July 15, 2004
First Women vs. Ladies
I am delighted to note that Theresa Heinz Kerry has real hair, Elizabeth Edwards has a real body and that they both have real minds of their own, and real life purpose, just like Stockard Channing/ Abbey Bartlet on the West Wing, and, gasp, Hillary Clinton.
Although, I must say that Laura Bush is really getting out there to show her stuff (however undifferentiated). She has raised 5.5 Million dollars for her husband's campaign thus far. According to the press, she has also given up her Betty Crocker hairstyle , if not her Betty Crocker manufactured personage . To quote a review of Ann Gerhart's biography of Laura Bush "The Perfect Wife", "For all her research, Gerhart never answers the central question she posits: how did an independent, liberal (she voted for Eugene McCarthy) career woman who purposely chose to teach in a poor elementary school in Austin morph so successfully into a devoted wife whose life's ambition is to make sure her husband's world runs smoothly, even if it means subverting her own beliefs and desires." My question too. I do not see either literacy or education, her pet projects, improving either in George W., who continues to grip his anti-intellectual stance like a golf club, or American children, who are being more and more left behind by this administration . This, in spite of Laura's best efforts on both their behalves. And then there are the twins
Having a narcissistic character disorder is almost a requirement if a person wants to run for President in these troubled times. . I am beginning to think that the real job of a First Lady is to keep her husband's narcissism in check. Laura has failed us miserably in this regard. I think that Theresa and Elizabeth might be better suited to the task.
Photo note: Putting them all in a row
Posted by Dakota at July 15, 2004 11:00 PM