A whore by any other name is still Laura Bush

[Generic Other]

Laura Bush has no right to feel proud of her accomplishments

When I look at the so-called accomplishments of Laura Bush, I see a woman who took the easy way out. She found a man any decent woman would reject and married him for his money. The one time in her life when she faced a real ethical choice, she chose to throw in her lot with a man so lacking in character that she should have been ashamed to bring him home to meet her parents. All because he was rich and had powerful connections.

Not only did she marry him, she learned to lie for him, to cover for his behavior, and became a willing accessory to his crimes.

Her willingness to be supported by this man, to depend on the illgotten gains of her corrupt, dishonest husband whose every act in his whole adult life has come under scrutiny as unethical or illegal reveals Laura Bush's true value system.

This woman is an insult to the working mothers of this nation who daily struggle as single parents or as equal partners of their husbands; moreover she should be an embarassment to stay at home mothers who exemplify the real family values she falsely claims she honors, values she and her family have never exhibited even once in their greedy parasitic lives.

For her to argue that her choice to be a stay at home mother was somehow respectable is totally laughable. She's no more respectable than a Mafia wife. No amount of sanctimonious preaching from Karen Hughes will change the fact that Laura Bush was and still is a Republican whore.

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Come on now. Let this be.

America doesn't vote for first ladies.

[Generic Other]

3. Accessories to crime don't get a free pass from history

Remember Eva Braun and Mussolini's mistress? Marie "airheadless" Antoinette? The Tsarina of Russia?

Laura Bush is not without historical counterparts.

[rndmprsn]

2. Ewww...she sleeps with him.

'nuff said

[bloom]

4. I don't think she needs to be called a whore

actually - I was reading an article the other day - that was talking about her speaking out on issues that mattered to her and Bush dissing whatever it was she was talking about.

Who knows how some people stay with the spouses they do - but I'm not going to diss them for it.

[Born_A_Truman]

5. I agree (eom)

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[Generic Other]

15. Shall we call her Holy Mother America? And touch her to cure scrofula?

"The go-to girl to get dime bags from"?

[bloom]

17. I think the trashing of women begets more trashing of women.

Seems like we could just ignore her.

[sendero]

6. I agree with everything you say...

... except I see no reason to call her a whore. If marrying for security makes a woman a whore, there are whores everywhere.

Even though I'm often on the wrong side of the language police around here, I do believe in precise usage of loaded words.

Whore just doesn't apply here IMHO....

[Generic Other]

11. She is a whore. I stand by my words.

This woman had a choice of whether she wished to marry a robber baron's son and live like a Mafia princess.

Her choices are not the same choices other women have made.

[Eye and Monkey]

7. A vaild perspective

Not the only perspective, but one that bears consideration.

And well-put, G-O.

[jn2375]

9. Drop this story we just feed the media on this story, ignore it

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[Generic Other]

13. Hiya Hyacinth!

Welcome to DU.

You caught me in a rant.

I personally see no redeeming value in any woman who makes the kind of choices this one has.

If you tell me she's only with him because she's a victim of abuse and deserves sympathy, you'll set me off again.

She is an embarassment. Put a burkha on her and trot her out as holy mother america if you like, but I'll spit on her phony snow white image.

[realcountrymusic]

12. We condemned this when they did it to Hillary

I hate Bush more than anyone I know. I think I could personally reach through the TV screen and . . . better not say, lest the SS come after me.

But Laura Bush is not the president. She's his wife. She supports him, but that doesn't make her evil. I for one cannot go there. I think it demeans us to pick on her for anything other than the content of her statements. Calling her a "whore" is an indictment a whole lot of women.

Ann Coulter is a whore, because she sells her soul for money in the cause of evil. By the same token, Chris Matthews is a whore. It's a shame the term is so gendered, because it applies without respect to sex.

We get no closer to victory by becoming so like them we lose our own souls.

RCM

[Generic Other]

14. Hillary Clinton was not married to a criminal robber baron's son

She worked tirelessly to try and improve the state of health care in America. She represented our nation as a worthy person in her own right.

Laura Bush has alligned herself with the Vichy Regime for her own personal gain. After Paris was liberated in WWII, the French women who slept with the Nazis had their heads shaved. They were labelled whores. And collaborateurs.

How is Laura Bush any different? This has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with the evil this nation has endured in the past four years.

[Chili]

16. but...

...I think that using language like "whore" and, yes, even "chimp" dilute the message. There are so many things wrong with this administration and this man and these neocons that when we call them derogatory names like this, it only gives the other side the chance to say we're "haters." We're not haters, we despise their policies, we're horrified at their actions and decisions, and are furious with the results (dead soliders, thousands dead, millions in poverty, the list is endless). But we don't hate for the sake of hating like they do.

It doesn't mean we lack a sense of humor, it doesn't mean that we don't have the right to say "whore" and "chimp," but I do think it diverts attention from the seriousness of the issues if only because it gives the non-thinkers an opportunity to scream their rhetoric with what they'd call justification, and gives them yet another chance to change the subject from what is most important.

But that's my opinion, and I'm not trying to project it onto anyone.

[Generic Other]

18. If I say I don't hate them I might be lying

I can't find it in my heart to forgive their crimes against so many Americans. I don't consider them worthy of any respect. None.

The squatters set up housekeeping in the people's house on the people's dime. They used the constitution for a welcome mat and wiped their feet on the bill of rights. They lied, they robbed, they murdered, and they tricked Americans out of their birthright. They have created a world more dangerous than it has ever been in any of our lifetimes. They have actively waged class warfare against us all.

Yes, I have nothing positive to say about them.

[nofurylike]

19. i agree and appreciate your outburst, GO.

i feel that any who don't get it don't really know who we're dealing with.

i just want to ask each, "what if this had been written about eva braun?"

because whenever i see laura *, i see in her glazed evasive eyes that she knows exactly what she's giving strength and comfort to.

people who knee-jerk "don't take it out on the wife" are just saying she's too stupid to be knowingly abetting him. she's not. and if she's trapped, as spouses can be, then her cowardice is letting her perpetrator get away with mass extermination.

why do we flinch at facing what they really are?

m-a-s-s E-X-T-E-R-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N!!!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!


gasp.



peace

[disneyboy]

21. Laura Bush is REALLY............

SUE ELLEN EWING!!

[Generic Other]

23. I feel calmer now, but I am also sick of mincing my words

As you said an abused victim can escape her situation. If she has the least amount of courage, she will keep trying until she succeeds.

But you can't be Bush's woman and expect folks to be sympathetic to your plight.

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. I could give a rat's ass about Laura Bush

She is not a role model for anyone. She was a lack luster First Lady! She left no mark what so ever in her role. I think that is how she wanted it. She won't be remembered but her lying thieving murdering criminal husband will, and not fondly for that matter. Let's put this to rest shall we?

[lgardengate]

22. and You have no right to call her a whore

This is really over the top.

There are stay at home moms all over the country who don't want to be told they "never work" because they stay home with there children.
It IS respectable.

No matter what we may think of Bush, calling his whife a "whore" is over the line.

[Generic Other]

24. My first amendment rights allow me to call her anything I want to call her

Her husband hasn't entirely revoked that right try as he might.

I do not have to sugarcoat the truth for the likes of that woman. She's a gang moll.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

25. It's encouraging to see so many posters protesting this thread.

I concur. Unnecessary at best, toxic & counter-productive at worst.

[rasputin1952]

26. I am locking this thread...

While I have no great love for Laura Bush, going after her in this manner is inconsisent with Progressive ideology.

Thank you for your understanding.