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In reply to the discussion: To me, Ann Rmoney comes across as mean spirited. [View all]FarPoint
(14,840 posts)I can't recall her exact words today but the thoughts will forever stick in my mind....When the homeless victims of Katrina were sent to a stadium in Texas I believe....she said something how grateful they should be....
The short of it....she was condescending and belittling. Clueless to the plight of the victims.
Help me out if you can.
Oh...wait...I Googled it...Update.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nationalspecial/07barbara.html
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Barbara Bush Calls Evacuees Better Off
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 - As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who "were underprivileged anyway," saying on Monday that many of the poor people she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit.
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday with the radio program "Marketplace." "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality."
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them."
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