Laura Bush condemns Democrat 'witch-hunt'

[T_i_B]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/20/wbush20.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/02/20/ixportal.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=38595

Laura Bush shed her cosy, non-partisan public image to accuse Democratic chiefs of a "witch-hunt" against her husband, President George W Bush, in interviews released yesterday.

Mrs Bush, whose image as a traditional wife and mother has earned her sky-high personal approval ratings, launched a passionate defence of her husband, who has been under withering Democratic fire over unemployment, Iraq and his Vietnam-era military record.

"I think it's a political, you know, witch-hunt, actually, on the part of the Democrats," she said. She directly accused the Democratic party chairman, Terry McAuliffe, of lying when he charged that her husband went absent without leave from the National Guard during his service as a fighter pilot in Texas and Alabama.

"I don't think it's fair to really lie about allegations about someone like the Democratic national chairman did," she said. Checking herself, the former school librarian backed away from the word "lie", saying: "Well, he made it up, I guess I should say."

[SoCalDem]

1. Hey.. sometimes when you engage in a witch- hunt

You find a WITCH..

Get over it Pickles.. Move on :)

[T_i_B]

2. Yeah!

She turned me into a newt!











It got better. :eyes:

[saigon68]

63. "Stepford" Witch Laura should get on her broom

And ride out of town

[smirkymonkey]

68. Ha Ha....

I loved that scene!

[The Zanti Regent]

82. no, you find a Murderer

Laura Bush deliberatey killed to get where she is.

She was let off the hook because she is a rich white woman.

BUT, IF SHE WAS BLACK...

[Lexingtonian]

3. Robin Lowman Garner

That story was made up, too, right?

[4morewars]

4. WOW...

they are both dunces ???? Who knew ???

[pa28]

5. More double standards

It's funny to think when Clinton trotted out his wife to defend him the right ridiculed him for "hiding behind a skirt".

[asjr]

6. Laura evidently

does not remember the witch hunt on Bill Clinton her Creepublicans did. She has been with that toad of a husband of hers far too long.

[Tom Kitten]

10. wow

So the White House dumps a stack of inconclusive documents on a Friday afternoon, the "press" loses interest (because they say it's right before the weekend!), so by inferrance the public also loses interest, and now they trot out the First Hausfrau denouncing the whole affair as a "witch hunt"! Very interesting to see how far this goes!

[DemBones DemBones]

12. I keep waiting for the media whores to finish looking at the

records and start talking about them. I heard someone say today, "They released the records and everyone saw he did his duty."

Nice try but I don't think so! But where is the media? When are they going to give this some serious attention? Have I just missed the ones who are paying attention to this issue?

[izzie]

16. She also talked on the people coming in to work.

Maybe this is for the wifes of the men who are out of work?What is going on in the WH? It seems to be falling apart. Where is Barbara? She will be out soon, we already have Baker.

[Gman]

14. She's been with him too long and she's very codependent

being the wife of an abusive alcoholic husband.

[0007]

54. "Codependent" - Meaning what?

[Gman]

69. Here's a good definition

http://www.umkc.edu/sites/hsw/codepend/

Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=codependent+definition&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

In Laura's case its the result of many years living with a substance abuser/alcoholic who very likely is also abusive both mentally and physically. The mental and physical abuse follow the substance abuse/alcoholism like day after night.

A good discussion thread would be to discuss how codependent Laura is based on information in "Fortunate Son". We know a lot about Bush's early years married to Laura from this book.

[WildClarySage]

22. Don't forget

chronic substance abuse will reduce one's memory abilities

[Fovea]

76. No, she was highly medicated during that period.

Just like now, I suppose.

[argyl]

7. They're really bringing out the heavy artillery now.

xx

[Ysabel]

20. LOL...

that's funny...

[Piperay]

8. Gee, so glad she is opposed

to witch hunts. I know we can count on the lump to speak up next time the repukes wage one against the Clintons. (sarcasm)

[T_i_B]

11. Yep

Funny how the "witch hunt" is acceptable when it's your own lot carrying it out eh Laura?

[kskiska]

42. Why didn't she speak out at the "trashing of the White House"

and Air Force One? Guess she and her buddies were having too much fun cataloging the "damage."

