Laura Bush: No One Suffers More than We Do
April 25, 2007 12:56 PM   Subscribe

Laura Bush: "'No one suffers more than their president and I do". Oh, really?
posted by james_cpi (21 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: please grind your axe someplace else. -- jessamyn



 
She of course means the non-tangible, metaphorical, mostly make-believe kind of suffering, not actual physical suffering.

That would be...


...icky.
posted by stenseng at 1:00 PM on April 25, 2007


The Bush women all seem to have a special talent for channeling Marie Antoinette.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 1:00 PM on April 25, 2007



They are so persecuted being all rich and white and in charge of everything.

I'm shedding a little tear for them right now.
posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 1:03 PM on April 25, 2007 [1 favorite]


Last link was from 2004. There are a lot of other examples since then, right? I mean, the guy's been clearing brush & talking about yellow rugs pretty regularly...
posted by miss lynnster at 1:05 PM on April 25, 2007


I never quite understood how they met. He's George W. Bush, and she's a librarian. What conceivable turn of events connected them, and what could so horribly scar a librarian as to turn one from the path of learning and knowledge so thoroughly?
posted by Pope Guilty at 1:05 PM on April 25, 2007 [1 favorite]


I almost feel sorry for her, reading that. For a "librarian", she's pretty thick.
posted by stinkycheese at 1:06 PM on April 25, 2007


This seemed a pretty damning piece when I first read it, but no one who is foolish enough to say what Bush said today needs a playwright to cast doubt on their character.
posted by billysumday at 1:06 PM on April 25, 2007


Somebody should give them a medal. Oh, wait....
posted by well_balanced at 1:07 PM on April 25, 2007


So it is worth reading the context of her answer. She was claiming to suffer as much as anyone else who's watching the brutal fucking nightmare in Iraq.

"You know the American people are suffering watching --," Curry said to the first lady.

"Oh, I know that very much," Laura Bush responded. "And believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this, and certainly the commander in chief, who has asked our military to go into harm's way."


So not comparing herself to the troops themselves.

The second link is apt though.
posted by churl at 1:09 PM on April 25, 2007


Somehow I don't really think this woman knows what suffering even means.
posted by delmoi at 1:10 PM on April 25, 2007


Also, fuck her with a rake anyway.
posted by churl at 1:11 PM on April 25, 2007


So not comparing herself to the troops themselves.

But maybe comparing herself to their survivors who may be watching "this."
posted by Kirth Gerson at 1:11 PM on April 25, 2007



What conceivable turn of events connected them ... ?

Laura ran a stop sign and killed a classmate when she was a teenager.

That might explain the appeal.
posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 1:11 PM on April 25, 2007 [1 favorite]


Considering that a Venn diagram that matched "our military" to the Bush family would yield...two completely separate circles, I still have to call bullshit. But context does move the remark from shocking all-about-me-ness over to general empty rhetoric, which is kind of...less...whatever...
posted by kittens for breakfast at 1:13 PM on April 25, 2007


You ever get the feeling that GW didn't really want the job?
posted by jonmc at 1:13 PM on April 25, 2007


That is an awesome pic of Lady Laura, is it not? Is there any truth to the rumor that she's a heavy smoker? I'm asking you cuz you're the internet and you know all.
posted by Mister_A at 1:13 PM on April 25, 2007


even in constext of th erest of the piece, they have NO personal investment... they do not suffer at all except the fact it hurts their poll numbers.

I posted the old link because it made me so ill when I first read it years ago and that story is what I thought of when I read this piece.

It was my first thought... hosting parties, treated like rock stars... makes me want to scream.
posted by james_cpi at 1:14 PM on April 25, 2007


I find Laura Bush to be an intelligent, dignified and all-in-all a pretty decent person. "F her with a rake," well, that's not intelligent, dignified or decent at all. It really moves the debate forward though, so thanks!
posted by MarshallPoe at 1:15 PM on April 25, 2007


whoops... sorry about the typos!!
posted by james_cpi at 1:15 PM on April 25, 2007


She was claiming to suffer as much as anyone else who's watching the brutal fucking nightmare in Iraq.

"And believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this..."


Actually, she's saying that they suffer more than anyone else who's watching it.

Her mastery of the Dewey Decimal system must enable her to classify all the elements of the suffering, thus gaining a higher understanding of the horror of it all. And suffering more because of the elegant organization of the misery.
posted by CKmtl at 1:18 PM on April 25, 2007


Marshall, I agree the rake remark was uncalled for, but I do think we have different definitions for "pretty decent."
posted by Kirth Gerson at 1:19 PM on April 25, 2007


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