Laura Bush elaborates on Michelle Obama’s White House tour: ‘I showed her the closets.’
By on Nov 14th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Laura Bush elaborates on Michelle Obama’s White House tour: ‘I showed her the closets.’
In an interview with CNN that aired today, First Lady Laura Bush described her Monday meeting with Michelle Obama at the White House. She said she told Michelle that “this house really can be a home” and showed her “all the things that women are interested in.” The First Lady didn’t elaborate on what those “things” were, beyond, “I showed her the closets.” Watch it:
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How many bodies did they have to move before this???
November 14th, 2008 at 6:41 pmWas Foley in there?
November 14th, 2008 at 6:42 pmOr should I have said, “Bottles”.
November 14th, 2008 at 6:43 pmGot vapid?
November 14th, 2008 at 6:43 pmBuckie Boy-rotflmao!!
November 14th, 2008 at 6:43 pmI wonder if Laura still sells dime bags. The nation could use a little relaxation.
November 14th, 2008 at 6:48 pmand showed her “all the things that women are interested in.”
I guess that leaves out the Oval Office…
November 14th, 2008 at 6:51 pmWas Jeff Gannon/James Guckert in one of those closets? With Rove and/or Lindsay Graham?
Or were the closets simply filled with skeletons?
If I were Michelle, I’d make sure there was a full fumigation before moving my family in there. Oh, and sweep for electronic bugs, too.
PEACE
November 14th, 2008 at 6:58 pmthe question was probably more brain dead than the answer.
November 14th, 2008 at 6:58 pmCan’t imagine the look on Michelle Obama’s face seeing all them nasty Bush family skeletons in those closets. Scary.
Just saying . . .
November 14th, 2008 at 6:58 pmLaura Bush elaborates on Michelle Obama’s White House tour: ‘I showed her the closets.’»
– - Did ya lift up any rugs, Laura?
November 14th, 2008 at 6:59 pm.
Diamonds and pearls and closets, oh my.
Diamonds and pearls and closets.
Whatever shall the First Lady do, oh my!
Diamonds and pearls and closets.
(I hope Michelle does more than discuss trivial things)
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November 14th, 2008 at 6:59 pmDid she show Michelle the chymp’s poop collection system?
November 14th, 2008 at 7:13 pmShowing Michelle Obama the closets is probably the most exciting thing Laura has done over the last eight years.
November 14th, 2008 at 7:17 pmJust think how wonderful it is going to be to have an intelligent, vivacious and funny first family to represent this nation to the world. I wonder how many “first wives” of heads of state have been bored to tears with Laura Bush.
November 14th, 2008 at 7:22 pmAny word on which closet that Jeff Gannon might have used?
November 14th, 2008 at 7:23 pmwell, i must say, i’m a bit disappointed with this story…
i just heard a really good one on rachel maddow – AAR …
horrible stories out of (is it pakistan?) where women are being abused (more than ever) – even throwing acid on school girls…
laura bush wrote an official proclamation denouncing those acts…
maybe a thread devoted to that story would be helpful…
…
and you can’t have too much closet space also…
November 14th, 2008 at 7:24 pmAnd in January Michelle Obama gets to show Laura Bush the door! And Barack and the American people get to show Bush and Cheney the door as well! About damn time!!!
November 14th, 2008 at 7:25 pmI would have enjoyed watching Michelle’s reactions to Laura’s guided tour; being friendly, and effusive to the wife of a war criminal, while mentally redoing the rooms her predecessor took pains to furnish.
All the hillbilly decor will be in the dumpster by Jan 21. Bet on it.
November 14th, 2008 at 7:31 pmAnd now to interrupt this regular scheduled boring program with good news:
Begich Now Up By 1061!
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/
November 14th, 2008 at 7:34 pmTwo questions:
1. How many times has Laura had to flush Dumbya out of these closets and into the Oval Office to do his job…especially when meeting foreign heads of state?
2. Is it true that the White House wardrobe not only leads to Narnia but to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe as well?
November 14th, 2008 at 7:57 pmLaura Bush elaborates on Michelle Obama’s White House tour: ‘I showed her the closets.’
Nice to see that Chimpy’s stupidity and ignorance is indeed contagious………..
November 14th, 2008 at 7:59 pmWho the heck knows?
Maybe her and Michelle burned one in the Rose Garden and then Laura showed her where she grows her own.
Laura: The Secret Service NEVER comes in here. I tell George it’s where the government keeps Noriega and only Cheney is allowed in there. He just nods and pretends he knows it. HEY! Why don’t I just leave the equipment and sh*t for you?
Michelle: Girl, SOLID!
