Review of "George And Laura: Portrait Of An American Marriage"

No presidency has been as rife with controversy, conspiracy theories, polemical abuse, reactionary media bias and all around disdain from the Left as the Bush presidency.  Recall the 2003/2007 fervor from the lamestream media against W.  Everything from calling him a 'War Criminal' to lambasting all Christians as fundamentalist kooks.  They made every attempt to dethrone W. from his presidency in 2003, and failed.  This type of victory by the right should be analyzed by theoreticians of the political variety, as the 2016 election will undoubtedly receive the exact same level of unbiased media treatment.

Bush, one thing to note, probably took LSD according to the recent book "George and Laura".  As a matter of fact, so did Laura Bush - more than likely.  This is a bold claim, but "George and Laura" seems to hint at the fact that Laura bush went through a phase of wearing bellbottoms and tie-dyed shirts - and W. had a "wide-eyed" period where he almost certainly smoked SOME amount of marijuana and, as I said is indicated in "George and Laura", probably took hallucinogens.  To historical sceptics, it does in fact note that all of his friends and compatriots have been quoted as saying that W. smoked no marijuana or took any hallucinogens, but as presented in "George and Laura" this is merely an indicator that this was a controversy laden issue, more than likely pointing to the fact that W. experimented with LSD in the 70's.

This was one of the most startling aspects of "George and Laura"...  Just how rebellious both of these "squares" were in their early years.  George obviously had his partying days, and Laura has been a social drinker for her entire life up until the present.  However, the way in which their faiths coalesced in a purposive marriage after Laura Bush and George W. Bush met is a definitively awesome example of how two people can come together in a union of teleological prescience.  I mean this by the way in which both of their lives came to a tip when they met, and continued to be a real blessed and graceful movement of teleological purposiveness for years and years, sinning or not.

An interesting aspect of the book that really presented something you wouldn't be able to find in Oliver Stone's treatment of their lives is the role Jenna and Barbara played in George W. Bush's presidency.  Saddled with the same type of lifestyle W. had lived in his former years, they took being the president's children in the post-deconstructionist age with a fair amount of angst and even malice in regards to their role in history.  Jenna AND Barbara were both caught at various points in the presidency drinking lavishly with fake I.D.'s and whooping it up to near promethean fervor, decidedly down and out about having to be in the limelight of the POTUS, with all of the controversy and press that this includes.

But on 9/11 everything changed, and Jenna and Barbara became far closer to their previously somewhat estranged parents.  They started calling eachother every day.  Making visits to the whitehouse where they had previously declined to do so.
Everything changed on 9/11.

However, by far the most fascinating tale told in "George and Laura" is the history of Laura Bush's family.  It's as if Laura was ripped from the pages of a Flannery O'Connor novel and shoved into the light of full prestige.  Her trip from humanitarian elementary school teacher, searching for Mr. Right, into the first lady of the U.S. is remarkable, if only as a tale of differance into being-alongside-others.

Anybody who perhaps has had a drink or drug before will find a great deal to revel over in "George and Laura", where the recounting of W.'s hard-partying days is far more humanized and sentimentalized than in the hit film/hit piece "W".  Rollicking good ole' boy tumultuous revelry and a seemingly softer side to the greatest cowboy in history provides a tale of intrigue and evanescence - a story oft' ignored about Georgie's early years.  From telling off color jokes to fights with George Sr. and including but not limited to about the hardest partying anyone this side of the mississippi can imagine in waking life, the recounting of W.'s early years is a joy for any political insider to drink up and wash with in the morning.

But there remain many key insights into the former first lady and POTUS himself that remain unique to "George and Laura: Portrait of an American Marriage".

1) W. was a class clown in elementary school.

2) Laura actually murdered her highschool sweetheart and got away with it!

3) W. was caught picking his nose on T.V. in the 80's.

4) Laura was originally a a southern Democrat, and never completely strayed from this kind of belief system.

5) W. became successful in school, business, and politics almost entirely due to his charisma and charm, playing mischievous pranks and caining pet names for people, always getting the laugh.

6) Laura took her experience as a teacher to launch literacy programs as first lady; a bright contrast to Ron Paul and ilk's "right to illiteracy" platform.

7) W. made so many off color jokes that it made people around him uncomfortable, an admirable quality in any christian.

8) George W. Bush went to bed almost every night at 9:00 pm, and got up every morning around 4:50 am to read the NY Times, Washington Post, etc. during his presidency.


"George and Laura" is a good buy for anyone looking for something other than the lamestream media bias about the previous POTUS, and I urge all interested parties to click this link and pick up a copy (on sale for next to nothing):
George And Laura: Portrait Of An American Marriage