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Tuesday Sep 6, 2005 7:18 am
Barbara Bush: Oh, those disaster victims are just so lucky
Sometimes, I still get surprised by how out of touch and callous these people are...
Read below....
Barbara Bush: Things Working Out 'Very Well' for Poor Evacuees from New
Orleans
By E&P Staff
Published: September 05, 2005 7:25 PM ET updated 8:00 PM
NEW YORK Accompanying her husband, former President George H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the
poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "This is working very well for them."
The former First Lady's remarks were aired this evening on National Public Radio's "Marketplace" program.
She was part of a group in Houston today at the Astrodome that included her husband and former President Bill Clinton, who were chosen by her son, the current president, to head fundraising efforts for the recovery. Sen. Hilary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama were also present.
In a segment at the top of the show on the surge of evacuees to the Texas city, Barbara Bush said: "Almost everyone I've talked to says we're going to move to Houston."
Then she added: "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."
Read below....
Barbara Bush: Things Working Out 'Very Well' for Poor Evacuees from New
Orleans
By E&P Staff
Published: September 05, 2005 7:25 PM ET updated 8:00 PM
NEW YORK Accompanying her husband, former President George H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the
poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "This is working very well for them."
The former First Lady's remarks were aired this evening on National Public Radio's "Marketplace" program.
She was part of a group in Houston today at the Astrodome that included her husband and former President Bill Clinton, who were chosen by her son, the current president, to head fundraising efforts for the recovery. Sen. Hilary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama were also present.
In a segment at the top of the show on the surge of evacuees to the Texas city, Barbara Bush said: "Almost everyone I've talked to says we're going to move to Houston."
Then she added: "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."
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Looks like Barbara studied up for her interview by watching a GOOD TIMES marathon on Nick at Night.
It’s clear from Babs remarks that “W’s” gene pool is tainted. The ole girl’s elitism matches her husband’s facination with the scanning machine at the grocery store.
Heres hoping there is a PR deluge from this extremely stupid remark.
As someone has observed, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
Relevant anecdote:
My family used to do the dry cleaning for the old man Bush…one day, our drapery guys go to the Walker household, the old man’s mother. They’re sweating their asses off, putting up these big drapes in their big house.
So the old lady offers them some iced tea. They readily accept; but when they follow her into the dining room, she has this embarrassed look on her face and says, “The servant’s quarters are over there.”
True story.
Ride it like a fiord: ”...700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line ? much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the Superdome since last Sunday.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9175611/page/2/
“And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this?this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them.?
Looks like Dubya got his special form of sensitivity and compassion from the mothers’ side.
I was once told that ignorance is bliss, and in so many ways the Bush regime continues to display that very fact. It would have been nice to have her stand in the center of Dome durring the 3rd day of turmoil and deliver that very message to the desperate and destitue…they would have ripped that woman to shreds.
I did not agree with the outburst Kanye West made on national TV after the Katrina disaster. One thing he said was, “George Bush dosen’t care about black people”. Perhaps I was too quick to dismiss the comments West made. Barbara Bush’s ignorant and disgusting comments are evidence that West may in fact be right.
“Looks like Barbara studied up for her interview by watching a GOOD TIMES marathon on Nick at Night.” - rmb
I deficated in the Bush gene pool
At least Barbara Bush could have said “let them eat barbecue.”
it’s not the ignorance that offends me, but the sheer POWER that these ignoramusses
hold…what depresses me is the utter impossibility of these folks ever feeling the slightest embarrasment over their hypocrisy, bigotry, snobbery, or downright criminality…the only shame they know is that it’s a shame we still have to fiddle w/ some “election process” (electronic voting machines, MUCH?)...
It really is a shame that these are the individual we have chosen to lead us not once, not twice, but three times we have had a Bush president. You know they say that the true test of a presidency comes years after they are office, when time and history reflects thier overall impact on the society. For those of you who like myself feel that the Bush’s are quite possibly the worst thing to happen to America, there is small comfort in knowing History will imortalize them as uncaring bible thumping snobs.
Everyone that is fed up with this regiume needs to not make any statements as attacks, just spread the facts. Quote her and let people make up their own minds. ADD nothing. Just like others who say they are Republicans and all they are is self-interested self-center crooks, but don’t say it. Show it. The party is not the problem, it is the people in the party. There are great honable Republicans that are NOT corporate stooges, and there is great Democrats that are not leftist raging enviromentlists. THE LABELS must go. While fun it serves no purpose. FACTS we used WMD and contaminated our soldiers; but this is not the first time we have as a country killed our own. Some times it is stupid lack of forward thinking or wrong thinking,
sometimes it is not knowing the situation that will come (mixed chemistry surprise a new compound). FEEMA has many good people, every agency has the right stiff just below the surface; honest folks, just trying to do their job without getting fired. WE HAVE a crisis of character. We the people need to have our own Battlebook for regiume change. Do not throw the babies out with the bath water, think about where you want to go. WE NEED a mix to and we need to understand how it takes all to make the whole. As long as there is no united consensus the few can control the many.
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