Laura Bush hatred at the SF Chronicle
Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle’s website is one of the MSM’s most unhinged, hate-filled columnists. Today he earns his pay by railing against Laura Bush because she isn’t an obnoxious, left-wing elite bigmouth like Teresa Heinz Kerry and because she doesn’t believe, as Hillary Clinton did, that her role as First Lady gives her the prerogative to plan the massive government takeover of huge swaths of the private sector.
Here’s your daily allowance of bile:
Laura Bush, docile doormat
Behold, the ideal Republican wife: Prim, sexless, nearly useless, lets the men do the real thinkin’. Hot!By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
I fondly recall, just before the tragic Bush/Kerry presidential election, an impassioned discussion I had with a family friend, a conservative Catholic mother of four and grandmother of six, headstrong, outspoken, hilarious, a real no-BS matriarch of her big crazy messy family and clearly the wearer of the pants in her marriage and a woman whom I always liked for her wit and her outsized personality, despite her unfortunate choice of religious and political affiliation, a woman who, it turned out in our discussion, absolutely hated — hated — John Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry.
Remember her? Controversial. Fiery. A little weird, prickly, unpredictable. Also: headstrong and outspoken and didn’t take any crap from any men, no matter how powerful.
Heinz is also rather amazing, in terms of sheer accomplishment and self-made acumen: world traveled, highly educated, spoke multiple languages (she was an interpreter for the United Nations, early on), took over the philanthropic arm of the Heinz empire when her husband died unexpectedly, almost ran for senate, raised her enormously accomplished, well-adjusted sons to adulthood by herself, and so on. I thought she was great.
And my friend hated her. And why? Well, ironically enough, for most of the reasons I list above. Apparently, Heinz had too much personality. She was too strong, too in your face, too fearless and outspoken, something was “just not right about that woman.” All this, of course, made Heinz into “a total bitch.”
(And yes, this completely echoes the right’s hatred of Hillary Clinton during the Bill Clinton years and up through today, because she dared to be the opposite of meek and quiet, dared to try and actually do something progressive and radical as first lady. Yes, she botched it badly, overshot her abilities and overestimated her powers to revolutionize health care. But the real problem was how badly she underestimated the violent, inbred misogyny and anti-feminism of the old-boys network in Washington).
I was equal parts appalled and amused. And not only because my brash, blunt friend and Heinz obviously had far more in common, personality- and attitude- wise, than she cared to acknowledge. No, I was stunned because my friend far preferred, as the perfect counter to Heinz, as a role model and a woman and the ideal presidential wife, one tepid, timid, thoroughly useless Laura Bush.
Wait, what? You mean docile, prudish, former librarian Laura Bush, she of the nonexistent inspiration and dull-as-dishwater personality? Yes indeed, that Laura Bush. Here was my friend, brash and funny and who spoke her mind without the slightest reservation, and who could drink and think and opine with the strongest of men, and yet she admired this … limp wallflower? I didn’t get it. I still don’t completely get it, to this very day.
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…
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Like a newspaper in the bottom my birdcage, some scribes are more worthy of other for the distinction of having my parrot’s skat obliterate their story.
In this case, the SF chronicle produces enough text for an entire flock of rather large birds, keeping them busy for years.
What an idiot.
It’s such a beautiful city. Why are its people so rancid?
What Mark Morford and the SF Chronicle has done was beyond sick.
Guess he never saw “Journey With George” (or is that Journies, who cares Pelosi’s kid did it). Behind the scenes shows Laura Bush as is.
Stryofoam peanut daughters-geeze this fool really is reaching isn’t he? I also wonder why the people there are so full of hate. It is a beautiful city (or it was).
Mark Morford, standardbearer of the intolerant left? Looks like he is in the running.
But, he did have some insight on sHillary…
But, Mark, why limit her on this to just healthcare?
Then I hope you have never seen what the Onion did to Laura Bush.
Liberals and democrats can be some of the most vile, disgusting degenerates on the face of the planet.
I’m presently unemployed and even I wouldn’t work for that paper!! Why in the ever living world would a sane person even think to write such drivel…..oh wait……
“… despite her unfortunate choice of religious and political affiliation …”, says it all.
This mental midget wouldn’t know a truly classy lady if he tripped over one! Outrageous, but not surprising coming from a SF moonbat.
