Photo: Pappy and Bar visit those poor people who are doing so "well."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Barbara Bush: Relocation 'working very well' for poor

Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Posted: 8:05 a.m. EDT (12:05 GMT)




http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/06/katrina.presidents.ap/index.html

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Former Presidents Bush and Clinton got smiles, hugs and requests for autographs when they met with refugees from Hurricane Katrina -- but it was Bush's wife who got attention for some of her comments.

Barbara Bush, who accompanied the former presidents on a tour of the Astrodome complex Monday, said the relocation to Houston is "working very well" for some of the poor people forced out of New Orleans.

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," she said during a radio interview with the American Public Media program "Marketplace." "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

Her comments came as the two former presidents visited with hundreds of the 23,600 hurricane refugees and announced the creation of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund.

[emulatorloo]

1. his nickname is Poppy, not Pappy -- he is annoying w any name. . . . .EOM

[chelsea0011]

2. Oh, nothing like a happy group of homeless poor people

[Arkana]

3. And they would know....how?

Poppy and Bar wouldn't know what it was like to be poor if it came up and bit them on the asses.