Well, it seems the US has its own Marie Antoinette.
In true, "Let them eat cake" style, Barbara Bush cheerfully tells the press that the refugees are no worse than before, because they were poor to begin with. And now, of course, everything is looking up.
A sock anyone? Or more rope?
"...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?..."
Courtesy John Kass at the Chicago Tribune
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Tell me that woman didn't say sucha thing? Do you think it's dementia?
I can't believe the Bush family. (I recall how hated George Sr. was in Greece and the son is worse!)
Now the wife makes these insensitive statements? It's time they impeached Junior and got rid of the rest of the family as well. Wake up American! Ask yourself why you elected this B.....d in for another term? Will the world survive? Certainly the folks in New Orleans arent' and they are supposedly his countrymen!
I think it's a case of foot-in-mouth disease.
But what's sad is she really meant it. It wasn't a slip of the tongue. They don't see these folk as people - they see them as poor victims. What's scary is the gap between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' in this world.
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