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Greatest Straw of all time!
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1796
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:03 am: |     |
WHAT A BOW WOW.. EVER HEAR OF A MAKE OVER LADY?????
BUSH/CHENEY IN 2004.. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4359
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:12 am: | |
She looks like what she is, a hardworking doctor. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1811
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 12:52 pm: | |
Beauty is only skin-deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone. Ask Anne Coulter. |
ReallyTrying
Citizen
Username: Reallytrying
Post Number: 249
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 1:02 pm: | |
Straw, that's so mean.
I think it's a nice change to see a candidate (not that I necessarily support him) doesn't always have to have a woman decorating his arm. And to see a candidate's wife who doesn't feel obligated to play the serenely smiling little woman. She is who she is. |
Maplewoody
Citizen
Username: Maplewoody
Post Number: 431
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 1:50 pm: | |
Straw,
Why not post a pic on MOL
of the lovely MRS BERRY ?
Can you say WOOF? |
greeneyes
Citizen
Username: Greeneyes
Post Number: 457
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 1:54 pm: | |
I had a problem with Dr. Dean's appearance too.
On the one hand:
She is a physician with an active practice.
She has one child still at home
She flew for twelve hours to get to her man.
On the other hand:
She can still run a comb through her hair.
She can decide to tuck or not to tuck her sweater-set into her pants.
Her disheveled appearance makes one wonder if she is up to the task of being First Lady. With the poll numbers so close, there is no room for error and her appearance in my opinion was an error.
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Greatest Straw of all time!
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1799
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 2:00 pm: | |
thank you Greeneyes.
Mrs. Berry pics:
$5.00 for standard
$15.00 for partial nude
$30.00 for nude (frontal only)
BUSH/CHENEY IN 2004.. |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2629
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 2:04 pm: | |
Straw's wife is very attractive. And funny too. Straw, how much for naked pictures of you? |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1551
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 2:12 pm: | |
Gee, thanks Maplewoody. 
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Greatest Straw of all time!
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1800
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 2:20 pm: | |
I'd post them for free Mem, but Dave has issue with Nudity on MOL.
BUSH/CHENEY IN 2004.. |
notehead
Citizen
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 893
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 2:23 pm: | |
Maplewoody, there is no need to stoop to that level.
Alge, clearly Maplewoody hasn't actually met you. Perhaps he thought the pic of Flanders was a self-portrait? (I confess I would be afraid of any woman with a moustache like that.) |
Duncan
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1444
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 2:37 pm: | |
Interesting Algy since on a previous thread you disavowed being the Mrs. Straw. Which is it?
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Wayne Gretzky |
extuscan
Citizen
Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 254
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 2:38 pm: | |
I forget what radio program I heard this one, but the Republicans are holding some cards on Dean close to thier vest... the #1 being the Mrs. Howard Dean is a lesbian. They will play it when needed. I know 98% of Maplewoodonliners are shrugging "so..." but that won't go down well outside the two coasts!
--John |
Duncan
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1445
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 2:46 pm: | |
quote:They will play it when needed. I know 98% of Maplewoodonliners are shrugging "so..." but that won't go down well outside the two coasts!
Neither will outing a political candidates wife. Thats a big ole backfire just awaiting to happen. It may not go down well outside the coasts but it sure as hell will stir up a mess of really vocal bees if 1) its true and 2) some Bush flunky actually does it.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Wayne Gretzky |
greeneyes
Citizen
Username: Greeneyes
Post Number: 459
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 2:49 pm: | |
extuscan,
"They" have said that Hillary is a lesbian also....shrug..... |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2750
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 5:21 pm: | |
Minor thread drift.
Some of you who post here are real believers in the "broken window" theory. Basically, a community should take care of the little things, like broken windows or litter, and fix them. By doing so, this can keep worse problems from eventually coming in and really ruining a neighborhood.
