Barbara Bush comments on survivors spark outrage

[sabra]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/barbara-bush-comments-on-survivors-spark-outrage/2005/09/07/1125772563296.html

Barbara Bush comments on survivors spark outrage

Comments about Hurricane Katrina victims by the mother of President George Bush have fuelled the ire of some Americans, who see the Bush family as out-of-touch patricians.

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They triggered a flood of negative messages on the Huffington Post, a popular left-leaning blog.

"Cold hearted witch," read one of the more polite comments, signed by IowaDem.

"No wonder her son remained on vacation, playing guitar and eating cake instead of seeing that aid and rescue operations were well-managed."

Another writer found the comments hard to believe. "Did she really say that?" wrote 'Stephen.' "My God! What or who have we become?"

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. She's a revolting pool of catsick

ugh. Racist, ugly and evil.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/801334

[glitch]

3. Exactly - out of touch patricians my ASS. I have never met anyone who

thought that the bushes were patrician. Sure, "classless, ignorant sociopaths". But patrician, in their delusions.

[aquart]

30. "Patrician" is how they tried to sell shapeless, graceless Barbara

When she became First Lady.

Those of us who had heard the fishwife call the first woman to run for Veep on a major ticket a "bitch" in the first famous open mike incident, knew damn well it was PR muck. Now we'd say it was putting lipstick on a pig.

The Bush family fancies itself a pureblood dynasty. Fucking Malfoys.

[Skittles]

35. lipstick on a pig is literally what she looks like

cluess fucking hag

[Demeter]

43. Please! The Malfoys Have More Class

they just don't choose to use it.

[calimary]

47. They ARE INDEED the Malfoys.

She's. Just. AWFUL. What a bitch! What an arrogant, petty, shitty, snot-nosed bitch. That would officially and quite factually make bush a son-of-a-bitch, wouldn't it? You wouldn't be exaggerating or running off at the mouth if you called him that. You'd simply be stating fact.

America's Grandma MY ASS. Marie Antoinette meets Lucretia Borgia. Ugly through and through. Inside AND out.

[smirkymonkey]

59. They may be rich and powerful, but they will always be nothing

but white TRASH.

[Jawja]

63. Please don't

insult white trash!

[MODemocrat]

65. The Bushes are all about money but NO class

It's no wonder they have this psycho son who's ruining our great country. :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :evilfrown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

[TaleWgnDg]

18. Why be surprised or shocked with the son, when mother makes such remarks?

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ACTUAL RADIO AUDIO RECORDING

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"Almost everyone I've talked to says, 'We're going to move to Houston.' What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody 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 **chuckle** very well for them."
-- Former First Lady Barbara Bush and mother to our President, while touring the Houston Astrodome Sports Arena with her husband ex-President George Herbert Walker Bush, during an on-air interview on "Marketplace," an American Public Radio Show broadcast nationwide, Monday, September 5, 2005.
http://www.publicradio.org/tools/media/player/start/00:00:01:00.0/end/00:00:04:36.0/marketplace/2005/09/05_mpp.ram (20Kbps) (Marketplace for Monday, September 5, 2005)

see also: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2005/09/05/PM200509051.html

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[grace0418]

39. NO way. I've cleaned up my cat's vomit and I

would sooner eat that than touch that piece of human trash.

[demzilla]

60. Please don't denigrate cat vomit! NT

[WildClarySage]

67. Hey, now, my cats are pukers and I'd rather have their sick in my house

than that fuckheaded bitch anyday. Don't insult catbarf by comparing it to Mama*.

[noahmijo]

2. GOOD!!! PLAY POST THESE COMMENTS EVERYWHERE

These comments should be heard and read ALL OVER THE NATION NOW!!!! SHOW THE REAL FACE OF THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY

[bpilgrim]

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peace

[Erika]

4. They have no clue or connect to the American worker

much less the urban poor.

[me b zola]

13. They have nothing but contempt for all of us

:grr:

[calimary]

49. Face it, honey, all those you mentioned are merely "the help."

ANY of us, outside the bush family inner circle, are dismissed by these snotnoses as "the help." She makes Leona Helmsley look like Mother Teresa. "Taxes? I don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes." Remember that one?