[radfringe]

9. uh ohhhh

we better watch it - mommy and daddy bush will be out next to scold us

:evilgrin:

[Gman]

13. Well Laura, lets talk about those times you really know about

like when your husband would disappear from Midland for days on those drunken binges to Mexico when the girls were babies. Would you say he was AWOL from your family then?

[0007]

57. A black lady named Linda Gates

in Midland Texas that use to take care of Laura's children when they were little, sez that junior would come home drunk and beat Laura up.

[phrenzy]

15. "Vast Left Wing Conspiracy..." ??

Ummm, Ok. Where are the media whores ridiculing her the way they did Hillary when she ACCURATELY noted that there was a huge Reich Wing network of money and power working against Bill Clinton 24/7.

Stepford Wife. I just can't wait for all this shit to backfire on them.

[Norquist Nemesis]

46. Absolutely incredible

My thoughts exactly. :thumbsup

[xchrom]

17. she gives me the creeps

does this mean she's going to run mcaulife over in her car?

[Ysabel]

21. LOL again...

ROFL...!

[mhr]

18. The Right Can Hunt Bill And Hillary, But George And Laura Get A Pass?

eom

[Flubadubya]

19. Terry Moran interviewed her for ABC... What she said!!

Terry: How can you be sure Mr. Bush served out his Alabama guard duty?

Laura: "I know he pulled his duty in Alabama because he told me so."

Bwahahah!!!

[WildClarySage]

23. But... but...

he told ME that there were stockpiles of WOMD's in Iraq...

[Kool Kitty]

79. Now, now-

stop pickin' on Pickles! You know she doesn't want to worry her pretty little head about how we're all ganging up on her l'il Georgie. What's next, is his Mommy gonna chase us out of the front yard, too? What a bunch of f**kin' hypocrites and 10-year-olds are running this country!

[llmart]

26. That line struck me as idiotic also.

She is the perfect example of the type of woman/wife I never wanted to become and thank god I didn't. We're approximately the same age and I just know she's the type of woman I wouldn't give five minutes of my time if I were in the same room as she was. Dull, vapid, uninteresting - you name it - they all describe her. However, they deserve each other.

[ibegurpard]

24. Oh, go pop some Xanax Pickles!

eom

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

25. Nice of her to keep the issue alive

and on the front-burner.

[rucky]

27. Maybe we should back off.

NOT!

the spouses are always the last to know the truth.

[dusty64]

28. Well now that laura's

shed her quiet role its time for the gloves to come off and she start getting a little of the Hillary treatment. Anyone want to talk about the guy she happened to kill with her car? I'm sure if Clinton had done that it wouldn't be off limits.

[DeepModem Mom]

36. Yes - What if Hillary had had vehicular manslaughter in her past?

Can you imagine that that incident would have been kept quiet by the politicos in Laura's party? Someone might best advise Mrs. Bush to stay away from "witch-hunt" talk. Democrats are not in a charitable mood this election cycle.

[ixion]

29. have another valium, Pickles...the Stepford Wives club is callin'...

put on another tacky dress and go stand in a window somewhere. Like your husband, you're intellect leaves much to be desired.

[salin]

30. Witch hunt? Boy was she not paying attention

to what her hubbies minions did to the Clintons for eight + years? This is patty cakes in comparison.

[Corgigal]

31. Laura must have some head trauma

from being plowed through the garage door when she told her wonderful hubby how she didn't like his speech. I think a MRI is in order.

[kodi]

32. no-balls bush, hiding behind his gal's skirts..what a manly man he is

.

[Puglover]

33. Yeah, Pickles also thinks

gay marriage should be decided by the people.....and not "activist judges" Hmmmm....so I guess she was really outraged when the 5 Supremes selected hubby.

[Pale Blue Dot]

34. It's a vast, left-wing conspiracy!

:bounce:

[Jack Rabbit]

35. It is not a witch hunt

We know exactly where he is.

[nolabels]

37. Errrrrrrrrrrrrr and do we have that little gender thing a flipped again?

Unless of course she really does know something we have yet to find out :think:

P.S.This really makes me angry, all my children already have left elementary school, this will make it difficult to find someone to discuss this with on a equal level :cry:

[Jack Rabbit]

45. My apologies

"Witch hunt" was Pickles' term, not mine.