Anyway, the first post on this thread is a broken window. |
Redsox
Citizen
Username: Redsox
Post Number: 391
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 6:48 pm: | |
greeneyes-
i said it- i'm a democrat
also, it's the sham of the situation that matters
-not the lesbos |
tjohn
Citizen
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2095
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 6:51 pm: | |
Straw,
Your troll posts are maintaining a consistent rating of "not clever, but mean-spirited". Keep up the fine work. |
sbenois
Citizen
Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 10620
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 7:07 pm: | |
I must agree that comments about Mrs. Dean's appearance are out of bounds. Who cares what she looks like Straw?
We're never going to have an intelligent discussion on politics if we stoop to the level of saying that one's appearance counts for something.
---> Brought to you by Sbenois Engineering LLC <-
Hey, it also wouldn’t look good coming out of a motel with your wife’s best friend saying you were just planning a surprise birthday party for her husband...- Arturo November '03
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greeneyes
Citizen
Username: Greeneyes
Post Number: 460
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 7:47 pm: | |
Appearance does count to some. Many First Ladies and potential First Ladies took heat in the press for their "look"
Barbara Bush and her matronly mannish appearance.
Nancy Reagan for her love of couture.
Hillary Clinton for her "middle american complete with headband" hair
Betty Ford before and after the face lift.
Roslyn Carter for just not giving a damn.
The women are talked about and the men judged on the appearance of their mates. We can't deny that. Is it right? The media feels that somebody is interested or they wouldn't bother writing the copy. Perhaps the issue is important to those in Iowa. |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1475
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 8:59 pm: | |
While this is one of the stupidest threads in recent memory on MOL (and that's saying something), how much more stupid is it than "serious" pundits discussing Kerry's hair, Edwards's youthful good looks, or Gore's earth tones.
Our national discourse is currently so degraded that calling a candidate's wife a "bow wow" is only a very small step below what we already hear on CNN or FOX, and exactly what we'll hear on the EIB network.
But until we tune out this crap, it's what we're going to get. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4364
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 4:25 am: | |
At least Mrs. Dr. Dean hasn't killed anyone with a motor vehicle!!
Will the fact that Mrs. Bush committed manslaughter and didn't do any time become an issue in what will probably be the dirtiest Presidential campaign in US history? |
Greatest Straw of all time!
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1802
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 6:43 am: | |
Sebonis,
Have to disagree. If you think for one second the appearance and ability of the first lady or potential first lady means nothing you're sadly out of touch.
Was Tipper Gore not a big part of the last campaign? Wasn't Hillary sent to makeover city before Bill ran? Was Nancy Reagan not a powerful figure? Kennedy????
Sorry son, You're missing the point of why it's important Mrs. Dean do a better job for her husband. And it starts with a hair cut and a new outfit.
BUSH/CHENEY IN 2004.. |
tjohn
Citizen
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2097
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 7:21 am: | |
Dearest Straw,
Still digging out of our mean-spiritdness are we.
Anyway, nobody, including the esteemed Sbenois, was suggesting that appearances don't count. What the more refined posters are saying is that it is gutter-level to make appearances a central issue. |
Greatest Straw of all time!
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1803
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 7:27 am: | |
Tjohn,
That's why you don't get politics. Appearance is half the ball game. Doctor Dean all 5 foot 6 of him lost to 6 foot 4 Kerry in Iowa. These little things count, always will. See Kennedy vs Nixon. For you to pretend that you're a refined political thinker who for some reason can't seem to grasp the little things that count says alot. For starters, it tells us why your opinions and forecasts are usually incorrect.
BUSH/CHENEY IN 2004.. |
tjohn
Citizen
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2099
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 7:33 am: | |
Straw,
Do I have to add reading comprehension courses to your history courses? I get it. We all get it. Let the publicists and image consultants deal with candidate appearances behind the scenes.
Of course, if you are a Bush supporter, I suppose that any sort of sophomoric diversion is preferable to a discussion of his slash and burn-borrow and spend administration. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4367
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 8:02 am: | |
I have come to a conclusion after a lot of thought. Heck at least 15 seconds.
Straw is really an undercover Democratic operative sent to MOL to stir the usually lethargic masses of voters here into action to upset Shrub.
