Posted on 09/07/2005 2:18:47 PM PDT by Crackingham
Comments about Hurricane Katrina victims by the mother of President George Bush have fuelled the ire of some Americans, who see the Bush family as out-of-touch patricians. The refugees in Houston, Texas, were "underprivileged anyway" and life in the Astrodome sports arena is "working very well for them", former first lady Barbara Bush said in a radio interview.
"Almost everyone I've talked to says: 'We're going to move to Houston,' " Mrs Bush said late on Monday after visiting evacuees at the Astrodome with her husband, former president George 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," she said.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this - this is working very well for them."
Her comments were aired on Marketplace, an American Public Radio show broadcast nationwide. They triggered a flood of negative messages on the Huffington Post, a popular left-leaning blog.
"Cold hearted witch," read one of the more polite comments, signed by IowaDem.
"No wonder her son remained on vacation, playing guitar and eating cake instead of seeing that aid and rescue operations were well-managed."
Another writer found the comments hard to believe. "Did she really say that?" wrote 'Stephen.' "My God! What or who have we become?"
Meanwhile, "Katrinagate" fury has spread to US media.
"For God's sake, are you blind?" a woman shouted at Michael Brown, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). "You're patting each other on the back, while people here are dying."
Or Tereeeza's: 'let them go naked!'
Can you imagine dealing with her and SKerry right now? I should watch out, I just ate.
Everything outrages somebody these day.
If they're so outraged they can tell Texas to take their hospitality and shove it.
Mom again knows best.
Why is it so hard for dumb liberals to accept the truth?
Could it be that the truth is really that...The truth and for liberals the truth could make them totally irrelevant.
Celine gave one million dollars to the Red Cross.
must have been talking about bill c. but it's a banjo not a guitar.
Pick pick pick pick pick....... This one is REALLY lame, but I suppose it reveals just how desperate they are.
LOL!
I wonder what it must be like to be so wrapped up in hate? These are not happy people!
Galatians 5:22-23 ~ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
They have no joy because the Holy Spirit does not dwell in them.
GOod grief! Those folks bitching about Barbara Bush need to get a big da*n grip!! Have THEY been to the Astrodome to speak to these evacuees? She has and knows what they've told her. In many cases, these folks may likely be better off than they were in NO!
LOL! Aren't there a flood of negative messages every hour on that site?
does anyone know what she said exactly? Is there a link anywhere??
Seems to me they have thrown the word "anyway" in there to make Mrs. Bush look bad...
Good loving Christians will take these folks in, help them find work, get off the dole, and maybe even clean up their lives if they have addictions.
They will do more for them than any goverment social dept ever did, and it will be for their spirit and soul.
I think the Dem's are scared, Texas will turn them into Self-Sufficent Voting Republicans!
.....No, me neither.
I do seem to remember when Newt got in trouble for something his mother said though. Of course, he is a big bad mean republican.
Won't these losers -ever- quit crying about -anything- trivial???
I hope not... I have too much fun, pointing & laughing when their feelings are hurt! 8-)
Maybe someone like FOX will begin a reality tv show on those who have relocated and their lives are MUCH BETTER OFF - call it "FROM HELL TO A LIVEABLE LIFE" show!
I've never heard it called "KatrinaGate" before. Is this a foreign newspaper attempting to dictate our "scandals"?
LMFAO!!!
Democrat Harman for CA just on Fox telling all the terorists how vulnerable we are to a terrorist attack right now. Said it at least twice.
Don't they know they watch tv too? Sheesh!
Yea, I am offended, shocked, and outraged that these people see a glimmer of a better future, rather than gleefully returning to squalor, drugs, rampant crime, gangs, and corrupt politicians in New Orleans. /sarc
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