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The already popular Laura Bush seems to have pulled off something of a PR coup for herself and W with her performance at the White House Press Corps dinner, where she termed herself a "Desperate housewife whose husband is asleep at 9," and also nailed Barbara Bush and other administration fixtures pretty good. But it's hard to understand how any of it aside from her delivery and timing (which may have been good) should redound to her credit personally. After all, she had a speechwriter, the same guy who humanized the less-warm and fuzzy (no pun intended) Nancy Reagan back in 1982. I.e. the nation's pre-eminent first lady image guy. The whole move does show political savvy on the part of the White House, which clearly has a sense of humor when it's not out destroying the environment, church/state, corporation/state, international borders, and other key boundaries.

Baby crying. See ya.