Makes sense, no? |
sbenois
Citizen
Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 10629
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 8:14 am: | |
Dearest Strawberry,
After last night, it wouldn't matter if she looked like Catherine Zeta-Jones. Dean is finished.
---> Brought to you by Sbenois Engineering LLC <-
Hey, it also wouldn’t look good coming out of a motel with your wife’s best friend saying you were just planning a surprise birthday party for her husband...- Arturo November '03
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bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4369
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 9:14 am: | |
Ex - The last thing, the very last thing, Bush wants to do is bring wives into the campaign. |
Mayhewdrive
Citizen
Username: Mayhewdrive
Post Number: 715
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 10:40 am: | |
Bob,
I admit I had never heard of this "issue", so I did a quick web search & found the following:
When Laura Bush was 17, she was involved in a fatal accident, driving through a stop sign and hitting a car operated by a high school friend. He died. She refers to it as ''a very tragic time in my life.'' No charges were brought. (The question always looms why she was not charged with vehicular manslaughter since the "friend" was her boyfriend who may have just dumped her.) She slammed into the SIDE of his vehicle at an intersection where some claim she was laying in wait. The police reports on the matter are censored and vary from a cloudy rainy night to a clear dark night. The much doctored police report and the reports of several Texas newspapers regarding the incident and the cover-up are found on the Internet. :LB claims that discussing the matter is too distressing - even after almost 40 years - and thus avoids any questions.
I actually see MANY references to this story, but I haven't found a link to any "credible mainstream media" (how's that for an oxymoron?)
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algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1552
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 10:48 am: | |
Not that it makes a difference now ... but I don't see it being a matter of her being a Bow-Wow or not. If she wanted to be casual she would have looked a hell of a lot nicer in a LL Bean sweater, a nice turtleneck and a pair of Levis. At least she could have put on a collared shirt under that scappy sweatshirt. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4374
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 10:49 am: | |
MHD, the only reason I brought the subject up is that the Attack Dogs are circling around Mrs. Dean. The point I was making is that one who lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones.
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tjohn
Citizen
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2102
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 10:51 am: | |
At age 17, Laura "not yet" Bush wasn't enjoying the protection of the Bush family. If she avoided prosecution then, who was her benefactor.
As far as it still being too distressing to talk about, I find that entirely credible. Most of us have said/done things much less serious that we don't care to remember/discuss. |
ashear
Citizen
Username: Ashear
Post Number: 914
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 12:18 pm: | |
Is AP, via USA Today, crdible and mainstream? http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e1698.htm
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chocoholic
Citizen
Username: Shrink
Post Number: 92
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 2:18 pm: | |
This is the first time I have heard about LB comitting vehicular manslaughter. Interesting....I never heard this on EIB, WABC or even NPR.
As for unattractive first ladies, Nancy Reagan takes the cake. A gigantic head on top of a skinny almost skeletal body, a fake smile....
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Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 361
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 2:47 pm: | |
Stop picking on poor old Laura Bush, she stands by her man and bakes cookies. So she killed someone by running a stop sign in a 55 MPH zone, thats nothing compared to Hillary speaking her mind and being ambitious and smart (HOW DARE SHE!!!!).
I'm ashamed of myself for adding to the dumbest thread ever but don't talk to me about Bow Wow without uttering the words Bab Bush. Then again I guess some guys got a thing for their Grammas. |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 362
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 2:53 pm: | |
Hey and don't pick on Nancy Reagan either. When she was an actress, she didn't have too much talent in the thespian department but rumor has it , she was the oral sex queen of Hollywood.
Hey Ronnie Raygun, poster boy for "Family Values", knows how to pick em (just don't check with his previous wives). |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2640
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 4:28 pm: | |
Talk about people in glass houses... |
Michaela May
Citizen
Username: Mayquene
Post Number: 43
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 5:20 pm: | |
This thread is more than inane, large parts of it are just plain insulting. Why does it matter if the potential first lady is pretty? Or dressed to suit your taste? Straw, thanks for trying to bring women back to a time when their appearance was first and foremost what mattered. Grow up, and get with the 21st century. Or at least the second half of the 20th. |
Greatest Straw of all time!
