Laura Bush Praises Clinton, Offers Advice to Michelle Obama

talk about misconstruing ones words
was burma not letting in more relief one of the MOST difficult things that has happened
i mean, i guess she did say one…
but.. oh well who cares she seems like a nice lady

I appreciate and give Laura Bush a lot of credit for being nonpartisan and giving praise to Hillary Clinton. I also think Laura Bush was very tactful and dimplomatic in the advice she offered to Michelle Obama. I think Laura has a good head on her shoulders and I think it is very revealing that it was laura Bush coming out to voice disapproval of how Burma was handling the aftermath of the cyclone. I believe Laura Bush is finally finding her voice, too. Women have so much good to contribute- if they would just find their voices.

Bho and his wife have demonstrated repeatedly that they do not share the main stream dems values. They can rally around the far left all right, but they have lost the middle class, what he called “less-educated bitter” voters who cling to guns and religion. His wife can become proud of America for the first time in her adult life; perhaps their Harvard education was a waste, to give them those feelings such that they can only cling to the hatreds preached by Wright for 20 years, of their adult lives.

We all learn through the mistakes we make.
Michelle Obama has learnt something already. She is alert and cautious whenever she says something.

Samantha…you’d better step back. Why would Obama want anything of Hillarys?She failed in her bid. And don’t even start that part about stealing the nomination. She BLEW IT!!! He can admire someones military service without agreeing with his policy. HRC has also said she admires McCains service, so get your facts straight before you make a fool of yourself.

Samantha,
That’s the beauty…it’s still America and you can still say whatever you want to say….forget the people telling you to “step back” like it’s West Side Story in here or something.
I don’t agree with all you said, just your right to say it.
Primary season is over folks, chill with the attack dog mentality.

Hillary did not fail. She was bull dozed first by the chauvinist media and then her own party rats. Obama won by default and is nothing but another Bush this time in blue clothing. Who wants another Bush. Rather be McCain if not Hillary.

I admire Laura Bush. In her own way she is a very independent woman. I see it in her daughters. I think Hillary ought to admire her.

BruhMan. Here my fellow blacks go again. “I know the thought of a black man becoming president is difficult to grasp”
Will you guys just STOP IT!!!! Statement like that actually weaken your cause.
Just because someone is not voting for Obama does not mean that they don’t want a person of color in office. I am black. I did not vote for him. Most likely I won’t in the general election either whether he chooses Hillary as VP or not. I don’t think he is the right person for the job PERIOD. Her being on the ticket will not change that for me.
I know it is difficult for YOU to grasp but some people actually vote on the candidate’s issues and factors outside of their race.

Kathy, no one had an issue with Obama being the first black president – it’s the hate and unpatriotism that he stands for that people have an issue with, along with the fact that he has no experience to lead this country. And, as skinnydog said: Obama is both black AND white – bi-racial.

all you hating on OBAMA AND HIS WIFE why dont you just wait until november, to show what your ideas are all about, in the meantime you have faired to bring OBAMA down, so you may as well for now keep your opinion to your selves

As for experience, I would say they both have the same measure of experience because they were both in the legislative house and have never ever governed a State. Mccain can claim that he has being in Politics for a far longer time but that has to do with legislative experiences and not administrative. Infact, I will equate Hillary clinton higher than both on that issue but Obama’s change won a lot of voters. People are saying what change, they cannot see it and yet they contradict themselves and criticise him for those changes. We may not buy the changes but insinuating that he is offering no change is far from the truth.

Wow! maybe Laura should have ran for president she makes more sense than George

The media made Obama and the media almost ruined him. We can see how long they played the Reverend wright issue and how long they played Mccain’s. Why? First and foremost apart from giving you the news, the media is in it for profit reasons. They have to keep their jobs. Obama appeals, Obama sells. People may not like him but that doesnt mean they will not want to hear him speak or otherwise. Anytime he has an event almost every internet news site switches over to that speech. Why, because most people want to hear him speak. People are crying over his associations but apart from Rezko, there is no other place you can find him directly involved. If we want to start drawing guilty by associations, then Mccain would long have been crucified but those things are sticking a liitle bit on Obama because those are the only things they could find to attack him with. Obama is not the Messiah. He knows that and says it. He is a man with faults just like you and I but he has that desire to make a change and that is what many people see.

It is truely bizarre isnt it?
George Bush is going to go down as one of the worst presidents in US history.
And Laura Bush is going to go down (in my opinion) in history as one of the most sincere, and gracious first ladies we have ever had.

