This is rich. In an AP article that just came out, Laura said
"A large percentage of our population probably doesn't realize what inner cities are really like and has looked away from that,"
Well, certainly a large percentage of Shrub's base, anyway. Oh, and Shrub's mother. And himself.
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With "popularity in polls twice that of her husband's," Laura is trying to smooth things over. Once again, however, it feels like the white house is trying to put a spell on us by telling us the exact opposite of what's true enough times until we give in. I mean, can she really believe this?
Then, in a wifely endorsement, she said, "Fortunately he is really strong and so I'm confident that he'll be able to sustain the level of attention that he'll have to -- and not just to that, also to the war in Iraq, to foreign policy and to all the other issues that are on the desk of the president of the United States."
I'm sorry, but didn't "Mission Accomplished" already indicate that his attention had wandered from Iraq? And how long did it take for Katrina to
get his attention in the first place?
There's more:
Without offering specifics, she urged policymakers to tackle not only improving education so that poor and minority children have a leg up in life, but increasing the amount of affordable housing stock and the jobs available to those who most need them. She pressed for job training programs, whether through the government or unions or corporations.
Is Laura Bush a Democrat all of a sudden?
She did try to connect her thoughts back to her husband by mentioning the "long, long hard work that's going to be required." And whereas I can give a big Amen to this statement:
"It's particularly hard for Americans, because we're so impatient and we think that everything ought to be fixed yesterday."
... just how did everything get broken in the first place?
Full article
here.