Image Credit: Duffy-Marie Arnoult/WireImageThe New York Times managed to get its hands on a copy of Laura Bush’s upcoming memoir, Spoken From the Heart, and has spilled a lot of its newsiest content. I’m guessing a certain bookstore employee somewhere is going to be receiving a midnight visit from the publishing equivalent of Dick Cheney with a baseball bat.
In the book, the Times reports, Bush goes into detail about the fatal car accident she caused as a teenager on a country road in Midland, Tex., in November 1963. The former First Lady had long been silent on the accident, which claimed the life of a high school classmate, Mike Douglas. But here she recounts the events of that night — she ran a red light while rushing with a girlfriend to a drive-in in her father’s Chevy Impala and crashed into Douglas’ car — and the guilt that haunted her for years afterward. “I was praying that the person in the other car was alive. In my mind, I was calling ‘Please, God. Please, God. Please, God,’ over and over and over again,” she writes. She also uses the book to defend her husband against his political detractors, including Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, whose public comments about her husband (“loser” and “liar”) she calls “graceless.”
Mrs. Bush’s book, due in bookstores this Tuesday, precedes the former president’s own memoir, Decision Points, by six months. His book is set to his bookstores on Nov. 19.
In her book Laura Bush makes excuses for the crash. According to the NY Times: “Mrs. Bush concedes that she and her friend were chatting when she ran the stop sign. But she also suggests a host of factors beyond her control played a role — the pitch-black road, an unusually dangerous intersection, the small size of the stop sign, and the car the victim was driving.”
The problem is that all reports at that time said that the night was clear, there was nothing obstructing her view of traffic approaching the intersection, and the stop sign was clearly visible. More likely, Laura and her friend were too busy chatting for Laura to pay attention to her driving. At least she admits they were chatting.
That’s it, Laura, jump right in there with the election year pandering. [rolls eyes]
How is she pandering?
What election year pandering? She and her family are done with politics. You can relax now.
Does the book include the fact that she once sold marijuana?
Why isn’t the press reporting that she and shrub are no longer living together?
Prove your statement or else you are just speaking slander.
How is that hope and change working out for you?
The Dow is over 11,000. Hope and change is working out just fine, thank you.
“The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty” by Kitty Kelley says former classmates of Laura’s said that she was a pot dealer in high school and college.
Well now, THAT sounds like irrefutable evidence …. /eye roll
Call me whatever you like but there is even less proof of the ONE’s birth certificate
Her writing style may be gossipy, but no one has ever been successful in a libel lawsuit against Kitty Kelley. Nor has she had to retract anything she has written.
and Rush Limbaugh has never been successfully sued for anything he ever wrote. Does that mean that everything he has written is true?
The reason why the press isn’t reporting it is because it never happened. Who is shrub?
Shrub = Little Bush. Keep with the program.
I wonder if she spills any beauty tips for Robot Americans. There simply are not enough Robot Americans represented in today’s society. I can see why George goes for those exotic women with caked-on makeup, empty stares, and vacant smiles.
Audrey, you are so right. When I looked at that awful picture of Laura I was thinking, she just doesn’t look human. Empty stare and vacant smile indeed, it must come with the territory when you have no heart, no compassion for anyone not in your class or circle of rich friends.
and Nancy Pelosi looks animated?
Stepford, anyone?
its mostly because of her super light eye brows and dark lips. but i too thought she looked scary in this pic.
I am actually excited about this book—I read American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld last year and it was wonderful. I’ve always respected Laura Bush and will definitely read her memoir.
Finally, a true lady speaks out for herself, her husband and her family. She’s a class act and set an outstanding example for other First Ladies. Perhaps some of you (currents posters I am seeing) could take some lessons from her about what it means to have class and to be a lady.
Did you know that in her book she admits that she did not go to the funeral of the young man that she killed? She also blames the car he was driving for his death, and not the fact that she was not paying attention. Quite the classy lady.
And, what’s wrong with admitting she didn’t go to the funeral?? At least she didn’t lie, like that s-o-b in washington now!
Classey as getting a hummer in the Oval office from a Lard Ass. At least Tiger had some taste…
I’m the maggie who posted the first comment, but I didn’t post the one above with the s-o-b line.
I agree with Mr. G.
Laura showed no respect to the boy she killed or his family. And she’s still making excuses for, and telling lies about, the accident.
Laura Bush is also claiming that she and George were poisoned, even though the medical verdict was that they had a stomach virus.
