"Laura Bush... says Hurricane Katrina could have a silver lining"

[sabra]

http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_263145014.html

A Sit Down With Laura Bush

Laura Bush, former inner-city teacher, says Hurricane Katrina could have a silver lining if it forces the nation to respond ``in a different way'' to inner-city poverty and racial problems.

``A large percentage of our population probably doesn't realize what inner cities are really like and has looked away from that,'' Bush told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday.

The first lady sat down in the White House's Map Room to promote this weekend's National Book Festival, a daylong event on the National Mall that she has put on in concert with the Library of Congress for five years _ a tradition she started as first lady of Texas.

...

Then, in a wifely endorsement, she said, ``Fortunately he is really strong and so I'm confident that he'll be able to sustain the level of attention that he'll have to _ and not just to that, also to the war in Iraq, to foreign policy and to all the other issues that are on the desk of the president of the United States.''

[phantom power]

1. LOL! That's her endorsement?

"I think he'll manage to pay attention. If he remembers to take his ridilin."

[XNASA]

2. Inner-city teacher?

In which 'inner-city' did Pickles teach?

[momisold]

5. Laura taught...

She taught in public schools in Dallas and Houston.

I taught in Houston, and some of the schools are pretty rough. In fact, I quit after teaching in Houston. Tired of worrying about physical harm much of the time.

[Jane Austin]

18. Austin.

More than twenty years ago.

[momisold]

20. Are you saying she

didn't teach in Dallas or Houston? Or are you adding that tidbit?

I took that off her biography website.

[Jane Austin]

25. I don't know anything about Dallas or Houston;

I just know someone who taught with her in Austin at the time she met bush.

[Tesla]

6. I see the silver lining.... her hubby is showing how inept he is!!

[marmar]

3. Yes it could...

the dismantling of her lesser half's administration.

[Double T]

4. This First Lady is completely delusional and living in a 'pretend' world

[sabra]

8. the whole family is living in their own world...

[pepperlove]

26. That is true, but...

the real trouble is -- they are physically in OUR world and that REALLY is a dangerous thing!

[Boomer]

9. Xanax will do that to you.

It's happy, happy time!

[asjr]

11. Yes. I am very sorry that at one

time I gave her credit for having more sense than her husband.

[calimary]

28. Probably just heavily medicated.

I'd be living on Prozac, too, if I were that woman.

[Bob3]

7. respond to poverty and racial problems in a different way

what the hell is she talking about? They have completely ignoring the existence of poverty and racial problems before they started showing up on the top of flooded houses. What are they planning to do shoot them? That seems to be their response in Iraq.

[willing dwarf]

10. As if knowing about poverty is enough

Maybe a large percentage of the rich in this country don't "realize what inner cities are really like" but belive me, plenty of people living there do.

[Strawman]

12. thanks for cluing us in to the reality of life on the mean streets Pickles

``A large percentage of our population probably doesn't realize what inner cities are really like and has looked away from that,'' Bush told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday."

Are you fucking kidding me? "Message: I care" This is George HW Bush in a supermarket and Michael Dukakis in a tank.

:rofl:

[baby_mouse]

13. OH!

Let us gather round her feet and pull up our legs and petticoats! let us gaze into her wise, twinkly eyes!

I need some sort of Telfon coated colon.

[zbdent]

14. "... what inner cities are really like ..."

"I've personally flown over several different inner cities and I can tell you, it's ugly!"

Not in the dialogue, but you can just hear it . . .

[htuttle]

15. "I speak Jive!", Laura boasts

Yeah, she's down with that.

[Tactical Progressive]

16. I think Laura Bush is a Dem at heart

and would be in fact if she wasn't part of that family.

Unfortunately, she wasn't able to sway her thug cheat of a husband in the slightest to be any other way. Bush kind of hard-right people simply don't listen to a word that anyone else says. Those with Republicans in the family know Laura's story.

Of course, maybe she has changed him somewhat and he'd be even worse without her influence. Hard to imagine but possible.

[melissinha]

21. hard to believe

I couldn't imagane even agreeing to go on a date with that husband of hers. Her standing by him for so long means she believes in what he does... or she's been drugged all this time. If she were a Democrat, she would have exposed him years ago!

Go consult your interior designers and stop trying to stump for your useless husband, Pickles!

[donheld]

17. The only silver lining would be

if the MSM finally saw fit to keep after Bushie and pals till they're impeached and ran out of town.

[Field Of Dreams]

19. Only silver I know of was on the spoon in Chimpy's mouth when

he was born ... too bad he didn't choke on it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. for once I will agree with pickles

it has a silver lining, it has exposed the policies of her husband and his uncaring attitude to the world, that my dear is a silver lining

[rurallib]

23. The silver lining for the Bushies is the taxpayer's gold that

they can hand over to their friends! As for the poor being exposed, don't worry Bushie will divert attention to some bullshit sidelight soon such as a 10 commandment statue that gets taken down.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. She sounds about as 'intelligent' as her Pinhead** husband.

:yoiks: This is rich: "A large percentage of our population probably doesn't realize what inner cities are really like and has looked away from that," Yes the haves and haves more, your husband's base would be of whom you speak.

[Rex]

27. Like that bitch would know anything about being poor!

I've been poor most of my life, fuck her and the limo that drove her to the interview! Silver lining? Tell that to the families who lost loved ones to Katrina. What a total bitch! No wonder Boosh married her - she reminded him of mommy "Babs" dearest.

[Bluebear]

29. "Condi" Rice said the tsunami was a "wonderful opportunity"

Ghouls.