Hmmm... they were poor anyway so mashing them into the astrodome is like... paradise for them!

Barbara Bush, who accompanied the former presidents on a tour of the Astrodome complex Monday, said the relocation to Houston is "working very well" for some of the poor people forced out of New Orleans.


Former President George Bush and his wife Barbara visit with hurricane Katrina evacuees in the Reliant Center adjacent to the Astrodome in Houston, Monday, September 5, 2005. (AP Photo/Richard Carson, Pool)
Former President George Bush and his wife Barbara visit with hurricane Katrina evacuees in the Reliant Center adjacent to the Astrodome in Houston,

"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 during a radio interview with the American Public Media program "Marketplace." "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

I was sorta scratching my head over that statement when I saw it earlier today.....

Give the lady a break, she's what 107 years old?

What foot?

She was attempting a joke of the gallows humor sort. And it's true.

I tell you what, liberals need to save up their money and buy a fricken sense of humor.

It is this sort of mock and feigned outrage that has let PC doublespeak into our language and culture. She is not a politician, she is immune to your liberal Political Correctness.

Double plus good?

"Barbara Bush puts her foot in it."

"it" being her mouth?

I had a hard time with that statement, too. Evidently she has either been out of the limelight too long to remember that she needs to choose her words better or she is suffering from dimentia. :/ I'm surprised that the liberal press hasn't lit into her yet. It's been a day now.

Actually Aidon is right, she deserves a break. She is pretty elderly. I can just imagine what either of my parents would say in the same position.

She's 80. Old enough to know better :p If anyone believed she was suffering a dimentia they would never permit her to do a radio interview. She just wasn't being careful with her words.

not the first time she's not thought before speakin either =p

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths," Barbara Bush said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 18, 2003. "Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

There's a lot to be said for keeping politician's wives, and husbands for that matter, out of the limelight.

Speaking of not watching what you say...

These people are so poor, and they are so black... (http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/629.html)

There's a lot to be said for keeping politician's wives, and husbands for that matter, out of the limelight.


Theresa Heinz-Kerry anyone?

I'd just like to add that there's been a tremendous strain put on many of the journalists working in LA. I'd be lucky to say anything coherent after what some of these people have been through. I think some forgiveness of the media is in order instead of jumping on anyone who makes a slip of the tongue.

Holy cow, that was a slip. So black, as opposed to sorta black and sorta poor? I heard a woman last night on NPR who was furious that blacks were all being portrayed as poor in NO. She mentioned that in her part of town, which was predominantly black, that they were all working professionals and not poor at all.

Apparently that was Wolf Blitzer, well, according to the radio this morning that played the same clip.

Actually, to see the news, I thought all of New Orleans was predominantly populated by black people. Not that that lessens my compassion for them.

I think NO population is roughly 65% black or so. I don't remember the exact number off the top of my head, but it was over 50%.

Here's something my friend just sent me:

Compassionate conservative: Any conservative who deliberately moves the poorest class out of their homes into the Astrodome in order to improve their situation

And another friend:

After the fiasco in New Orleans I think I have a new definition for neo-conservatives.


Politicians for whom "Intelligent Design" is always a theological issue, never a policy one.