I’d wager $20 on the First Lady in a no-holds-barred brawl between Laura Bush and this twerp.
Of course, one expects Mrs Bush has too much class for that, but hey.
Based on those descriptions I would have to say this loon also didn’t like a lot of Democrat First Ladies such as Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Byrd Johnson, Rosalind Carter … none of them took an in your face attitude either …
This guy has not a clue what makes a good first lady … The key words here are “First Lady” not “Co-President” … Many first ladies have accomplished much for worthy causes worldwide without having to be “confrontational” types …
Give me brains and common sense in a first lady any day of the week over someone who is too full of themselves just because they live in the White House …
One would think that someone so bitter (and intolerant) would be clinging to their guns and religion.
This essay is the liberal elite’s version of those t-shirts that say “I’m with stupid” and have an arrow that points up.
That Mark Morford is quite the….errrr…
columnistguyindividual.Appears to write on a wide variety of issues, according to the “About Mark Morford” section.
Definitely a man of many…uh….talents, I guess.
It reminds me of the HuffPo crowd wishing Nancy Reagan had died when she fell and broke her hip. What on earth has Laura Bush ever done to draw this kind of hate? Oh that’s right. She married George - the guy that is worse than Hitler.
Would that be the Laura with enough backbone to tell George to straighten himself out or the party was over?
Gee-it seems the twins love and admire her. Was that admiration formed in a vacume?
He decries Laura Bush as a cardboard cutout “Republican wife” and yet provides no real depth to the angry, androgynous female liberal template. There’s nothing less cookie-cutter about vicious liberal women.
He must not be gettin’ any????
It no longer surprises me how much people like this hate the existence of anyone other than themselves and those of their image. Their own lack of substance as human beings brings out their need to demean and diminish all others. But why Laura Bush ??
On April 30th, 2008 at 2:49 pm, tropicalwave12 said:
He must not be gettin’ any????
i’m sure he’s gettin’ plenty…just not any of Laura’s gender…
In my opinion, Mrs. Bush is a wonderful first lady, and I stress lady. Mrs. Bush looks great in a dress and has knees, unlike hc. That peanut thing about the twins was just horrible. It smacks of jc, the worse president in my lifetime.
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The First Lady redefines dignity and class. The left could use a lesson or two.
HAHAHA! That article is so stupid. How annoying that acting like a lady is seen as being a “docile doormat.” And that comment about the perfect Republican wife is quite offensive. I’m pretty sure my Republican fiance would disagree with that.
Well, here in Texas, our women follow TR’s advice - they speak softly and carry big sticks.
And Jeddite, come on! $20 bucks? Sounds lite, but you have the right idea. That milquetoast little jerk, a true coward’s coward, hiding behind his keyboard wouldn’t last 5 seconds with a real woman. Real gentleman, that guy. I can see his parents didn’t teach him any manners.
He’d prolly hit a girl in a wheel chair too!
The worst thing you can do is read his tripe. Or maybe it’s the best thing you can do…
I was happy to call, and said to the voicemail recorder what I basically said above. Mr. Rogers is hiding under the desk, and not actually answering the phone.
Good job, Michelle!
What would Mark Morford know about real women? Not the Folsom Street substitutes he patronizes, but real women?
Mark Morford=
I read SFGate occasionaly and, surprisingly, the number of conservative posters is about equal to the number of liberals. The editorial staff at the Chron must be struggling to figure out who their readership is. Maybe they’ll change. Nah. I’ve read some of Morfords articles, and seeing this one was on Laura Bush, I didn’t even bother to read it.
The monsterous hate that fills the hearts of leftist moonbats is frightening. Laura Bush? I can understand why people don’t like George. But, to go off on Laura like this is simply unhinged.
Good point on the Dem First Ladies, Desertlover.
When I think of all the good works Laura has done promoting literature, and with her ecological restoration project at the ranch, this article just makes me sick.
And the styrofoam peanuts have each done many months of volunteer work with AIDS patients: Barbara in Africa, and Jenna in Latin America. Jenna teaches underpriveleged black children in the DC school system.
This guy obviously knows absolutely nothing about Laura and the girls. This is what Karl Rove said recently in answer to this question:
Teresa’s problem is not that she’s outspoken, it’s that she’s self-centered and weird. Remember her convention speech in which all she talked about was herself and her dead first husband? I lost all respect for her at that point.