"Warlock hunt" would be more gender specific, but I've never heard the term used in this context or any other.

Of course, the term "witch hunt" could also be one to which followers of alternative religions may take exception. "Dictator hunt" or "fascist hunt" would be more accurate, but neither of those are in common usage.

Most accurate would be "people power", a term originating in the Philippines, 1986. It evokes the memory of the restoration of popular government after the fall of crooked dictator who had for some time only a thin veneer of legitimacy based on rigged elections and police state tactics.

People power is what Pickles and the other Bushies really fear.

[zonmoy]

66. Also

g w is not a witch, I think antichrist more fits him.

[skypilot]

38. It's official...

...I hate the bitch, now. I never really felt one way or the other about her since she's usually such a Stepford nonentity but now it seems she going to pull a Babs Bush on us. Babs slipped under my radar during Bush Seniors presidency and then later showed her true colors. I guess it was only a matter of time before Pickles did the same.

[bushisanidiot]

39. "Witch Hunt" Is What Repukes Were on for 8 STRAIGHT YEARS!!

this is called an "election year".. get over it, Pickles!

Your husband's 9/11 goodwill windfall kept the dems in line for 2 years. they played nicey nice with president dipshit, but now the gloves are off and we're taking our house back. So start packin' for the pig farm!!

[blindpig]

40. well, she should know about "witches"

since she has one for a mother in law!
on edit: no offense to my Wiccan brethern

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

41. "Yeah like you know. I know he's a moron and a coward but like come on."

[malachi]

43. Migraine inducing

i realize that written and spoken english are two different animals, but is it just me or does reading statements by laura the loonie and the monkey bring on migraine headaches for anyone else? I've heard more literate statements from my 5 year old niece.

[readmylips]

44. Teresa Heinz Kerry will put this pickle in a jar....

next November.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

49. good way to put it.

and a good motivator.

[Norquist Nemesis]

47. Guess this means Laura will be running for public office

Since she seems to be following in Hillary's shoes. *wink*

[cedahlia]

48. Bleeccchhh!!

"Traditional wife and mother...sky-high approval ratings"...WTF? Why is the zombie wife looked up to as some kind of role model that women should aspire to???

And why must they always mention her being a librarian, like it ties in with the passive, obedient, traditional woman thing?! Librarians have to deal with negative stereotypes enough without having her as our apparent spokesmodel.

:puke:

[Marthe48]

50. I know librarians

and Laura Bush is no librarian (thank you Lloyd Bentson)

[Hekate]

73. Real Librarians are on the front lines against Ashcroft

Defending our right to read whatever we damn well please.

BTW above, "witch hunt" -- term harks back in modern history to Sen. Joe McCarthy's indiscriminate search for communists, commie sympathizers, and anyone who might have worked for social justice or questioned the prevailing Cold War mentality. "Are you now or have you ever been..." became bone-chillingly familiar and ruined many lives. Since more men than women had public working lives, it was mostly male lives and careers that were ruined at that point. Once accused, forever tainted.

"Witch hunt" centuries ago really did relate mostly to females due to the unbelievably misogynistic mind-set of the monks who promulgated it (See Malleus Maleficorum, or The Hammer of Witches, their how-to book). This went on for several centuries, during which at times whole villages would be emptied of every female not in the cradle. Once accused, there was no hope, only excruciating tortures and death.

It's the indiscriminate, unstoppable, guilty-as-charged, tainted-forever nature of certain legal persecutions that get them called witch hunts, not the gender of the accused.

And thanks to Librarians we can read all this history in almost any library in the country. Noble profession.

Hekate

[progressiverealist]

51. Laura Bush: a stupid, pathetic woman with rotten kids and no life

Boy, what a complete zero this woman truly is.

[ProfessorGAC]

52. Must Be The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy

Hey, how come nobody's laughing at Laura when she says it? When Hillary suggested a VRWC, it was a big joke.

Now, it's NOT funny? Now, it's real?

And, then she says they shouldn't lie, but says he "made it up", which of course, is a lie. So, she's condemning a lie with a lie.

