Barbara Bush's Comments

[elizabethann]

Hmmmm....think these comments are true? Do you think they were taken out of context? Thoughts please.

Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism."


On the heels of the president's "What, me worry?" response to the death, destruction and dislocation that followed upon Hurricane Katrina comes the news of his mother's Labor Day visit with hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston.

Commenting on the facilities that have been set up for the evacuees -- cots crammed side-by-side in a huge stadium where the lights never go out and the sound of sobbing children never completely ceases -- former First Lady Barbara Bush concluded that the poor people of New Orleans had lucked out.

"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 is working very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.

On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones, people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children that their pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without bread could eat cake.

At the very least, she was expressing a measure of empathy commensurate with that evidenced by her son during his fly-ins for disaster-zone photo opportunities.

On Friday, when even Republican lawmakers were giving the federal government an "F" for its response to the crisis, President Bush heaped praise on embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown. As thousands of victims of the hurricane continued to plead for food, water, shelter, medical care and a way out of the nightmare to which federal neglect had consigned them, Brown cheerily announced that "people are getting the help they need."

Barbara Bush's son put his arm around the addled FEMA functionary and declared, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

Like mother, like son.

Even when a hurricane hits, the apple does not fall far from the tree.

[lizbud]

I did read her quoted words,

"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 is working very well for them,"

but there was no commentary on what she said. It just went
on with the rest of the article. I'll admit I was shocked a bit. I've
always liked Mrs. Bush.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by lizbud
I did read her quoted words,

"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 is working very well for them,"

but there was no commentary on what she said. It just went
on with the rest of the article. I'll admit I was shocked a bit. I've
always liked Mrs. Bush.

LOLOLOLOL

But, you cut that Klowne West some slack for saying that the troops sent into the disaster area were brought in to "shoot us"......

Simply amazing!

[lizbud]

Not me. I don't even know who that is. Better go back and
find who you're talking about.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by lizbud
Not me. I don't even know who that is. Better go back and
find who you're talking about.

http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...threadid=87676

Please comment on this, please?

I saw this twice over the weekend

The first time to shake my head and the second to make sure that I heard correctly.

His 'speech' is after the Harry Connick Jr./Marsalis Jam.

[lizbud]

Richard,

I want some of what you're smoking. That's Elizabethann.

Not me.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by lizbud
Richard,

I want some of what you're smoking. That's Elizabethann.

Not me.

I can't 'smoke' at work.....


I was making a joke about the pass.....


What do you think about his comments?

I should be home in about 45 minutes...then?

FLAME ON!!!

[elizabethann]

I'm so confused.

[lizbud]

Originally posted by elizabethann
I'm so confused.

Me too. I'll have to sign off soon, I have a pupster that's
not feeling to great. Check back later if I'm able.

[lizbud]

Originally posted by RICHARD
I can't 'smoke' at work.....


I was making a joke about the pass.....


What do you think about his comments?

I should be home in about 45 minutes...then?

FLAME ON!!!

Richard,

Still can't figure out why you were quoteing me in this thread
while refering to another that I didn't read or comment on?

What's the pass?

[RICHARD]

HOKAY..


Since you posted about Baba Bush, I was wondering why didn't post anything on the West comment, Since you didn't see or hear him ....I used EA's post as a reference point.

[lizbud]

Saw this this morning. Funny.


Mother's remark puts silver foot in Bush's mouth
John Kass


September 7, 2005

I was all set to defend President Bush as a guy who really doesn't want poor black people in Louisiana and Mississippi to die of starvation and disease, no matter what the Democrats say.

But then Barbara Bush, the president's mom, went and dusted off the Bush family silver foot Monday. And she used it.

While touring the Houston Astrodome, where thousands of Hurricane Katrina refugees have been huddling, Barbara Bush said they didn't have it so bad because, heck, they were poor to begin with.

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," she was quoted as saying in an interview on National Public Radio.