Stay classy Laura!
Classy lady guilty of involuntary manslaughter/vehicular homicide. If that accident add happened today, she would have been charged. The states had a felon for a first lady.
The reason why she didn’t go to the funeral was because the family of the boy kill asked her not to attend. But I’m sure a “Classy” person like yourself would have attended anyway. As for blaming the car; she did not blame it completely on the car. She said she was talking to a friend (which she admits is her fault), the road was dark, and yes, that the boy’s car was unsafe. Which, considering this took place in about 1963, is most likely true. The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety act wasn’t passed until 1966, and the first seatbelt law wasn’t passed until 1968.
I can spot a fox news drone from a hundred miles away. Laura admits to manslaughter and you praise her, unbelievable. Just like sean vannity scamming the troops at his freedom concerts and you people defend him. I thought your side was about morals and doing whats right. It seems to me that if you like someones politics you’ll let them get away with murder or using the troops for personal gains, which are both facts. What a joke!
It was not manslaughter. Manslaughter is when you intentionally try to harm someone. This was an accident that she feels guilty for and accepts responsibility for.
Definition of manslaughter for your benefit:
The unlawful killing of a human being without malice or premeditation, either express or implied; distinguished from murder, which requires malicious intent.
Braden, you’re only half-write, but I suspect you knowingly left out information rather than just being ill-informed. Not all manslaughter is intentional. Involuntary manslaughter doesn’t have to be premeditated. Recklessness is the key. Should she have known her actions could have resulted in the accidental death? When you knowingly violate a traffic law like running a stop sign, then plenty of people would answer “yes.” Lots of people in this very same situation have been charged with involuntary manslaughter or even vehicular homicide, although that usually requires gross negligence, which doesn’t seem to apply in Bush’s case.
Really… when can tolerance and acceptance be expected from BOTH sides?
Yeah, Lump In The Bed is a real role model.
You know what else is “graceless”? Waterboarding
who did she waterboard???? That is a real scoop
I’m pretty sure Sue was referring to her lying loser of a husband.
Ok, you vicious haters, don’t buy her book. What is wrong with you people spewing bile and hate? She’s a class act.
For a murderer.
Did she leave an intern to asphyxiate in an Oldsmobile? Oh wait, that was Saint Ted Kennedy. I guess they are only murderers when they are your political opponents.
Assuming you know what anyone posting thinks about Ted Kennedy shows you should be fighting yourself.
She’s not a murderer. A murderer is someone who kills another person on purpose. What happened with her was an unfortunate accident. But I guess you wouldn’t know the difference now would you?
The car crash where she committed manslaughter and there were no charges you mean that car accident?
It was an ACCIDENT! How many women have the Kennedy’s killed or had killed? John boy took two with him when he went.
The rich and powerful still manage to walk a way from such incidents no matter what political party they belong to.
At least Ted Kennedy was charged with a crime, and made a plea bargain. He pleaded guilty to Leaving the Scene of an Accident After Causing Injury.
Laura Bush was never charged with anything.
Laura ran a stop sign, so it wasn’t an accident. It was a crash caused by Laura breaking a law, which makes her responsible.
Laura Bush grew up in a middle class family. She was hardly rich and powerful when the accident happened
Laura is nice. She was said to be against the idiot’s war-making so that makes her even better.
I was ten times better off in the Bush years than I am now. This bold face lying S.O.B. is disgracing our country. Get a birth certificate…
I was doing well under Bush, and even better now. Had very little to do with either pres. Your situation is probably the same — more to do with you than anyone else. You just want someone to blame. Boo hoo.
How in the heck has the fact that laura bush commited manslaughter never been made public until she writes a book? The media in this country is pathetic. Now laura is trying to make money on killing someone by selling a book with the details.
An article was written about her life and the accident in Texas Monthly Magazine during the years her husband was in office. We Texans sure new about it.
And one wonders why the pitch of political discourse is now the wail of a siren now. Just look at these responses and to think I once belonged to the democratic party during this time. I wasn’t a Bush supporter in the least, far from but I remember the rude, crass and disrespectful sound bites for the office itself voiced by Pelosi, Reid, et al., and I’m glad to be reminded of it.
November can’t get here soon enough. You know it’s going to happen for you folks and I hope in slow motion so you can savor every molecule of it. Oh and after November? Obama’s ours…….and I’m going to enjoy every minute of it.