Barbara Bush -- disgusting!!!! (Like mother, like son)

[FourScore]

(This is from a Frank Rich NYTSelect article, so you have to pay a fee to access it. But here's the quote that angered me so much)

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI=http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/opinion/18rich.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26pagewantedQ3Dprint&OP=4187806eQ2FCQ7D.ECQ60Q2AwhhQ60CfiiQ25CioCMGCheUDUhDCMGwU85Y5Q60gQ3C

"Barbara Bush tells Diane Sawyer on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that she will not watch televised coverage of the war: “Why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s going to happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?”

So the deaths of over 3000 other beautiful minds is not relelevant to her? Apparently, it's not relevant to her son either.:grr:

[ourbluenation]

1. out.of.touch.

[crim son]

4. "Out of touch" is a given.

"Out of her mind" is what I'm thinking. These deaths are not relevant? She is mentally ill.

[bahrbearian]

2. The Bush's commemorate death with a round of golf

[Colobo]

3. What a stupid woman...

[Auggie]

5. What an insult to the troops!

[DeeDeeNY]

6. This is the same woman who remarked about Katrina victims

"This is working out very well for them. They were underprivileged anyway."

[FourScore]

8. Exactly my thoughts when I read it. n/t

[Bozita]

14. Babs' Katrina "donation" was earmarked for son Neil Bush's software company

slimy bitch!

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0324-08.htm

Published on Friday, March 24, 2006 by the Houston Chronicle

Katrina Donation Ignites Debate
HISD says focus on Neil Bush's software didn't violate policy


by Jennifer Radcliffe

 
As Barbara Bush spent two hours championing her son's software company at a Houston middle school Thursday morning, a watchdog group questioned whether the former first lady should be allowed to channel a donation to Neil Bush's Ignite Learning company through Houston's Hurricane Katrina relief fund.

"It's strange that the former first lady would want to do this. If her son's having a rough time of it, couldn't she write him a check?" said Daniel Borochoff, founder of the American Institute of Philanthropy, a Chicago-based charity watchdog group. "Maybe she isn't aware that people could frown upon this."

Some critics said donations to a tax-deductible charitable fund shouldn't benefit the Bush family. Others questioned whether the Houston Independent School District violated district policy by allowing the company to host a promotional event on campus.

HISD officials said the event at Fleming Middle School, where Bush met with 40 educators and business leaders, did not violate policy.

The school is among eight area campuses that received Ignite "Curriculum On Wheels" systems because of Bush's donation of an undisclosed amount to the Bush-Clinton Houston Hurricane Relief Fund.

She gave specific instructions that part of the money be sent to the Scottish Space School Foundation. She asked that group, in turn, to use the money to buy eight Ignite systems — valued at $3,800 each — for Harris County schools with large numbers of Hurricane Katrina evacuees, according to Bush and fund officials.

more...

[opihimoimoi]

7. Prolly was comp'd by drugs or brainwashed by ARROGANCE/DELUSION

[hyphenate]

9. That's been around for awhile

now. It fits Babs very well--shows her for the devilbitch that she is and has always been.

[hippiechick]

10. Everytime I see that evil shrew ...

... I think of Angela Lansbury's character in the original Manchurian Candidate - right down to that awful hairdo and the pearls.

Wonder if someone in Hollywood knew something back then that most of us are only realizing now?

:shrug:

[TwilightGardener]

11. This is not just her--this is indicative of her whole family's mindset--the

ugliness, the waste, and the tragedies of war are but an abstract concept, and certainly not something to consider when you are trying to take control of a major region of the world and its assets. It's but collateral damage to the Big Picture.

[sutz12]

12. "Let them eat cake!" nt

[senseandsensibility]

13. Just as disgusting as her comment IMHO

was the free pass she was given by the corporate media. It slid completely off the radar screen and was never referred to again. Can you imagine if Hillary had said that?

[BayCityProgressive]

15. I would say what I really want to happen to her

but I don't want a visit from the authorities.

[Recursion]

16. I thought that was from Desert Storm

Maybe my memory is backporting her evilness...

[libodem]

17. this is your 911th post

and a tribute to the ignorance of the entitled and rich. Living proof that money can't buy class or intellect.

[FourScore]

30. You're right!

I wish I had noticed that...I would have written

GO JERSEY GIRLS!!!!!!

or

TRUTH

in big, bold letters!

[barbtries]

18. this comment

disgusted me so thoroughly i felt dirty and ashamed because when her husband was president i actually thought this snake was a likable person. but no - it ain't so hard to guess where her personality disordered, spoiled rotten, dry drunk, blowhard, conscienceless, warmongering motherfucking firstborn son crawled out from.

and they're all the same way it seems to me. how about gw's wife the other day saying (i'm paraphrasing), "things are going well over in iraq, but all we hear about is the daily bombing that discourages everybody." (jon stewart did a great little bit expressing my indignation hilariously and effectively)

like they just don't even fucking GET that people get killed, maimed, orphaned, injured by bombs! i mean the actual HUMANITY just never seems to cross the minds of these terrible terrible people. war is death and destruction, that's guaranteed, to me that is all that i need to know to know that i am opposed. to them it's a fat lifelong paycheck, i guess. absolutely hateful.

at this point i have no more respect for any one bush than i have for the president, and i hate his guts to tell the truth

[FourScore]

29. But seriously, barbtries, tell us how you REALLY feel...

:evilgrin:

(I feel the same way!)

[young_at_heart]

19. A former First Lady said this???

How can this be? Surely, it's mistake by the media!

[BlooInBloo]

20. Nope. It's years old, and routinely used to lampoon the bush family.

[WinkyDink]

24. It's as old as the Illegal Invasion, and IMHO "lampoon" is not the term; "excoriate" is.

Lampoon: to ridicule in a light but good-humored attack.
Excoriate: to cenure strongly; denounce.

[BlooInBloo]

25. Lampooning isn't necessarily good-humored.

[WinkyDink]

26. Fine. i edited, but since you replied, i'll pre-post: I'm using a bad dictionary.

[BlooInBloo]

27. Yup. EDIT REPLY: Yup.

[BlooInBloo]

28. In fact, that's so stupid that I'd be interested in the LoC information for that "dictionary"...

Do you mind posting it? Or do you "not have it handy"?

[BlooInBloo]

31. Seriously - that is like the worst dictionary EVER. Whoever wrote it appears to be illiterate!

[BlooInBloo]

32. Indeed, the alleged "author" of this alleged "dictionary" must be high AND brain-damaged.

[givemebackmycountry]

21. She may have a beautiful mind but...

SHE ALSO HAS A REALLY BIG ASS!!!

No wonder 41 spends so much time traveling around.
I would to, if I had to sleep next to something so disgusting and vile.

[stevedeshazer]

22. This is four + years old

So what?

[seafan]

23. This represents the mind set of those who sent our soldiers to die in an illegal, aggressive war.

"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?"

Like mother, like son.

"There are some that feel like if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they are talking about if that is the case. Let me finish. There are some who feel like the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on." ---George W. Bush, July 3, 2003

[nookiemonster]

33. Why won't she just play nice

and give the Quaker Oats man his face back.

--snark---

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[brettdale]

34. Can you Imagine if a Democrat said that

I wonder what the MSM would say about them.