Laura Bush on quitting smoking....

[ddeclue]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/05/14/laura-bush-thats-right_n_48484.html

BLITZER: The first lady, Laura Bush, is trying to today to get the message out that heart disease is the number-one killer of women in the United States. She took her campaign to George Washington University Hospital.

And CNN's top doctor went along with her.

And joining us now, our chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

You were over at the White House today, Sanjay, speaking with the first lady. Women and heart disease, this is a huge, huge issue. And smoking is clearly a cause of a lot of these problems, heart disease, smoking. You spoke to her about that. What did she say?

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, I wanted to get right to it, because there's been a lot of rumors about whether she was a smoker and whether she still is a smoker. I decided to just ask her. This is what she said.

[snowbear]

1. I wonder if she was smoking when she killed her old boyfriend?

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[firedupdem]

2. LOL!!!

I wasn't expecting that one! LOL!!


:rofl:

What are you talking about? Was someone murdered around her?

[ddeclue]

5. Not so funny...

when she was a teenager she was involved in an auto accident where her former boyfriend died.

[firedupdem]

7. Never heard that ever! ....wow.. n/t

[zbdent]

23. It's that damned (Chappaquiddick!) liberal media (Chappaquiddick!)

for you ...

[Beacool]

31. Yep, she killed a guy she had dated.

When Laura was a teenager she ran through a stop sign causing an accident. Unfortunately, the young guy driving the other car was thrown out of the vehicle and died.

Here, read it for yourself:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp

:(

[snowbear]

8. No one's laughing at her boyfriend's fate. ...She's just a phony hypocrit.

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That's all.

[ddeclue]

15. I think Dan Quayle stole your "e" and is using to spell "potatoe"...

:)

[snowbear]

19. The spelling police have the night off tonight....

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BTW. Today is the first day that I have EVER seen you in such a pissy mood.

I don't know what happened to the old ddeclue we all love.. but I sure hope they come back SOON!

[awoke_in_2003]

40. That's okay...

ddeclue is an auxilary spelling police officer :)

[LynnTheDem]

17. She wasn't just "involved"; she was driving the car that killed her boyfriend.

Imagine how the "media" would have fun 24-7 with that had she had a (D) behind her name.

[lunatica]

28. She wasn't just driving. She hit his car in an intersection after he broke up with her

But we'll never know what the full circumstances were unless one of her friends tells all. It was hushed up very quickly

[fed_up_mother]

34. Nothing was "hushed up."

The accident happened on a dark stretch of road, so she couldn't have possibly known who was driving the other car. It was dark enough that she couldn't even identify what type of car was being driven, if she had seen it. Like too many teens, she wasn't careful, and ran a stop sign, and her old boyfriend - who was apparently still a good friend - was killed.

If anything, it should be a lesson for all drivers, especially teens. Something very similar happened to a good male friend's younger sister. It was tragic for everyone involved.

[sce56]

46. Laura Bush Killed Michael Douglas

True it did happen What else would you expect from a Bush Wife!
The rage on the internet (or as Laura Bush's hubby like's to say; 'the internets') is that Laura
Bush killed a dude. Obviously everyone first wants to know if this is true, and then when they
find out it's veracity, they want to know if the dude is Dubya.

So the answers are, Yes and No. No, it's not her husband, although she's probably been mad enough at him to make some general threats in that direction, but it turns out that Laura Bush actually killed Michael Douglas.

Okay, glad I could clear that up for you. In other news...Oh, you need more info on this story? Okay, it wasn't THAT Michael Douglas. According to various reports, it was in 1963 when she was 17. She ran a stop sign and broke the neck or her fellow school mate, sports star and her former boy friend, er what more we can not say so long ago how to get the truth is like looking for Shrubs arrest records for Coke which were expunged from his records when he was Governor of Texas and they gave him license No. 1 which in doing so erased all previous records of his first license.

I guess you wonder if there were legal consequences. Right? Of course not. Come on, she was a future Bush. What else would you expect?

By the way, a recent episode of The Family Guy, made a cryptic reference to this whole, Laura Bush killed a guy thing. Remind me to start watching that show.

[ddeclue]

3. Do you have a hacking coughing smilie with an oxygen tank?

:hide:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I heard that she was drinking...

[firedupdem]

6. what?

who died? I'm lost. Are you guys serious?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Yes, I'm serious...

She was involved a long time ago, as a teenager, I think, in an auto accident. I forget the details, but she ran over an old boyfriend while she was driving. I don't remember now just what he was doing, if he was walking or if he was in a car too...

But he died. She was not prosecuted.

I don't know if she was drinking or not...

[firedupdem]

10. Shows you how much attention I was paying.. I never knew that! n/t

[Captain Hilts]

25. Not much. It's been in the news for 8 years. nt

[snowbear]

12. She blew through a stop sign if memory serves..

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I'm sure someone else on here recalls the details..

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I remember that too...

