Laura Bush greeted in Turin by demos

[Judi Lynn]

Laura Bush greeted in Turin by demos

Feb. 11 - Students staged an anti-Bush demonstration in the Winter Olympic city of Turin on Saturday during the official visit of the US First Lady Laura Bush.

Security was tight outside her first port-of-call, the University building, where some students were not backing the demonstration.

"These protests are absurd and completely useless," said one woman. "They should be working rather than protesting about everything."

The demonstration was peaceful and Mrs Bush's motorcade arrived without incident.

Said one protestor: "We are protesting here outside the University because the presence of these individuals in a place that represents critical thought and Turin's culture, are not welcome.
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http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=f4c9e061181472e44005cf539f27de3e89169d08

[journalist3072]

1. Kudos to the protesters!!! eom

[Che_Nuevara]

2. HAHAHAHA

"These protests are absurd and completely useless," said one woman. "They should be working rather than protesting about everything."

Is that the best they can do?

[patdem]

5. EXACTLY...who is this woman? the wife of an industrialist..who thinks

all the non elites should just work and shut up?

[0007]

19. Ken Lay's old secretary.

[tsuki]

3. Great Quote!

[DS1]

4. People are such fucking morons. Hey, Mrs. "Italian Version of

GET A JOB Woman", it's SATURDAY!!!!

[judaspriestess]

17. oh my god!!

^^^^ that's hilarious, thanks for giving me the laugh of today!!

[DemInDistress]

6. thats what laura gets for marrying the most hated man on earth..

go protestors..!!!!

[Debi]

7. Funny, the MSM didn't show any of that...

instead I heard from one reporter that they got to sample some of Pickle's own oatmeal chocolate chip cookies....:puke:

She said the EXACT same thing on two different networks re: cartoon riots, I mean the EXACT SAME WORDS...f'ing Stepford Laura!

[CountAllVotes]

8. and pope Benedict said to Laura the other day ...

"The Pope told Mrs Bush that he hoped her stay in Italy for the start of the winter Olympics would be peaceful."

uh huh, peaceful alright eh Laura?!

:kick:

[Debi]

12. Her controllers just close her eye-shades and she sees nothing but beauty .

[phoebe]

23. now why doesn't this "cookie baking" offend women? It riled up

women when Hillary talked about it (no doubt propagandized by right wingers to do so) and yet L gets away with it.. hmmm

[laststeamtrain]

9. For the lack of a timely typo, the headline could have been:

Laura Bush greeted in Turin by demons...
:evilgrin:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

10. Appropriate, considering the pointy "witches boots" . . .

. . . her crazy daughter had on yesterday.

What planet are these idiot women from, anyway?

[laststeamtrain]

11. "What planet are these idiot women from, anyway?"...Texas...n/t

[oldtime dfl_er]

14. Ugh - okay how much is her little trip costing us?

We know Georgie travels with an entourage of 800 , plus cars, helicopters, and carpenters to secure the windows of any mansion or palace he stays in. What the f**k is Pickles doing there, anyway? I'd much rather have Susan Sarandon representing ME.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/1113605

[Debi]

13. They looked great with Ratzi's red Pradas...n/t

[Thor_MN]

15. onstrations?? I was hoping for olitions....

What possible reason is there for Pickles to be at the Olympics?

[DemonFighterLives]

16. Curling puck?

:shrug:

[Thor_MN]

18. Naw, sofa fabric would freeze to the ice, too much friction.

I suppose they could use her as a crash barrier to guard a ski lift pole..

[yorkiemommie1]

20. Bravo !!!

:applause:

[Alpharetta]

21. Motorcade? They're lucky Laura's not driving

She'd love them to death if she was behind the wheel.

[saltpoint]

22. "Laura Bush greeted in Turin by demons!" Oh. Nevermind. You wrote

'demos' !

Well, either way, it's time that gal got out of the house a little more often.

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Full credit to laststeamtrain on this one. I read the OP's words too quickly.
Apologies to the OP, but not to Laura Bush.

[Dunvegan]

24. I've been watching Reuters drink the kool-aid...

What kind of reporting is this? Shoddy.

"These protests are absurd and completely useless," said one woman. "They should be working rather than protesting about everything."

So, this "one woman" who didn't like the student protests...was she:

A. An Italian
B. An American
C. A member of the Bush entorage
D. A bystander
E. An involved party

This kind of reporting is less than useless...it is problamatic. I can write an article about Bush, then throw into the middle the quote,

"This president is absurd and completely useless," said one woman. "He should be working rather than talking about everything and nothing."

[laugle]

25. Laura Bush has done absolutely nothing as First Lady.

8 years we will have of nothing.

No programs for the sick, elderly, poor!

How can she even have an issue for her legacy when her moron husband does nothing for the people of this country.

My question is; WHAT WILL HER LEGACY BE?

They parade her out to try to shore up her husbands sinking poll numbers. That's all I have seen her do, unless you count the Xmas specials........at least Nancy Reagan had that stupid "just so NO" campaign. Laura doesn't even pretend to do anything.......