DesertLover, you hit my thoughts precisely on the whole “Co-President” misnomer. I struggle to understand why the left seems to believe that the presidency should be like some sort of distorted monarchy.
Thats funny…and it would be a cheap shot.
Murford is a total loon…he helps to explain why my local paper’s circulation continues to go down the proverbial toilet…I won’t even click on his columns anymore…I just roll my eyes when I see his headline.
Is it just me, or in addition to being a lefty loon, does his writing style seem not much better that a 3rd grader or so? When I used to actually read his columns (just to get the picture from the “other side”), I couldn’t help but notice how poorly written they were. Compare his sentence structure and his lexicon to a great columnist such as Peggy Noonan or Victor Davis Hanson…I just have to wonder how he continues to stay employed. But then again, this is the SF Chronicle
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nothing is sacred to the “Feelers”. Animals posing as humans.
If Laura Bush was the brassy babe he says he prefers he would be all over her. The anticipated first line of the column would be something like “How dare Laura Bush diminish the role of the First Lady with her behavior”.
Liberals don’t know what they want. They only know they want something different.
So, I suppose in his mind a First Lady is supposed to try to overshadow the President. Laura is wrong, then, for just trying to be supportive of her husband.
Can he explain, then, why Laura Bush’s approval rating is more than George’s?
Me thinks he doesn’t know the First Lady very well.
Even conservatives can agree on that hairdo …
Ooohh, almost ran, swoon…
This guy is from SF, does he know anything about women? Just asking.
Morford isn’t gay.
But he is a moron.
Laura Bush doesn’t need to do anything for someone like Murford to hate her; her existence is enough for him.
It’s like my mother’s and my sisters’ visceral hatred of Nancy Reagan; they’re convinced that she’s evil incarnate, yet not one of them can point to a single thing that Nancy Reagan ever said or did to infuriate them so.
She was Ronald Reagan’s wife; that’s enough to earn their eternal enmity.
“Guilt by association” may be a bad thing for the Murfords of the world when it comes to Obama/Wright, but it’s perfectly reasonable when it comes to the wife of a Republican president.
Situational outrage at its lowest.
Michelle — Thanks for picking up on this! I posted on Morford a long time ago, here:
The Worst Writer In America
Go through his archives — the Laura Bush article isn’t remotely his most offensive work.
juliessa thanks, and mookie, agree.
Along with Barbara Bush, Laura Bush is the epitome of dignity and class. This SF moron is typical of the sewage spewing Liberals that know no depth to their gutter thoughts.
Laura is a wonderful person so that alone is enough reason for some S.F. worthless lib to not like her. What a dope.
First, I wouldn’t read a San Francisco paper if my life depended on it and I won’t start now. Second, I doubt the writer has the balls to say something like that in person.
This is the sort of cowardly low life behavior you find in a socialist liberal in San Francisco. Anyone that is normal, obeys the law and actually lives a decent life irritates them to no end. They will never speak well of someone that is not as perverted and depraved as them.
Wow…what a guy! He’d be the perfect man for Mauron Dowd. Just imagine the pillow talk after the lovin’:
Morford: Wasn’t I great?
Dowd: No, just typical.
The degree of separation between Laura Bush and president-elect Yoko Ono is as wide as the gap between Morford’s ears. Yokie is gravy-training off Bubba to help herself get over, yet she somehow convinces herself that her power is not inherited, whereas Mrs. Bush is comfortable with who she is, and she doesn’t need blind ambition to feel complete.
As for Morford’s comments, lesser idiots have been fired for far worse, but we won’t hold our breath waiting for the SF Chron to can this schmuck, now will we? *out*
That newspaper is definitely at the bottom of the bird cage and Morford is what’s falling on that newspaper. Morford is pure pond scum.
My full post, from early April:
The Worst Writer in America
Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle. I simply can not find a more loathsome combination of content and writing style in a mainstream American publication.
Each column begins with a 12-comma rant of hatred, followed by a few hundred words of justification, then ends with an “it’s all tripe, anyway” signoff – as if even he can not stomach another moment of his work. He’s the guitar-smashing opening act — desperate to be relevant, but dreadfully aware of his mediocrity. So he acts out, stomps off-stage, hoping the attitude shows how little he cares what you think.
Here are his archives, would love to hear anyone else’s opinion.
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/archive/
This sounds like a description of you, Michelle. He must love you!!!