[DesertRat]

13. At 17, Laura ran a stop sign and crashed into another car

killing her boyfriend who was in it. Very sad story.

[my3boyz]

24. Probably why she always looks drugged up. She is trying to get through

the guilt AND get through the day living with that idiot she calls a husband!

[Clio the Leo]

11. Extremly NOT superfunny at all.

Borderline not cool even.

Here firedup....

http://www.bartcop.com/pickles-killer.htm

[firedupdem]

20. Hey! I thought she was joking...I wasn't laughing at somebody

really getting killed! Come on...you know me better than that missy! Thanks for the link.

[Clio the Leo]

26. no no, not you .....

.... the OP. ;)

[sniffa]

37. I took a crash course at the Laura Bush Driving School

[Fridays Child]

16. It's interesting that she never answered his question about how she quit smoking.

I think she's lying.

GUPTA: Were you a smoker at one time?

(CROSSTALK)

LAURA BUSH, FIRST LADY: That's right. I used to smoke. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

GUPTA: Do you smoke anymore?

L. BUSH: No, I don't smoke anymore.

GUPTA: How did you quit?

L. BUSH: Well, it was very hard to quit. And smoking is very difficult to quit.

And I want to encourage people to not pick it up. It's very difficult to quit. And one of the good ways, I think, one of the easier ways to quit is the way the president did, when he smoked, which is when he was back in graduate school. And that was, he took up running. And I think, once you get up and exercise, smoking becomes counterproductive...

[MrsBrady]

18. i know people

who smoke and still exercise

a girlfriend of mine exercised and lost a lot of weight, but was still a smoker...for about 4 years.
she quit smoking about a year ago.

[firedupdem]

21. ummmm....I'm guilty of that. My husband couldn't believe how

hard I was working out and still smoking. crazy..I know!

[NashVegas]

43. You Know What's Funny?

Going to the ballet, and seeing the dancers having a smoke outside the stage door 20 minutes before curtain.

[Fridays Child]

29. She changed the subject to George. She didn't want to answer Gupta's question about...

...what method she used to quit smoking. When he asked her about her own tobacco habit, she responded, "That's right. I used to smoke. Uh-huh. Uh-huh." Sort of a nervous answer, if you ask me. And when he asked her, point blank, how she kicked the habit, she said, "Well, it was very hard to quit. And smoking is very difficult to quit." Then, she talked only about how George did it.

She dodged the question, and Gupta let her get away with it. I suspect that she still smokes and that she's ashamed of it.

[MrsBrady]

39. she is a smoker

and it's not really been a secret
I don't know why they even bother to lie about it


at least Obama says he is off and on with his smoking, which is true

[awoke_in_2003]

41. Yep, a couple pro athletes...

were known for their smoking- Vladi Divatch<sp> of the NBA and Sergi Zubov of the Dallas Stars.

[sce56]

45. In basic we had a Drill SGt wannabe he would not let us smoke after a run but

after a run yet he would not wait and lit up right away this was despite the fact he lost a lung due to a combat injury, sucking chest wound, in Vietnam!

I smoked for the twenty I did in the army and ran just fine all that time. Running helps keep the lungs clear! Thank the stars I was able to quit 14 years ago and can't stand the smell of it anymore!

[Libby2]

30. I think she's lying too.

I know when I quit, it's not something you forget.

[awoke_in_2003]

42. She is an ex-smoker

like bush is an ex-drinker- only in their imaginations.

[kskiska]

22. "No, I don't smoke anymore…"

She didn't say she smoked any less.

[LiberalFighter]

27. What she and Gupta have to say is not worth listening. Gupta is a quack!!

[JuniperLea]

32. That's a serious charge...

On what do you base this accusation?

[LiberalFighter]

35. His previous reports!

[JuniperLea]

36. I'm asking for something specific here...

:shrug:

[LiberalFighter]

38. Well I don't have anything specific and don't consider Gupta worth the effort.

I've seen enough of his reports to know that he is not interested in the truth.

[Hanse]

44. What truth do you think he's not interested in?

[Stephanie]

48. Here you go >

Gupta v. Michael Moore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR2U_SAWHdQ

[JuniperLea]

51. Interesting you should link this

A Podiatrist and an Internist I know, both highly educated and intelligent men, are about as anti-Moore as they come. I still trust their medical judgment.

[Catshrink]

33. Pickles quit smoking when Commander Cuckoo Bananas stopped drinking,

i.e., never!

[malaise]

47. I'm betting she smoked in the WH

now they'll say smoking is banned so Obama can't take a puff.

[Politicub]

49. Laura is an attention whore

I wish she would STFU and go sip a martini at her Dallas manse.

[mnhtnbb]

50. She sure is. I watched part of the Kennedy Center Honors tonight and she just

had to insert herself onstage to talk about one of the honorees: George Jones. Quick. Hit mute before
I threw up.

:puke:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

52. both her and the twins smoke