Hmmmm!
The Professor

[0007]

53. The proof is always in the pudding

So let's talk about strong family values and the product of those values.

[havocmom]

55. Laura, quoting your spouse and then producing facts to disprove him

is not a witch hunt. Showing that he has a long track record as a spineless, lying, privileged spoiled brat without a clue what life is like for the 99% who didn't really benefit from the tax cut is not a vast left wing conspiracy. It is an effort to save the nation and it is our honor bound obligation.

Things must be getting tough around 1600 Pennsylvania Ave for her to trot out to the rescue. heh heh heh BWAHHAHHAHA

[Endangered Specie]

56. "Mrs Bush, whose image as a traditional wife and mother"

Some mother, lousy ass kids.

[T_i_B]

80. This is the Telegraph

Which is why there is a GOP spin on the article. Mind you, that seems to have been cut through pretty comprehensivly here.

[devilgrrl]

58. Hey Pickles...

[henslee]

59. Careful what you wish 4, Laura. After AWOL, we're going after..

you and the bringing the manslaughter charge to light. I can only imagine the media bandwagon if Hillary had that in her past. Could you imagine a face of the victim to go with that tragedy? Maybe a few interviews. Whoa.

[IconoclastIlene]

60. speaking of witchhunts...Ken Starr..$$$$$

The Ken Starr witchhunt set loose against the Clintons cost us taxpayers plenty.

The AWOL witchhunt regarding spouse George is bargain basement price-wise. Look how easily the Democrats can creatively save money!!!

Back at you!!!

[gasperc]

61. what the fuck was whitewater

a river raft ride

:mad:

[Sparkle]

62. Bitch Please!

"I think it's a political, you know, witch-hunt, actually, on the part of the Democrats," she said.

Were you not paying attention the 8 years WJC was president? Of course it's political, your husband is a f'ing politician!

[tom_paine]

64. Pickles needs to have some more prescription drugs

(though I have no doubt she is near her limit already)

[yella_dawg]

65. I thought...

Pickles was a registered democrat.

[NoPasaran]

67. Witch hunt?

Anybody got a house we can drop on her?

[auburngrad82]

70. It's political, she says

Of course it's political. This is an election year and it is the tactics created by the Republican party that led to the "political attacks" that we have all come to expect. Fair is fair. When the Republican party can run on their merits rather than on the other candidate's faults (as the Republicans see them) then we can get back to concentrating on the issues. Until then, it's all political.

Besides, the AWOL issue demonstrates a long standing tendency of Bush to lie and deceive. If he can't be honest then he needs to go.

[monchie]

71. Slightly OT: Pickles

How did Laura get the nickname "Pickles"? Is it based on the character of Morey Amsterdam's wife on "The Dick Van Dyke Show"?

[roguevalley]

72. She was dying to say more. She's a cold, controlled cow. Bush

actually married his mother. He wanted his kids to shape up apparently when they fell off the wagon and she stood between
them and ANY consequences. So she's a hag and a dirt bag and
thinks her kids don't have to pay consequences. SOund familiar?

My mother is a librarian and she HATES Laura the unlovable.

[flaminbats]

77. It's too bad about pickles being a cold cow...

otherwise we would have more than enough Texas pork to feed every hungry child in Iraq. :9

[proud patriot]

74. LOL they really are desperate

aren't they :eyes:

[Malva Zebrina]

75. Yup,they are

they send out Laura the librarian, to preach politics.

She has no idea of what she speaks and no one really pays attention to what she says because she is so compliant and rather stupid herself. That is because she is has been so princessly lazy over the past thirty years that she has nothing to fall back upon that would establish her as an intelligent, political analyst in her own right. She spent the entire time spoiling her little brats and taking advantage of her husbands' money and family reputation. It was so convenient and comfortable to be "taken care of"

Laura Bush has done nothing and has contributed nothing to this country in all these years except to establish herself as a Stepford, well cared for leech of a wife,
and so now

because she has been so lazy and lacking in energy on any one interest or project or passion, it looks as though she has been "trotted out" and indeed she has been "trotted out" in all her upholstered , Asian eye lifted, botoxed glory.

