Bush: "Were you the only black man in Salt Lake City?"

[helderheid]

No, sir, are you the only idiot in the White House? President Bush, not known for his cultural sensitivity or his off-the-cuff eloquence, may have hit a new low last week. According to Time magazine, Bush was again touring Katrina-ravaged New Orleans when he encountered a man who had been evacuated to Utah. Trying to make small talk, Bush asked him, "Were you the only black man in Salt Lake City?"

http://www.sltrib.com/vulture/ci_3599451

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. This is a joke, no? I saw this elsewhere, but I thought it was sarcasm.

He really said that?

[helderheid]

3. I heard about it on my local radio station. He made boner candidate of the

day.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. I heard that he said it as a joke

but even so, what a ridiculous thing for the President of the United States to say to someone who's been displaced by a hurricane and suffered so much loss.

[helderheid]

17. even if he was joking - how fucking tasteless!

[CottonBear]

2. Just when you thought he couldn't get more stupid...

there he goes again. :(

[helderheid]

16. mind blowing, ain't it??

[MadMaddie]

4. * is just an inappropriate sad excuse for a human being!!

The Katrina victim loses the life he knows in Katrina....and insensitive man boy can only think of a racial statement that he thinks is funny....

Just shows you how he really feels about blacks in America!!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. It still doesn't top the time he

unveiled the portrait of Martin Luther King and said to Coretta Scott King "I can't wait to hang him!"

[rodeodance]

6. ??? true

[helderheid]

8. this was in my local paper - says "according to Time magazine" - I'm

guessing it's true!

[BlueEyedSon]

7. "George Bush doesn't care about black people" -- K West

[helderheid]

13. that sums it up!

[BOSSHOG]

9. Were you the only drug addict in your air guard unit?

[TomInTib]

11. "Oh, hell no. There was a bunch of us"

[BOSSHOG]

12. Actually, in the early 70's

that was probably true. I remember my roommate in Navy School in San Diego smoking dope in our room in 73. He couldn't figure out why I was pissed but I doubt anything would have come of it if he were caught.

[TomInTib]

14. Back then, you really had to screw up to get pitched.

I year earlier than that, I was staggering under the weight of that simian on my back and no one ever even brought it up.

Of course, I was in The Bad Place and they needed all of us they could keep.

[JuniperLea]

15. I'm sure he was much better off in Utah...

Hob nobbing with all the white folk... :sarcasm:


Just like how much fun it was "camping out" after the storm...

[helderheid]

18. Dumbist. Bushism. Evah.