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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Books Bush Beating Bush

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM

Apparently, Laura Bush is having more success shopping her memoir around to prospective publishers than her husband, the dumbfuck president.

LAURA Bush is lining up a multimillion-dollar deal to write her memoirs - but the first lady's lame-duck hubby may have to wait years before cashing in on a tell-all about his two troubled terms as president.

"Laura is interviewing publishers who are bidding on her memoirs," one biographer told Page Six. "The publishers are coming to the White House to meet with her and discuss the book."

This is kind of weird, because the great Laura Bush memoir has already been written, as a novel, by Curtis Sittenfeld. It's called American Wife and I reviewed it here. It's obviously going to be more honest than anything the lame duck first lady is ever going to produce:

At first glance, Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife appears to be...a thoughtless, election-year cash grab. (But i)t's a novel about how a thinly veiled analogue for Laura Bush, who by all accounts isn't overly religious or conservative or for the Iraq war, can manage to love a man idolized by only the most right-wing and evangelical wingnuts in the land. The icky truth of it is that, like everyone in a relatively healthy lifelong partnership, she's wildly sexually attracted to him.

If you're at all interested in reading about Laura Bush, the Sittenfeld novel is clearly the way to go.

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Dude, we lost (republicans). We're going. Good bye. You should focus on your guy now.

Posted by John Bailo on November 11, 2008 at 11:06 AM

Took me a moment to figure out why you had the Joker pic with this post. Then I got it. Creepy.

Posted by Dave on November 11, 2008 at 11:12 AM

"The icky truth of it is that, like everyone in a relatively healthy lifelong partnership, she’s wildly sexually attracted to him." That's a magic sentence in the book of monogamy. Good for Dubbles.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale on November 11, 2008 at 11:21 AM

I've been saying for years that she was too smart to stay with him unless he was so good in bed (or so hung) that she couldn't imagine life without him.

Posted by Calpete on November 11, 2008 at 2:22 PM