Leona, MOVE OVER. You're no longer the Queen of Mean. You've permanently lost that title. It's OLD bar bush in a TKO. A special place in Hell awaits her, no doubt. In the next room over from Eva Braun and the Bitch of Buchenwald.

[Emillereid]

5. The Marie Antoinette of our time -- Perhaps she should have just said

"Let Them eat cake."

This woman is evil incarnate!

[Hardrada]

22. Actually Marie Antoinette was a lot better

of a person and her child would not have been evil if he had been allowed to grow up.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

45. Cake

[tinfoilinfor2005]

61. bush was very upset...fuming, they say...over this picture.

So of course you should never ever show it again.

[TankLV]

77. Again - it's all about the PICTURE, not the FACT that he DID it!

He's just mad that he got CAUGHT!

I wonder what he'll do on the way to the gallows or gas chamber?!

[MODemocrat]

66. So he's resorted to sucking his thumb now

What an idiot; that's unbelievable!! :dunce: :dunce:
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: All the while, people are drowning, and fighting for their lives.

[marbuc]

6. It is the "quote of the day"

and not only in blogosphere. I received forwarded e-mail from two different sources with this title. I haven't seen much about it in the media, but people are talking about it.

[stanwyck]

7. Ironic, isn't it?

that our total lack of civility in this country, our total lack of empathy is hammered home by a silly old woman who many people like to think is a sweet, aristocratic grandmotherly person.
This woman is a vacuum. This is what happens when you don't ever have to be held accountable for anythiing. No employer. No concern for paying bills. Cleaning ;your house. Raising your kids. There are "people" to do those things.
Barbara Bush thinks she's a wonderful, patriotic American. She thinks she's witty and charming. Just like her son.
But she's actually a self-centered, mean-spirited person who believes she's been endowed by our creator as better than others. She deserves to be rich and "those people" deserve to be poor.
She has a very arrogant, hollow son who, like his mother, always stumbles when he is expected to show empathy. They don't have it. It's just not there.They've lived in a cocoon all their lives.
We need to get rid of these people as leaders. Push them all off to the golf course. Marginilize them. They're not patriots. They're destroying our country. Give them a cocktail and lock them back in their gated communities where they can only hurt each other.

[TaleWgnDg]

8. hear, hear . . . !!!!!!!!!

[sabra]

9. wish I could nominate your post! :-)

[dchill]

14. Yes!

These people are all traitors whose deliberate intention is to destroy the United States of America, a fate which we will deserve if we don't destroy them first. Babs is an evil, narcissistic, racist black hole of good intentions.

[Misunderestimator]

40. That should go in the intro to her bio!

[calimary]

51. I've got a nice gated community for her...

We have a woman's jail here called The Sybil Brand Institute. It's where women go to be incarcerated. Insiders call it "Sybil's House." There's a nice room in there for you, too, Your Majesty. Or are you having people refer to you now as the "Queen Mother"?

[lonestarnot]

68. She's a bedraggle seahag, last of what creatures sneaked from the lagoon

Gready heart, simple minded freak, with no conscience to ever bother the bugeyed bitch. May she simply rot in HELL!

[mark11727]

69. Well, that certainly belongs in Wikipedia...!

Hear, hear!

[undergroundpanther]

70. Put them away

and keep them away..brand a big N on thier forhead for Narcissist.so NOBODY will believe thier bullshit cons or give them any'authority'.

[applegrove]

71. What got me about what she said was that "these people have more

now than ever". Of course she was talking about the aid they will be getting. But she assumes within that statement that they should somehow be happier. That their communities, churches, schools, don't count. That only "stuff" counts. And they are better off because they have more "stuff".

[Skittles]

73. again, as with her son, I can't figure out how people don't see it

it is glaringly obvious to me and always has been

[countmyvote4real]

82. Thank you for that.

And to everyone else in between, I did not read your posts. stanwyck's OP was too compelling. I'd just like to go on the record that BB is a fat piece of shit and it's no wonder that she suckled these tiny men.

Hey, rapture nuts. This could be your whore of Babylon.

[mitchum]

10. Play the music of tumbrils in the morning

[CTyankee]

44. heh, heh, on her way to the guillotine

Berlioz?