Two top websites, three best-selling books, frequent appearances on national television…
He’s got you pegged.
When I vote for president, I vote for one person, not the nominee’s spouse. And, I prefer that that person’s spouse not want a part in running the country, especially from behind closed doors. Laura Bush is one classy and ideal First Lady. Morford isn’t worthy of even shining her shoes.
Drat! Beat me to it.
We never voted for Laura. We voted for GWB. Laura is content with her role as support for her husband and mother to her daughters. I’d pit any stay-at-home mother against any liberal columnist in a battle of wit and wisdom any day.
But most stay-at-home moms would prefer not to battle an unarmed opponent.
When people learn how many children are at home, they always ask if my wife works. The answer is always, “Yes, harder than any of us combined.”
This preference for strong, outspoken women must be the explanation for all the love one finds on the left for Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter.
Morford represents the city of San Francisco perfectly. Just as intolerant, just as myopic, just as vile and nasty. I wonder how he sleeps at night with all that bile inside. He’s another reason I don’t miss living there, after spending eight years within the city’s walls. When I left, I felt like I’d just gotten out of prison. Any paper that prints his verbal vomit deserves to lose circulation, which the Chronicle is, on a daily basis. One day soon, the only person around to read his crap will be himself.
Laura Bush doesn’t do anything…so its kind of hard to bag on her.
He speaks like a true feminist. Maybe he was a gender-confused woman and got a sex change.
ROFL, I never saw one of those T-shirts, but I have a list of folks I’d give one to.
Laura Bush is a lady of the first class. Any yutz that slams her for it tells you all you need to know.
IMHO, Mark Morford, as we say, ain’t worth the effort to work up a good spit.
Morford’s just jealous because he has a crush on GWB.
…and he kicked his dog too!
Only a
seagullloon would characterize raising children as “doing nothing.”In LiberalLand if it didn’t happen in front of a camera, it didn’t happen.
Well, you know, some guys just cannot deal with a normal woman. Some guys (like that one) likely need to find themself a pushy dominatrix to tell them what to do.
It’s probably some kind of mommy complex.
Its good to see people like this @$$clown can actually type up this kind of crap and get paid for it.
If this had been a democrat, there would be all kinds of stuff hitting the fan.
Sounds like this guy, and I use that work loosely, prefers to be ‘whipped by dominating women. Can’t fault him too much, after all, he does live in San Fransicko. Must have some poor role models to follow.
Dave (number 66) you and I are apparently on the same page. You beat me to it.
Class and dignity. Something lacking on the left. The hatred is palpable!
Laura’s a dull first lady…she looks half drunk all the time…im just saying..
Whenever I read stuff like this, I remember my last semester of college. It was fall, 2004 (I graduated in December). Right before the election, I expressed dismay over some of Teresa Heinz Kerry’s behavior and a classmate told me I was “jealous” because she’s a “real woman”…
Of course, this classmate was a vocal and rabid feminist who tried very hard to deny and erase any semblance of difference between the sexes. Guess a being a “real woman” is codespeak for total andgroyny.
By then, I was already on the road to being a conservative, so apparently I no longer possessed two X-chromosomes and ceased to be a woman.
But remember, kiddos, liberals like Moford are the compassionate, caring individuals who love and respect women.
Yeah, so long as those women toe the liberal lines of behavior and what is “feminine”…
Nobody asked you. Your an a$$ - just saying.
OH NO he didn’t!
As a strong, Conservative woman who:
-has an undergraduate degree in Biology and Mathematics
-has a graduate degree from the University of Oxford
-performs improv comedy (that means made up on the spot for all the trolls - no scripts needed here) in front of 200 people on a regular basis
-has lived in four other nations besides the U.S.
-has backpacked (sometimes alone)through sixteen other nations
-volunteers every Saturday to support the troops
-teaches math and computers to homeless, and/or low-income, and/or drug-addictedd, and/or ex-offenders, and/or immigrants for a non-profit…
I respect women who know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, and know when to walk away.
I would love to see this junior high journalist debate any number of “prim,” “proper,” “quiet,” and Conservative women, and watch him go down in flames.
Laura Bush brought some real class to the Whitehouse after 8 years of that other hag and their pizza parties and rumored coke zings.That slug wouldn’t make a pimple on a good writers butt ala our MM.
