanytowns along the border that lack basic services such as water, sewer, and electricity. There are about 1500 colonias from El Paso to Brownsville, with about 400,000 residents, mostly Hispanic. These Texans live in third world conditions, with the highest unemployment, poverty and drop-out rates in the country, as well as a much higher incidence of diseases like hepatitis A and tuberculosis. The Governor has refused numerous invitations to visit the colonias to see these conditions firsthand. He can go to Bob Jones University, but he can’t find time to visit colonias in his own back yard.

http://baltimorechronicle.com/bush_record_sep00.html

What a hypocritical and insensitive piece of garbage is Laura Bush.
:grr:

[GainesT1958]

2. "Shocking", huh?

I may have to start calling Laura Bush "The Ostrich"! :eyes:

B-)

[JohnnyFianna1]

12. So..now what does queen* have to say

"Let them eat cake" "I wouldn't waste my beautiful mind on that" and now this, more beautiful quotes from disconnected women past and present. She should just stick with her Limbaugh supplied valium.

[Zhade]

94. "I wouldn't waste my beautiful mind on that"

I thought that was Barbara b*sh?

[saigon68]

32. No --she's a Gigantic Homo-phobe

60 years ago people like her didn't want "Darkies" and white girls to marry.

She is a disgusting piece of dog shit---

[kysrsoze]

80. What's shocking is the idea of her actually having an orgasm....

either with or without her whiskey-dick husband.

[lebkuchen]

91. When you're rich, you can afford the best detachable shower nozzle

Home Builders has to offer, aka "head giving head."

[onehandle]

3. States Rights!.....

But only when they benefit the GrandOilParty!

[Rex]

4. I see Chimpy has nothing on Laura when it comes to

ambiguous blurbs. They really are a perfect couple (of what I have no idea).

[SWPAdem]

47. Well, at least they have spared two other people

an ugly fate by marrying each other.

[mondo joe]

6. Okay, Marie Antoinette

This woman was a TEACHER?

[MacCovern]

52. Yes, she was a teacher

Oh, don't get me started on "public" school teachers.
You know what they say about "Those that can't."

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. Spoken like a straight woman who has yet to have

her first real orgasm. :evilgrin:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. Touche......

[Mandate My Ass]

14. tee hee hee

too funny. }(

[bushisanidiot]

20. Holy Crap! That's Hilarious!

as I wipe my coffee off my keyboard..

heh. ;)

[progressiverealist]

23. I wonder if there's anyone anywhere...

who'd be willing to help poor old Laura out with that.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

25. Don't look at me.

I don't want to do her any favors.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

26. Strom Thurmond already passed away unfortunately.

I hear he was The Mack.

[wicket]

41. vibrator

Maybe us at DU should chip in buy her a vibrator, BWAHAHAHAHAHA :) I kid of course ;)

[David Zephyr]

72. Don't Do It. The President Might Chip His Teeth While Using It.

:hi:

[wicket]

76. banana

especially if it looks like a banana, I'm sure Chimpy can't resist bananas ;)

[Toucano]

53. Eew! Eew!

Now I have to go wash my brain! Thanks for the nightmares! :)

[Karenina]

70. Or even get laid.

eom

[iverglas]

71. polite applause

Spoken like a straight woman who has yet to have
her first real orgasm.

Okay, *that* was parody, right?

Not bad at all ... it being meant as parody of what men say about women, and not as a straight (forgive me) ad personam comment.

I'm just not sure, from a response or two, that the entire audience understood it as such.


(edited because I mis-titled it)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. I find it shocking

that this dumb bimbo can walk, chew gum and pop a few prozacs all at the same time.

[Zhade]

95. She uses Prozac gum - saves a step.

NT!

[veganwitch]

9. "We know it works. It's 100 percent fail-safe."

until you have sex. and then you have nothing!!! there studies have already shown that abstinence does not have any major difference in delaying sexual activity than contraceptive.

