Laura Bush regarding New Orleans: "I think after five years things are starting to look great"

[sabra]

http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2010/08/27/laura-bush-says-every-president-faces-unfair-criticism/

Former first lady Laura Bush says every president is unfairly criticized and it comes from both friends and foes.

She spoke to ABC’s “Good Morning America” from the Gulf Coast, where she is on a visit for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Her husband, former President George W. Bush and his administration were sharply criticized for slow federal response to the disaster.

“The differences are huge now, five years later. Each time I came there was a little bit of improvement, but really now I think after five years things are starting to look great,” she said.

...

“If Air Force One had landed in New Orleans that day, all of the assets that were actually being used to help people, the first responders, many of those first responders would be required to go to the airport even just from Air Force One landing. And he knew that and he didn’t want to use any of the assets that were being used in other ways to rescue people,” she said.

Laura Bush says her husband writes about it in his upcoming book as well — “that he realizes that that was a mistake, that it looked like he didn’t care.”

[bdamomma]

1. what a delusional beetch!!

[LaurenG]

2. ...that it looked like he didn’t care.”

So he did care? Why did it take so long to get help in there then? Actions speak louder than words Mr. Bush.

[hlthe2b]

3. And I think after 5 yrs., Laura has morphed into Babs Bush.....

the old "things are working out quite nicely for these people," battleaxe. :eyes:

Has she figured out it is Katrina and not Karina?

[KamaAina]

5. HA! Karina is the name of the light rail stop near my office!

It gave this former NOLA resident the heebie-jeebies when the boss added a 't' to it once... :scared:

I thought Pickles said "Corrina", though?

[hlthe2b]

7. She stuttered through Corrina .... so that it sort of sounded like Karina

but certainly not Katrina...

[hatrack]

4. How the fuck would she know?

:puke:

[no_hypocrisy]

6. What a classist understatement.

Keep Your Sunny Side Up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coiW6qXMQsU

[deminks]

8. Yeah, Pickles, it looked like he didn't care.

Kinda hard to see them bodies floatin' at 30,000 feet.

[ejpoeta]

9. let them eat cake, i think ,is what she really means.

[qb]

10. Nothing says "Out of Touch" like the Bush family...

[rustydog]

11. And her mother in law thought those trapped in the Superdome

were better off!

These people make me sick. aloof, disengaged and disconnected from our reality.

[cyr330]

12. She sounds like. . .

her STUPID, fucking mother-in-law, Barbara, the wrinkled *itch!!