Posted by
Madeline's Dad on Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:18:35 AM
All of this comes to mind as I see, skirting across the newswires, a handful of generic photos and sidebar stories of Laura Bush out on tour recently with her twin Styrofoam peanut daughters, Jenna and Barbara, promoting a new children's book they all apparently, and yeah right, wrote together and isn't that sweet.
There is Laura, looking exactly as she has looked for the past eight insufferable years. Prim, a bit glassy, reserved, her hair some sort of ironclad helmet of awkward architecture, the very epitome of nice, meek, domestic Republican female, not making the slightest wave and hoping no one really notices because, well, she's just a woman.
So the guy who wrote this article dislikes the First Lady because she isn't outspoken enough, like Ms. Heinz-Kerry, forceful enough like Ms. Clinton, or as smart as Ms. Obama. Is it safe to assume he admires an outspoken woman like Ann Coulter? A forceful woman like Michelle Malkin? A smart woman like Condi Rice?
I'm thinking he'd find a problem with those three examples as well, don't you?