First Lady emerges as Bush's secret weapon

[emad]

By Philip Sherwell in Washington and Harry de Quetteville
(Filed: 22/05/2005)

From the lowest point on earth, Laura Bush has embarked on a one-woman mission to raise America's standing in the eyes of the world.

In a sparkling new convention centre next to the Dead Sea in Jordan, more than 1,300ft below sea level, the First Lady took centre stage as a goodwill ambassador for the President and her country.

Her official speech to the World Economic Forum was about women's rights and the importance of democracy in the Middle East, but the underlying message came through loud and clear.

With her husband's approval ratings in a trough at home and her country's reputation further sullied abroad, Mrs Bush - once seen as a shy librarian - is emerging as a powerful player with a brief to buff up America's image in the Islamic world. Her foray into sensitive Middle East terrain is not without its hazards. Although she was not greeted by anti-American protests over the leaked photographs of Saddam Hussein in US custody, Mrs Bush did fly into a diplomatic spat over her official itinerary.

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FROM the lowest lifeform on earth.........WHAT the hell is an unelected dimwit like Pickles doing - trying to spread democracy like a hooker spreading VD?

[NewHampshireDem]

1. Weapon of Mass Distraction? n/t

:shrug:

[emad]

3. Mess distraction?

?

[Doctor_J]

2. snark

yeah, a kept woman on xanax will save the world from her husband. yipes, the media is really a wreck.

[koopie57]

4. now if only she used her power for good!

Our heroine, the polyester patriot.

[Cha]

5. "Secret weapon"?

With a secret weapon like this..it's time to back to the arsenal.

[bpilgrim]

6. lol - weapon of last resort since NO ONE, even the BIG DAWG can cover up

their CRIMES anymore.

of, course that is what the M$MW hope she will be perceived as but people ain't that DUMB.

the wheels are coming off the bus and the elite will deny it till the last wheel.

peace

[Malva Zebrina]

7. Just saw a clip

They are gonna run this woman for something I believe. She appears to have taken elocution lessons from Rice, having the same head movements (side to side) and using the same words and phrasing. Billed as America's newest diplomat -- she's on her way folks!

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Didn't work for Georgie....he's still as dumb as a rock...and it won't work for Pickles.

[renaissanceguy]

29. Pickles vs. Hillary in '08

hahahaha I need the popcorn...

[Robworld]

8. No matter what she does, it will not work

They can send her out for all their PR work, but it will be ineffectual to covering up her husband's follies, flaws, lack of diplomacy, war crimes, and all around stupidity. People are not stupid. She is a total fake, and people see right through that.

http://www.dumdumgoestothecircus.com /

[Submariner]

9. So the killer is out stumping for Hitler

What a fukking joke that pair are.

[suegeo]

10. Well that was nauseating

Critics who had caricatured her as a Stepford Wife were surprised by her independent voice. "She's actually turning into one of the more interesting first ladies of recent times," said Barbara Kellerman, a research director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

"This shy, retiring librarian is growing into a woman of considerable style and increasing substance. She is changing before our eyes."

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Telling a creepy joke about a horse makes her a woman of considerable style?

Working for, what, 3 years, makes you a professional working woman? A librarian, no less, whose husband cuts funding to libraries and allows goons to spy on your reading habits?

[bpilgrim]

11. laura: Did i ever tell y'all bout the time George, MASTURBATED a HORSE?

:puke:

peace

[fortyfeetunder]

12. What about speaking of women's rights in the USA?

Goes all the way to Jordan and Jerusalem, why she could be visiting Jersey City and Jamestown to givhomae same message...what a concept...

[Demit]

14. Powerful player? Shit, they're slipping her steroids, too?

[Career Prole]

15. And the people say "Stuff your sedated secret weapon, Boosh!"

Emilo Morenatti/Associated Press
Israeli police and security guards surrounded Laura Bush
today during her visit to two of Jerusalem's most sacred sites,
the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock.



Jim Hollander/European Pressphoto Agency
Laura Bush leaving after encountering protesters
at the Western Wall.

Mrs. Bush had taken steps to account for religious sensitivities at the sites, including donning a headscarf and taking off her shoes when she entered a mosque. According to television and print reporters, as she approached the Western Wall dozens of protesters shouted "Free Pollard now," a reference to Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in an American prison for spying for Israel.

Mrs. Bush was mobbed by protesters and local reporters, and Secret Service agents and guards had to physically hold back the crowd, The Associated Press reported.

The A.P. reported that when she went to the Dome of the Rock, a mosque on a hilltop compound known to Muslims as Haram al Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount, her presence and that of her entourage inside the shrine apparently upset a group of women praying, and outside the mosque, there were hecklers. One yelled, "How dare you come in here?" and "Why do you hassle our Muslims?" The A.P. said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/international/middleeast/22cnd-laura.html?hp

If I read that correctly, Pickles had to flee from both sides!