Thousands of hurricane refugees were sitting on or near their green army cots, perhaps thinking of lunch, presumably waiting to be fed something hearty.

Anything but cake.

"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," Barbara Bush said. And here comes the fastball over the middle of the Democratic plate:

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

At least she didn't ask them to sing and dance. But I'm sure it's working out very well for them. How often does something nice like a hurricane come by and change your life so you can hang out with thousands of others in the Astrodome and have Barbara Bush say it wasn't so bad, because you were poor anyway?

By my calculations, Barb's foot is about a 10 1/2 EE, but by the time you read this on Wednesday, after Leno and Letterman get through with her, she'll have an EEEE at least. There should be some back teeth stuck to the pinky toe when the surgeon general finally pulls it out.

You've got to figure that somewhere, former Texas Democratic Gov. Ann Richards is smiling. It was Richards, or perhaps one of her pointy-headed ghostwriters, who came up with the devastating line about former President George H.W. Bush.

Richards said the former president couldn't be blamed for his misstatements, because he was born with a silver foot in his mouth. Now it turns out Barbara was in charge of the silver. She polished it up good and shiny. And in political terms, she put her foot in her son's mouth and knocked loose a few teeth.

I'm sure Barbara won't be able to fix things up just by bringing a lime Jell-O mold (with floating chunks of pineapple) over to the White House at suppertime.

"Son?"

"What, Ma?"

"I'm sorry what I said about those people. However, I did make Jell-O to cheer you up."

"With the chunks?"

Most of us have moms, but if we're lucky, they never made Jell-O with or without the hideous chunks. But most of us don't have moms who could start a war with China or overturn the Republican's Southern Strategy with a few choice words, like Barbara Bush just did.

Please don't get it into your head that my constant exposure to people in the mainstream media--many of whom are still peeved that Al Gore isn't president--has changed my political views. It hasn't.

But what Barbara Bush said can't be ignored. She's the former first lady, the current first grandmother, and she's no political cream puff.

Even though she's got that soft white hair and those crinkly blue eyes, she also has that deadly string of pearls and probably rattled them at Laura Bush when they first met, and Laura got flustered and blurted out that her two hobbies were reading and smoking.

Who wouldn't get flustered? I'm scared of her, too, and I've only seen her on TV.

Like the president, my mom's a Republican, so I called to warn her about what Barbara Bush said.

"No!" she said. "That can't be true."

I could hear her fingers typing on her laptop, frantically trying to get to The National Review Online, where she could find ammunition to refute such a heinous story created by the liberal mainstream media.

But it is true and she knows it now, and I had to remind her of something that all reporters and editors remind their families, particularly moms: Don't talk to reporters, ever.

It has nothing to do with journalists thinking we're famous or popular or that anyone cares what we say. It does have to do, however, with the ancient fear held by most humans (except for the Jerry Springer set) that anything our moms say may be embarrassing, that the women who brought us into the world can take us out of it with one foolish statement, a la Barbara Bush.

And, besides, we're reporters. We know what we're like.

So, what did I say about reporters?

"Never to talk to them, ever?" said my mom, who was a reporter once, but repeated this to humor me.

Exactly.

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[RICHARD]

So I guess West gets a pass???

[moosmom]

"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 is working very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.

I used to like Babs too. Thought she was very grandmotherly, compassionate and very smart.

Now, after that remark??? DUMBER THAN A BAG OF ROCKS!!! It's a little late for HER gene pool to be filtered. I mean, like Elizabethann said it perfectly...

Even when a hurricane hits, the apple does not fall far from the tree.

As far as the Bush Silver Boot going anywhere??? Bend over Babs!!

[RICHARD]

there have been plenty of people making dumb remarks and It's a gas to see that the dumb remarks are being monitored a lot closer that the racist crap that Jackson, Sharpton and west have spewed over the last week..


Stupid is stupid,
But being a friggin racist, bigot or widening the gap between all of us is o.k.?

Support the troops,
Even when they are accused of going down to "shoot all of us"

The silence is deafening.