Laura Bush Having Greater Success Than George Shopping Memoir

President Bush's plans to pen a memoir of his time in office may have been curtailed, but he's not going to be able to take comfort in the fact that a down economy has the publishing world bearish on presidential remembrances anymore. Because while he can't even get wingnut welfare imprint Regnery Publishing to take his phone calls, his wife is setting up a deal for her own book that looks like a towering pile of dollar bills:

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."

Literary agent Mort Janklow put things in perspective over at Page Six, saying that, "The wives of presidents generally write books that have a greater public interest. Wives usually write from a personal point of view -- instead of talking about government policy, they talk about when the dog came to the White House and had to be paper-trained." Somehow, I think that the greater fascination in a Laura memoir stems from a desire to draw comparisons between the real story and the flight of imagination penned by Curtis Sittenfeld, whose An American Wife exposes her conscience.

Most industry observers think that President Bush should wait about five years before delivering his memoir, tentatively titled A Staggering Stagger of Staggering Staggering.

Comments

[Takae]

I always feel bad every time I see a photo of her because when I look, she seems such an airhead. I know she isn't because people say she isn't, but she has the face of an airhead. I'm sorry for having such a dreadful thought.

[ellocoliberal]

She married W!! For right wing whack jobs- thats brilliance.

For decent people, its more evidence that for Laura- looking dopey is being dopey.

And she manages to look like an a hole at the same time. To me anyway.

Great future reading for all of us I'm sure: "Then George choked on the pretzel and fell on the floor. Oh dear!"

or "then I taught George how to read, at least a little bit!"

Sheesh, NYT bestseller material I'm sure.

[straddling]

I know!!! Each time I see her, I am reminded of maria, in sound of music..LOL However, yesterday's visit with the Obama's sealed it for me. Her dress was almost an exact replica of the one maria had on when she first met the children. All I could hear in my head was the spunky dark haired girl going "...I'm Perdita, and I think that dress is the ugliest I've ever seen!!"

She has played the perfect airhead first lady...yik­es. We don't know anything about her, but I bet she cringes next to her hubby every night....y­ukky!!! I would buy her book, because after 8 years, its almost like she was never there.

[mairs]

Is she not an airhead then? Whenever she would answer questions, which was rare, she sounded like an airhead. In particular I remember her discussion of the occasional suicide bombing in Baghdad pushing out all the "good news" of what was going on over there, so it wasn't fair. She was particularly dingy that time.

[NewSusan]

Laura is another BushCo victim. She's an intelligent woman suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

[Demi-Crat]

I do agree. She IS suffering and we do not know what or why!!

[kjstjohn]

And she seems to love her chronically-goofy husband. Is there something I can take on ocassions when my husband exhibits that disorder?

[jdw1981]

"Diary of a Mad Housewife".

[truthyguy]

It stands to reason she is having more success shopping the book. At least she knows a sentence is: subject-verb-object and that it should contain at least one coherent thought.

A Geo. Bush book that would sell is "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches" as shown on Letterman.

[Stagehnd1]

She looks like The Joker!!

[DixieMelody]

Will she conveniently leave out this s k e l e t o n in her closet when she "pens" her life story: The one where her recklessness resulted in the f a t a l i t y of a 17-year-old?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp

[ellocoliberal]

Nah, old news. Look forward for future distortions and lies, never look backwards for the truth.

[fussygorilla]

Yak! Laura Bush! She is such a typical "librarian" woman we see in libraries across the nation. Good Heavens, what in the world does she have to say? She has never impressed me as an intelligent, knowledgeable woman except a shadow of her idiotic husband. Her mother-in-law, however, seems like a forceful woman with opinions. i may read HER memoire.

[ellocoliberal]

I'm not sure I want to insult all "li-bare-ians" like that.

[deeppeace]

I hope I live long enough to see a real tell-all from Laura. Probably won't happen, though.

[yappnmutt]

laura is having success because she writes and speaks english. in order to read george's writings one would have to hire an interpreter.

[justadood]

Coverslip design idea: Photo of Laura next to George, and captioned : "I'm with stupid ->"

[GeorgiamomforObama]

She will do better because they can't trust Bush!

[BuyRubles]

what is she on? she seems so happy all the time. I want what she has.

[Demi-Crat]

i think she seems lost and UNHAPPY!!!