Bush doesn't care about blue collar people...smoking gun evidence.

[gulliver]

I thought this should have a thread of its own. Look at this quote by "a Republican close to the President's inner circle" from the recent CNN story on Bush being no big buddy of Tom DeLay's.

Of the former exterminator, a Republican close to the President's inner circle says, "They have always seen him as beneath them, more blue collar. He's seen as a useful servant, not someone you would want to vacation with."

I think we always knew how Bush felt about blue collar people. The main thing Bush's "inner circle" seems to dislike about DeLay is that he is "blue collar." :grr:

Original DU thread by ProSense (plus kudos to mohinoaklawnillinois who caught the quote first)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2358930

Referenced news story on CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/09/texas.tm/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[glitch]

1. He cares about them: he despises them.

He cares that they aren't near him, don't vacation with him, or even look at him when he's on parade.

Oh, he cares.

[Strawman]

2. Barbara Bush's son isn't actually a hillbilly

He just plays one on TV.

[flordehinojos]

7. he is a hillbilly ... all his mommy's money, all his poppy's money, all of

the mommy and poppy polishing schools they sent him off to were not able to teach mommy's son one iota of culture, nor were they able to polish to boy off. he is a hillbilly with money--but ignorant as most hillbillies, who, are, by the way, able to learn when exposed to culture and education. mommy's son is also illmannered more than many hillbillies who again are able to learn when exposed to etiquette and education.

[JohnnyBoots]

9. It always gets me that all these "Salt of the Earth" types voted for a

spoiled rich kid. If they only knew the truth and not the character created by GOP PR firms.

[blm]

11. Hey - they didn't spend all that money buying up media for nothing.

.

[Arkansas Granny]

16. It always gets me that so many of them voted for him because

he is a Christian (or claims to be). I have yet to see him actually display any Christian traits.

[GrumpyGreg]

3. I don't think any of the millionaire politicians,on both sides of the

fence,spend too much time with blue collar people.

[gulliver]

5. That's beside the point. This is smoking gun evidence ...

... that Bush's inner circle actually has contempt for blue collar people. Find a Dem inner circle you can say that about and maybe you would have a point. You won't though. This is cotillion Republicans caught showing contempt for working people.

[sandnsea]

8. What's that blue dog??

Blue dogs are the ones who have been voting against the working class. So's you know.

[GrumpyGreg]

13. I just chose the blue dog because I happen to love dogs--I have

no idea what you are talking about.

[blm]

12. You couldn't be more wrong. That's a MEDIA MYTH put up by GOP pr firms.

..

[ladjf]

4. Slaves are expendable. The dead Sago miners only costs to

the company were the funeral expenses and those might have been covered with workers comp. However, had they lost a couple of those multi-million dollar digging machines,mgt. might have been pissed.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. Sure he cares. He cares that they get in debt and pay high rates. He cares

that they lose their pensions because it cuts into profits. he cares that those using drugs get put into prison. He cares that those too poor to survive enlist in the military to fight people over there, so he won't have to hire them over here.

he cares.

[blm]

10. I missed that before, HOLY S T...imagine if it was Clinton, Gore or Kerry

whose aides said that. The media would be talking about it for weeks, and we'd have dozens of polls with leading questions set up against them.

[MrMonk]

14. Poor Tom Delay

Always the outsider.

If it happened to a nicer man, I might actually feel a skosh of sympathy.

[hadrons]

15. but blue collar people love him and want to have a beer with him ....

the corporate news media told me so