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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:24 PM
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Barbara Bush: Things Working Out "Very Well" for Poor Evacuees from NO
Edited on Mon Sep-05-05 07:26 PM by Bluebear
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NEW YORK Accompanying her husband, former President George H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "This is working very well for them."

The former First Lady's remarks were aired this evening on National Public Radio's "Marketplace" program.

She was part of a group in Houston today at the Astrodome that included her husband and former President Bill Clinton, who were chosen by her son, the current president, to head fundraising efforts for the recovery. Sen. Hilary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama were also present.

In a segment at the top of the show on the surge of evacuees to the Texas city, Barbara Bush said: "Almost everyone I’ve talked to says we're going to move to Houston."

Then she added: "What I’m hearing is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

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

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jsamuel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:25 PM
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1. and prisoners at GITMO are better off too, huh?
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:27 PM
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3. TWO kinds of fruit!
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:33 PM
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28. I NEVER get to say it first
:(
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:35 PM
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32. hehehehe
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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:34 PM
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31. Vidclip from Olbermann
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FARAFIELD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:25 PM
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2. i swear bushes mother
doesnt seem to have a clue sometimes
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:28 PM
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4. she lives a bubble also
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:28 PM
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7. "movin on up to a DEELUXE apartment..." She is a PIG nt
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:43 PM
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:46 PM
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:06 PM
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23. I think she knows exactly what she is doing
Like her son, she just doesn't give a crap about these people.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:33 PM
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29. They think Americans for the most part are beneath them.
To be treated with disdain. Great American Family, the bushes. :puke:
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DemocracyInaction Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:28 PM
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5. She must have cleaned it up. I've heard people remark
that it's a step up for these people....apparently that is what one of the nightly news casts was trying to portray. Ahhh, good to see the media back on the job of Bush protecting. After all, there's Bush's agenda yet to push through. So little time. So many people yet to rape and pillage.
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:28 PM
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6. What beautiful mind?
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:29 PM
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8. NONE to be found. Heartless. Soulless. nt
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:29 PM
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:30 PM
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12. With a presidential seal!
The guitar had a seal and everything, ma! Ma?
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Witchy_Dem Donating Member (496 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:30 PM
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10. Marie Antoinette at 80
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:33 PM
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16. hey welcome to DU witch!
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flakey_foont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:43 PM
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18. Welcome to DU. WitchyDem
:hi:
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:30 PM
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11. That picture is worth a thousand words...
So that's from where this shameless mass-murderer of Americans (and Iraqis) came from. :grr:
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flakey_foont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:30 PM
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13. compassionate conservatism
seems to run in that family...............beautiful mind? debatable
cold, dead, unfeeling,heart - definitely!!
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onecent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:31 PM
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14. fuckin' ole coot n/t
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:31 PM
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15. Sums it up. nt
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:42 PM
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17. You KNOW Chimp will really step in it defending her over this one
It's indefensible, but that family is so petty, vengeful and insular, that he'll be compelled to address the heat this generates.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:44 PM
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20. And Poppy will warn people not to criticize her.
It will be "beyond the pale" to say anything about the Queen Mother.
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:06 PM
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22. gawd!...sweetie get a make-over --super-sized major makeover-deluxe!
This is what you look like doing a bottle of Jack everyday folks!

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Talismom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:33 PM
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30. I can remember even back during the Reagan era, she's always looked
more like Poppy's mother than wife! And his well kept mistress was no secret in the DC area, where I lived at the time, either.
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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:07 PM
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24. Has any Other media picked this up
Has any Other media picked this up?
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:25 PM
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26. Keith O. on MSNBC tonight!
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:22 PM
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25. Nominated!
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:32 PM
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27. "Underprivileged"?? Survival is PRIVILEGE now??
Yeah, they caught a BIG BREAK with that hurricane, huh?
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2Design Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:37 PM
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33. fits in with * not liking black people ----- hope black people
hear about this - especially those in the astrodome
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number6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:52 PM
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34. Dark creepy Woman
"Ma Barker" Bush

"mess with the Bush family and your dead"

on Larry King

"don't bother my beautiful mind with dead soldiers
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:13 PM
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35. "Sure, mom and dad and sis died, but I got to see the Astrodome:
oh, this has worked out so well for me." Yeah, I believe that psycho Dubya's psycho mother really thinks that people react that way. That may be because she knows that she and her son would react that way.
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