[mitchum]

55. And tumbrils were also used for hauling dung...

so the vehicle is particularly apt in this case :)

[Straight Shooter]

11. We need not be concerned about who or what "we" have become.

But the acorn doesn't fall far from the bush family tree.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. She was doing some kind of weird state of texas promotion thing.

Like these people really like it here in the great state of texas! they would have come sooner, except that they couldn't afford to get here!

[donheld]

15. Barbara Bush = mad cow on the loose

I wish like hell this old biddy would shut up permanently.

[rooboy]

16. An evil so vast that Bram Stoker and Stephen King won't touch it. n/t

[Gregorian]

17. MRS. BUSH, YOU ARE NO TERESA HEINZ-KERRY

[Starbucks Anarchist]

34. Damn, I so wish THK was our First Lady.

[calimary]

53. Sigh... tell me about it.

Where would we be now if the Heinz-Kerrys were in the White House? Probably a LOT farther along in the rescue department, and with a LOT more people in better shape, healthier, less in need of serious hospitalization, AND alive.

HEARTLESS people running our government. HEARTLESS.

[IndianaGreen]

19. Barbara Bush has said what all elites believe!

She is just the matriarch of one patrician family, but there are hundreds of families that share the same "let them eat cake" attitudes about the "lower classes," as Brutus said to Pompey in the HBO series "Rome."

[aquart]

31. I'm sorry, but "elite" is the wrong term for such people.

I'm a little stuck for the right one. I'll just go back to fascist.

[sunnystarr]

20. I heard on TV today that she was given the opportunity

to clarify what she said, but the Bush family declined to comment further.

[TroubleMan]

21. So hows the whole losing your entire life and missing family thing going?

Oh...it's working out pretty well for you....sounds great.

And the week of starvation....great! Glad to hear it.

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Words cannot express how much I hate her...they really can't.

[Skittles]

36. add to that "being forced to leave your pets behind"

:(

[calimary]

54. YES! I'm surprised she didn't make note of THAT, too.

That week of starvation - well, a lot of them ARE better off, actually. Did you see how fat some of them were? I think this is working out well for them, too! Happy-happy-joy-joy.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

23. What will we tell the Millies?!

[KAZ]

24. Good people here on DU. I say KTB. n/t

n/t

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[philosophie_en_rose]

27. DEMAND AN APOLOGY!!!!

Sorry, but I'm sick of Liberals being pressed to apologize when disgusting comments have no consequences for Bushes.

She owes the survivors an apology.

[ashling]

41. Damn straight!

We should demand an apology, NOW!

[TankLV]

78. Paging Dick Durbin! Dick Durbin! Please pick up the courtesy phone!

Paging Dick Durbin!

[cliss]

28. Once again, Barbara Bush puts her foot in her mouth.

I really don't believe she meant any harm. In fact, I think this was Barbara's own way of showing her sympathy, her support.

If she were to read this thread, she would become angry, her eyes would well up with tears, and she would retreat into her shell and feel the anger that she most probably feels towards "people" in general.

The Bush's would simply say, "no comment" and sit at home and curse and fume and seethe for weeks at a time. I've read they actually do this, both George and Babs.

I've read that she is proud of being outspoken, but she realizes that she tramples on peoples' feelings all the time.

I'd say she's better off shutting her big mouth.

[NYC]

33. ...seethe for weeks at a time...

Good. Why should she be happy when she is making other people miserable? Seething isn't exactly a conscience, but if it interferes with her sleep, good.

[TankLV]

79. Then I am very sorry for you. You are delusional.

I don't believe any such thing!

There you go - just like the other repukes - having to tell us all uninformed low lifes what these people reallly meant!

But nothanks - we have eyes and ears and a BRAIN - we already heard and saw what she said - we don't need any spin on it.

[nicknameless]

32. Just how bad is she? Read this:

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair08312004.html

The Life and Crimes of George W. Bush

By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Part One: The Ties That Blind

<snip>

His (Dubya's) mother, Barbara, is a bitter and grouchy gorgon, who must have frightened her own offspring as they first focused their filmy eyes onto her stern visage. She is a Pierce, a descendent of Franklin, the famously incompetent president, patron of Nathaniel Hawthorne and avowed racist, who joined in a bizarre cabal to overthrow Abraham Lincoln. (For more on this long neglected episode in American history check out Charles Higham's excellent new book Murdering Mr. Lincoln.)

