“No one suffers more than their President and I do”? Are you that vain and self centered, Laura? Have you been dipping into the pills again? Do you have ANY idea how it feels to lose a child? A spouse? A parent? A limb? To watch death and destruction every single day? Up close?
Do you live with PTSD? Do you get whatever medical care you need whenever you need it? Do you have flashbacks of narrowly dodging bullets or IEDs? Have you seen a friend killed right in front of you (oops, scratch that – you caused that one yourself)? Do you have recurring nightmares of bloodshed and bombs falling all around you nonstop?
Have you lost all of your possessions and watched your community fall apart due to a hurricane that everyone else in the world saw coming? Do you have to work two to three minimum wage jobs, just to barely pay the bills? Have you had to choose between purchasing medication for you or food for your children?
Have your children been sent on multiple tours to fight a war that was based on lies? Do you have to wait months just to see a doctor? Do you have to postpone or not get a surgery that you would need to save your life because your insurance doesn’t cover it? Has a family member lost their job because someone blew their covert status as an undercover agent working for the United States?
Have you had to take a job that paid half as much with no benefits because your old job was moved overseas? Have you lost your medical coverage because you could no longer afford it? Do you have to live in fear that every day could be the day that you are killed by an enemy in a country that you have no business being in to begin with?
Have you had to bury a child whose life was needlessly cut short? Did you ever receive a phone call from a loved one to let you know that they are stuck in a burning building with no way out? And then hear that they had to jump 85 stories to their death because it would cause them LESS suffering? Have you found out that the US Government has lied about the circumstances about a family member’s death for propaganda purposes?
Have you had to declare bankruptcy due to mounting medical bills, only to drown under the crushing debt? Have you ever had to beg for food because you were homeless? Have you had to hold your dying friend’s hand after his or her body armor failed to stop a sniper’s bullet?
Have you had a family member be rounded up off the street, flown to another country to be tortured, only to be released without charges? Have you been held indefinitely as an “enemy combatant” even though there is no reasonable cause or any charge filed against you?
Suffer? SUFFER????? You can’t even begin to fathom the immense level of suffering that your husband and his administration have caused. To this country. To the Iraqis. To our troops. To future generations.
You should be ashamed. You should be disgusted. You are a disgrace.
also in orange
Oh my God, thank you for writing this. I had no IDEA that this horrible woman actually uttered these words. I didn’t have the stomach to watch her performance this morning, and it’s a damned good thing I didn’t. I would have been physically ill upon hearing those words.
She and that horrible husband of hers and the rest of that God-awful, entitled excuse for a family don’t have a CLUE as to what it is to suffer. And for all their riches, they don’t have enough to buy one either.
I’m sure there are millions of people who could show them what “suffering” truly looks like, but they don’t touch the hoi polloi unless it’s a scripted event where all the actors know their place.
Goddamn them all.
Jesus…I can’t believe she said that.
I can…selfish, shallow, clueless, vapid witch that she is.
Now, now…
She’s not a witch, she’s a good Methodist.
Well, a Methodist, anyways.
to steal from Monty Python – you know what we do with witches….
Yes, you’re right, Laura’s quite a disgrace, disgusting, like her mother-in-law who let the Katrina victims in a hall in Houston known that they had really lucked out because before the hurricane had devested their lives they had next to nothing anyway. It is understandable that Little Georgie would find a wife like Laura: the rich and powerful always suffer the most. It’s a kind of noblesse oblige, you know, romantically ante-bellum, like Gone with the Wind or the sufferings of the big-landholding aristocracy of Russia before the Russian revolution, oh may Boris rest in peace forever after squandering the family silver: how much would he have stuck in his pocket, I wonder?
Yes, Laura having to pretend that you give a damm about those commoners. is suffering when you represent the haves and haves-more portion of the population.
Ah, who has suffered more than our Mrs. Bush? Nobody!
exactly. While it explains a lot, it explains a lot in more ways than one.
So unlike the queen of England who said upon the bombing of the palace during WWII, “Well, now we can look the Eastenders in the face.”
These people need a little re-distributive justice.
In fairness, clammyc, George Bush did just get a Purple Heart this week for extraordinary heroism in the face of criticism from a multitude of commentators regarding his job performance. So maybe that’s just like dying in combat or losing a testicle and a leg from an IED. I mean, be fair, for heaven’s sake.
You are too funny.
Poor Laura.
Poor, poor, Laura.
It is not surprising. There is no way someone with human empathy could be married to W. She probably has to delude herself or she’d blow her brains out.
too bad no REAL human will ever come close enough to the Bushies to really affect them – oh wait – didn’t they at least wince when they finally figured out that Colbert wasn’t really ON THEIR SIDE? Or maybe when they had to sit there during Coretta Scott King’s memorial and hear some blunt truths? Oh well, 2 moments out of how many years now?
Maybe she is suffering from PTSD from having killed her ex-boyfriend when she was in high school.
“Poor Laura” is right. She’s got that silver foot stuck in her mouth.
Don’t forget the women who will suffer carrying a dead or deformed child to term now that her hubby’s hand-picked Neanderthal SCOTUS judges have outlawed late term abortions. AAARRRGGGGGGGG…………..
“blow out your daydream candles, Laura”
before we call the fucking fire department to hose them down.
Thanks for this diary. As I was reading it, all I could think about was this song:
Maybe we can get Pink to do an updated version for Laura.