Bush: Girls have a choice even if they are "obligated to comply"

[CAG]

"Speaking to reporters at the start of a four-day trip to Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria, Bush said, "I'm always a little bit irritated when I hear the criticism of abstinence, because abstinence is absolutely 100% effective in eradicating a sexually transmitted disease" (Wilson, Reuters AlertNet, 1/15). She added, "In many countries where girls feel obligated to comply with the wishes of men, girls need to know that abstinence is a choice" (Sammon, Washington Times, 1/16)."

I will repeat; Laura Bush, speaking about girls in certain developing countries, "where girls feel obligated to comply with the wishes of men, girls need to know that abstinence is a choice"

Yes, the choice is, have sex with this man, or get the sh&^%$t beat out of me, or get a stoning in the public square!!!

Silly girls, just listen to the learned librarian, and you'll go far!!!

[elehhhhna]

1. His response is typical of a pedophile. Just saying.

[Kagemusha]

5. actually it's Laura talking

headline should be more specific IMHO.

[elehhhhna]

7. sorry. Pedo's wife.

[Glimmer of Hope]

2. Just say no!

[rodeodance]

3. my gawd. IF a man says submit to me--the girl has a choice. GEECH!

[rodeodance]

6. and this is the type of mentality that is running the country!

[Olney Blue]

4. Worst. First Lady. Ever.

[rodeodance]

12. Laura is doing a Heck of a job!

[kliljedahl]

8. They still don't have a clue

This isn't Ozzie & Harriet & it isn't 1952.




Keith’s Barbeque Central

[donco6]

9. She's just ignorant.

Which is a surprise to . . . who?

Can you imagine the pillow talk conversations she has with hubby? What bottomless cesspools of misinformation.

[acmejack]

14. How is it possible to sit through 4 years of college & remain so stupid?

Incredible...

[donco6]

18. And supposedly love books.

I mean, she's a librarian fer chrissakes.

I don't get it, either. But then I don't understand how 40% of Colorado still thinks Bush is doing a good job.

[Skittles]

33. college has nothing to do with intelligence

I work with people with Masters degrees who cannot write a decent sentence; I am NOT kidding.

[nickinSTL]

10. what a f'ing moron!

I just want to say, that this idiot in no way represents the majority of librarians.

I work with a LOT of them (and am in school to become one) - and I don't think I know ONE who's this stupid.

[Liberal In Texas]

11. These people are from some other planet, right? n/t

[rurallib]

13. W is an incompetent president, Pickles incompetent at being

a woman! How can someone fail at being a member of their own gender? Folks, I give you Pickles, who has no idea how to be a woman.

[Olney Blue]

19. Its a twofer- impeach Shrub, impeach Pickles too.

[Nicole]

15. What a moran

I don't think feeling obligated to comply is the problem.

[flordehinojos]

16. she must have been stoned whenshe said that--or she is as much of an idiot

as the bushit boy is!

[applegrove]

17. Not just that - with death rates and patterns of kinship - many young

girls have no choice but to marry an older man. Or some women - to feed a child - must prostitute themselves. How would you tell those women to practice abstinence? Cause to a woman who has NOTHING to feed her kids... death in a few years from AIDS vs. her child (children) surviving past the age of 5 - is the better choice. And that is the reality on the ground. So do these people deserve any choice whatsoever? Why not condoms and birth control pills.

We all made this same choice not a long time ago. It is about poverty meaning you have no choice.

Bush is full of Bullshit!

[CAG]

21. But if these girls would only watch Pat Robertson's TV show, or Fox

news, they could be HEALED of their sins and be FORGIVEN

[applegrove]

24. She doesn't get the TV. Her parents do for selling her off into marriage.

But it is an important thing because then her younger brothers can get really educated and have long lives of their own. Her parents were poor. Not all of their children could have happy lives. Surviving was more important. And she doesn't get the choice to perhaps "wait out granpa" (her 65 year old husband). Because she has no birth control pills. And she will get any AIDS he came across in his 65 years. And so will her children. And her children will be orphaned too. But the most important thing was that nobody saw a condom or birth control pills:sarcasm: that would hurt so much - if anyone in her had to face those abominations

[iamjoy]

27. Access Denied

that was a very powerful story in this video studying the affects of the global gag rule, focusing on the African nation of Zambia. A man with a family planning organization told a woman if she didn't stop being a prostitute, she would get AIDS and die. She asked how long it took to die of AIDS, and he told her 10 years. To which she replied something like, "Well, my son will be 16 then, so he'll be fine, but if I don't do this, we'll stave within a month."

[applegrove]

28. I read it in the Report on Africa. That was the reality of women all

over the world until perhaps the twentieth Century in the West. Very little choice. Why - now when we have so many more choices - why?

[Blue Belle]

20. Sure abstainence is a choice...

Probably not the one you'll make when you have a gun pointed at your head. Unbefuckinglievable.

[roseBudd]

22. she needs to leran the meaning of eradicate, abstinence does not eradicate

[Warren Stupidity]

23. Abstinence has approx. 100% failure rate. nt.

[alarimer]

25. there is no choice in rape

Which was coerced sex really is.

[shanti]

26. oh, ok, just like nancy raygun's

"just say no" campaign....utter bullshyt.

[The Gunslinger]

29. The Bush clan is utterly detached from reality. nt

[Ilsa]

30. It's official. Now I hate this bitch.

I've given her a free ride for way too long. Those are the stupidest words ever out of her mouth. She makes me almost wish she was faced with a situation where she had on choice.

[ktowntennesseedem]

31. Reminds me of an old Jerry Clowers tall tale.

Use to tell about growing up in Mississippi and going coon hunting. When the dogs would tree a raccoon, his friend John would climb the tree and make it jump out of the tree into the middle of the pack of dogs. He said John wanted to give the raccoon a fighting chance. When anyone asked if that was a cruel thing to do, he said, "well at least that raccoon has the option of whipping all them dogs and walkin' off if he wants to."

Way to go Laura, you're making us so proud!!! :banghead:

[tyedyeto]

32. Laura really knows of what she speaks

:sarcasm:



Has she ever been in that kind of situation? I don't think so.

What degree in counseling these women does she have? NONE.

[txindy]

34. So, what's she saying? That the twins never had a choice?

Or that they're booked solid with obligations?

:rofl:

Why doesn't Laura give driving lessons, instead? That would make as much sense.

[Guaranteed]

35. Not having sex with the men isn't a choice- but abstinence is!

Thanks, Laura!