Barbara Bush Blunders

[Idaho]

They were underpriverlidged anyway (chuckle) it's work out well for them

What a warm, compassionate, safe, rich and completely out of harm's way lady.

[Devastatin Dave]

Disgusting...

[Strike For The South]

wow just wow

[Ronin]

talk about a freudian slip.....



P.S.- i see that "compassionate conservative" thing runs in the family...

[JAG]

To think she stated what she really felt and states in private - in public. What a shocker.

[yesdachi]

I really like her. She seems like a really good-hearted person but she is old and at least a step outside of reality compared to the evacuated people. Plus she is old. I have the perfect pie-baking grandma who loves everyone but every once in a while she will say something that sounds totally wrong but she meant it in the nicest way. I forgive her because she is old (and bakes pies ).

I try to consider the source and judge accordingly. If it was the head of FEMA or the president it would be a different story but it is the countries grandma and although that doesn’t excuse the remark I consider the source and dismiss the inappropriateness of it.

Is she probably right? Maybe.

Should she have said it? Nope.

[Petrus]

This new makes me think to a French queen, Marie-Antoinette in 1789 that is supposed to have asked, about the crowd that was asking for bread under the windows of her palace “They don’t have bread? Then why don’t they eat cake?”. A few days latter the revolution started and a few years latter she was condemned to death – for completely different reasons- and beheaded.

In those two cases, it seems it can be shortened as ‘Do those people really exist and why do they live like this?’

I find this even worst than if she had expressed contempt.

[t1master]

more race baiting by the media...

it's not news worthy, who cares what an eighty year old plus former first lady thinks, she don't make policy.

[Petrus]

more race baiting by the media...

it's not news worthy, who cares what an eighty year old plus former first lady thinks, she don't make policy.

I agree.

But it still shocks in the heat of the circumstances.

[yesdachi]

more race baiting by the media...

it's not news worthy, who cares what an eighty year old plus former first lady thinks, she don't make policy.

I agree.

And she’s nowhere near a “French Queen” what a ridiculous comparison. Marie-Antoinette was a witch and got what she deserved. Barbra Bush is a sweet old lady who doesn’t use a speechwriter when talking in front of the media. She’s old and has about as much political power as my grandma.

Leave her be media. If you want to pick on someone find me the Governor of Louisiana.

[Aenlic]

Leave her be media. If you want to pick on someone find me the Governor of Louisiana.

If she wants the media to leave her be, then why was she on a much-publicized tour of the Astrodome with her hubby? A media event. A photo-op. Sorry, she doesn't get to parade around in public with an entourage of media and secret service and then get a pass on why she's there in the first place.

[Del Arroyo]

I have to admit that I don't get it. What's the big deal?? What did she say wrong??

Can anyone elaborate, or are people just in inarticulate-tittle-mode?

DA

[yesdachi]

If she wants the media to leave her be, then why was she on a much-publicized tour of the Astrodome with her hubby? A media event. A photo-op. Sorry, she doesn't get to parade around in public with an entourage of media and secret service and then get a pass on why she's there in the first place.

Good point . If you ask to have your picture taken you better make sure you don’t have a big piece of spinach in your teeth, but weren’t her hubby and the Clintons there? They are all more important then she is, in the political game, and none of them are quoted, good or bad. But they (media) pick out something the least important of them say and try and make a big deal of it.

The reason she on the much-publicized tour is to help raise awareness and money for the people she is criticized for talking about (probably also to help Bush Sr. get around ).

[Xiahou]

If she wants the media to leave her be, then why was she on a much-publicized tour of the Astrodome with her hubby? A media event. A photo-op. Sorry, she doesn't get to parade around in public with an entourage of media and secret service and then get a pass on why she's there in the first place.

Gee, maybe it has something to do with the fact that Clinton and her husband have been called upon to raise relief funding. It's tough to do that hiding under your desk. But nevermind, where were we? Oh yes, beating up on an old woman...

I listened to the soundbyte and the "chuckle" that's being made so much of is virtually inaudible and if you pay attention, you hear her make the same sound at various points throughout her entire interview. I don't think it was laughter.

I think Marie-Antoinette is a good comparison myself.

