Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor - Yahoo Story

[justiceischeap]

Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050906/cm_thenation/120080

[MikeNY]

1. Thats also why the President reads books upside down n/t

[goodhue]

2. Yay John Nichols!

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[NYC]

3. Current rating is 3 stars

with 6,171 votes.

[justiceischeap]

5. Rate it up, that's why I posted it. n/t

[charlie]

4. Ack

Why do they always trim off the sentence she uttered before her "working very well for them" crack?

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas."

Babs has a problem with scary destitute negroes calling Houston home. Her words, report it you dumbfucks.

[Jeanette in FL]

6. That pisses me off too

They leave off the first part of her quote which I think is the most racist and telling of her character. "Which is sort of scary"