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How Funny Was She?

5.4.05 @ 12:01AM

THAT'S WHY THE FIRST LADY...
Re: Wlady Pleszczynski's Milking the Horse:

Good Lord. Get a life, Mr. Pleszczynski. That's what the whole affair is about. You must really be the life of the party. I am hardly known as a giddy type but damn, did you have to write so many words and want to stand out from the crowd? Laura Bush did a fantastic job and your carping about various silly things is perhaps the most inane batch of babbling that I have read for quite some time. Maureen Dowd indeed. Your analysis is right in there with Maureen Dowd and worthy of the same respect as that airhead's ludicrous attempt to appear with it. Seeing your name on anything in the future will save me some reading time.
-- Donald Melquist
Green Valley, Arizona

Wlady Pleszczynski's editorial about the Laura Bush stand-up routine was excellent.

The complaint about the Clinton years was that the same type of humor leaked out at private White House functions, such the infamous x-rated Christmas tree ornaments. The Clintons actually seemed embarrassed when caught.

W. was elected because we were tired of children inhabiting the White House. However, Laura Bush's sophomoric routine is a return to the Clinton standards and a lowering of all standards for the president and his wife. I imagine it says a lot about what they really think of the voters, pro-life issues, and conservatism.

I just re-read Orwell's Animal House. I cannot tell the GOP from Democrats.
-- Gregory L. Jackson, Ph.D.

It is unfortunate that your "columnist" chose to do a hit-piece on Mrs. Bush. Is that really the best The American Spectator can come up with? Perhaps Wlady takes himself far too seriously. Disgraceful and shameful tripe, and given a venue like the Spectator makes it even worse. Shame, shame
-- M.
Vail, Michigan

Please tell Mr. Unpronounceable that he should lighten up and/or get a life. Stick to analysis of political issues and leave Laura Bush out of it.

She has tons more class in her little finger than Mr. Unpronounceable has in his whole body.
-- Les Arbo
Pass Christian, Mississippi

About this Wlady fellow... I assume his attack on Laura Bush today is supposedly "tongue in cheek." If not, he needs help, for then he is a dunce.
-- Allen O'Donnell
Wayne, Nebraska

On this subject I totally disagree with you regarding the comments about Laura Bush. It was an excellent political decision by the White House. What Mrs. Bush did was take the MSM's negative comments and attitudes toward the President and throw them right back in their faces. The President would be eaten alive if he did, but believe me there is nothing negative they could say about Laura without receiving a kick back those ******** can't handle!

Rest easy, editor of the Spectator, the American public is not as uninformed and oblivious to what goes on as you might think. We do have a memory capacity for events that have occurred beyond the past 12 months. In addition to that we have the Internet, thank goodness, for access to news sites, such as your own, to remind us lest we forget. We thank you and others for that as well....
-- Ruth Skidmore
Plymouth, California

You outdid yourself!

Laura Bush's "act" was a cynical and totally unnecessary attempt to humanize herself to those who fit in perfectly in our modern, coarse society. She is being congratulated on every front, but some of us find it's a sad day when our First Lady resorts to such language.

It was a slap in the face to many of us who voted for President Bush a second time.

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Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Social Security, Law, Supreme Court, Iraq, NATO, Conservatism