No it isn't. By her statement, if anything, she was overestimating how bad they had it y thinking that the AtroDome is better than their normal living conditions. That's pretty much the direct opposite of "let them eat cake".

[Papewaio]

who cares what an eighty year old plus former first lady thinks, she don't make policy.

Don't Conservatives believe in parents teaching values to their children ? (Actually both sides of the fence do)

So with this perceived attitude of elitism what has this former first lady taught the current president?

What happens if Bush Jr is asking mummy (Prince Charles like) what to do with the New Orleans situation?

[Zharakov]

They could do the Communist / Socialist thing and kill everyone for being dum enough to be un-able to leave...

[Tribesman]

Corrupt,carefree city reaps what it sowed]Corrupt, carefree city reaps what it sowedBy BOB BARR
I do love your sources Gawain
Would this be the same purjuring anti-abortionist abortioner , who complained that there must be a conspiracy against him and that people must have been looking at the FBIs file on him to be able make such claims against him

Maybe he should stick to his crusade against paganism and humanism as the true root of the rise in violence in America

[PanzerJaeger]

That was a good example of taking one misguided idea and building a whole lot of reasonable assumptions onto it to attempt to give it legitimacy.

The elitism in her comments is non-existent. She was simply expressing happyness that the people are doing well in her home state, as is evident after reading and listening to her comments.

[Azi Tohak]

Meh. If you follow anyone around for a day, and record everything they say, there is not one person who will go a full day without saying either:

A. Something just flat dumb.

B. Something that can be taken out of context to eviscerate them.

...Wait... I did just think of a person. A politician who pays more attention to what the polls tell him to say than what his actual ideas are.

Azi

[Aenlic]

Meh. If you follow anyone around for a day, and record everything they say, there is not one person who will go a full day without saying either:

A. Something just flat dumb.

B. Something that can be taken out of context to eviscerate them.

...Wait... I did just think of a person. A politician who pays more attention to what the polls tell him to say than what his actual ideas are.

Azi

Bush? Oh, wait. No, Bush pays more attention to what Karl Rove tells him to say than to the polls; and he doesn't have any actual ideas. If you hold his head up to your ear, then you can hear the sound of the ocean! No, really! So, you must mean someone else. Cheney? Possibly, but he's probably too busy sitting on the toilet waiting for the laxative to take effect so he won't look so constipated all of the time. Nixon looked more relaxed than Cheney does. Maybe Dennis Hastert? No, he doesn't pay attention to polls, either. Now there's a child molestation story just waiting to hit the papers. I mean, look at the guy! I'll bet his middle name is Wayne. Maybe you mean Bill Frist? There's a good candidate! Takes one look at the polls, eyes the 2008 calendar and drops the party line about stem cells! Is he the one?

Surely you don't mean Clinton! (gasp!) Wasn't he president something like 5 years or so ago? Talk about beating a dead horse! That horse doesn't even have flesh. It's just bones. That clacking sound your hear is the rib cage as you smack it.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Surely you don't mean Clinton! (gasp!) Wasn't he president something like 5 years or so ago? Talk about beating a dead horse! That horse doesn't even have flesh. It's just bones. That clacking sound your hear is the rib cage as you smack it.

Well his bitch is running in a few years and he never shuts his mouth so hes still fair game. Theres a lot more than just bones clacking around.

No, Bush pays more attention to what Karl Rove tells him to say than to the polls; and he doesn't have any actual ideas. If you hold his head up to your ear, then you can hear the sound of the ocean!

And you really believe this. No more need be said.

[Aenlic]

I hope Hilary Clinton runs. It would be a perfectly pathetic race then.

What would it be? George Allen vs Hilary Clinton? I'd definitely write in Mickey Mouse as the lesser of three evils then.

At least in 2008 we can be sure of one thing. No more Dubya. He can go back to doing this:

[PanzerJaeger]

^Dont you have a bridge to crawl under Aenlic? Theres no need to harass every passerby that happens to have an opinion.

If you notice, I limited my obnoxious patronizing to a single post. Thats a habit I highly recommend to you..

[Aenlic]

^Dont you have a bridge to crawl under Aenlic? Theres no need to harass every passerby that happens to have an opinion.

If you notice, I limited my obnoxious patronizing to a single post. Thats a habit I highly recommend to you..

Does this mean you don't love me anymore?