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1810
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 6:39 am: | |
Micheaela my dear,
As you move forward in Washington keep in mind one thing. Appearance will be half the battle. This along with talent and a few contacts will take you along way.
Trust me on this one. If you want to be successful like I am, you'll do as I say.
Also, if you need a few names in DC, I can help you out there as well.
BUSH/CHENEY IN 2004.. |
notehead
Citizen
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 898
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 6:34 pm: | |
Michaela, I'm sure you know better than to listen to him. |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen
Username: Casey
Post Number: 475
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 11:03 pm: | |
why notehead?
that's brilliant insight - talent, contacts, and good looks will get you far. who knew??!!
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tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1829
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 11:40 pm: | |
Actually, I've seen what goes on in Washington, and Straw's right on that last post. |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 408
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 12:11 pm: | |
I'm glad the debate has been kept to gentlemanly and appropriate topics. |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 376
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 9:12 am: | |
Actually saw Dean's wife being interviewed last night and what a refreshing change. She's very bright, very real and very warm. I'd much prefer to have her in the White House, then the current First Lady, who truth be told, gives me the creeps (maybe it's that Stepford Wives, phony smile or the knowledge that she actually killed someone in a vehicular manslaughter incident). I also don't find her unattractive but I find intelligence and warmth attractive. Guess I'm just shallow. |
Greatest Straw of all time!
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1819
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 9:24 am: | |
All right,
cut the crap.
First off, she was 17 and it was an accident. She lives with it every day. It wasn't a Ted Kennedy drunk-murder thing where he could have saved her life but chose to leave her there to save his career instead.
Get your facts straight and stop the nonsense.
BUSH/CHENEY IN 2004.. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4412
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 9:29 am: | |
What is the mandatory sentence for that sort of things these days in Texas? Five or ten years?
And of course now adays 17 year olds would be tried as an adult.
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Greatest Straw of all time!
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1820
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 9:39 am: | |
unless it's an accident.
BUSH/CHENEY IN 2004.. |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1568
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 9:58 am: | |
UK -- I agree, she came off very real in last night's interview. I liked her too.
Straw -- I agree, accidents happen. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4415
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 10:18 am: | |
Here is the Texas statute that I think applies:
Sec. 19.04.Manslaughter.
(a) A person commits an offense if he recklessly causes the death of an individual.
(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the second degree.
[back to list of TX laws] Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974.Renumbered from Sec. 19.04 by Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 1123, ch. 426, art. 2, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974.Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 307, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.Renumbered from Sec. 19.05 and amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
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Sec. 19.05.Criminally Negligent Homicide.
(a) A person commits an offense if he causes the death of an individual by criminal negligence.
(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
"Criminal negligence" is defined in Sec. 6.03(d) thusly:
A person acts with criminal negligence, or is criminally negligent, with respect to circumstances surrounding his conduct or the result of his conduct when he ought to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the actor's standpoint.
I will let you decide if Mrs. Bush's conduct in blowing through a stop sign at 55 qualifies.
Actually, I am not really happy about bringing up this subject. I brought it in as a counter to the original post in this thread about Mrs. Dean. Why? I am not sure. I am not a Dean supporter. This is my last post in this thread. |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 377
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 11:34 am: | |
I don't think the "incident" was intentional but going through a stop sign in a 55 MPH zone shows a severe lack of judgement and a lot of recklessness. Most of us do dumb things in our teens, this is dumber then most.
The current President and first lady are portrayed by conservatives as a return to "morality" after the damn sinners Bill and Hillary. This is pure unadulterated B.S., these are people who could possibly be in jail if they didn't have money and influence to shelter them from the harsh realities us mere mortals must face (not particularly talking about Laura, don't know enough about her background).
