Posted on 08/11/2004 6:22:15 AM PDT by ohioWfan
First Lady Charms Toledo
by Fritz Wenzel
First Lady Laura Bush brought her Texas charm and White House rhetoric to Toledo yesterday, making a pitch for support of her husband's re-election effort to a crowd of 200, most of them female entrepreneurs. After touting advances made in federal tax law designed to help small businesses during her meeting at the downtown Radisson Hotel on Summit Street - using examples of how the Bush tax cuts helped local women build their businesses - she ventured down the street to meet Howard Pinkley, the owner of the small Flags Sales and Repair shop at 114th and Summit streets in Point Place.
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"I think the First Lady is just marvelous. It's so refreshing to hear a woman who shares the values of most Americans," said Nila Jennings, who is about to open a home furnishings and gift business in Lucas County. "It is so encouraging to listen to her quiet strength and her determination. You can have strength without having this screeching and this yelling that we hear on TV."
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Earlier yesterday, Mrs. Bush told a crowd of 300 doctors and health care workers in the Philadelphia suburb of Langhorne, Pa., that Democrats are raising false hopes in promoting the stem-cell use to cure illnesses.
"The embryonic stem cell research is very preliminary right now, and the implication that cures for Alzheimer's are around the corner is just not right, and it's really not fair to the people who are watching a loved one suffer with this disease," she said.
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Quiet strength and charm...........sorry TaRAYZahh.......
Ah, such CLASS...something Terazah only dreams of having!!
Regards, Ivan
I'm Texas proud of Laura..our lovely First Lady!
That's what I call a REAL woman!
The WaPo has a Laura report also:
The Ladies' Circle
"I prefer Laura to someone who can say 'shove it' in five different languages," says Patricia Ott, of Southampton, Pa. She is holding a homemade "Laura Is a Lady" sign Monday outside the Sheraton in Langhorne, Pa., where Mrs. Bush just accepted the endorsement of the Pennsylvania Medical Society's political action committee on behalf of her husband.
You can finish a lot of sentences about Laura Bush with the words "on behalf of her husband," just as Mrs. Bush herself will begin a lot of her sentences with "President Bush plans to," "I'm pleased George Bush is committed to" and "I'm proud of my husband because -- "
Mrs. Bush doesn't talk about whether she's had Botox treatments or signed a prenuptial agreement -- both among Heinz Kerry's greatest hits. For that matter, Mrs. Bush will rarely discuss herself at any great length beyond how it relates to her role as the president's soul mate, best friend and chief character witness. "I'm here to talk about George Bush," she says as a mantra, and strenuously avoids mentioning John Kerry by name.
Her adoring audiences rarely mention Kerry, either. They are far more likely to mention his wife, which makes for a slightly weird dynamic.
Unseen but oft-invoked, Heinz Kerry elicits strong and at times nasty reactions. "Telling someone to shove it in public is inappropriate in my view," says Helene Hartman, of Yardley, Pa. She supports Laura Bush because she supports her husband and, more than that, she "brings a level of dignity and composure to the role of first lady."
"I thought Mrs. Kerry talked mainly about herself and not her husband and I didn't like that," says Alison Rasmus of Heinz Kerry's speech at the Democratic convention last month. Rasmus, a Republican, like most of the people who attend Mrs. Bush's carefully screened events, is in a Toledo hotel to give a "warm Lucas County welcome to Mrs. Laura Bush."
To many admirers of Laura Bush, Heinz Kerry is viewed as being outsize to the point of distraction. The Bush-Cheney campaign seems acutely aware of this sentiment. Mrs. Bush visited six midwestern battleground states over a 36-hour period on Monday and Tuesday, speaking in cookie-cutter hotel ballrooms, in cookie-cutter phrases, in cookie-cutter suburbs and exurbs of Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Detroit, among other stops. (Campaign officials say that Mrs. Bush's heavy schedule was set well in advance and had nothing to do with Heinz Kerry's recent headlines.)
In Langhorne, Mrs. Bush comes as close as she ever will to making political waves. On the three-year anniversary of her husband's decision to ban federal funding for research on new lines of stem cells, Mrs. Bush says that opponents of the president's policy are giving "false hope" to people whose loved ones are suffering from diseases that could conceivably be cured with help from studying such cells. She is interrupted several times by applause from the crowd of 300 medical professionals, several of whom wear white lab coats even though they're in a Sheraton function room.
A few hours later, Mrs. Bush is at a Radisson in Toledo, talking to a group of female small-business owners, dozens of whom are grinning behind her on the stage. She talks of President Bush's compassion, how he shares "our values" and how his tax policies have been a particular boon to women entrepreneurs. As she often does, Mrs. Bush notes that a woman -- Condoleezza Rice -- is her husband's chief adviser on national security and that another woman -- Margaret Spellings -- is his chief domestic policy adviser.
"That means that in this White House, women are in charge of just about everything abroad and everything at home," Mrs. Bush says. "And that sounds about right to me." She smiles sweetly, and the crowd laughs and Mrs. Bush moves on to more testimony about President Bush.
On the way to the Toledo airport, Mrs. Bush will make a "spontaneous" stop at a flag store. She will tell 1,200 supporters at a Boys and Girls Club in Royal Oak, Mich., that the president understands their values.
And she will get through an entire 20-minute interview on the way to the St. Cloud airport without being asked once what she thinks of Teresa Heinz Kerry, a woman she has never met.
"Very good," the first lady says, commending the reporter on his restraint. " 'Cause I wouldn't have really told you."
Mrs. Bush's absolutely right on this...the DemonRATS are appealing to the fears of relatives of folks with these diseases, but it's just another Big DemonRAT LIE!!
The Left has no shame...MUD
She is soooo Refreshing!! She's like a breath of fresh air.
I'm thankful our First Lady (and she IS a lady!) is sharing about stem cell research flaws/lies.
Yep...but the RATS have a history of playing to the fears of the most vulnerable amongst us (i.e. telling retirees that the GOP wants to take away their Social Security).
FReegards...MUD
Ya done good, George!
"Very good," the first lady says, commending the reporter on his restraint. " 'Cause I wouldn't have really told you."
I can't really say it, but it rhymes with...
Dang - I wish I could get my hair to look like hers. I keep telling my hairdresser I want my hair to look like Mrs. Bush's. She tried, but one of my co-workers asked me if I had specified, "Laura or Barbara" ;-)
Here, print this out; it may help....two AMAZING WOMEN:
Actually, I love Barbara's lovely silver hair: I'm just not ready for that color yet, thank you Clairol ;-) (Used to use L'Oreal, but no more.)
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