Most people in this country like Laura Bush. The ex-librarian comes across as that mom who always had some cookies and juice for the kids playing out back. She had the air of a traditional woman that some see as a thing of the past. Most people, even those who dislike the President and/ or his policies, liked Laura. For the most part, I like her. She has that goofy cross eyed thing like the one girl from the Dixie Chicks, but that aside, she's usually come across as an "all american traditional mom."
But recently, Mrs Bush has been getting in a little over her head. Perhaps she enjoys the comedic stylings of Rush Limbaugh a little too much, or someone didn't get her the memo that everyone already knows that Michael J Fox was not faking anything in his ads or anywhere he has championed the embryonic stem cell research cause in this politically charged season.
But anyhow, Mrs Bush, in an interview with CSpan, Mrs Bush stepped in it big time.
She again lit the charge that Michael J Fox, a severe altzheimers sufferer, was somehow being deceitful in trying to live.
Mrs Bush said “It’s always easy to manipulate people’s feelings, especially when you are talking about diseases that are so difficult.”
Of course, to Mrs Bush, it is apparantly ok when GOP politicians and her husband, along with her brother in law are actually attempting to manipulate public perception by using a vegetable, ignoring all credible science and a multitude of court orders to try to selectively stop 1 politically adventageous euthenasia. Remember Terri Schiavo?
Then, the 1st lady was fully on board when it came to Terri. But since then, have the republicans tried to stop 1 procedure like that? It's not like they are rare. Incidents of people who are in a constant vegetative state are mercifully let go all the time. Yet since the Schiavo outcry, nothing has come from the White House or Congress to try to prevent future conflicts. No one has even proposed anything that might clarify future controversies.
That's because the laws that existed before the Bush family led witch hunt were clear. They just wanted to change them temorarily to suit their political purposes.
Now, Mrs Bush is trying to accuse Mr Fox of manipulation? For shame Mrs Bush. Maybe you should just go get some cookies and juice ready.