She now says she likes being "trotted out" as the first lady, although she did not like that initially, Barf and :puke:

and so far has inputted with the enormously intelligent observation that Democrats are in a conspiracy against her husband who told her he did serve honorably in the National Reserves, so therefore, she posits to us, it is true! What is the matter with all of you people--he said he served honorably and showed up and so therfore , it is true. She is just the victim of a vast left wing conspiracy.!!

I suspect that Laura, when she goes to bed at night, and probably lonely and alone as I would suspect that she has little left that is desirable by the chimp, since he did call her a "lump in the bed"

Imagine trying to make love to a person that one perceives, even writes poetry to, as a "lump"? I mean that has got to be a real turn off and probably he cannot get it up when he fixes his gaze upon the plastic, waxed and botoxed little plastic doll he refers to as his "lump in the bed"

She is truly as stupid as the man she married who "begat"
two spoiled little brats and they are all happy to have
begatted" these two little superficial, equally as shallow and as dumb as their parents, tramps who already have disdaine4d the law as being something only the
"little people"need to pay attention to.

Further, Mommy the wrinkled crone of a Bush says she "birthed well", and that means she is setting up a competition here with her "lump of a daughter in law" who only managed to birth two daughters and in circumstances that required intervention on the part of doctors. What shame that she could not birth at least six children normally like Babs the bolific.

So Jenna warned the SS-- that her
daddy would have their ass if anything happened to her. Heh, this is the "entitlement" they believe they deserve without earning a damn thing.

Already the brats have picked up on the bully techinique.

All of the Bush family is patheitic, ignorant, classless and stupid people who happened to know how to milk the system.





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[porkrind]

78. Pickles: It's not a "witch-hunt." It's called "reality"

Dear Pickles,

I know you think we are just a bunch of meanies, but if you will just read some newspapers and books on your own, and stop listening to the lies of Cheney, Condi, and Rove, you might find that the whole world wants your husband out of the white house for a very good reason:

He's sucking the life out of us!

:dunce: :freak: :dunce: :freak: :dunce: :freak: :dunce: :freak:
:dunce: :freak: :dunce: :freak: :dunce: :freak: :dunce: :freak:

[PATRICK]

81. Witches hunt, yes

but again it is the old misdirect. Anyone else want to keep track how many strident women on the GOP gas circuit are taking up this issue? And last and least Pickles troddles out to do her Hillary imitation.

Now that is classic hiding behind women's skirts and a lot of them. Coulter, Charen, Crowles. It is so obviously organized that it a good way to define the spitting order of the female side of the pack.

naturally the men chickenhawks all or mostly, and even those if any who served can't defend Bush too much or attack Kerry directly. The women on the other hand are saying all sorts of things because they can get away with things Jane Fonda never could.

Conspiracy and witch hunt yes, but truthfully defined by them looking into a collective mirror.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

83. Until it is determined that Chimp weighs more than a duck,

I'll reserve judgment.



BEDEVERE:
So, why do witches burn?
VILLAGER #3:
B--... 'cause they're made of... wood?
BEDEVERE:
Good! Heh heh.
CROWD:
Oh, yeah. Oh.
BEDEVERE:
So, how do we tell whether she is made of wood?
VILLAGER #1:
Build a bridge out of her.
BEDEVERE:
Ah, but can you not also make bridges out of stone?
VILLAGER #1:
Oh, yeah.
RANDOM:
Oh, yeah. True. Uhh...
BEDEVERE:
Does wood sink in water?
VILLAGER #1:
No. No.
VILLAGER #2:
No, it floats! It floats!
VILLAGER #1:
Throw her into the pond!
CROWD:
The pond! Throw her into the pond!
BEDEVERE:
What also floats in water?
VILLAGER #1:
Bread!
VILLAGER #2:
Apples!
VILLAGER #3:
Uh, very small rocks!
VILLAGER #1:
Cider!
VILLAGER #2:
Uh, gra-- gravy!
VILLAGER #1:
Cherries!
VILLAGER #2:
Mud!
VILLAGER #3:
Uh, churches! Churches!
VILLAGER #2:
Lead! Lead!
ARTHUR:
A duck!
CROWD:
Oooh.