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Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton to Speak at Clinton Global Initiative
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyFor those who hoped, in vain, to see a Clinton-Obama reunion this summer at Chelsea Clinton's nuptials, all is not lost: On Thursday, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced that First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the closing remarks at the organization's meeting this year on Sept. 23. Founded by former President Bill Clinton in 2005, CGI is a veritable who's who of kingmakers, power brokers and political pooh-bahs who convene yearly in New York City to tackle the world's most pressing issues. According to the CGI website, attendees "create a 'Commitment to Action' -- a detailed ...
Michelle Obama, Laura Bush to Join in 9/11 Commemoration in Pennsylvania
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama will join with former First Lady Laura Bush at a ceremony in Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 11 to commemorate the victims of the terrorist hijacking of United Flight 93 nine years ago, the National Park Foundation announced Monday. The site of the event, the Western Overlook, is the location of the planned Flight 93 National Memorial, which is scheduled for completion in 2011 on the 10-year anniversary of the attacks. According to an official press release, "In 2001, the Western Overlook was the location of the investigative command post for Flight 93 and was the point ...
Laura Bush: The Real Reason Behind Her One-Dimensional Legacy
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyI admit to having a soft spot for Laura Bush, and I wasn't the only reporter in Washington who felt that way during her eight years as first lady. She got mostly favorable press, and her approval ratings remained high even as her husband's tanked. She was always so sedate and dignified that she provided a welcome contrast to her Texas cowboy husband. There was evidence that she'd once been a Democrat, and rumors that she might be pro-choice, which made her hard to pigeonhole. But as the years went by, Laura Bush pigeonholed herself with her hyper-cautiousness about ever appearing to be at ...
Laura Bush Says Press Typecast Her and Blames 'Liberal Bias'
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyLaura Bush expressed frustration Sunday over how the press typecasts many of the women who become First Ladies and suggested that, in some cases, including hers, liberal bias may have had something to do with it. Bush was interviewed on Fox News Sunday where moderator Chris Wallace read a quote to her from a British tabloid that described her as a "a cookie-baking homemaker, dull, mumsy and old-fashioned" and asked why she thought she was seen that way. "I think there are a lot of reasons," she said. "I think because I had had ... women's traditional jobs, I'd been a teacher and a librarian, ...
Laura Bush Backs Gay Marriage, Abortion Rights
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWhen it comes to gay marriage and abortion rights, Laura Bush says she and former President George W. Bush have simply agreed to disagree. She's for both, he's against them. The former first lady said on "Larry King Live" Tuesday she "totally" understands "what George thinks and what other people think about marriage being between a man and a woman. . . . But I also know that, you know, when couples are committed to each other and love each other that they ought to have, I think, the same sort of rights that everyone has." Click play below to watch: "You think [legalization of same sex ...
Washington in 60 Seconds -- Terror Clues on Facebook: 'I HOPE THEY FIND THAT BASTARD'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGood morning, Capitolists! The big stories in the country may be hundreds of miles away from Washington in the Gulf of Mexico and New York's Times Square. But you know your fearless leaders will manage to put themselves in the middle of it all nonetheless. We'll monitor that while you catch up on what's making news in Washington today. - Intent to Kill. Attorney General Eric Holder held a rare, middle-of-the-night press conference in Washington early this morning to announce the arrest of the man behind the Times Square terror plot. Holder said, "It is clear that the intent behind this ...
The Price Laura Bush Paid for Failing to Make Amends
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyMy husband's harrumphing interrupted my absorption in a Washington Post story about Laura Bush's new memoir, "Spoken from the Heart," due out next week. "Just look at that face,'' he said, pointing to the flattering accompanying photograph of the former first lady. "That face just screams 'phony' – Texas phony." My first thought: as Mrs. B. and I have the same dermatologist, what does my face scream? (That I can't afford to see her very often?) Then: hubby and I met in Texas, right after the Alamo, and have been debating "Texas phony" ever since. (What he calls fakery, I think of as ...
Laura Bush Wracked With Guilt Over Fatal Crash in Her Teens
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyFormer first lady Laura Bush finally opens up in her still-embargoed memoir about the tragic automobile accident she was involved in when she was 17. The deadly 1963 crash, at a poorly lit Midland, Texas, intersection, is a subject the former first lady rarely, if ever, talked about during eight years in the White House. As my WomanUp colleague Sarah Wildman notes, the accident "always seemed a bruise she avoided touching, a wound that had never closed." Driving her father's Chevy Impala, Laura ran a stop sign and smashed into the car of Mike Douglas, killing the star athlete who was her high ...
Laura Bush Talks About Fatal Crash, Loss of Faith, in New Book
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn her new book, "Spoken From the Heart," Laura Bush describes in detail being the driver in a 1963 car crash that took the life of a high school friend -- an accident she says haunted her for most of her life and caused her to lose faith in God for "many, many years." "In those awful seconds, the car door must have flung open by the impact and my body rose in the air until gravity took over and I was pulled hard and fast, back to earth," Bush writes in excerpts published Wednesday by the New York Times. "The whole time, I was praying that the person in the other car was alive. In my mind, I ...
Laura Bush's Memoir: A Life Shaped By Tragic Crash at 17
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyLaura Bush speaks. After eight years as the least vocal First Lady since Mamie Eisenhower, after eight years of ceremonial positioning and very little disclosure, after eight years of tight smiles and apolitical projects, Laura Bush has published a memoir. "Spoken from the Heart" – picked up by the New York Times as an advance copy (or from a bookstore, as the Times claims) – which reveals a glimpse into the private thoughts of a very private woman. Finally we can read Laura Bush's positions on everything from war to across-the-aisle sniping. On Democrats: Speaker Pelosi and ...
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