Let Them Eat Cake

I can not believe this one myself. When I first heard about it, I thought "this has to be bullshit". Then I heard the audio. It is a good thing my vehicle was already parked at the work location, otherwise I might have run off the road.

Here is what was said:

In a segment at the top of the show on the surge of
evacuees to the Texas city, Barbara Bush said: "Almost
everyone I’ve talked to says we're going to move to
Houston."

Then she added: "What I’m hearing which is sort of
scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is
so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

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

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What a bitch! It is scary that people want to stay in Texas? Why is it scary? Is it that the people might be poor? Is it that they might be black? Is it that they might need help in the form of money and food? Or is it scary because the money they will need might come from people at the higher end of the income spectrum?

And what did she mean by "this is working very well for them"? Did she mean "darkies like to play football, they should love living in a real stadium!"?? Did she mean that since the people who are in the stadium are so poor that they should be happy to have air conditioning? Did she mean that people should be happy their homes were wiped out, because now they can live on cots in Texas?

Rot in hell you out of touch bitch. EVERYONE is poor compared to you. How about we the people level YOUR houses, and then let YOU live on a cot in a stadium. Would that work out well for you? Would you find any humor in that? Would you find people seeking food and clean water scary then?

When the Queen Of France supposedly said "let them eat cake" when told that all the people had to eat was bread (cakes are basicly bread when you think about it), there was a revolution and her head was removed. Someone ought to give Barbara Bush a history book. And a muzzle.

I can not believe she said the things she did. No doubt the right wing spin machine will try to re-write her words - they NEED TO do some damage control at this point.

Barbara Bush was a decent first lady. I think that the population by and large liked the woman. Her husband lost his re-election bid, but as I remember it there was no outright hostility towards Mr. or Mrs. Bush. It was just that the nation was looking for a change after 12 years of the same people running the nation. Nobody back in 1992 would have ever said negative things about the first lady.

But the comments I heard today were something I would have not believed if I had not heard them for myself. I always thought that Barbara Bush was smarter than to say something like this.

I am shocked, and frankly dissapointed by her comments. I had held her in a much higher regard. But not anymore.