Interesting piece in Slate today, Laura Bush: Why liberals shouldn't like her by Julia Turner (via LISNews)
It talks a lot about our fascination with a fantasy image of Laura (librarian, reader, smarter than her husband, etc.)
But this fascination with Laura's reading habits reveals more about what liberals think of reading than about Laura herself. The figure of the reader is everything liberals think President Bush is not: curious, reflective, intelligent, intrigued by words. When liberals note that Laura is a reader, they mean that she must be a sort of anti-Dubya.
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Posted by Emily at September 1, 2004 05:27 PM | TrackBack