Lookup, I am an American and can say anything I wish. Even if it is about my own race. Praise or criticism. Blacks need to take a good look at themselves and be honest about self created problems instead of the blaming “the man”. The man is not causing teenage pregnancy or gang violence. “The man” is not causing the low rate of black men who finish with a college degree.

Dev,
I am black. All the candidates are corrupt. Samantha’s message is right. Hopefully she is out in the community making a change

As long as George Soros has his hand behind the empty suit, Obama will continue to give on 30 minutes polished stump speeches with no substances and keep saying that empty word “change”. His wife will eventually pull a Teresa Heinz Kerry and finish off his campaign run thus opening the door for Hillary.

I was not for nor against Hillary Clinton, but as time went on I found myself admiring her strength. I watched friends change their opinion of her and soon she became the topic of many conversations. We all agreed with what Laura Bush said, she has grit and showed incredible strength in this campaign. I definitely would have been Ok with her winning the nomination.

Samantha (“I don’t think he is the right person for the job PERIOD.”) But, I guess you will vote for John McCain instead?
My fellow black, that is ridiculous. Obama and Clinton were virtually lock-in-step on the issues. McCain in the exact total opposite!!! Help what cause? The cause to get a Black Woman in office? Kill two birds with one stone? What cause?

It’s unfortunate that the hate filled American left never got to know the real Bushes.

Now the republicans are truthful once Clinton was cheated out of the nomination process. Hillary or McCain.

It just never ends. I do not remember a dirtier campaign run by the Democrats ever and I first voted for JFK. Never have I seen so much filth and demeaning commented by so many people. Worst are the obama followers who will, until they are put in their graves, demean, profane and insult the Clintons. And if, these obama followers are black, they are true racists and will never change. You do not vote for a person just because he is black or white or yellow or red or whatever color. You vote for the person who will make this country better for everyone, not just the black population. The obama followers insult everyone and call them racist for not supporting obama. Well, I will vote for whomever I want and the DNC or the obama followers will never tell me who to vote for. You obama followers need to learn some old fashioned manners – I know, manners are not “hope and change” for you. You obama followers only know hate which is what you have learned from obama. Well, my vote is going to John McCain because he is the better candidate. Old? No, not old – if he were 92 that would be pushing it some. He is better qualified – not matter how you want to use Affirmative Action even in elections. Obama will not be elected in November because you can’t fool all of the people and most of the people voting already know what obama is made of and it is NOT presidential material. So continue to spew your hate obama followers, because every time you insult and demean, you are just guaranteeing more votes for McCain. America is made of better stuff than you obama followers.

WoW! A republican that is honest! I also admire Hillary, she should be our next president. Michele has been around their uncle Rev. Wright too long. The Obama’s hate America on Sunday at the so-called Trinity church and then on Monday they love our country. Ya right…

Laura Bush is the one class act involved in the Bush presidency and,as it figures, she is a former democrat.

The Republicans show more respect for Hillary than the Democrats. Thank-you Mrs. Bush!

I’m so happy Hillary is gone. Obama or McCain !!

John,
And how many votes were there in the Caucus states? Exactly!!! This Primary is NOT I REPEAT NOT ABOUT POPULAR VOTE. She lost in total Delegates, the ONLY measuring stick in this contest. Geet your facts straight, Obama 2166 delegates, Clinton 1919 delegates. Now, take you spoiled little vote to McCain!!! You get what you get!!!

So if Bush is the worst president in our history, doesn’t that make the last 8 years of congress the worst in our history also. Fact is congress’s approval rating is worse than Bush’s.

-BruhMan-
The democratic convention in the end of August. Obama is not the nominee until he or Hillary is voted on and wins !!!

Remember Change is an empty word.

I see the 20 year long associate of Obama, Resko, was guilty on 16 counts. Birds of a feather…

“FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY ADULT LIFETIME I’M PROUD OF MY COUNTRY” –MICHELLE OBAMA

She may be nice I guess, but her quote made no sense. Neither her or her husband have mastered grammar. A grown woman, former librarian and her rhetoric is that of a poorly educated adolescent. People outside our borders must think we are intellectually inferior and that is a crime just like our crooked economy, healthcare system, lack of jobs for grads and post grads, etc…

It is amusing that the bots want to ride Hillary’s coat tails. They never fail to point out that Hillary and Obama’s policies are the same! They would like to hide the fact that Obama is the most liberal senator around and that he is for raising payroll taxes and capital gains taxes. Yet, hoping to hide from his positions, they want to keep saying that Hillary’s and Obama’s policies are the same — it could not be further than the truth. Infact, Hillary and McCain are known to cross over party lines and support what they believe to be right. That requires strength and vision. This is one of the reason why the DNC rats are supporting Obama and he has the fake nomination. They never liked Hillary’s backbone. I would rather have the moderate McCain than the liberal Obama.

