[farmer18th]

Tomkat: Nothing qualified at all about my apology. I was wrong. Whether the First lady admits her mistake or not is immaterial to my apology. The fact is she did make a mistake, and it has inspired a lot of over-heated rhetoric because it was such a gross error in judgement. By the way, you're pathetic in the extreme, like many others at Freeperland. You can't discuss the issue. You insist on demonizing anyone who doesn't agree with you.

Here's the issue here: Should a republican, conservative first lady whose husband was elected by "the values vote" be telling strip-joint jokes and legitimizing trash TV? Can that position seriously be defended? Go ahead and try.

[tomkat]

I'm not 'demonizing' you 'farmer', I just think you're a gutless slug.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Here's the issue here: Should a republican, conservative first lady whose husband was elected by "the values vote" be telling strip-joint jokes and legitimizing trash TV? Can that position seriously be defended? Go ahead and try.

It wasn't just the values vote that elected him. In my case, I voted for Bush, because I trusted him to do his best to defend the country.

Now one of the main reasons the terrorists have targeted us is that they see our society as decadent. One thing that they as decadent is our protection of free speech, including racy humor, under the aegis of the First Amendment.

In that light, Laura Bush's off-color jokes, in a forum intended for adults, were giving a metaphorical finger to the terrorists. She was, indeed, standing up for one of the main reasons that I voted for President Bush.

[DCPatriot]

Here's the issue here: Should a republican, conservative first lady whose husband was elected by "the values vote" be telling strip-joint jokes and legitimizing trash TV? Can that position seriously be defended? Go ahead and try.

Since there has been an avalanche of editorials espousing the Republicans are creating a theocracy and replacing the Constitution with the bible

...for purely political reasons, the routine by Laura was a slap in the face to people like Dowd and Rich.

[Oztrich Boy]

Tomkat: Nothing qualified at all about my apology. I was wrong. Whether the First lady admits her mistake or not is immaterial to my apology.

"There were faults on both sides" is NOT an unqualified apology.