Mrs Bush has for the past 7 + years, in the larger context I submit her entire life, given this country a respectful poised role model.
Mr Morford has given us what? Hate, anger, insight into a diseased mind.
Rarely is the choice between two camps clearer than this.
Mr Morford you and paper are simply a symptom of a larger illness, which has infected too many weak minds.
OMG!!! I THINK I LOVE YOU
Laura Bush has said, many times, that she never wanted to be a politician’s wife. She has no inherent love for publicity. Her “dullness” comes from being camera-shy. Nothing wrong with that.
I would bet that “librarian” Laura Bush could intellectually outclass Moford in the area of literature (most journo’s chosen area of expertise). One of the early debacles of the Bush Presidency was Laura’s idea to invite the nations’ top poets to a White House reception to promote literacy and awareness of poetry. Naturally, some of the poets threatened to use the occasion to childishly grandstand and speak power to The Man (or, in this case, The Man’s Woman). Therefore the reception had to be canceled. It doesn’t say much for her planning skills, but the event proved that she reads and enjoys a full range of living poets — something that you can’t say of many people these days. Laura Bush was also instrumental in the selection of poet Dana Gioia as the chairman of the NEA — proving at the very least that she reads The New Criterion and other small-press literary magazines (just like liberal icon Jackie Kennedy).
Hmm…. Must be a Red/Blue thing. My objection to Theresa Heinz was that, despite her intellectual accomplishments, she was uncouth, arrogant, and unattractive. Although Laura Bush has more than a few years on me, I find her pretty face and mischevious smile to be the very opposite of “sexless.”
As to letting the men do the “real thinkin’”…anyone on the right can tell you that Laura is the one who first proposed Harriet Meyers for the Supreme Court. I don’t say that was correct thinking; but it does put the lie to any claim that she is passive.
I think this guy was raised by transgendered Lesbians.
Thanks, libertybelle.
Unfortunately, Laura Bush is condemned via guilt-by-association. No amount of education, no amount of volunteer work, no child-rearing will ever count if you’re a conservative woman.
If you’re a woman with advanced degrees, but a conservative, you’re “wasting your education.”
If you’re a woman who volunteers her time, but a conservative, you’re still a greedy capitalist pig.
If you’re a woman who stays home to raise her kids, even with an education (which you’re “wasting”), you’re a useless eater, a drain on the economy, and setting feminism back ot the dark ages.
And then people wonder why I don’t believe it when feminists say they have my best interests at heart, or that they support “choice” - their “choice” means doing what they want, or be criticized.
geminicontender
Maybe he was conceived at the Folsom Street Fair …
… under the Coors truck
right behind the Miller booth
Literacy, what kind of a stupid cause is literacy? At least if we were illiterate, we couldn’t be expected to read this moron’s ravings. I mean writings.
They violated thier own terms of service with that article.
“We ask all readers to expect diversity of opinion and to treat one another with dignity and respect”
When you have nothing of value to say, but have to say something - and you are a radical Democrat to boot, then this is what you say. We have idiots like this Morford in my neck of the woods, and insult is their stock and trade. They are not funny, clever, competent — but they are employed.
I had a hard time getting past that first sentence/paragraph. Does it even make sense? Talk about needing an editor.
I think David Spade said it best, “Here’s my idea. Why doesn’t the fashion industry tell us what men are good looking…and let the heterosexuals pick the girls?”
Terry Kerry and self-made in the same sentence!!! That alone makes this guy questionable.
You think? That’s an understatement.
And I absolutely hate it when conservative women are classified as “sexless” - just because we choose not to sleep with everything that moves, or choose to wait until marriage, or choose to live chastely , doesn’t mean we’re cold fish. It means we’re smart - avoiding things like STDs, unplanned pregnancies, and the emotional trauma that comes with sleeping around. And respectful - of our bodies, our health, and our husband.
This by itself tells you all you need to know about this guy. He hates truly strong women.
Not only does he proceed to bash one of the most lovely, gentle first ladies the country has ever known, he also bashes Catholicism at the same time! Who knew the SF Crock-icle was into two-fur’s?
englishqueen001,
The last thing I would call conservative women is sexless or doormats. A doormat would be a woman who sleeps with any male with a pulse. First ladies are NOT elected officals. If they want to be political leaders or cabient members, let the run for office or go through the congressional approval process. Otherwise first ladies should be supportive wives. And anyone who think wives don’t don’t influence thier husbands has clearly NEVER been married.
libertybelle are you married? If not what do you think of police officers/former Marines in their late thirties, 6′2″ tall, 200 lbs with a 30″ waist, ruggedly handsome (if I do say so myself), gray eyes and dark brown hair? Kind of a John Wayne meets Robert Mitchmum look.
