SHAME ON YOU BARBARA!
I am at a loss to explain the following comments made by former First Lady Barbara Bush during a visit to the Astrodome on Labor Day. I will copy from Yahoo News the exact words they reported she used.
“Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them,” Mrs. Bush told American Public Media’s “Marketplace” program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.
On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones, people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children that their pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without bread could eat cake.
At the very least, she was expressing a measure of empathy commensurate with that evidenced by her son during his fly-ins for disaster-zone photo opportunities.”
Oh, deliver us! Maybe that explains “compasionate conservatism” or perhaps it explains why President Bush was paralyzed, literaly, in his reaction in the school room on 9-11 and again in his slow reaction to the hurricane disaster.