Dean is not my 1st choice either but I will gladly pull the lever in his direction if he will be the guy going against Dumbya. I thought his Iowa rant was a little nuts but he scored a lot of points once I saw and heard his wife speak. |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2654
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 12:14 pm: | |
Maybe we should nominate Mrs. Dean for president under the condition that she keep her husband in a cage. |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 412
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 12:50 pm: | |
Current First lady quit her oft-mentioned career at the age of 31. |
Jackie Day
Citizen
Username: Zoesky1
Post Number: 227
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 2:32 pm: | |
Judy Dean comes across as amazingly normal, down to earth and easy to relate to - I can imagine myself having a conversation with her in line at Kings. The current first lady gives me the creeps too - very smarmy and fake and too coiffed. But I fear that Judy Dean's "realness" will soon be swallowed up by her husband's handlers and image-makers as they realize they need to use her so he can have a realistic shot at the nomination. I give it a month before she reappears with some awful haircut, more makeup, and some of those horrible jewel-tone suits that first ladies (and female politicians) always end up wearing. I feel bad for her. That first picture I saw of her in the NYT in her jeans and running shoes made me want to like her (maybe because I too don't wear much in the way of makeup -- except lipstick for work -- and would rather wear jeans and sneakers than anything else)...and even though I personally don't support her husband (I like Kerry), I thought it was a refreshing new thing to see a potential first lady who's not all made over and political wife-like. Too bad it won't last. |
MEC
Citizen
Username: Mec
Post Number: 39
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 5:56 pm: | |
Being a dispalced Texan, I have to say that the primp factor is much diffferent here in the NE than it is in Texas. I see too many women fitting the Judy Dean look up this way, not much attention taken to their looks. In Texas many women will not leave the house without full make-up and hair, even if they are going to the gym and even when it's over 100 outside. So, what might look fake and too coiffed to you Yankees out there is really quite normal looking in the region that our frist family is from. |
anon
Citizen
Username: Anon
Post Number: 939
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 6:47 pm: | |
I'm with Ms. May. Who cares?
Almost everyone liked the first Mrs. Bush, and she was certainly no glamour-puss! |
Mayhewdrive
Citizen
Username: Mayhewdrive
Post Number: 731
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 9:57 pm: | |
I agree that Mrs. Dean came across as very "normal". Howard Dean also did a good job of coming across "normal" on PrimeTime Live. Although, I wonder if the problem is that he may now appear too "normal" and not "presidential enough". |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 384
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 2:00 am: | |
I hear ya Mayhew. Unfortunately appearing presedential today, means you take some ninkampoop (sp?) who can't string two sentances together and coach him to death to issue terse, frightening, sound-bytes that appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Our kids deserve better. Get out and vote!!!!. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4426
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 6:43 am: | |
Mrs. Dean for President? 
When I watched the interview Mrs. Dean reminded me of a score of hard pressed women I have seen at Kings on Maplewood Avenue, picking up dinner after a hard day of work.
Dean is toast, but this doesn't have anything to do with his wife, who is depressingly normal.
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bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4428
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 7:01 am: | |
When I watched the interview I was struck that Mrs. Dean reminded me of any number of women around here. In other words, she is depressingly normal in a very bright way.
Dean is toast, but it has nothing to do with Mrs. Dean.
I will make another fearless primary prediction for New Hampshire; Dean will be lucky to come in third and may be beaten out by Edwards and end up fourth. |
Lizziecat
Citizen
Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 140
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 3:43 pm: | |
What is "depressing" about being "normal"? What's normal, anyway? Nancy Reagan reminded me of a concentration camp victim, Barbara Bush was an ill-tempered virago, Roselyn Carter was too good to be true, Hilary Clinton was too smart to be quiet and the current Mrs. Bush is a non-entity. Judith Dean is a doctor who happens to be married to a candidate. She doesn't care that much about clothes or appearences, she tends her children and her home and her patients, and she and her husband seem satisfied with the arrangement. Let her alone, already! |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4433
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 7:05 pm: | |
Lizzie, not a good choice of words. I support Mrs. Doctor Dean both as a person and in her choice to maintain her medical practice.
I just kind of like the term depressingly normal. Maybe I thought a lot of people expected her to be, well different. She isn't. |
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