Is it just me, or does Mark Morford sound remarkably like a certain devil by the name of Screwtape?
Isn’t he the pretty boy, though. Maybe he likes ‘em rough and tough?
I gave up reading the SF chronicle in the early 80’s when they started dragging political opinion into the sports section. They cannot be far from bankrupt at this point, so it is almost predictable that ’shock journalism’ will become their final epitaph. Only suggestion I have is to NOT click on a link to em!
One thing, for all of you dumping on the Chronicle — they do employ the great Cinnamon Stillwell, who also runs CampusWatch.
I agree with the part of the article that mentions Heinz being “a total bitch.”
Ok, I couldn’t help myself. Apparently, this Mark Morford guy is, shall we say, enamored of Mr. Obama.
Another gem!
Not only is this guy a flaming moron, he also apparently lives in an alternate universe.
Wow!! Talk about stunted adolescence.
Someone dis’ed a person he admired so he has to skewer someone on the other side of the political fence. And his photo looked almost like an adult.
It’s guys like this that give the whole genre a bad name. At the same time, he is quite deserving of pity.
If you forget politics or the merits of his argument for a moment, what tenet of “opinion journalism” makes targets of those people that may choose simply to *not* interject themselves into the limelight of national discourse?
Mrs. Bush (and Daughters) did not run for or win elected offices, what could motivate some simpering whiner to take umbrage that they would not then try assume the duties of same?
I think our poor writer suffers from the envy reserved for those that cannot choose their own persona. Emasculated and shackled by the constraints of leftist thought, he can’t imagine that someone would voluntarily defer fame and notoriety to another.
Compounding his horror is the fact (at least in his view) that the deference is shown in a “traditional” relationship by a Woman to her Husband.
So enraged is he by his own impotence and inability to engender such devotion from anyone in his own life, he must project his angst onto someone who has done what he can neither do for another, nor receive for himself.
His howls of rage, while posed as scorn heaped upon another, are the manifestation of his realization that he is not a Man; not even a being capable of comprehending the honor of choosing to serve.
He is a Shrew; and is trapped, by accident of birth, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong skin.
Does Mrs. Bush still smoke? No, that’s not a criticism. I’m just asking out of curiosity.
If she’ isn’t interested my daughter might be?!
You both sound fabulous!
And on topic, such vitriol is to be expected from the left when things aren’t going their way. Heck with them.
Ask here. Report back with your findings in 30.
She was Smokin’ the last time I saw her.
If I want my Wife to know I said that I’ll tell her myself thank you.
Can’t seem to find a definitive answer. I hope she’s quit or at least cut down dramatically. My dad is a lifelong smoker. Three packs a day. And he’s paying for it now with every deep breath he tries to take. I’ve gone seven years now without one but still get the craving once and a while. It’s a miserable, ugly habit.
the Clintons.
You are correct, docflash. I would extend that to say that both GWB and The First Lady brought real class back to the White House. Do you notice that, BDS excluded, there is never any controversy about the personal actions of GWB and the First Lady?
The drama associated with the Clintons is reason number 2 why I won’t vote for her. Reason number 1 is her socialist desires for the country. When she cried in New Hampshire and said “I have so many plans for the country” I cringed and checked that my checkbook and guns were both still secure.
I think Laura Bush is the classiest, and most beautiful first lady since Jackie Kennedy.
SHE DOES NOT DESERVE THE INSULTS THRUST UPON HER. She isn’t a politician, and it’s childish to personally insult the wives of politicians, especially when it’s vile.
This thread topic is curious:
On April 28th, 2008 at 7:52 pm, JWS said:
Slightly off topic. Anyone hear B. Husseins disgusting, racist, lying, wife’s speech about how the bar is constantly being moved in this here country? What a filthy animal. This country has given her riches beyond most peoples dreams, and she rages about it? This candidacy needs to end…
On April 28th, 2008 at 11:51 pm, JWS said:
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State your defense of this POS. Please. Ambiguous? It will be nothing more than the usual PC. We have heard it ALL before and are sick of it. WE ARE SICK OF IT. Change that-I am sick of it.
