All Hail Laura Bush
I found refreshing, but unsurprising, an interview the former First Lady recently did with buffoon Larry King.
She is pro-choice and supports gay marriage.
I always liked Laura Bush, despite my deep concerns with some of her husband’s policy execution, as much for her ability to tell it like it is, as for her common sense approach to complicated issues. This particular story demonstrates both. She single handedly, and in adorable, plain spoken Texas-drawl, put forward two individual theses that are utterly sensible.
But did you hear about it very much in the news? Do you understand now about the left-leaning, liberal bias in the media that I’ve endlessly told you about? To liberals, it’s okay to be pro-choice and supportive of gay marriage, not because they truly believe in them, but because they have expediently hijacked such issues to make them their own political hobby horses. It’s really quite shameful.
But we can’t talk about it when it’s a wonderful, conservative, down-home woman–it needs to be a pillar of democracy like monster-bitch Barbra Streisand on her hind legs, no less.
You can read about Laura Bush’s statements to Larry King (and watch the video), here.
What a charming, wonderful woman.
Much agreed Alex, she is indeed a gracious, charming and classy lady. with a good deal of forbearance and patience. She’d have to be with a guy like George W., and their two daughters who seem to have inherited their mother’s good looks and their father’s rascality. Of course she’s wrong about S.S.M. and choice on abortion, but she is entitled to her opinion too. I believe in choice if the mother’s life is at stake,say when the mother has a cancer that must be treated quickly with radiation that is likely to kill or damage the fetus as well. But then, should she decide to got through with the pregnancy and chance survival, or remission, that too, is her choice, no one else’s. On the subject of George W., I must say I miss him and his father and Ronald Reagan. Hell, I even miss Richard Nixon. Most of all I miss W.F. Buckley Jr.; his magazine is not the same w/o him, too much economics etc., not the humour and passion he brought to it. It appears that the bus driver(s) who discriminated against the Catholic school girls will go unpunished. Each time I’ve caught the bus, a dozen or so times since the hullabaloo, I have asked them if they’re accepting Catholics and most of them laugh or were unaware of what happened (or only pick on girls). Wonder if I were a bus driver and I refused to p/u Muslim girls because of the slaughter of thousands of innocent victims, by radical co-religionists, if I would be fired from my job? Oh there would be repercussions my friends. Would there ever.
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Of course, the cacophony could be heard from Pluto. Did you expect something less?
As for abortion, you know how I feel: yes, if incest, yes if rape, yes if the woman’s life is in jeopardy, yes if the socio-economic circumstances are such that a child would naturally suffer under such conditions–but NO to a revolving door tax-assisted method of birth control. And in the case of gay marriage, I fully support it. It’s not the law of the land by accident. I think there are enough people who love one another that if they want to marry, by all means. Marriage is not the domain of heterosexuals. I’m not exactly the poster boy…after two marriages and two official live-in partnerships that could be considered the same. Christ, no wonder I loved Carson as much as I did. LOL!
Although I must say, that I am very blessed to be married to a stunningly beautiful, extremely compassionate, very warm, utterly loving AND EXTREMELY FORGIVING woman, who looks after me better than I could have ever expected. I am blessed.
Finally. LOL!
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You are blessed in many more ways than one. But you slyly avoided any comment on Tricky Dick. How can anyone not love someone so loathed by the Left? Someone commented in the Nat Rev. that although Kennedy put on a big show for the Arts, and they loved him to pieces; Richard Nixon actually PLAYED the piano. (As does PMSH and Condi Rice)
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Thank you. Actually, I didn’t remember to comment on Nixon. I thought, as many now do, that he did a great deal for America, and the world, well after leaving office than while occupying the WH.
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Why do you think the driver will go unpunished?
Perhaps some public pressure can be put on transit to tell the public if and specially how they dealt with the driver.
They will not have to disclose the drivers name (not unless of course they’ve decided to do nothing). In that case they should be pressed through legal channels and forced to disclose everything.
JB
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I agree, but I think he will go unpunished because of the swift action of Coast Mountain Bus. They apologized immediately and I believe they all agreed to let matters go. But, again, it does tell you everything you need to know about the bad end of the union business…
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Alex, if its not too shameful, I would like to steal your description of your wife since we seem to be married to the same kind of women, especially the “extremely forgiving” part…
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Not shameful at all. You’re most welcome to do so. Blessings…
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Good point Jason, and one wonders why the Human Rights people haven’t come galloping out in defense of this obvious case of prejudice and intimidation. Guess I’ll have to file a grievance (like that is ever going to happen!) In the meantime I will continue to expose my medal of St. Joseph, known in the Canon of Saints as “The terror of demons” along with my bus pass, asking if they accept Catholics. The reactions are interesting; one told me they were picking on Mormons that particular day, another said that although he was Protestant he would forgo his usual stridency and the others basically shake their heads and laugh.
As Jason says, if the man (or woman) isn’t disciplined there should be no reason for withholding their name. Or I could possibly get it through LFA, though being Catholic, they’re likely to defer the question to God.
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