[flordehinojos]

17. will she continue with her denials of protest and dislike of people toward

the bush dictatorship?, or will she be brought to her knees and publicly admit that many, many, many people dislike bush his sorry ass and his power grab.

[Southsideirish]

16. Oh please, any Stepford "1st lady"can be pushed forward to catch

flak for failed hubby. Nothing "special" about this one at all.

[thebigidea]

18. I'm sure this grand initiative will last as long as the gang violence one

what a boring little plank of wood she is - and that voice! It now drives me as nuts as her evil monkey's - she sounds like a near-comatose 90 year old woman, aged beyond her years, a pained & strained voice croaking and wheezing out pathetic Hughesian pablum.

[TankLV]

19. From what I've scene and read it was a real success - for us and those who

want to see the entire bush crime family behind bars!

Niced protests there!

Universally hated around the world.

Mad my day.

[Barrett808]

20. So, the First Lady as human shield? n/t

[Toucano]

21. Secret weapon, my ass!

What a ridiculous claim!

[spanone]

22. Headline in Newsweek...Laura Saves the World...redecorates Great Wall

Laura will be lucky to save coupons after hubby does hard time for war crimes.

[yorkiemommie1]

23. ' powerful player? '

mama bush and the twins are next.

ms. distractions

[demgrrrll]

24. Time to wind up the Laura2005! Give me a break. How pissed do

you think she is leaving her busy day activities of reading and smoking to be "jostled" in the Mid East.

[Chicago Democrat]

25. All hail our Dear Leader!

Pay no attention to the pile of dead bodies

[Algomas]

26. This really shows Bu$h to be total coward...

Would you send your wife and mother of your children to the most dangerous corner of the world? To do image PR work for you among people who despise you and would dearly love to kill her?
Repuke family values in action, I guess.

[Straight Shooter]

27. There you have it.

I'm just surprised they didn't give her plastic widgets to hand out to everybody.

[Dulcinea]

33. That was my first thought.

Boy George doesn't have the stones to go on trips where he can't have a pre-screened adoring audience, so he sends Laura, who may be slightly less despised, or so he seems to think.

[reality based]

38. Texas "ranchers" are known fer hidin' behind their wimmin-folk

Maybe it was Kindasleazy's idea.

[Demeter]

28. Laura Was Booed at the Wailing Wall

and escorted by arm-linked police from hostile crowd. I think the diplomacy gig is over, Bush. And not a successful one, either.

[lanlady]

30. Georgie is hiding behind skirts again

f***ing coward that he is, he has a habit of trotting out his mother or his wife to take the flak.

[agincourt]

31. If they have trouble selling HeeHaw,

they try selling her, a habitual liar for the neo-con agenda. Unfortunately a lot of people don't see through her. I've known women who can't stand smirk vote for him because they like her. Go figure, what a mixed up world.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

32. If they keep saying it, will it make it so?

:eyes:
:puke:
:silly:
:crazy:
:hurts:

[pfitz59]

34. Heckled, jeered and run outta town!

Some secret weapon! Liberal media my ass!

[FlemingsGhost]

35. And true to form, they shoot themselves in the foot with it ...

Don Knotts has got nothing on these folks.

Coming Soon! Disney presents, "Chimpy and the Pickle Barrel Gang."

[BenDavid]

36. Haven't figured it out,

Irregardless of Bush milking a male horse, and could be a lil reference as to why "Jeff Gannon" was there more often at the White House, but I digress.... I have had this figured out for the longest. They are putting her up front and center these past several weeks and it all boils down to one thing. To make her more popular than Hillary Clinton.... Hillary has beaten her in the Gallup Polls the past several years, whether Hillary was voted the most popular woman or was in the top 5, but always more popular than Laura Bush.... Wait and see folks when the poll comes out, Laura Bush will be the most popular woman in America.... and as I said in recent posts in dealing with the Bush folks, John mason said it best in the movie, "The Rock", "personally, I think you're a fucking idiot"

[Skittles]

37. yeah, I'm sure they love hearing from a pampered, xanaxed Bush whore

oh yeah

[Enraged_Ape]

39. Oh, yeah, that Mao suit and glazed Joker smile...

are sure to slay the Middle East. They'll eat out of our hands, for sure.

I'm sorry, but I'm feeling a :puke: :puke: :puke: coming on.

[jazzjunkysue]

40. Another brilliant failure. Now what? Send in Bert and Ernie?

[Zen Democrat]

41. The Twins don't work and live in the White House ....

I think there should be questions to * and Mrs. * about the girls signing up for Iraq, and "loving their freedom" in the Army. Gee, wouldn't that boost enlistments?