I believe that the obama trip was deliberately scheduled to coincide with the Bush trip so they could interject themselves, especially michelle, to make it seem as if they were part of the plan so they could bask in the Bush’s glow. The obamas are as UNWELCOME as the Bushes are welcome. Otherwise they had absolutely no reason for being there.
IOW, another STUNT (although the Mandela Timing is is also another coincidence and thus suspicious.)
The First Beard has no class, no integrity, and NO sense of propriety. Both it and the Thug in Chief are usurpers of all attention and authority and a Blank Check.
But frankly, I don't know why African "education" should be so important to Laura Bush when it's just been proven at the Zim trial that certain Americans can't read or write cursive OR speak the English language. Shouldn't Laura be visiting Miami instead?
Sorry — the first two paragraphs of analysis should be noted and attributed as the quote of MestaMachine.
She can accomplish more for literacy in Africa that she ever could in Miami.
A prophet is seldom welcome in his own land, that's just human nature. You can't change it, but you can work with it.
Consider, in Africa, she's a visiting hero. In Miami, she'd be a crazy-asp Cracker bi+ch, dissn' all o' urban hip-hop kulture.