[Art_from_Ark]

77. Could she be referring to the "abstinence" practiced by her nephew

in the front seat of his jeep parked at the Tallahassee Mall?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,641393,00.html

[AngryYoungMan]

11. Laura Bush fascinates me...

...because I have never seen such an utter nonentity in the public eye before. She is a complete cypher.

And she married...HIM. I can't figure out what that means about each of them. The vacant smile, the "work" she does... (not to dis actual librarians)...

Was she SELECTED ON PURPOSE to be the anti-Hillary? No...

[xchrom]

13. turn the lights out, laura

go back to sleep now.
she and her husband must have staff that carts around pointy objects for them -- obviously language is a problem for them -- so i'm guessing that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Zan_of_Texas]

18. I'll tell ya what's 100% effective

Hey Dubya, send me $1.5 billion to promote teens not having early pregnancies.

I'll encourage 'em to forego heterosexuality. Practice gay or lesbian sex. It's 100% effective in avoiding unwanted pregnancies.

Aw hell, low on cash? I'll handle the program for a mere $1 billion.

[JasonDeter]

15. She and bush* miss up close and personal contact with voters ? LOL!

Then why all the free speech zones Laura you lying republican? Why all the hand picked crowds and all the military crowds and hiding the pResident from the true feelings of the American people, in fact the world, namely hatred towards your husband? I have never and will never believe your obvious republican propaganda Laura so sit down and shut up.

[HFishbine]

16. Abstinence "100 percent fail-safe?"

Didn't work for the mother of her God.

[RobertSeattle]

17. Laura, people used be "Shocked" about interracial marriage too

We got over it.

[Occulus]

28. Weren't people once shocked by

nobility marrying poverty? Multi-class marriages we once very much frowned upon, as I recall....

[kskiska]

50. When I was growing up

I was taught that a "mixed marriage" was a Catholic marrying a Protestant.

[MacCovern]

55. So no one should be "shocked" anymore about anything?

The vast majority of people are still shocked by pedophilia
and bestiality, and I'm glad they are!

[mondo joe]

64. Can't tell the difference between victims and consenting adults?

Victimizing children and animals ought to be shocking.

Consenting adults isn't.

[Zhade]

96. Are you actually putting homosexuality in the same category as pedophilia?

Give me a fucking break.

[MacCovern]

54. People also are "shocked" by polygamy also

So where should society draw the line?

[iverglas]

67. and some people are shocked by women holding jobs

So where should society draw the line?

Where what its members are being "shocked" about ceases to be any of their business.

Oh, the facile answer. Some questions just call for it.

But yeah, sure, it isn't always easy to determine where the line oughta be drawn.

So, you got some ideas? What is it that makes marriage between people of the same sex someone else's business?

It's really a pretty simple question. And it's a decent enough summary of the questions that get asked -- and must get asked -- whenever someone is denied the equal protection of the law, and due process.

Writ even smaller, it goes: what is the justification for violating those rights?

Got justification?

Or maybe you were just saying it's okay for people to be shocked by things. Well of course it is. I'm shocked at the state of my kitchen, and I'm sure you would be too, and I wouldn't say you shouldn't be. I just don't think I'll be trying to pass a law to criminalize my housekeeping practices though ... and I sure hope you won't be.

.

[MrBenchley]

19. Funny, I find a First Lady who killed an ex-boyfriend

and whose daughters are slutty drunks shocking.

I find a first family who are openly trying to encourage bigotry shocking too.

[salinen]

21. Prozac works!

[polmaven]

38. My cat resents that!

Teddy is taking Prozac! Pleas don't put him in the same category as Laura! ...Take it back!!!:crazy:

[LiberalFighter]

22. So glad they didn't have any more kids

Of course, they probably can't because they practice sexual abstinence. Maybe they are scared of having more children so they do whatever is necessary to avoid sex of any type.

But the way she walks... I can't imagine her getting aroused with pleasure of any type.

[JitterbugPerfume]

29. Hey Laura---

how does it feel to be stuck in the 1950s???? BTW NSMA hit the nail on the head RE:Lauras REAL problem

[Virginian]

87. At her age...

I think Mother nature and Father time have taken care of the birth control issue.