(fist bump between the two)
November 14th, 2008 at 8:02 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
Just think how wonderful it is going to be to have an intelligent, vivacious and funny first family to represent this nation to the world. I wonder how many “first wives” of heads of state have been bored to tears with Laura Bush.
It’s a harbinger of historical death to have people overwhelming liking the first lady, but downright hating you as the president as you’re about to leave office and possibly politics for good.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:02 pmClosets. Typical level of profundity from one of the Bush family of stars.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:05 pmSoon Michelle will show her the door!
November 14th, 2008 at 8:07 pmI think Michelle would be looking for some space she can use for an office at home. Laura wouldn’t have needed that.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:20 pmAnd Michelle will be showing you the door…soon enough.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:22 pmOh my, how very Freudian.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:26 pmMakes since as Laura was the drug dealing in college and then there’s that thing about her killing her boyfriend. Look at the Bush twins and their drug/drinking problem as they watched their Mother and Father do the same.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:42 pmWhat’s all this then about laura selling dime bags in college?
November 14th, 2008 at 9:06 pmOf course, it was hard to talk over the sound of shredders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aypMFARJW84
November 14th, 2008 at 9:11 pmDon’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:25 pmHow come Laura didn’t get any points on her license or fine when she killed her ex —-but I get fined and points when I’m doing 78 mph on the Interstate and the only car on the road?
November 14th, 2008 at 9:29 pmWhat is that supposed to mean?
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
November 14th, 2008 at 9:31 pmClosets and skeletons come to mind, but I think some simple purification ceremony would be in order. I once moved into a house recently vacated by an evil person and a friend told me to turn around clockwise in the kitchen 3 times. I haven’t seen or heard from him since. And I’m not even superstitious.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:35 pmMichelle walking with Laura:” I saw a Nintendo game room next to your bedroom,may I ask who plays in that room”.
Laura: “That’s George’s room”.
Michelle trying to be nice:” George probably plays after work to relax”.
Laura: ” No, he actually plays while working “. !!
November 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm“Joe The Plumber” Book Deal Details Emerge
In a somewhat predictable move, Joe The Plumber, aka Samuel Wurzelbacher, has signed a book deal. Joe told Fox News that he was “broke,” but still took time in considering his publishing house because he wanted to spread the wealth around.
“Everyone came at me to write a book. They had dollar signs in their eyes. ‘101 Things Joe the Plumber Knows’ or some stupid s— like that. Excuse me, I am sorry,” he said. “You know I will get behind something solid, but I won’t get behind fluff. I won’t cash in, and when people do read the book they will figure out that I didn’t cash in. At least I hope they figure that out.”
The book, called “Joe the Plumber — Fighting for the American Dream,” is to be released by a group called PearlGate Publishing and other small publishing houses.
“I am not going to a conglomerate that way we actually can get the economy jump started. Like there is five publishing companies in Michigan. There’s a couple down in Texas. They are small ones that can handle like 10 or 15,000 copies. I can go to a big one that could handle a million or two. But they don’t need the help. They are already rich. So that’s spreading the wealth to me,” he said.
CJR has reported several new details on the book today. Titled “Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream,” it’s slated to be released on December 1st of this year and will be co-written with a novelist named Thomas Tabback.
He must have tested that line out with the bimbos at his local swillery.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:02 pmHere’s the link to Pearlgate Publishing:
http://thingsforgottenbook.com/bookstore/
They’re listed on Yahoo as Pearlgate Bookstore. (my emphasis)
November 14th, 2008 at 10:10 pmIt seems Sam the would-be hydro-evacuation specialist is starting his own members-only blog, where you can “talk to Joe” (Sam) about the red-white-and-blue topics of interest to broke-and-near-homeless American patriots everywhere.
I think someone’s styling themselves, as a replacement for Rush.
Although, he must be getting support from some wingnut factory or other. A tool like Joe is excellent for r/a/t/f/u/c/k/i/n/g other potential republican candidates for ‘12.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:20 pmI actually like Laura Bush. I think she’s adorable and just, in general, very nice. You just know she’s not the homophobic, bloodthirsty, anti-choice tyrant her husband is.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:50 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
And now to interrupt this regular scheduled boring program with good news:
Begich Now Up By 1061!
and…
The 25,000 remaining votes will be counted Tuesday. They come mostly from Anchorage and the surrounding area, where Begich is leading, and from the state’s southeastern panhandle, where he was doing even better.
