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Slovydal
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The hospitality of Texas has been outstanding...
but hearing Barb's comments makes me very sad.
I thought she was one of the good ones.
Still, it's not as bad as Condi's, "The Lord will come on time" bullshit.
Guess what, Condi - It's all ready too late!
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SORF
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| Posted: 09/07/05 12:33 am ::: |
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| Barbara Bush, born in 1925...that makes her 80...how many of us have had kinfolk say some weird or inappropriate remarks at that age...she is not an uncaring elitist...she is just a senior citizen. Please lighten up...her heart is in the right place.
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| Posted: 09/07/05 12:44 am ::: |
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Older people tend to be racist, too.
What a bitchy thing to say.
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Keegan
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| Posted: 09/07/05 1:56 am ::: |
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| Maybe the saying should be "older people should be seen and not heard". |
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herrade
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| Posted: 09/08/05 5:37 am ::: |
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| SORF wrote: |
| she is not an uncaring elitist...she is just a senior citizen. Please lighten up...her heart is in the right place. |
she is not just a senior citizen, she is someone in the public spotlight. that means she has to be accountable for the crap that comes out of her mouth.
if we wrote off all ridiculous comments by public officials over 80, too many people in washington would be getting away with murder... not that they don't already.
interestingly enough, there seems to be an equal sign in my brain between the words "republican" and "uncaring elitist". i wonder how it got there.
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pilight
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| Posted: 09/08/05 8:49 am ::: |
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| That's no worse than the stuff Lillian Carter used to say when she was the president's mother.
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| Posted: 09/08/05 10:12 am ::: |
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| Barbara Bush, born in 1925...that makes her 80...how many of us have had kinfolk say some weird or inappropriate remarks at that age...she is not an uncaring elitist...she is just a senior citizen. Please lighten up...her heart is in the right place. |
Your true self comes out as you age (take it from me, I can testify). You are now seeing the real Barbara Bush.
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KeiraNY
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| Posted: 09/08/05 10:58 am ::: |
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Sorry SORF! I'm gonna have to disagree with you here! Senility doesn't account for stupidity! That was one stupid, insensitive and boneheaded comment.
I thought Babs had some balls, but this is assinine!! She had a "junior" moment right there that won't be forgotten anytime soon!
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| Barbara Bush, born in 1925...that makes her 80...how many of us have had kinfolk say some weird or inappropriate remarks at that age...she is not an uncaring elitist...she is just a senior citizen. Please lighten up...her heart is in the right place. |
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The problem with Bush and their kind "THOSE PEOPLE", is they have no clue that there's a huge difference between, barely having your roof over your head, a pot to piss in w/a window to throw in it out of, and living in a shelter. To "THOSE PEOPLE" you are better off in a shelter, because you can lay around all day and still have your basic human needs met. Well, excuse me Barbara and "PEOPLE LIKE HER", with your own roof over your head, (regardless of how raggedy) you can take it one day at a time, and you will survive. But, in a shelter one hour feels like a damn week, and it's much hard to hold it together.
I went through the shelter and saw the same shit she saw. To no surprise, our perception was totally different. I saw people happy to be alive, happy to have the shelter and their basic needs being met. But, they still couldn't wait to start picking up the pieces of their lives, and get out of there. This is not a case of 6 in one hand and a half of dozen in the other. It ain't even close.
She's ignorant and obviously arrogant enough to think she can say something like that on camera. Those kind of remarks are usually reserved for when you are behind close doors with your kind (people who think like you).
These people were not homeless, before Katrina. So, it was very ignorant of her and anybody else to assume, Katrina was a blessing in disguise._________________ (¯`v´¯
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| Posted: 09/10/05 4:06 pm ::: |
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| Smoovie wrote: |
The problem with Bush and their kind "THOSE PEOPLE", is they have no clue that there's a huge difference between, barely having your roof over your head, a pot to piss in w/a window to throw in it out of, and living in a shelter. To "THOSE PEOPLE" you are better off in a shelter, because you can lay around all day and still have your basic human needs met. Well, excuse me Barbara and "PEOPLE LIKE HER", with your own roof over your head, (regardless of how raggedy) you can take it one day at a time, and you will survive. But, in a shelter one hour feels like a damn week, and it's much hard to hold it together.
I went through the shelter and saw the same shit she saw. To no surprise, our perception was totally different. I saw people happy to be alive, happy to have the shelter and their basic needs being met. But, they still couldn't wait to start picking up the pieces of their lives, and get out of there. This is not a case of 6 in one hand and a half of dozen in the other. It ain't even close.
She's ignorant and obviously arrogant enough to think she can say something like that on camera. Those kind of remarks are usually reserved for when you are behind close doors with your kind (people who think like you).
These people were not homeless, before Katrina. So, it was very ignorant of her and anybody else to assume, Katrina was a blessing in disguise. |
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