On April 28th, 2008 at 8:50 pm, Gabe said:
I totally agree with the “filthy animal” comment. This witch and her foreign Muslim husband Obama went to this church knowing 100% what Jeremiah Wright stands for.
On April 28th, 2008 at 11:48 pm, Mookie said:
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“Hey, if people on the right want to hold Arianna Huffington accountable for what readers post on her site, why should Michelle be any different?”
Agreed Mookie, I also think it’s unhinged go refer to the wife of Barack Obama as a Piece of Sh&# (POS) or a Filthy animal.
Yes this is on topic. Do you condone this language on your blog’s Mrs. Malkin?
mistressjustice.
I wonder what the left would say about JackieO?
These people wouldn’t recognize love and devotion nor class if it was in front of their noses. Sorry for them.
This “man” just hates classy women. He is attracted to the “strong” Leftist elitist which would identify what his role is in any male relationship. Johnny Bench would be proud. Batter up!
That was an immature, extraordinarily silly article that a real newpaper would decline to print.
This guy must hate women who shave their legs or something.
What is wrong with the left?! Do they not support Laura Bush’s choice to live her life as she wishes? I wonder what they’ll think of Cindy McCain.
Reminds me of someone else, hmmmm….Based on his criteria Condie Rice must blow him away. I’m sure he would write a fawning article like that about her.
Sorry! My heart already belongs to a man who is deploying to Iraq in May, and I will be waiting for him, but I am very flattered.
I do think it’s quite humorous that this “liberal,” playground journalist thinks a woman is strong and exciting only if she shouts her opinions out loud…makes her own way in the world…likes to be in front of a crowd and a camera…sounds like he would like a date with Ann Coulter. It is too bad he cannot appreciate the individuality of a woman who chooses not to be in the press all the time, because she doesn’t need to massage her own ego.
Here’s a celebrity analogy:
Laura Bush:Teresa Heinz Kerry
as
Rachel McAdams:Paris Hilton
Which one is stronger?
To all the other lovely Conservative ladies out there:
Let’s just keep doing what we do best -
succeeding.
This clown is an adult? The more I see this garbage and see these guys and gals behavior the more I am persuaded to vote against gay marriage and oppose gay adoption…..what an ass!
So, besides being as dumb as a box of rocks, Mr. Morford is another anti-Catholic bigot.
He’s not gay.
I know………but he writes like he should be…lol
It was a joke…you know sanfran and all that?
I am actually a supporter of gay marriage and adoption and he’s still an ass!
Again with the Catholic Bashing… Why is that OK but God forbid we say anything about Islam.
Well I will… Islam is the Poorest choice for a religion that anyone can think of choosing…
PS.. Any Radical Islamic Extremists want to meet me. let me know.
I’m one of them Cling to your religion, cling to your GUN hillbillies from a small town in PA. That goes for the leftist commies in San Fran as well
He’s definitely an ass. Laura Bush couldn’t be more harmless. If Morford hates her husband, take it up with him. Leave her out of it.
The Chronicle did decline to print it. I happen to live in the bay area for grad school. Morford’s column, which is only bi-weekly, is printed on varying pages the Datebook section, somewhere between the humor column, theatre announcements, and the comics. Today all that was printed was a note informing readers that his column was online. Y’all are taking him way more seriously than anyone in the bay area does, and are probably significantly boosting his readership for the day. Yeah, his columns are crap, but it isn’t crap that more than a handful of people in the Bay area pay much attention too. Getting angry and complaining to the Chronicle about him is only going to make him seem more important.
What a pathetic excuse for a human being. Truly, the Left “unhinged”…
There’s nothing unfortunate about the one, true religion of Roman Catholicism. The writer seems to have missed that Kerry and his wife are Catholic. At least in word, not so much deed.
It’s to nice see the tolerance of the left though.
Anyways, Laura Bush isn’t a doormat. She’s actually been pretty active, it would just be nice if liberals wouldn’t beat on handicapped teenagers at her presentation.
Mr. Mark Morford
Mrs. William J. Clinton is the brash arrogant exception rather than the rule for fist ladies. Even Elanor Roosevelt was not a dominatrix. You neglected to determine if your friend had a strong dislike for all women in power positions or just the ego maniacal ones like Mrs. William J. Clinton, Teresa Heinz, and Ms. Helmsley. Your friend’s evaluation of these female personalities is not unique. How many news stories have there been regarding these women that echo your friend?