November 14th, 2008 at 11:34 pmI actually like Laura Bush as well. I am guessing that she is thinking hard on how to divorce her piece of $hit husband and move on with her life. Let’s give it a couple of years. Perhaps she will stop feeling sorry for him and realize him for the loser he is. She seems sensible and gentle – and she knows she chose an a$$hole. Live and learn…
November 14th, 2008 at 11:51 pmAdded the Republican First Lady, “and this is the closet they keep you in during the length of your husband’s term. I added a chair in there and some yarn for knitting.”
November 15th, 2008 at 1:06 amwhich closet has traditionally been used as the one where the first couple hid the bong, marital aids, and assorted other stuff that can’t be just lying about?
November 15th, 2008 at 1:13 am… and then it donned on me: of course she’s that shallow.
November 15th, 2008 at 2:27 amAnd the third closet Laura showed Michelle Jeff Gannon jumped out and shouted, NO! NO! My job is done! I can’t do any more! I will not do Barack! I will not d… (and a mute body is hauled off discreetly from the White House grounds never to be heard from again).
November 15th, 2008 at 2:56 amsee video: Bhutto didn’t mean to say “Osama bin Laden” please pass it on, the misinformation has got to stop.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:37 amIf I was Michele, I’d have the exterminator out before I put anything in those closets.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:31 amShe’s the perfect stepford wife.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:34 amThe Obama’s could have a shaman smudge the White House with white sage. That usually clears the air.
Laura Bush earned my respect when she spoke in defense of Michelle Obama and I don’t understand why people are trashing her. Trash her husband, George W. Bush. He is the one responsible for breaking our country.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:49 amWas Larry Craig in one of them?
November 15th, 2008 at 9:07 amI have to agree, Laura Bush seems like a decent person. She earned some points with me when she actually defended Michelle during the campaign, and she has been a visible presence on women’s issues overseas.
She reinforces my belief that in a schizophrenic sorta way, W. is an OK guy-husband and father-and that if you met him (before the war crimes and genocide, of course) without knowing who he was, you’d probably like him. How one person can exist as a loving, friendly person while bombing, pillaging and abetting rapists and looters that are stuffing their pockets with anything that’s not nailed down is beyond me. I just wonder if there are ever moments that W. the hubby/dad ever meets with W. the sociopath…is there ever a moment of recognition or self-disgust?
November 15th, 2008 at 9:46 amCats r Flyfishn Says
November 15th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Laura Bush earned my respect when she spoke in defense of Michelle Obama and I don’t understand why people are trashing her. Trash her husband, George W. Bush. He is the one responsible for breaking our country.
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It’s also worth pointing out that whenever Michelle Obama has spoken of Laura Bush, it’s always been with respect and praise. These two women have no complaint with each other, and neither should we trash either one of them.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:48 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
Yeah, let’s be respectful of this woman who stood by as her husband destroyed our country and killed uncounted numbers of people in the middle east, etc…..I could go on but she is not a pet. She is an adult. She married a monster and stands by him. She lets him define her.
She has allowed and funded her daughters to be people who drink and party recklessly and with no consequenses for their behavior.
The right wasn’t nearly so nice to Hillary and she actually was a good mother.
So, is she exempt from blame just because she is a woman……?
November 15th, 2008 at 10:02 amAll the secrets War Criminal’s wives keep…
November 15th, 2008 at 10:20 amaccording to rachel maddow, on her radio program, this statement by laura bush was a brave and powerful thing to do, especially at this time…
Statement by Mrs. Laura Bush
news stories:
November 15th, 2008 at 10:28 amhttp://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=taliban%2C+acid&btnG=Search+News
i wonder if she showed michelle obama the secret passage leading to the luxury suite where they’ve been keeping osama bin laden all these years? i wonder if they’ll be taking him with them to exile in paraguay?
November 15th, 2008 at 10:28 amIn my opinion, there is nothing appealing about Mrs. Stepford Bush.
Michelle Obama is a breath of fresh air.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:32 am#58:
They need OBL for their bogus “war on terror”
November 15th, 2008 at 10:37 amAre you ladies defending her just because she is a lady? She didn’t do you any favors. From politico:
November 15th, 2008 at 10:47 am
“First lady Laura Bush said today that sexism aimed at Sarah Palin was a very real prospect and suggested Democrats watch what they say about the Alaska governor and John McCain’s ticketmate.”
typical reichwing perspective on the world: treat us with kid gloves while you come after you like a banshee who hasn’t eaten in a week.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:50 amtypical reichwing perspective on the world: treat us with kid gloves while they come after you like a banshee who hasn’t eaten in a week.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:53 amShe has obviously done many brave and powerful things. From her biography at whithouse.gov she toots her own horn on issues she has’t been very brave or powerful about:
Laura bush biography @ whitehouse.gov
If she is going to take credit for her role in these issues shouldn’t she be taken to task for using it as lip service just as the rest of the republicans do on the same issues.
