How many feel Sorry for Laura Bush and Why?
537755
Not really, but it's interesting to note that she was a staunch democrat prior to meeting/marrying Bush, and now she  has to publicly "defend" his actions, even though deep down she probably doesn't agree w/him most of the time.\n\nMost recently she said that Republicans should not use another election gimmick like the gay marriage amendment to win votes... Keep dreaming Laura!!!
742297
hmmm feel sorry for a rude inarticulate silver spoon frat boy who has uses our Constitution as toilet paper, gotten us into a war for profit,  pandered to his "have and have mores" corporate cronies, trashed our environment, embarrassed us in front of the entire world community and has demoralized our beloved country with constant spew of fear mongering?\n\num ... i don't think so.  tho perhaps i should follow the strings to the puppet master's hand and direct my angst towards Darth Cheney instead.
523123
Well, she certainly looks much more like a man than a woman but I have to defend our first president from such a horrible comparison. Washington may have had his flaws but he can hardly be compared with our own version of Lucretia Borgia. The truly loathsome barbara "babs" bush is one of the most evil-minded and ill-mannered persons to ever (dis)grace our White House. Beyond being uncivilized, vindictive and personally despicable, she is pure evil. I have always seen through her veneer of being some sort of national mythological motherly figure. I absolutely despise this woman, always have. God, what a family....
1035645
George Bush's performance aside, I believe Laura Bush will delight in being a normal civilian, once again.  Laura Bush has never seemed real comfortable in front of large audiences, and she certainly doesn't enjoy being put on the defensive by hard core journalists looking to catch her off guard. She is simply a normal and intelligent women who is devoted to her family, and looks forward to the day when she can do more of that, on a full time basis.
853622
I feel for you.\nLet's hope that this will be the case for you.  Unfortunately the quagmire that The Bush has got everyone in will not soon go away.
34731
Of course I feel sorry for the Iraqi people.\n   It's like Katrina victims - they were put in this situation without their consent and thanks to poor planning the government was unable to prevent the region from collapsing into anarchy and violence.\n   In Iraq it is even worse because it was an act of the United States, not nature, and the violence will doubtlessly continue in this region for years to come.
356552
There is nothing good about this man Bush. It pains me even to put President and Bush together. I never voted for him and we all know he never won the first time. I knew we were in for a world of hurt if he became president and look where we are. He is a very bad man does not care about the American people all he cares about is oil and the money he can make from this horrible situation. Shame on him!!
624611
Hmmm... nope I don't HATE Bush.\n\nHe's in a no win situation because he created the situation he is in.\n\nI can't think of a single thing in the last six years that he has done that I agree with.\n\nTo make me happy, he could voluntarily resign the Presidency right this minute and apologize to the world for his stupidity.
485998
Mary Cheney is a tool and a hypocrite. I've read other interviews with her in the last week or so and she should be ashamed of herself. She turned her back on her community, the community that fostered her emotionally and gave her a job selling us Coors beer, to get in bed with the enemy. And she lives in this deluded world where it doesn't matter how much Daddy's friends hate her as long as Daddy loves her. That is sick. \n\nShe thinks that marriage equality will just happen by itself over time, but it wont. It is happening because of the liberal activists who are pouring our blood, sweat, and tears into a desperate bid to be equal, fighting against the very hateful Republicans that she is quietly serving. She's a coward as far as I'm concerned. She is in a position to do real good (other politicians have had gay relatives who spoke out such as Candace Gingrich and Chrissy Gerhardt), and she wastes it so she can remain comfortable. \n\nShe wastes her chances, makes excuses for homophobes, ignores the people who actually WORK for gay equality, and seems to think that everyone is ok because she is rich enough to buy a lot of legal rights with her partner.  A lot of us gay folks aren't rich, aren't making millions at AOL and Coors, don't have rich parents, and need to fight to be equal because we can't buy it.  \n\nI call shenanigans and say that Mary Cheney is not deserving of anything but contempt.
