Thursday, September 08, 2005

A Step-Up For Barbara Bush


"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, 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 is working very well for them."

"Almost everyone I've talked to says 'we're going to move to Houston.'"

Mrs. Bush toured the Astrodome complex with her husband, former President George Bush, as part of an administration campaign throughout the Gulf Coast region to counter criticism of the response to the storm.

The person who reminds so many Republicans of their mothers and grandmothers has stepped up to the plate. She also happens to be the wife of a president who voted against the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s during his days in the Congress. And the mother of a president who is a creationist. (See: Dumb And Dumberer: Creationist Bush)

The Barbara Bush remark puts her in the same category as Trent Lott.

These insensitive to the extreme remarks are the surface of a value system that puts people of certain socio-economic backgrounds down. They have real impact. They have ongoing impact. The remark should not really be making news. You mean you did not know these people have those thoughts all the time?

She also approached Bill Clinton with the offer reportedly to adopt him. Clinton sidestepped it: "I wish I could get them to adopt Hillary."

These poor Kennedy imitators have occupied the national stage for too long anways. JFK takes the country to the moon, so Bush wants to take you to Mars! Flattery? I don't think so. This guy has a very poor grasp of things scientific.

Barbara Bush took her son's request for a PR campaign a little too literally, it seems. There is love, and there is l-o-v-e!

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