Laura Bush must be taking mood enhancers, as well she should, and the drugs need to keep on coming if we want to hear gems like these:
I remember during the Gulf War when President Bush, my husband’s father, was president, and the very start of it when the body bags went over to Kuwait – and the whole worry of that, the whole gravity of that.
“The choices that a president makes, for instance, are so consequential, there are so many consequences – and so I knew that, even though that doesn’t always help when you are in the midst of it yourself.
“Many people are very, very sincerely antiwar, everyone is antiwar, the president is antiwar, no-one wants war, but no-one wanted what happened on September 11 either.”
“It is very important to talk about abstinence, especially in countries where girls feel they have to comply with the wishes of men,” she said.
And the best for last…:
“One of the first things I liked about him when I met him was his sense of humour,” she said.
“And to be married to someone who can be funny at the dinner table – we had two teenage girls at the dinner table – it was really very nice, he was always able to defuse moments of tension when 13-year-old girls are acting like 13-year-old girls – he’s a really wonderful father to our girls.”