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| Subject: Barbara Bush On Obama's Reelection: 'People Spoke. Move On, Get On With It' Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:12 pm | |
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- AUSTIN, Texas, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Former U.S. first lady Barbara Bush said on Thursday that she's ready to move beyond this year's campaign season, in comments that came at an Austin conference the week after President Barack Obama's re-election.
"I'm tired now of the elections," Bush, who had endorsed Republican Mitt Romney, said at a forum on America's first ladies. "People spoke. Move on, get on with it. I want to do other things and not to be ugly."
Bush, sporting a double strand of her signature pearls, joined former first lady Laura Bush on a panel for the Enduring Legacies of America's First Ladies conference at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library.
The first ladies avoided offering political opinions, but Barbara Bush did issue a stern warning to both Republicans and Democrats.
"They are going to have to compromise," said Barbara Bush, the wife of former President George H.W. Bush. "It's not a dirty word."
Both first ladies reminisced about spectacular Christmases at the White House and cited family time spent at Camp David as the setting of some of their favorite memories.
When asked what was the biggest misconception about her husband, former President George W. Bush, during his time in office, Laura Bush said, "That he was a heedless cowboy character."
Moderator Mark Updegrove, director of the LBJ library, asked the women if one ever can be prepared to be the first lady and without hesitation, both answered yes.
"If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it," said Barbara Bush.
"Or if your mother-in-law was the first lady and you watched her," Laura Bush said. "I feel I really had a huge advantage."
Earlier in the day, during a panel featuring presidential children, Jenna Bush Hager, one of Laura and George W. Bush's twin daughters, revealed that her grandmother Barbara Bush's family nickname is "The Enforcer." Hager also divulged the tidbit that her mother, a fan of reggae superstar Bob Marley, is a "secret Rastafarian." (LOL, where's NY?)
Hager joined sister Barbara Pierce Bush as well as Steve Ford, a son of Betty and President Gerald Ford, and Lynda Johnson Robb, a daughter of Lady Bird and President Lyndon Johnson.
Steve Ford recalled that because his father became president not after an election but because President Richard Nixon had resigned, it was several days before the Fords moved into the White House.
He remembered his mother being in the kitchen, saying, "Jerry, something's wrong here. You just became president of the United States and I'm still cooking." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/former-first-lady-barbara_n_2141769.html | |
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| Subject: Re: Barbara Bush On Obama's Reelection: 'People Spoke. Move On, Get On With It' Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:24 pm | |
| The liberals quoting Barbara Bush? lol | |
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| Subject: Re: Barbara Bush On Obama's Reelection: 'People Spoke. Move On, Get On With It' Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:18 pm | |
| The conservatives making no sense. | |
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| Subject: Re: Barbara Bush On Obama's Reelection: 'People Spoke. Move On, Get On With It' Sat Nov 17, 2012 1:49 pm | |
| Mrs Bush is right! However what I got a real kick out of was Betty Ford's comment. Leave it to the most human and honest of presidents wives to get right down to earth! I always liked her. | |
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| Subject: Re: Barbara Bush On Obama's Reelection: 'People Spoke. Move On, Get On With It' Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:23 pm | |
| she wants to get on with other things... like talking about christmasses at the white house? how about talk about fundraising for charity???
after spending almost TWO BILLION dollars on the election, with each senator spending between 1-4 MILLION... we could have taken all that money and put it to the deficit! Its crazy... | |
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| Subject: Re: Barbara Bush On Obama's Reelection: 'People Spoke. Move On, Get On With It' Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:18 pm | |
| - wants2laugh wrote:
- she wants to get on with other things... like talking about christmasses at the white house? how about talk about fundraising for charity???
after spending almost TWO BILLION dollars on the election, with each senator spending between 1-4 MILLION... we could have taken all that money and put it to the deficit! Its crazy... Some campaigns were a lot more expensive that. For a job that pays $174,000. | |
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| Subject: Re: Barbara Bush On Obama's Reelection: 'People Spoke. Move On, Get On With It' Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:52 pm | |
| Ah but you are forgetting the perks they get from the Lobbyists and those are quite valuable. | |
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| Subject: Re: Barbara Bush On Obama's Reelection: 'People Spoke. Move On, Get On With It' Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:34 pm | |
| I agree that it's time to move on...
But then again, folks are still trying to figure out how Bush won 2004 so maybe it'll never die. | |
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| Subject: Re: Barbara Bush On Obama's Reelection: 'People Spoke. Move On, Get On With It' Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:07 pm | |
| - Suzi wrote:
- Ah but you are forgetting the perks they get from the Lobbyists and those are quite valuable.
Oh, I know it's not really the salary. It's the power. It's still an auction, not an election. | |
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