More Lies, This Time From Laura Bush!

[MonstaThrilla]

If this doesn't call for impeachment, I don't know what does.

About three months ago, First Lady Laura Bush, in a speech to the National Book Festival, told a charming anecdote about her husband. Here, according to the White House website, is what she had to say:

"We delight in great works of literature and especially in the works of budding new artists. President Bush is a great leader and husband -- but I bet you didn't know, he is also quite the poet. Upon returning home last night from my long trip [to Europe], I found a lovely poem waiting for me. Normally, I wouldn't share something so personal, but since we're celebrating great writers, I can't resist:

Dear Laura,

Roses are red,
violets are blue
oh my lump in the bed,
how I've missed you.

Roses are redder,
bluer am I
seeing you kissed
by that charming French guy.

The dogs and the cat
they miss you too,
Barney's still mad you dropped him,
he ate your shoe.

The distance my dear
has been such a barrier,
next time you want an adventure,
just land on a carrier.

It was such an awful poem that it actually rang true, and therefore kinda treacly sweet.

Now it turns out that this was a bizarre falsehood. A lie. Interviewed on "Meet the Press" over the weekend, Laura Bush was shown the video clip of her remarks -- in one of those let-our-hair-down moments the television journalists so love. Anchor Tim Russert teasingly turned to Mrs. Bush for comment:

MR. RUSSERT: Now, who could have written that poem, huh? I mean, what ...

MRS. BUSH: Well, of course, he didn't really write the poem. But a lot of people really believed that he did. That evening at the dinner, what some woman from across the table said: "You just don't know how great it is to have a husband who would write a poem for you."

I posted a topic on this at the time, because I thought the poem was quite amusing in a lighthearted way. Now I learn that I was lied to? A sad day in national politics indeed.

 

[NesuD]

:frown:

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Well she didn't actually mean that Bush wrote the poem when she said Bush wrote the poem. When she said Bush wrote the poem what she meant was that if her husband was literate he would write her a poem just like that one.

 

[DealMonkey]

"One of these days, Laura, I'm gonna punch you in the face!"

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

WTF is these people's problem with the truth?

 

[etech]

The dems are really getting desperate aren't they.

 

[KenGr]

Is there no sense of humor or recognition of satire anymore? Maybe Laura needs to find a way to speak with "smilies".

 

[chess9]

Wellllllllll.....

Ya' know, I don't think a single one of you guys would write something that bad. Well, Dari might. Furthermore, admitting you received something that bad is sort of like saying you got the clap from your lover. Talk about nauseating....

If, in a weak moment, er, my weakest moment I mean, I gave something like that to my wife she would take me immediately, if not sooner, to the hospital. The only person she would tell is the doctor.

But, so what? What do you expect from the wife of the Head Moron? She's a Moronette!

-Robert

 

[Bowfinger]

You better leave Laura alone. Look what Bush did to Saddam for dissing his daddy. Continue if you must, but don't come whining to me if a cruise missle shows up on your doorstep.

 

[BDawg]

It appears lying is sexually transmitted. That would also explain why Cheney lies.

 

[GrGr]

That poem was the only evidence that Bush has a heart. Now it's shredded, destroyed, ripped in twain :brokenheart:

 

[MrYogi]

It was awful. But I do not think Bush could write so many sentences.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: etech
The dems are really getting desperate aren't they.

LOL, it seems like it

 

[NesuD]

Originally posted by: Bowfinger
You better leave Laura alone. Look what Bush did to Saddam for dissing his daddy. Continue if you must, but don't come whining to me if a cruise missle shows up on your doorstep.

doubt it was because of "dissing his daddy" probably had more to do with the hit
Saddam tried put out on his daddy.

 

[NightCrawler]

Is there anything real in Washington from either party.........I think not.

 

[Yossarian]

what does desperation have to do with it? don't you think it's strange that she would lie about something so trivial?

 

[buckmasterson]

What can yuh say, she's a bush...

 

[Bowfinger]

Originally posted by: NesuD

Originally posted by: Bowfinger
You better leave Laura alone. Look what Bush did to Saddam for dissing his daddy. Continue if you must, but don't come whining to me if a cruise missle shows up on your doorstep.

doubt it was because of "dissing his daddy" probably had more to do with the hit Saddam tried put out on his daddy.

humor
joke

 

[tnitsuj]

I don't understand the point of this thread. How exactly did the 1st lady lie? How is it even relevant?

 

[Gaard]

If GW didn't write the poem, who the hell is writing love poems to his wife?

 

[DoubleL]

Problem is some people got so use to the Clinton lies they just can't believe anything

 

[Zephyr106]

If GW didn't write the poem, who the hell is writing love poems to his wife?

I'd put money on Saddam Hussein.

Technically in her quote (if it's even correct) she didn't say G.W. Bush wrote the poem, but it's shady and ridiculous in insinuating that he did write it.

Zephyr

 

[DZip]

Who cares?

 

[MonstaThrilla]

Yeesh. I try to lighten up the mood a bit and get sh!tted on.

EDIT: Or is the correct grammar "shat on"?

 

[Genesys]

Originally posted by: Zephyr106

If GW didn't write the poem, who the hell is writing love poems to his wife?

I'd put money on Saddam Hussein.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHA!!

i could see that!