September 6, 2005

jaw dropping

Thanks to Citizen's Rent for this one. Barbara Bush (the mother of our esteemed current Pres) had the following to say about evacuees.

: "'And so many of the people in the arena here, youknow, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them.' "


Maybe we now know where the disconnect comes from. Good god.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think she's just wistfully recalling her days with Bobby McGee before she let him slip away.

"When you ain't got nothin,'you got nothin' to lose."

Anonymous said...

Maybe this is why Bush extolls "Freedom," because according to Bobby McGee, "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose."

I think Kris is quoting Bob Dylan again