i.e. the "rhymes with" snark about Geraldine Ferraro. I doubt she had any perspective at all about her occasional flourishes of "personality" would have played if she wasn't a gray-haired WASP patrician. One needn't wonder how Michelle Obama would have been treated had she conducted herself similarly.

I thought she was referring to Leona Helmsley.

I followed that election season even though I was 12 at the time. I must have missed this incident or simply forgot it. At least she apologized. Nowadays most Republicans would refuse to apologize and double down on the insults.

I just thought at the time and still do that it was a very retrograde thing to say, given the historic nature of Ferraro's candidacy. Rather at odds with the "champion of women" narrative that we'll see in the obits.

There is much worse in American public life than Mrs. Bush, but easy comps, as they say.

She shouldn't have it at all. I watched the vice-presidential debate with my grandpa and thought that Bush Sr. was very condescending towards her. I mentioned this to him and he agreed.

It's really fucking sad.

Or maybe a three-dimensional evil character, regardless of the irrelevance of whether they're around here or the petulance of your sadness.

Next chapter, the rehabilitation of King Leopold II... he built public works and instituted child labor laws (in addition to the other "fucking sad" stuff he did that were we to mention it, would paint us as "one-dimensional" by an ironically cyclopean perspective... ).

She took some brave stances considering the party she was apart of. I agreed with her on some things and she could be funny at times. Other times she could be ruthless and I cringed when she made those idiotic remarks in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Overall she was a complex person. Some people are going to be very critical of her even now. That's just their opinion. I have no desire to dance on her grave. I hope she passed peacefully surrounded by her friends and family.

So did Leopold II of Belgium.

...oh wait, that was Leopold...easy to get those two mixed up, am I right?
lol

But I saw the whole thing. Rest in Peace

Melania does what suits her, what serves her interests, no matter how hurtful or immoral or unethical it could be.

I've heard stories of her being rude to people she perceived as enemies, and was even mean to her own children. I generally try not to trample on the graves of the recently deceased, but when I see all the people fawning over her today, all I could think about was the fact that she was generally known to be a not-very-nice person.

2- "Babs, wish you no ill will" - nope. (Double negative = a positive.) Other than those, love the O.P.