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Laura Bush: Dull, Narcissistic or Just Plain Conservative?

by Matthew Hubbard | Apr 28 2007 - 11:04am |

"No one suffers more than their president and, uh… and uh I do."

Laura Bush on the Today Show, interviewed by Ann Curry.

Don’t you wish that for just one moment, you could have been Ann Curry and asked the obvious follow-up question?

Here’s how I would have put it. “Mrs. Bush, let’s do a thought experiment. Close your eyes and imagine that one of your daughters isn’t coming home for Thanksgiving. She isn’t coming because she’s dead, she died in Iraq. She won’t be at Thanksgiving or Christmas or any family get together ever again, because she died in Iraq.”

“Now open your eyes. Here’s the reality; both of your daughters are alive and well, and there is no chance of them dying in Iraq. That’s the real world.”

“Which felt worse: The time with your eyes closed or the time with your eyes open?”

Of course, she’d be pissed as hell when she opened her eyes, like I would care two cents about her feelings after she had made such a ridiculous comment. But how does she even think to say such a thing?

The first option is that she wasn‘t thinking. Her mouth started moving and what came out came out. Being fair, we all say stupid stuff sometimes.

The second option is that she has no feelings whatsoever. The thought experiment I asked her to might be an impossible task for her. Empathy might be completely beyond her capacity. Humans like this certainly exist, and not all of them are psycho killers.

A third option is that she is a run-of-the-mill modern conservative, the pissed off people, many of them at the top of the heap in America, who actually buy the nonsense argument that they are an oppressed class. How can the people on Fox Noise Channel sell the idea that the phrase “Happy Holidays” is an attack on Christianity? How can a third-string academic like Ward Churchill become a sign of the apocalypse? How can Giuliani act like the Republicans will keep up safe and the Democrats will put our lives at risk given the record of the last six years? Because the “just plain folks” have been indoctrinated that their changing way of life is not a natural consequence of the modern world, but instead a deliberate attack by the enemies of all that is right and good, which in the conservative world means the liberals.

Of course, there doesn’t have to be a single reason for Laura Bush to have said such a stupid and insensitive thing. Beyond dullness, vanity or misplaced martyrdom, it could be the drugs she takes to keep that vapid look on her face. Like drug interaction, it could be a combination of any of the possible explanations above. It might have even been a talking point her speechwriters gave her, where they calculated the possibility of whether the interviewer would call her bluff, and perhaps even had an answer prepared in case Ann Curry couldn’t hide her contempt.

Whatever the reason, it should be made clear to the First Lady and her husband that outside the bottom third of the population that still supports their incompetent and evil regime, the lies and nonsense they spew are only making matters worse. Every idiot comment by this dying regime brings resolve to those who want to send them and their vicious belief system into political oblivion.

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