Most Emailed Yahoo Story: "Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor "

[leftchick]

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


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"Everyone 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 very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.

On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones, people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children that their pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without bread could eat cake.

At the very least, she was expressing a measure of empathy commensurate with that evidenced by her son during his fly-ins for disaster-zone photo opportunities.


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Like mother, like son.

Even when a hurricane hits, the apple does not fall far from the tree.

[soleft]

1. Visual Aid

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3973453

[leftchick]

4. at least Marie Antoinette resembled a human being

ma barker looks like an alien.

[SmokingJacket]

2. You missed the bit where she called them "scary" nt

[leftchick]

3. They left her full quote that included scary out!

:shrug:

[izzie]

5. Way back she had a child that died and she said some thing ----

that made me see how clueless she was. Course they flew this child to NYC hospital and had the best care in the world but it was how she said other could put up with pain as she knew it or some such thing. She did raise a lot of money for a Barbara Bush Children's wing of the Portland Maine hospital. Maybe that is where I got the feeling she was so clueless in story about that. Many people in Maine think a lot of her for that Wing. I think she thinks she is very democratic(small D) and that is what makes her so clueless. I really do not think these people know what they say. It goes right over their head. :shrug: