Laura Bush: I Told George Not to Make Gay Marriage an Issue

It seems that sadly we had the wrong Bush as president during the eight dark years of the Bush/Cheney regime. This interesting tidbit from Laura Bush's new book via Towleroad which shows that the Chimperator apparently listened to no one other than Rove and Cheney:

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A passage from Laura Bush's memoir, Spoken from the Heart, out next week: "In 2004 the social question that animated the campaign was gay marriage. Before the election season had unfolded, I had talked to George about not making gay marriage a significant issue. We have, I reminded him, a number of close friends who are gay or whose children are gay. But at that moment I could never have imagined what path this issue would take and where it would lead.”