[meti57b]

24. gay marriage can't be as shocking as marriage to george bush ...

c'mon, laura, ... get a grip!

[Malva Zebrina]

27. she is full of it

this shallow woman is invented. I am so tired of this reinvention. She is a damn robot. I think she swallows the tape before she goes out for her photo ops.

Meanwhile her two spoiled brats break the law, spend ten thousand apiece at a fashion show on their clothes and hang out with playboys who have a record.

I read something on another forum,in Salon, and this is the piece that was written about this lazy , leech of a spongy, equally as stupid as her husband, woman , in the LA times. you need to regester and pay for this article but I will link to the thread in Salon, where some poster posted the article in it's entirety

This is so disgusting. NONE of the these people have any shame at all. All of a sudden, Laura Bush is to be lauded as a what? What the hell for? She is being invented, made into an urban legend, complete with her helmet, perhaps wigged, hair, eye lifts that went awry making her look crosseyed, rictus joker smile and botoxed face.

Some of the disgusting article from the poster in Salon

<snip>

Three years ago, when George W. Bush took office, fashionistas pilloried Laura Bush for her simple look, described by one stylist as "so Doris Day." Now, she commands their attention in a red Oscar de la Renta suit with gold buttons and black slingback heels.


Her sartorial makeover is a metaphor for a new political reality. After three years in the shadows, Laura Bush is emerging as a presence in the political and policy life of the Bush administration. More popular than the president — a Fox News poll taken last year found her favorable rating at 73%, about 30 points higher than her husband's recent showing in the polls — Laura Bush will be much more visible as she plans to stump for her husband's reelection.

Already, she has raised more than $5 million for the Bush-Cheney campaign, and has three fundraisers planned for Southern California this week — in Newport Beach, Palm Springs and Los Angeles.
With the role of political wives undergoing renewed media and public scrutiny, the White House is eager to showcase Laura Bush, and she seems only too happy to comply. A champion of education for girls in Afghanistan, the first lady hopes to travel to Kabul this year — a mission to a war zone, something few other first ladies have requested.

By reputation, Laura Bush is a woman who sublimated her career ambitions and her politics to those of her husband. While clearly no Hillary Clinton, who carved out a policy role in what she viewed as a co-presidency, Laura Bush has been quietly influential in the causes she espouses — education,

:puke::puke::puke::puke:
Link to the article on the Salon thread


http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?[e-mail].6@.7739b73d/1559

This woman should not be allowed to get away with this act. She is raking in millions for her serial killer husband. Someone needs to take her to task--She is banal, stupid, frumpy and controlled and is full of shit.

Pic of our first lady in her "seal clap" This clap was most noticeable as she stood in the gallery and appluded her serial killer husband when he gave his sneering state of the union address. Man, she sure did look like a goddam seal--it was quite noticeable. Way out arms and flexible wrists--arf arf--

[gulfcoastliberal]

44. LOL!

That's too funny! And that pic -- she looks scary! Not only the seal clap but those eyes... something is very wrong with that woman.

[brook]

59. I'd love...

to throw her a fish...but no fish deserves such a fate.

BTW, did anyone see Nancy Reagan with Katie Couric this morning? Nancy said the greatest thing about being First Lady is "the people"...then went on to name every Prince, King and mucky-muck that rolled through the East Room in her day. I'm certain Pickles feel the same way. So it's up to we - the real people - to make her jaunt through history as short as possible!

[koopie57]

63. all I can say

is what a waste of sturdy polyester!

[Pax Argent]

83. "I get a grin, agin' and agin'" - Name the movie!

Seriously, she reminds me of one of the Joker victims from Batman I. Between the bulging eyes and overdone lipstick shaped like a rictus grin, she is spooky as hell.

[OilemFirchen]

30. Very telling

"...a subject that should be debated by Americans rather than settled by a Massachusetts court or the mayor of San Francisco."

The members of the Massachusetts courts and the mayor of San Francisco aren't Americans?

Well shut my mouth!