Wow, there is a lot of anger here, it should matter your color, but your experience to lead when it comes to being President. It shouldn’t matter if your female or male. We should be making the decision based on someones experience and how they have handled themselves through lifes experience that makes the person. We all have made mistakes, its what we get and use from those mistakes that we need to look at, when choosing a President. Rather you believe McCain or Obama should be President should be based on facts not feeling. That is where the Democrats made a mistake the last time, they banked on peoples dislike of George Bush to win the election the last time. It didn’t work, when it came down to it that dislike wasn’t strong enough to overcome John Kerry’s inability to make decisions quickly.
So, when you make your decision for President remove the anger, remove your feeling and make your decision on knowledge that you have of the person running for office. Let us all hold all the individuals running for this great office accountable for giving us the facts on where they stand on the issues that are important to us. Let decide this on information not feeling, not on the party you belong to, but on hard and fast facts. We need to take the power out of the media’s hands and put it back into our hands, as Americans we owe this to ourselves, those who came before us, and all the soldiers who gave their lives for this great nation.
An most of all, remember to VOTE, its our opportunity to tell those in Washington, D.C. how we want this country run.

first thing*

McCain-Hillary joint ticket will make sense

This woman has class. We should see more of her and less of her spouse.

There is so much anger and disbelief because Obama faked his true persona and got what he wanted with the support of the media chauvinists and the DNC rats. I would never vote for someone who is so devious so he could hide his true persona and present a persona that would appeal to people. When it is obvious that there is something in the way, he throws them under the bus — what a great character trait for President. McCain on the other hand has shown that he would stick by the person no matter how much flack he gets. Hillary has shown grit too. Obama destroyed papers from the time of his Illinois senate years so people would not read about him and his policies or lack of it. He ran on true inexperience and people bought it hook, line and sinker. Media had an agenda, the DNC rats had an agenda — they did not want the strong Hillary. Some of the electorate knew what he was about and tried but devious as he was, he has managed the fake nomination. We have to see how things work out in the GE.

I think Laura would have made a better president than her husband.
Oh, and a note to the McCaininites in this thread. Voting with Bush 95% of the time is not moderate. It’s more of the same. People who go after Obama for saying he’ll roll back some of the Bush tax cuts need to look at the deficit. McCain voted multiple times to raise our debt ceiling and borrow more money from countries like China. If you keep borrowing money like that it’s not cutting taxes. It’s just deferring them for future generations to pay. I guess when you’re as elderly as McCain is that’s not your concern. Well, I’m 30 and starting a family and I don’t want to be paying interest to China on Bush and McCain’s neocon wars for the rest of my life.
!!!!OBAMA08!!!!

Is no one tired of Hillary’s pandering ?? How many years of scandals and pandering do you have to see ? McCain or Obama !!

The ignorance on display here is unbelievable. I can’t begin to comment.

“Responding to Michelle Obama’s recent remarks that ‘for the first time in my adult life, I’m proud of my country,’ Mrs. Bush said ‘I think she probably meant “I’m more proud.”‘”
Actually, here’s what Michelle said: “… for the first time in my adult life, I’m really proud of my country.”
She was talking about the outpouring of people on the campaign trail and how Americans seem more engaged in the political process than we’ve been in a long, long time.
She probably wishes she’d said it differently (and, given that she’s not a professional politican, it’s understandable), but basically I agree with her. Watching the political process unfold, and participating in a caucus for the first time ever, I’ve felt the same way.
The right’s focus on this is just further evidence that they don’t have any answers for America’s problems–and to avoid talking about how they’ve driven America into a ditch.

Gee, when Michelle Obama said that for the first time she was “really proud” of her country perhaps she was just happy to see people actually involved and excited about the political process. Remember, this is the lazy, apathetic country that casts more votes for American Idol than it does for a presidential election….I know exactly how she feels.

