[farmer18th]

I wish you would reserve just a bit of your indignation for Laura's cheapening of her husband's office. Do you seriously defend Laura's breaking all new ground by being the very first first lady to make a Chippendale's joke before a national audience? That was territory I thought we might have reserved for Hillary--but, no!--Republicans get to show themselves off as pop culture wannabes. Disgusting.

[California Patriot]

You are right. Laura crossed the line at least twice -- the examples you cite. It's a sad day when a Republican First Lady, who had been considered a shining example of decency, stoops to this garbage. I have lost some of my respect for her, and it won't come back easily.

I also wonder if there isn't some latent hostility toward GWB here. Even aside from the horrible lapses in taste, her overall routine seems a little too barbed.

[Judith Anne]

I wish you would reserve just a bit of your indignation for Laura's cheapening of her husband's office.

I don't think she DID "cheapen her husband's office."

I DO, however, think that YOU are coarsening the FR dialogue with your rude and base comments about her. Your comments are far more offensive than ANYTHING Laura Bush said. They were disgusting, abundant, and freely repeated time and again on multiple threads by YOU.

I'm going to remember you for this. And remember what you have said about her. You may, someday, live in a glass house, and while I will not particularly enjoy my revenge on Mrs. Bush's behalf, I will take it, if offered.

[Combat Boot]

Mentioning Chippendale's (how do you know what that is if it is so detestable?) is not a "cheapening of the office". You know, there are others who are shocked at such, they live in the desert and claim that Allah is the one true god and blow themselves up so they can live with 100 virgins.

There's only 2 things that are able to grow in any climate: amoebas and fundamentalists. its difficult to tell which is lower.