A woman with servants is telling another woman with servants that she didn't do a good enough job keeping house? I'm willing to bet that neither Laura nor Hillary have cleaned their own toilets in a very long time.

Certainly Hillary wasn't (and isn't) perfect, but at least she tried to DO something with her power as First Lady...instead of just keeping a tidy house and playing the perfect hostess. True, Laura Bush cares about education and has done some literacy work. But in my ideal world, the First Lady would be more concerned with fixing the ragged country than fixing the ragged carpet.

Laura Bush learned well from Barbara not to waste her beautiful mind on things like flag-draped coffins & national healthcare.

Poor Hillary. She just didn't get it.

hillary, when she decorated the big house, was still into that gaudy southern bitchy 80's thing, Tacky as hell. she has a bit of class now but that was not the case 12 years ago!

Can't recall where, but I remember reading that Hillary had a private kitchen installed in the White House living area so the family wouldn't be totally dependent upon the official kitchen and to make sure Chelsea had a slightly more normal upbringing.

First First Family to do that...

Who's out of touch?

This article kind of sums up why I never really liked Laura Bush. Yeah, I think I'd like her if I knew her in person--like so many middle-aged Junior League Republican dowagers-in-training here in Mississippi. But she sends such a damned Stepford message. She really is the anti-Hillary--and I don't know why the press fawns over that. It's not a good message to send to little girls, that their highest aspirations should be to live as inoffensive little pure housewives, whose highest aspiration is to dust their husbands' shadows. Crazy and depressing as hell.

Which author was it who compared these kind of women to cheshire cats--where they keep vanishing and vanishing until all that's left is the smile?

Cheers,

TH