Understandably, George Sr. spent much of his time far away from Barbara Bush's icy boudoir, indulging in a discreet fling or two while earning his stripes as a master of the empire, leaving juvenile George to cower under the unstinting commands of his cruel mother, who his younger brother Jeb dubbed "the Enforcer." This woman's veins pulse with glacial melt. According to Neil Bush, his mother was devoted to corporal punishment and would "slap around" the Bush children. She was known in the family as "the one who instills fear." She still does...with a global reach.

How wicked is Barbara Bush? Well, she refused to attend her own mother's funeral. And the day after her five-year old daughter Robin died of leukemia Barbara Bush was in a jolly enough mood to spend the afternoon on the golf course. Revealingly, Mrs. Bush kept Robin's terminal illness a secret from young George, a stupid and cruel move which provided one of the early warps to his psyche.

Her loathsome demeanor hasn't lightened much over the years. Refresh your memory with this quote on Good Morning America, dismissing the escalating body count of American soldiers in Iraq. "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many," the Presidential Mother snapped. "It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

<snip>

... A "beautiful" mind? ... Chilling.

[DiverDave]

37. The "Haves and Have mores"

Have a spokes person.

They agree with her, but don't let those thoughts out of their circles.

[saigon68]

38. An evil tool of the devil

She is akin to DOG VOMIT.

[Demeter]

42. How Awful To Be Barbara

To have given birth to the most public clutch of criminals who have no reason to steal: they sure as hell don't need the money. To have spread her congenital nastiness to another generation, like Victoria's hemophilia. To be married to Poppy. To have to live with herself and her extended family of parasitical friends and relations.

I wouldn't be Barb for all the tea in China, nor all the dough in her fist.

[Megahurtz]

46. Cold Ugly Hag! n/t

[silvermachine]

48. Don't tell me...

...could it be that people are waking up?

[superconnected]

50. Great article.

Gee, the press is questioning the prez. YAHHOOOO!

Let it out Babs, let it all out :)

[genieroze]

52. Hear it with your own ears

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/bb.mp3

[Chovexani]

56. I've had it

Stick her evil ass in Azkaban with the rest of the "pureblood" Death Eaters.

[goforit]

57. Time to throw this TEA overboard!!!

[MasonJar]

58. The Bushes are not patrician; they are white trash. Where I

come from "noblesse oblige" is the one necessary ingredient for a patrician.

[Wizard777]

62. Whoa! You're a rich bitch and you've gone too far. 'Cause you know it

don't matter anyway. You can rely on the old man's money. You can rely on the old man's money. But money won't get you too far. Get you too far. Bye and Bye!

[Wizard777]

64. If Leona Helmsly can change diapers for infants with AID's.

I think Barbara Bush can Change her snotty imperialist attitude and haul a couple 50 lb. bags of oats for the people that have paid her so well. Don't let her fool you. She's no granny. She's a long shoreman in drag.

[cyr330]

72. She's a sack of foul, liquid shit

[Conservativesux]

81. A cold hearted rich-bitch. No wonder * had to resort to booze

with a mother like that !!!

[AusTexDem]

74. Cold blooded shape shifting reptilian response to human tragedy

yes, i did go there.

[WinkyDink]

75. You and me

and Mr. Icke.

They CAN'T be human.

[TankLV]

76. Just think of every vile adjective and name that can be thrown at this

hideous creature - and all the vile penalties and punishments that could be metted out to it - that's my response!

[applegrove]

80. She's certainly taking some heat of Georgie Porgie Pundin & Pie

[regnaD kciN]

83. What I think is odd...

...is that, when this story came out a couple of days ago, it didn't seem to stir much outrage. Even some Democrats (not on this site) I mentioned it to brushed it off, even suggesting that what she was saying, although insensitive, was factually true.

Now, two days later, the story is getting airplay, and some of the same Democrats who excused her then are now using terms like "Marie Antoinette," and expressing surprise that anyone could even think that.

:wtf:

As for Babs herself...I'm through with her! (Thank you, Al Franken.)

[LeahD]

84. Wake up, sheeple! Take your heads out of the sand. This is NOT news.

It's just that more people are finally waking up and noticing the Bushies are absolutely detached from the concept: "We the people!"