[SuziQ]

I do not think the mother in law joke was funny. The media sure has played that up.

If so, it's because they do not understand the relationship that Laura Bush has with her in-laws. Laura loves Poppy and Bar, and they her. The President is always poking fun at his Mom, and Bar LOVES it! That family is very close knit and they all have respect for one another. They have fun with each other, and NONE of it is ever done in an ugly or disrespectful manner. If someone sees it that way, they don't understand the Bush family at all.

[Wallace T.]

P.J. O'Rourke once remarked that there were two types of Irish-American families: teasing and hitting/religious. His observation may also be applicable to New England families of English colonial descent. The Bushes may well be a teasing family, which would explain the lack of offense taken by George W. Bush and his mother.

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it's because they do not understand the relationship that Laura Bush has with her in-laws. Laura loves Poppy and Bar, and they her. The President is always poking fun at his Mom, and Bar LOVES it! That family is very close knit and they all have respect for one another. They have fun with each other, and NONE of it is ever done in an ugly or disrespectful manner. If someone sees it that way, they don't understand the Bush family at all

Very well put it also proves those who are making these comments obviously did not follow last year's election campaign you only have to study a few of the President's speeches to find comments of him poking fun at his mother quite a few times with her in the audience.

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it's because they do not understand the relationship that Laura Bush has with her in-laws. Laura loves Poppy and Bar, and they her. The President is always poking fun at his Mom, and Bar LOVES it! That family is very close knit and they all have respect for one another. They have fun with each other, and NONE of it is ever done in an ugly or disrespectful manner. If someone sees it that way, they don't understand the Bush family at all

Very well put it also proves those who are making these comments obviously did not follow last year's election campaign you only have to study a few of the President's speeches to find comments of him poking fun at his mother quite a few times with her in the audience.