RJ – and yet you did. : )

If Hillary didn’t show her true self until her concession speech, she has no-one to blame but herself – it’s not the media’s fault. She seemed to always be looking for her voice, always trying one role on after another. That’s exactly how she would have been in office – that’s her personality. Let’s face it – she has issues. Obama by contrast, seems secure and relaxed in who he is. He never switched roles because he wasn’t playing a role. He’s authentic.

Samantha,
Sure, if you don’t like him don’t vote for him. Vote for who you think is the best candidate. But as a black person, doesn’t it excite you just a bit what an inspiration an Obama presidency could be to black people everywhere? Seeing a black man aspire to and achieve the highest office in the land could have an enormous impact on black youth. They will look at him and go “why not me?” And THAT could create huge changes in the black community. Because change starts from the inside out.

LAURA BUSH’S TESTIMATE TO HILLARY CLINTON IS COMENDABLE, BUT TOO BAD SHE DID NOT COME FORWARD BEFORE THE ELECTION AND SAY THAT. I LIKE LAURA BUSH SHE IS A VERY CLASSY WOMAN, SO IS HILLARY CLINTON…IT JUST THE MEDIA THAT IS SLEEEZY

Laura Bush is a nice lady…but the truth is, it is about time our people had viable candidate. We’ve had other folks speaking for us since they loaded us in the bottom of the boat and brought us here. This is only the beginning of the reparations we are owed! My people KNOW why it has been called the “white” house!

Hillary did not concede her nomination! She only suspended it! Which means–she is still lurking in the back ground!!

Who cares?….about either of them.

Hillary ought to take a page out of Laura Bushes’ book and act like a female instead of a gun tottin” whiskey guzzlin’ phony. Thay may have helped her get votes from the red necks but it is disingenuous and certainly didn’t make her look presidential. If we are lucky we will get out of this election season with no Clinton in our future. Thanks to Laura for being such a lady with strength.

Bogey,
Much as you’d like it to be over, it ain’t over and won’t be until things are set right. I’m not bitter at all. I am sad for what human beings have done and continue to do to each other, but I’m not bitter – I am ACCOUNTABLE. That doesn’t mean guilty or bad. Ask blacks if it’s a non-issue. It’s because of attitudes like yours, that refuse to acknowledge the initial offense, that it festers. Like I said, other countries have healed these kinds of wounds quite well with an official, heartfelt apology that comes right from the top. As I recall, the Clinton administration floated the idea but was shot down. I guess we weren’t ready.
One country that has come to terms with its racist past is Germany. They have made a sincere determined effort to make amends for what the Nazis did, and they have gained a lot of worldwide respect for it. Japan on the other hand has not been able to come to terms with its actions during WWII and of course the wounds continue to fester both inside and outside Japan.

What a classy, decent set of things to say. Pretty much in keeping with her demeanor since she’s been in the public eye. Folks, chill out a bit on this thread – none of these people are ogres (even 43). Let’s focus on where they will take the country – all aspects of the details, not the slogans and mottos that everyone keeps spouting.

This is to Lookup, JoeM, BruhMan, and others that think like them whos notes I may have missed to read.
I am a white repulican and I am REALLY proud of my Country among other things because of People like you! Please accept my respect!

Especially for thiselectioncounts: Michelle Obama made the comment twice in two separate places. In one she said for the first time she was proud of her country; in the second she added the word really.

To This Election Counts-
The original poster was correct. She originally did not include “really”. See http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/michelle-obam-1.html
Jake Tapper from ABC reported that It was in a speech subsequent to the one where she said “For the first time in my life I am proud” that she added “really” to revise her remarks.
However, your observation is correct. There is a big difference in the meaning. I think the first comment from her was the more heartfelt one. The second came after coaching from the campaign staff. They thought (correctly it seems) that Obama followers like you would
“drink the Kool-Aid” and believe she said “really” in the first place.