778723
Some interesting answers so far. It's obvious that feelings toward Bush are either extremely pro or extremely con. I don't find that surprising considering who he replaced. The country was extreme in its feelings towards Clinton too.\n\nObviously, it will be years before historians can judge him objectively, but I personally believe that Bush will be listed among the very good presidents in history.\n\nWe are going through a very difficult time in our country's history. The consequences of mishandling our enemies are huge. I believe he's handled them fairly well. I also believe that those who disagree underestimate the hatred our enemies have for us. And those who blame that hatred on Bush simply don't know history. The attacks started decades ago.
1052169
YES !\nI hope I don't appear closed-minded or bigoted, but,\n\nBush doesn't care about people, the environment, world peace, or the image and safety of Americans.\nHe only cares about Big Business and Oil.\n\nHe should be impeached.  Cheney, too.\nBring on John Kerry or another Dem.\nJohn would've worked with European nations to get US out of Iraq and Afghanistan.  This would've kept world sympathy with us after 9/11.  Now, most Arab/Muslim countries and many other countries are not sorry for us and consider US the aggressor, which we are.\n\nSometimes I feel like we are like Goliath, and the terrorists are David.  David is fast-moving, ingenious, and accurate.\nGoliath is slow-moving, cruel, and stupid, and vents his anger upon the wrong person.\n\nWe are very vulnerable to an attack on any of our utilities that make us comfortable in our homes:  electric, natural gas, water.\nGasoline - vulnerable.\nImagine that only ONE of these were cut off.\nIt is not difficult to cut off (permanently or temp.) even 2 of these at the same time.  Much suffering and many deaths.\n\nYes, I feel that we are getting deeper and deeper, and not much is being done fast enough.
333551
i feel sorry for her..i think that Tom took her to a Scientology meeting and brainwashed her. Cant make any noise during child birth...who makes that crap up? if I was Katie Id be like "ok"..and Id cup Toms nuts in my hand and he could do my screaming for me..
129629
Hopefully it will serve as a lesson to others that "it ain't over till it's over." \n\nI felt bad for her, I mean she knew she had done something foolish and it cost her, the only good that can come from it is if others don't make the same mistake she did.
70237
Hate him, if it makes you feel any better. Frankly, though, I don't think he'll lose any sleep over it. And you'd be wasting your life doing so.\n\nBetter: focus your energies on making positive changes for the future. Bush won't be in office much longer (although you'd think with the answers some people give on here that he has already managed to establish himself with a lifetime monarchy), and you need to get behind who you want to see in the office of President.
1095105
Yes, I am proud to be an American but ashamed of most of the things that President Bush has done!! This reflects on the man and not the country as a whole. There is no greater country on earth!
1125494
I saw that too and I didn't feel sorry for him one bit . He is the President of this country and represents us all and I felt embarrassed for the USA . I didn't vote for him but some of you out there did . The people of the world see right through him . I think they feel sorry for this great Nation . We deserve better for our money .
688895
Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism." \n\nOn the heels of the president's "What, me worry?" response to the death, destruction and dislocation that followed upon Hurricane Katrina comes the news of his mother's Labor Day visit with hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston. \n\nCommenting on the facilities that have been set up for the evacuees — cots crammed side-by-side in a huge stadium where the lights never go out and the sound of sobbing children never completely ceases — former first lady Barbara Bush concluded that the poor people of New Orleans had lucked out. \n\n"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home. \n\nOn the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones, people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children that their pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without bread could eat cake. \n\nAt the very least, she was expressing a measure of empathy commensurate with that evidenced by her son during his fly-ins for disaster-zone photo opportunities. \n\nOn Friday, when even Republican lawmakers were giving the federal government an "F" for its response to the crisis, President Bush heaped praise on embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown. As thousands of victims of the hurricane continued to plead for food, water, shelter, medical care and a way out of the nightmare to which federal neglect had consigned them, Brown cheerily announced that "people are getting the help they need." \n\nBarbara Bush's son put his arm around the addled FEMA functionary and declared, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." \n\nLike mother, like son. \n\nEven when a hurricane hits, the apple does not fall far from the tree. \n\n\nBy John Nichols\nReprinted with permission from The Nation.