[gasperc]

31. so if Cheney's daughter gets married to her partner

will Laura's head explode

[polmaven]

39. Now THERE'S an idea!

:party:

[ixion]

33. well, not that it's any of HER business

what other people do with there lives.

I really, really, really wish the government would get the hell out of our private lives, because IT'S NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS!!!

:grr:

[fizzana]

34. My sister was at a restuarant where Laura was eating last night.

Her table got bumped for Laura so my sister turned to the Maitre'D and said "I loathe her husband". HE replied so do I. The couple behind her said their kids would barf if they knew their parents were in the same restuarant.

She said that was the general tone of allmost everyone in the restuarant. This is the heart of Westside liberal L.A. so it's not surprising.

[fizzana]

35. My sister was at a restuarant where Laura was eating last night.

Her table got bumped for Laura so my sister turned to the Maitre'D and said "I loathe her husband". HE replied so do I. The couple behind her said their kids would barf if they knew their parents were in the same restuarant.

She said that was the general tone of allmost everyone in the restuarant. This is the heart of Westside liberal L.A. so it's not surprising.

[PartyPooper]

43. Why didn't they simply turn Pickles away?

If they didn't have a table...well, they shouldn't have bumped somebody else like your sister just to accomodate Pickles!

[fizzana]

48. L.A. restuarants fo this all the time for celebrities unfortunately.

Also, the Maitre'D is not the owner and probably didn't want to risk the consequences. It would have been great if he's turned her away though.

[underpants]

36. Really? Doesn't look like to me

[Malva Zebrina]

46. a;ways the black or darker skinned kids.

in the "Laura the teacher", photo ops. As if kids of color need the most education and the most teaching when it comes to reading :eyes:

[Mushroom]

37. it's okay dear (pat, pat, pat)

:::hiccup:::

[saltpoint]

40. It is if --

-- you do it right.

[chiburb]

42. Well of COURSE it is!

"You mean that people can be HAPPY in a marriage? That not every one is like MINE? I'm shocked! "

[dArKeR]

45. Killing her boyfriend didn't 'shock' her as much as a Human Marriage!

http://www.bathroomgirls.com/election/meetthefirstlady.html

[MacCovern]

57. don't want to see Laura or Ted on a dark road!

Be careful if driving and you see Laura Bush or Ted Kennedy driving
toward you!

[bif]

49. I find the way she dresses "shocking"

n/t

[dArKeR]

51. You guys should stop slipping in Repuke Puss. Call it 'Human Marriage' not

Gay Marriage! Change the volcabulary don't let the Whores influence the Sheeple!

[Malva Zebrina]

56. that is an excellent idea

change the vocabulary. I agree one hundred percent.

Actually, this issue is not on the top of my list. I find the deaths of thousands of people, women, old women, old men, children and babies all killed on a lie to be more pressing than this.

I really do not care a whit about it. If it is legal, that's fine with me. Go on. I am more conerned with the insanity and the idiot in the white house than I am with marriages of anyone.

I do not buy into the marriage is a sacred,god given, thing between a man and a woman--that to me is a Christian interpretation. I am not a Christian and would never ever fall back on that discipline again for the rest of my life.

We live here, we die here. We do the best we can to not harm others. Religion, imo, gets in the way of doing that.

[MacCovern]

58. So polygamy "human marriage" is ok also?

gotta ask

[htuttle]

61. No

If polygamy were allowed, entire neighborhoods would marry each other for the health insurance coverage alone. It would bankrupt most HMOs.

[Pax Argent]

85. That's clever; I hadn't thought of that

My primary concern with polygamy has to do with the fact that marriage is not only a loving covenant between two people, but also a business partnership. Fairly solving a standard two-party divorce is difficult enough. The legalities regarding a polygamous divorce would be awful.

[NYC]

97. Will you marry me?

That's the best health insurance plan I've heard.

[SOS]

60. Re: abstinence funding

Once again, the Bush/Repub machine is lying and /or totally misinformed.

From the CDC web site:

"The teen pregnancy rate had risen from the mid-1980's and reached a peak in 1991; the 1997 rate is actually 10 percent lower than the 1986 rate when the upturn began.

