"Lighten up, Francis"
Just what I was going to say. I can hear it now. "Make jokes about my president. I'll kill ya."
Some people get their panties in a bunch over anything and everything.
Yes. In a NUTSHELL. Lady Laura is a class act through and through. Not that it should matter, but she apparently has never seen the show "Desperate Housewives." Neither have I--just don't have the interest. It's all BESIDE the point and thrust. Her jokes were railleries on her audience. She turned the tables on a group of who would have nitpicked ANYTHING she said. And she turned the tables masterfully and in FULL control of what she said.
I've been at my parents' house the last few days, and my dad thought that Laura delivered a SMACKDOWN to the press corps...in HER way. I do too. Laura loves her husband...and she chose a way to convey that love in a way in which the press corp would have had a VERY hard time NOT laughing. She "goosed them good," IMO. And Dubya's so VERY obvious eye-glimmer, back at his beloved, showed BIGTIME. THAT'S what her joke routine imparted.
My dad was laughing and told me when Laura fist met George's grandmother Dorothy, that Dorothy said to Laura:
"And...so...Laura...what do YOU do?
Laura, without missing a beat, and in true Laura (awesome) fashion, replied:
"I read and I smoke." :-)
And as a sidebar to the supposed DISCUSSION about all of this, I am sick TO DEATH of those who CANNOT make a point of contribution without ATTACKS and GOTCHAS and back and forth NAMECALLING and childishness. And much of it comes from long time FReepers--and in coming back from my parents' and reading these Laura threads--it's embarrassing to see. I am so sick of TALIBAN TALIBAN TALIBAN NAZI NAZI NAZI FRINGE FRINGE FRINGE that I could scream. Dear Lord, the flame-baiting and sophomorics are out of control...and are SO obvious. Half of the FR bandwidth is wasted on silly back and forths by a very few who ride ROUGHSHOD on this board. It's childish and transparent.
/Soapbox