What is really wrong with Laura Bush? Just because she is in stark contrast to Mrs. William J. Clinton does not in and of itself make her bad and evil.
Do you hear mommy calling you to dinner?
libertybelle and englishqueeon01 and Michelle–the story of my life: I meet (metaphorically speaking here) a great woman, and her heart is with another. Glad that y’all are out there making the country better.
It seems that Morford just can’t accept that many dislike Hillary Clinton because of her penchant for dishonesty and extreme leftist policies. It must be misogyny - it couldn’t be policy differences or the normal desire to have trustworthy people in positions of leadership.
I guess that it is actually good for our side if the opposition persists in its delusions.
I loath the SFC. My only consolation is that only pin heads read the derned thing. That paper ain’t fit to wipe with.
This guy is a creep.
This limp wristed mentally twisted Moford is what in SF passes for a male. LOL! Why it wasn’t so long ago that we were all being told how brave and progressive the librarians of America were for defying the Patriot Act - if a mid-eastern man named Mohammed X was checking out all the books on bomb making the librarians would fight for his privacy no matter the cost in lives! Now he mocks Laura B for being a librarian. Shame on Moford. Also the reason conservatives disliked Hitlery and Heintz had something to do with them NOT being elected but acting as if they were very important people who should be listened to (and obeyed!) Both married psychopaths and became millionaires/billionaires in the process. OK to vomit now.
Mookie my “str8dar” is on and it tells me morford is gay!
GSP
So, I wonder…he must be a huge Ann Coulter fan, since she’s not “docile” or whatever.
Whadda maroon.
GSP:
Morford’s as straight as Jim McGreevey, Anderson Cooper or Ed Koch.
Your str8dar needs a tuneup.
Here’s the only point with which I can agree with this sick and witless turd:
You never will get it because God did not put you here to get it. Get it? Oops, obviously you cannot get it, Mark Morford.
Morford’s an uninteresting, unfunny, uninspired, non-intellectual who gets his jollies making fun of other people, particularly those with manners, intelligence and passion for helping others.
If I tell you that he will relish every single letter written in opposition to his hate-filled column, that would be an understatement of gargantuan proportions.
As with my recommendations regarding lgm yesterday, it’s better to ignore the cretin.
The best way to get back at people like this jerk is to act as if you’re not the least bit affected by them. It drives them nuts!!!!!
Here’s hoping Mrs. Bush keeps right on smiling when confronted by jerks like this. Being nice can be so much fun knowing it makes guys like Morford crazy!
Wasn’t Teresa Heinz Kerry the one who married into money? Or something. Yep. That’s a GREAT role model and feminist go-getter right there. You bet.
Please. The lady also married John Kerry. That’s pretty low for someone who is “highly educated.” Hmmm… her Wikipedia (I know, they’re rarely accurate but…) profile says she was formerly a registered Republican. I wonder if this guy has heard about that. I bet he would be retracting his statements right about now. Can’t have a Republican woman be well-educated and controversial! Nope. Gotta be a doormat.
Even this loon can’t come up with positives to describe Teresa Heinz
almost ran for senate, raised her enormously accomplished, well-adjusted sons to adulthood by herself, and so on.
What the heck does that mean?
Does anyone have a search on what this dweeb’s take was on the Hillary book, “It takes a Village?” Did he think that Hillary wrote it? Does he think that Bill wrote his books?
San Francisco can slide on out, and good riddance.
It is such a shame, that the Bush’s…especially Laura were basically robbed of so much that every other Presidencies get to have. That is, they were not really given the opportunity to share so much of who and what she is simply because of R-tards like this hate-filled jerk.
We have not been treated to televised tours of The White House under Laura’s tutelidge…what she has done to make it their family’s home, the China they picked to be theirs, the State Dinners, her dressed to the nines as she greets and entertains World Leaders and their spouses, their Christmas decorations etc.
Instead, even their Inaugurations were destroyed by these hate-mongers. Does anyone even know what she looked like at the various parties that they attended after their Inauguration Balls? No. All because the Media has never really treated them…especially Laura…like they are even supposed to be there. Heck, this jackass doesn’t even believe that she and Jenna