I mean seriously, if she has been activly involved I haven’t seen much of it and no results of her involvement…
yeah, her mom died of breast cancer but she had good health care…..has laura made sure American women at large have the kind of care her mother had? I say no.
I’m sorry, I can’t bring myself to be benevolent to this woman. She is just a quiet sara palen……she alludes to all kinds of lofty ideals but that’s where it has ended.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:55 amShe always seems to be heavily sedated on really good prescription drugs and he War Criminal hubby is an active alcoholic.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:32 amShe always seems to be heavily sedated on really good prescription drugs and her War Criminal hubby is an active alcoholic.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:32 amNo matter how much Laura and Michele respect each other I still bet there’s cooties in the closets.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:49 amno, fred, and i wasn’t DEFENDING her…
just pointing out something she DID do very recently, that was very admirable…
i think this thread is taking an unnecessary and petty potshot at her…
that’s all.
i fully expect that she will be separating herself from her criminal husband soon, and will cheer her on when she does…
she’ll need it – going against the bush regime will take plenty of nerve…
November 15th, 2008 at 12:40 pmWords are cheap……what has she actually done, that’s the point. She was in a position to actually help with some of the things she professes to care about and really did nothing.
You go ahead and forgive her if you want, I not so inclined.
as far as her leaving bush, I don’t think that will be allowed to happen. Too embarrassing to the bush empire as a whole. She may not live with him but she won’t be allowed to divorce him.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:03 pm“Laura Bush is actively involved in issues …education, health care, and human rights.”
How did you enjoy the olympics, laura? have you been pressuring your family to talk to the saudi royal family so at least women are allowed to drive there?
so much for the human rights issue.
Have you seen what no child left behind has done to our public school system, laura? no comment there either…
i must agree with fred, this “lady” is nothing more than an empty can.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:28 pmoh come on
November 15th, 2008 at 1:41 pmlet’s not all start attacking laura bush here. she is simply doing her job as the first lady. now let’s all give her some credit
she has done nothing for the past eight years, now we’re all to give her a pat on the back because she gave a house tour two months before her eviction? i’ll get right on that.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:48 pmI’m sure that Michele Obama was entirely gracious to Laura Bush, but she must have been bored to tears and thinking “My god, what a vapid person she is”.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:51 pmwicodemo Says:
oh come on
let’s not all start attacking laura bush here. she is simply doing her job as the first lady. now let’s all give her some credit
Credit for what?
November 15th, 2008 at 1:51 pmIt turns out that one of the things that Laura was interested in was the life and legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt. “If it weren’t for women like Mrs. Roosevelt, I would not have been able to become the First Lady that I am,” said the wife of America’s most outrageous President.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:53 pmBilbo, I just don’t know. The only thing I can think of is that at least she didn’t start a war against Americans while being crippled by the very thing she was fighting herself.
The war on drugs started by a drug addict is a good example of the things republican first ladies get credit for.
Thank god larua didn’t feel ambitious enough to do something like that to us.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:58 pmDumb WAR CRIMINAL, stupid wife!
November 15th, 2008 at 2:18 pmI’m sorry Bilbo, but this imbecil woman in an interview about Katrina, named the disarter ‘Huracane Karina’ while been interviewed during her expesinve shopping. People were still stranded in New Orleans, bodies were floating and Bush and MacCain were celebrating someone’s birthday with a photo op and cake… fcku laura bush!
November 15th, 2008 at 2:23 pmLaura Bush is flatlined. I have never held an opinion one way nor the other as there is nothing to judge. She is a nonentity. Why not go running to the shelter of mother’s helper…
November 15th, 2008 at 2:27 pm______
Bilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
I’m sure that Michele Obama was entirely gracious to Laura Bush, but she must have been bored to tears and thinking “My god, what a vapid person she is”.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
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Of course, it was a totally stupid thing for Laura Bush to show Mrs. Obama the place her family will be living for the next few years. Mere details! ;)
More likely, being a gracious person, Michelle Obama probably thought about how Laura Bush was from a different generation when it was much less common for women, especially higher income women, to have careers outside the home. Mrs. Obama has shown no signs of the nastiness that you attribute to her.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:21 pmLaura may have been over self-medicating for the last eight years
November 16th, 2008 at 2:05 amLet’s not bash Laura Bush. She was a decent First Lady who happens to have an indecent president for a husband. It was gracious of her to extend such an invitation to the Obama family with George, as gleeful as we are over the idea of the current First Family leaving the White House.
Progressive majorities result in a more manageable America.
November 16th, 2008 at 7:49 am