We went from Crazy to Decent and maybe now back to crazy – Illinois Dems need to kick out the govenor, he’s a the “nanny” the protector of his lifestyle at the cost of the citizens of Illinois. He uses TAXES from gas to fund and maintain his crazy democrat typical lifestyle – GET HIM OUT

This election continues to swirl into a comedy of bias, sexism, and bigotry. And, for once, it’s not just about white on black hate. It’s spread so far and wide that it’s created a sea of gray that’s risen from the hand-to-hand battles waged between races, sexes, and economic classes.
Putting political ideologies aside, I’m beginning to think McCain is the best choice for the sake of unity. Not that he’d unify all Americans. Rather, he seems to represent one thing most democrats can rally against – a republican. Actually, I think he’d rally the far left and party loyalists in one camp. In another, he rally the evangelicals. And in the middle, he’d enjoy the company of moderates from both parties. Not saying he’s right or wrong, but consider the benefit of a united middle. This is the heart and soul of America.
Obama has a more daunting task. He now heads a party divided – moderates vs the far left. Clinton democrats may support policies in democrat wrappers, but they sit much closer to the ideological middle dominated by the likes of McCain, Liebermann, and Clinton. It’ll be Obama vs moderates, republicans, and evangelicals. Can this country take 4 years of this kind of division? Who knows.
If the dems lose the GE, it’ll be based on 2 miscalculations. First, they allowed Kerry to introduce a charismatic speaker from the far left at the 2004 convention (Obama). The gamble was that anti-Bush sentiment was running so hot that the country was actually moving to the left. And if he lost, the dems wanted a strong horse running that wing. They assumed the Repubs would go right – further right than Bush. 2008 was to be a battle from the fringes of the spectrum.
They didn’t realize that Republicans would rally toward the middle and pick McCain. Now it’s the middle vs the left.
Hang on for a wild ride – the mudslinging is gonna get real ugly. I think more from the Dems than we’ve seen in a long long time. Time will tell.

Laura Bush is a Democrat. Make no mistake about that. She and her daughters.

Agree with the praise for Laura. As I recall, she was a librarian when she met W. If you ever want to meet some real liberals, hang out with a group of librarians.

Victor,
What makes it the greatest country on earth, hate-filled people like you? Who is the one spewing hatred here, you or Obama? A country is only as great as the people in it. What do you do to make it great? I do know the contribution that Obama is making, or at least trying to make, to his country. What contribution are you making?

Victor, everything you said about Obama is bogus. I would call it hate speech. It is full of inuendo and guilt by association. You condemn him without really knowing the man. Just because he may have talked to somebody who once did something doesn’t make him guilty of anything. So you have no right to challenge my love for my country, when all I hear you expressing is hate.

I respect Laura Bush!!!!! Now, for her to praise HILLARY CLINTON, it means ALOT. She knows the score.

Obama’s team has to do hard work to get all Hillary’s all 18 million.
I have not heard how they going to as of yet
Hillary anointed Obama already she made her speech clear from the heart.

Laura Bush is a lady who is not too partisan to praise someone in the opposition. I totally agree with her about Hillary. She took an amazing amount of abuse and yet, didn’t give up.

Mrs. Obama’s remarks say what they say and she means what they say. Her papers she has written read like they are straight from Farakhan’s brain. So, people can revise, edit, do what they can and all her words, oral and written will still say what they say because Mrs. Obama listened to the Rev. for those 20 years and believed his every word. Also, anywork they did in the neighborhood probably were for blacks who heard the same hate messages every Sunday.
Would any intelligent person sit and listen to the hate spewed from the Rev.’s lips unless they enjoyed hearing them? The whole congregation enjoyed the Rev. Wright’s words.

What a delight to hear this prominent woman tell truth after truth after truth.

This is just another example of what a classy lady Mrs. Bush is. Ms. Obama should take note……..

I hated George W Bush when the Gore/Bush vote crap broke, I was very upset, and the Bush administration didn’t exactly ‘unite’ me with the choices they have made home and abroad, I don’t claim to be all knowing with Iraq, I thought we should have gone in and taken care of business, made us and the world safer, I tokk it hook, line, and sinker…. all that being said, and knowing I’m for Obama 110%, let me just say Laura Bush has represented 1st lady well.

I supported Senator Clinton and I will never, never vote for the current nominee of the democratic partner. I dislike his wife and he is so inexperienced, he scares me. I will be proud to vote for Senator McCain. OBAMA NEVER!!!!

Please. Laura Bush was a complete zero as a first lady, having taken part in NOTHING. She is everything the modern woman should aspire NOT to be. She will be easily forgotten.

Mrs. Bush is a class act

These posts are filled with so much Left/Right hate that it makes me cringe when I think about the world my 3 year old will grow up in. Our country has gone down a slippery slope of destruction for a long time and as we slug it out our enemies regroup.
Whether Obama or McCain, niether can be prepared for the mess that Bush has left our country in. I will place my vote while saying a prayer in November because no matter the candidate they will need God more than ever for the next four years to come.