What do they have in here anyway?
"In book, Laura Bush tells of guilt over teen crash
Did she admit she was drunk?
NEW YORK — Laura Bush has finally opened up publicly about the mysterious car accident she had when she was 17, a crash that killed a high school friend on a dark country road in Midland, Texas.
In her new book, “Spoken From the Heart,’’ Bush describes in vivid detail the circumstances surrounding the crash, which has haunted her for most of her adult life and became the subject of questions and speculation when it was revealed during her husband’s first presidential run. A copy of the book, scheduled for release in early May, was obtained by The New York Times at a bookstore.
On several occasions in the book, Bush admonishes her husband’s political adversaries for “calling him names,’’ and she pointedly rebuts criticism of some of his key decisions.
Bush also suggests, apparently for the first time, that she, George W. Bush, and several members of their staff might have been poisoned during a visit to Germany for a G8 Summit. They all became mysteriously sick, and the president was bedridden for part of the trip. The Secret Service investigated the possibility they were poisoned, she writes, but doctors could only conclude that they all had contracted a virus. After noting several high-profile poisonings, she wrote, “we never learned if any other delegations became ill, or if ours, mysteriously, was the only one.’’
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But it is her description of the deadly crash, and its subsequent impact on her life and her faith, that is the subject Bush had most shied away from speaking about in her public life. On a November night in 1963, Bush and a girlfriend were hurrying to a drive-in theater when Bush, at the wheel of her father’s Chevy Impala, ran a stop sign on a small road and smashed into a car being driven by Mike Douglas, a star athlete....
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.
Bush reveals that she was wracked by guilt for years after the crash, especially after not attending the funeral and for not reaching out to the parents of the dead teenager.
“It was the first time that I had prayed to God for something, begged him for something, not the simple childhood wishing on a star but humbly begging for another human life. And it was as if no one heard. My begging, to my seventeen-year-old mind, had made no difference. The only answer was the sound of Mrs. Douglas’s sobs on the other side of that thin emergency room curtain.’’And then she boozed it up with George for years.
Smokes, too.
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What else you got?
"’04 Kerry remark on Cheney’s daughter still resonates
WASHINGTON — John F. Kerry’s unsolicited mention during a presidential debate that the daughter of then-vice president Dick Cheney was gay still rankles George W. Bush’s closest confidants, according to books that offer an unusually intimate view of the 2004 campaign from within the former president’s circle....
That's enough of that one.
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One more try.
"Woodward writing book on Obama administration
NEW YORK — A Bob Woodward book on the Obama administration is coming in September. Simon & Schuster spokeswoman Victoria Meyer confirmed the Woodward release, but declined to comment further. The book does not yet have a title. Woodward, known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal with Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein, wrote four best-sellers about the Bush administration.
Another piece of crap.
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I'm feeling sick, folks, and I don't think it is from the sea.