Teenage pregnancy rates declined for all teenagers with the steepest declines among non-Hispanic black (down 23 percent) and white (down 26 percent) teenagers. The overall decline is attributable to both reduced rates of live births (down 13 percent) and abortions (down 32 percent). Teen birth rates are available through 1999 and show a continued decline, totaling 20 percent since 1991.

Among the factors believed to be driving this downturn in teen pregnancies are increases in condom use, the adoption of the effective injectable and implant contraceptives, and the leveling off of teen sexual activity."

Now who was president in the 1980s? The 1990s?

[bluestateguy]

62. She's a terrible First Lady

She's nothing more than a Stepford Wife with slightly more sophistication than Nancy Reagan. Barbara Bush was a better First Lady.

As long as she stays out of politics I'll refrain from criticizing her, but when she makes stupid remarks like this, she's fair game.

[smirkymonkey]

65. Coming from the most sexless woman in the US

that is exactly the type of reply I would expect.

Maybe she was confusing Gay Marriage with her Electroshock Treatments. I mean look at her, she is either on the ECT or lobotomized - nobody could be that doped up and still function.

[mondo joe]

66. Isn't she shocked by her floozy daughters?

Or by her slimeball brother in law Neil?

Or by her husband getting an abortion or his girlfriend?

Or by her family's Nazi collaboration?

[PartyPooper]

69. Don't forget her other "notorious" in-laws, Jeb and Colomba!

[scarface2004]

68. vehicular manslaughter.....

where you smash a guy to a bloody pulp like some poor mangy dog whose guts are splattered all over the god damn highway is not quite as shocking i guess!!!

[varun]

73. Why did she not offer her personal opinion?

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/02/18/laura/index.html

"...Laura Bush says gay marriages are ‘‘a very, very shocking issue" for some people, a subject that should be debated by Americans rather than settled by a Massachusetts court or the mayor of San Francisco.


Asked how she feels about the issue personally, Mrs. Bush replies: ‘‘Let's just leave it at that."....

-------------------------------------------------------------

She said that other people were shocked...but did not talk about her personal opinions...

Why?

:shrug:

[Go DK]

74. I doubt she knows any gay people...

Just an inkling I've always had.

I have a feeling Retard does, but for some reason she seems "sheletered" from it.

[diamond14]

75. (caution: pic) mrs. george bush 'shocked' about her own marriage

thanks to Betty Bowers, counselor to mrs. george bush
http://www.bettybowers.com

[PartyPooper]

78. Her manners are shocking!

Didn't anybody ever teach her to chew with her mouth *closed*?

[democrank]

79. Please...No More Precious Laura Posts...

I`m gagging. What is she thinking? That everyone inhabits Cheerful Village, a swell place where all young girls and boys are enthusiastic about abstinence?

Glad she felt nostalgic about New Hampshire and that up close and personal campaign. Does that mean she`ll stop acting like a plastic garden gnome and start mingling with the regular folks so anxious to tell her husband about the job they just lost or their dead son in Iraq?

[The Zanti Regent]

82. Are Rick Perry and his paramour shocking Lady Macbeth?

I wonder....

[Pax Argent]

84. This just in: Leftbehind feels that marrying primates is "Shocking" /eom

[leesa]

86. You condoning your husband's murdering of tens of thousands of innocent

people is "shocking". This creature is a waste of space.

[mondo joe]

88. Stepford Called - They Want Their Wife Back

well they do.

[Virginian]

89. The Stepford Wife.

Yes, dear.

Can I get you something, dear?

Anything you say, dear.

I only live to please you, dear.

SEX? No, Dear.

[lebkuchen]

90. Laura is feigning shock. Duplicity is a part of the way of life in the WH

In fact, it's a WH sport, on par with preemptive strike in the Cabinet consciousness.

[cyr330]

92. shocking?

She's got a lot of gall to talk about shocking, as she murdered her ex-boyfriend with her automobile after he broke up with her.

[Zhade]

93. That intolerant woman was in MY TOWN!

ARG! GET OUT!