Y'all can put lipstick on a pig, but at the end of the day, it's still a p-i-g pig.
Barbara Bush was making "a personal observation" when she said poor people at a relocation center in Houston were faring better than before Hurricane Katrina struck, President Bush's spokesman said Wednesday.
Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, did not answer directly when asked if the president agreed with his mother's remarks.
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McClellan, at the White House briefing, said: "I think she was making a personal observation on some of the comments that people were making that she was running into. ... But what we're focused on is helping these people who are in need."
As if Preznit Apron Strings were ever to gainsay Mommy. She only said what her son was thinking. After all, it's been pretty much proven I think, that particular behavior is learned. Like Mommy, Like Junior. Rove just won't let Scotty admit it in public, there's enough overt GOoPer racism these days propagated by the 1600 Crew to go around, no need to add fuel to an already smoldering fire.
posted by Jo Fish on 09.07.05 at 09:28 PM
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To think that the idea of this country was to get away from that.
Yep, Goert's head is up his ass. But I got Jo's point that Barbara was saying that being in the relocation center was a nicer environment than their previous homes (But doesn't that also comment (unintentionally) that some people really aren't fairing very well?) and that GW wouldn't dare contradict Momma. Goert, your party claims it's the party of defense and homeland security. Well, most Americans are in agreement that you really SUCK at it!!! Under your watch the American CIVILIAN bodycount climbs higher into the thousands (9/11 + Katrina, at least).
Picking on an 80 year old lady. Shame on you. First we conspired to create 911 and now we know how to make hurricanes although our aim was a little off. Now put your head back where it was. It smells.
posted by: Goert on 09.09.05 at 12:12 AM [permalink]
That's no lady,that's Barbara "I can't say it because I'm a lady but it rhymes with 'witch'" Bush.
It isn't civility just because one hides a vicious message behind a smokescreen of taboos cleverly evaded and innuendoes. Civility is as civility does. The woman called Geraldine Ferraro a bitch and smirked about not using the word to do it; how classy. A perfect preview of the values her kind spawned into the world. She's rich and powerful and mean, that means we don't have to respect her age, which has taught her no wisdom.
The more this crew screws up leaving unprecedented disaster in their wake, the more plausible the belief some of us have had from the beginning that they _did_ plan 9/11 will seem to more and more people. Some of us remembered the character of Bush Sr's smarmy regime and feared the worst--and we got it.
To create a hurricane is impossible, but to create conditions in which hurricanes do more damage is easy. Fail to spend most of the money everyone agrees is needed to upgrade the levees and refuse to organize ordinary response measures; mission accomplished. Wiping out wetlands has a major impact too.
And Goert, can you remember your ABCs? Have you noticed, tropical storms are named in alphabetical sequence? The last really big storm was _Andrews_, starts with an A, around this time of year in 1992. Katrina starts with a K. The season is not over either; at this rate in a few years we'll need the Dr Seuss book _On Beyond Zebra!_ to name the storms toward the end of the season. Global warming and massive climate change are facts, and in denying these facts and obstructing every measure to try and contain the damage or at least acknowledge it and organize responses to it, both Bush Presidents and the Republican Congress have in a very real sense created hurricanes. Not particular ones, but they have guaranteed there will be more of them, and they will be more intense.
This year we are already nearly through half the alphabet. Can you spell?
posted by: Mark Foxwell on 09.09.05 at 08:52 AM [permalink]
Goert, the PDB should have clued 'clueless' to at least beef up security at airports before 9/11, show SOME DAMN INTEREST. We knew the hurricane was going to be bad (it was announced at least 36 hours before on TV and I saw it here in Colorado). Again, 'clueless' showed DAMN LITTLE INTEREST. This was a national disaster (it affected several states) and anyway, 'clueless' seems to take an interest in hurricanes when votes are involved (read that as last fall's hurricane season). I don't blame Bush for the hurricane, but a good rule of thumb is to ask "Who would take the credit if things go right?" is the one who gets the blame when things go wrong. I assume by your logic that if the same scenario happened under Clinton you would not fault him. (Yea, right!!)
