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Re: ADT Security Canada
You do realize that this whole quote is a speech she gave which was
tongue-in-cheek and somewhat of a roast for the president?
I thought it was pretty funny.
Robert L Bass wrote:
>>Whether she cares or not is a different issue, if you really
>>think that she doesn't know the name of the hurricane,
>>then its you, not her that has lost touch with reality.
>
>
> I never said she had lost touch with reality. That would imply
> that she had at some time in the past been in touch with reality
> and there is no evidence to merit that assumption. Here's a
> direct quote from a popular magazine article about Laura and
> George Bush:
>
> "First Lady Laura Bush: Ladies and gentlemen, I've been attending
> these dinners for years and just quietly sitting there. Well,
> I've got a few things I want to say for a change.
>
> This is going to be fun because he really doesn't have a clue
> about what I'm gonna' to say next.
>
> George always says he's delighted to come to these press dinners.
> Baloney. He's usually in bed by now.
>
> I'm not kidding.
>
> I said to him the other day, "George, if you really want to end
> tyranny in the world, you're going to have to stay up later."
>
> I am married to the president of the United States, and here's
> our typical evening: Nine o'clock, Mr. Excitement here is sound
> asleep, and I'm watching Desperate Housewives? with Lynne Cheney.
> Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife. I mean, if
> those women on that show think they're desperate, they oughta be
> with George.
>
> One night, after George went to bed, Lynne Cheney, Condi Rice,
> Karen Hughes and I went to Chippendale's. I wouldn't even mention
> it except Ruth Ginsberg and Sandra Day O'Connor saw us there. I
> won't tell you what happened, but Lynne's Secret Service codename
> is now "Dollar Bill."
>
> But George and I are complete opposites ? I'm quiet, he's
> talkative, I'm introverted, he's extroverted, I can pronounce
> nuclear ?
>
> The amazing thing, however, is that George and I were just meant
> to be. I was the librarian who speant 12 hours a day in the
> library, yet somehow I met George.
>
> We met, and married, and I became one of the regulars up at
> Kennebunkport. All the Bushes love Kennebunkport, which is like
> Crawford, but without the nightlife. People ask me what it's like
> to be up there with the whole Bush clan. Lemme put it this way:
> First prize ? three-day vacation with the Bush family. Second
> prize ? 10 days.
>
> Speaking of prizes brings me to my mother-in-law. So many mothers
> today are just not involved in their children's lives ? Not a
> problem with Barbara Bush. People often wonder what my
> mother-in-law's really like. People think she's a sweet,
> grandmotherly, Aunt Bea type. She's actually more like, mmm, Don
> Corleone.
>
> Cedric, am I doing all right?
>
> I saw my in-laws down at the ranch over Easter. We like it down
> there. George didn't know much about ranches when we bought the
> place. Andover and Yale don't have a real strong ranching
> program. But I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about
> ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse.
> What's worse, it was a male horse.
>
> Now, of course, he spends his days clearing brush, cutting
> trails, taking down trees, or, as the girls call it, The Texas
> Chainsaw Massacre. George's answer to any problem at the ranch is
> to cut it down with a chainsaw ? which I think is why he and
> Cheney and Rumsfeld get along so well.
>
> It's always very interesting to see how the ranch air invigorates
> people when they come down from Washington. Recently, when Vice
> President Cheney was down, he got up early one morning, he put on
> his hiking boots, and he went on a brisk, 20- to 30-foot walk."
> --
>
> Regards,
> Robert L Bass
>
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