Barbara Bush speaks out on life

[Rose Siding]

Yesterday, Mommie Dearest spoke at the National Archives


In Bar's beautiful mind, she still lives at the White House:

On Jenna Bush's bridal shower and friendship: "Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships. At our house now, the White House at this moment, Jenna has 10 girls at the house ... because we're having a shower for her tomorrow."

Damn, cake again?

On the difference between being wife of President George H.W. Bush and mother of President George W. Bush: "It hurts much more if your son's president. My husband ... he's in agony half the time."

No worries - I hear their health care coverage is fabulous.

"You hear people say things that are untrue and unfair. It really hurts. George W. doesn't watch the press. He'll call us ... (and say) 'I hear the TV, turn it off.'"

Bubble? What bubble? No self-respecting cult leader Dubya allows the family any contact with the outside world. Is that so wrong?

On why she focused on literacy programs during her years in the White House: "I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money."

"I just decided if everybody could read write and comprehend, so many our problems ... could be solved. ... Thirty% of our children drop out of high school. ... It's terrible."

Right! No reason literacy should cost the government any money duh. Thank goodness she cleaned up that whole mess.

Now, can you guess which government expenses she absolutely adores? Perhaps the most outrageous remark recorded from this interview:

On former leaders in other countries: "We treat our former presidents much better than other countries...... It's astonishing to me, the British, the day of the election, they're out and they don't have help. They're just gone. ... We're so generous in our country."

Hear it? Though she is undoubtedly blind to myriad societal woes, Bar did just admit that at least she knows the drop-out rate. But what astonishes her? What rattles her to her cold conservative heart? She's astonished by the spectre of her own filthy rich self not receiving "help" from our "generous" country.

What is wrong with her?

[DS1]

1. we need to rent one of those banner planes to fly near their house in ME

towing something extremely offensive towards the dim son, and embarrass the shit out of that scum family

[GCP]

3. I like the way you think!

[stellanoir]

5. It's a no fly zone.

Woof

[libbygurl]

2. What's wrong with her? Everything. Sociopath - the "beautiful mind"+body bags quote is really ...

...telling. Then there's the time she prohibited little W from expressing his grief over his sister's early death.

Screwed up woman, big time. No wonder so many of the Bushes - W is the fruit of her labours as a "mother" - are the way they are - sociopathic, greedy, self-absorbed thugs.

[gratuitous]

4. Oh yeah, literacy is free for the asking

Just don't build more schools, hire more teachers, pay them what they're worth, and upgrade curricula all over the country, because that would cost Bar some of her lovely, lovely money in taxes! Some of it would surely be spent inefficiently, and if the help started to get edumacated, they might start getting lippy. It's such a chore to be Barbara Bush!

No, far better if literacy is achieved by amateur volunteers for free. Well, not even that, really. It's sufficient for her to advocate for a lot of other people that they volunteer their time doing a job that under a fairer tax system we could have done professionally by qualified instructors.

[stellanoir]

6. Mrs. Compassion incarnate.

Go golfing after losing a child.

Not wanting to sully her beautiful mind with body bags.

And saying that Katrina worked out really well for the underprivileged.

Can her mike.

[Fridays Child]

7. Is it any wonder that her firstborn is a pathological narcissist?

[zorahopkins]

8. These People Are Scum

These people are truly the scum of the earth.

In their sick, twisted world, they think people care about this stuff.

Barbara Bush is as bad as George I or George II.

[AndyA]

9. I really just don't care what this horrible woman thinks.

She's raised a gang of crooks for children.

Neil and his Silverado Savings escapade where he snuck out of Colorado in the middle of the night, literally. Oh, and how about that nasty divorce, too. So Christian.

George - WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER. Failure at everything he's done. Alcoholic. Drug addict. Liar. Hypocrite. Bigot. Murderer. Great Christian values there.

Jeb - quite the swindler. He left the state of Florida with some pretty big bills to pay after he left office.

The whole family is truly disgusting. An American disgrace.

So, I don't really care what this woman thinks or says. She has no room to talk.

[emilyg]

10. Amen.