Posted on 05/02/2005 8:23:14 AM PDT by areafiftyone
If that were the case I would be a public eunuch after some of the zingers AMM has gotten in on me over the last 29 years.
Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
You do know the difference between a hairball and a Leno one-liner, don't you?
Psst. If you do, please clue me in.
Shalom.
This was a COMEDY ROUTINE written by their speech writers. Mrs. Bush didn't take it upon herself to interrupt the President's speech. The POTUS was in on the act. Therefore, Laura was in on the act and "in submission" to he husband. Seems everybody recognized this except the Trad. Val. group. Sheesh. (and I'm a conservative Christian, too)
Never heard of the source but after reading this, http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/03/news_that_the_r.html, I won't be going back and will ignore any more info based on them. They are the kind of misguided "so-called" Christians that give God a bad name.
Guess what? Christians have a sense of humor...who'd a thunk it? The neo-puritans need to get a life.
ohfercryinoutloud...
Some fringe group gets whacked out about this dinner every year. Remember the grief the President got over his remarks about looking for WMDs.
Some folks are just looking for a reason to be critical. Any reason.
Amazing that it was Nancy Reagan's performance at this dinner that softened her image for the press.
Now if the liberals are offended?! The hypocrisy is too much.
The DLM will get another one of their many fake orgasms over this most insignificant story.
Well, being male AND a Christian, I was neither offended nor upset over the remarks. Men who are sure of their manliness are not afraid to laugh occasionally at their own shortcomings.
I agree there is too much male-bashing going on. Go read Dobson's "Bringing Up Boys" and you will see just how bad it is. (better yet, buy the video series and have a group viewing with discussions with parents of boys - our church did and it was a HUGE success!)
With that said, however, Mrs. Bush was at a traditionally lighthearted dinner where jokes abound. She was obviously having a little fun with her husband, who she praised at the end of her speech. We have all seen her other side, where she has stood by her man and supported her from the inside. A lot of folks have criticized her for doing just that. Now she is criticized for poking a little fun at him? He laughs at himself over his mispronunciations and slip-ups. If he can laugh at himself, why can't she laugh at him sometimes as well? My wife pokes fun at my shortcomings, but I never see it as "male-bashing".
He obviously wasn't upset at it, so I see no reason that I should be either. Frankly, I saw it more as a slap in the face of the President, VP & Rumsfeld's detractors than the men themselves.
Bottom line, they were jokes and the people they were directed at loved them. So did I.
Knowing that it would NEVER have happened! -----sheeesh people!
I have to admit that amongst my giggles and belly laughs, my hackles went up for a second when Laura was poking fun of our dear President. But, what a great sport he was to take it all so well, and LAUGH...something these people CLEARLY are unable to do!
This may be a good time to remind them that there are tens of millions like me who will oppose their dogmatic approach to governing society as violently as I would the Taliban's.
Let's not get delusional here...
Good points!
The witch hunt has begun on FR and the other "conservative forums" on the net. It was a roasting of her husband and family....people can't seem to grasp this concept. People also can't seem to get over this entire b.s. picture that all conservatives must act like we are Amish.
Oh and I read on FR yesterday someone saying that Jackie O' would never have done something like this. You are right! She just looked the other way while her husband banged dozens of Hollywood broads and made her look like a total idiot in doing so.
Come on, Bush makes himself out to be the butt of his jokes.
"Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
LOL! Great quote.
I was very surprised that Laura did the horse joke.
Very funny, but still inappropriate.
I just wish someone would address the problems with this story that I raised above.
With that said, I think the media is going overboard reporting this. I think the only reason they are doing so is because it was at the President's expense. I bet if the First Lady or the President stood up there and threw one line zingers at Kerry, Kennedy, Leahey, Biden, et al., they would have come out today and lambasted the two for not being funny but mean-spirited.
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