Nope: “I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich,” Barbara Bush said of Ferraro (the then opponent).
She later apologized and insisted she had meant Ferraro was a witch, not bitch.
She is also partial to saying things like “I’m through with you” to end conversations, which she claims is only meant to be funny. Yeah, like yogurt is funny :rolleyes: .
I believe it was Newt Gingrich’s mom who referred to Connie Chung as a bitch.
You are correct Baldwin…
“With Connie Chung set to interview Gary Condit, recall her infamous 1995 exchange with Newt Gingrich’s mother in which she urged Kathleen Gingrich to reveal her son’s opinion of Hillary Clinton: “Why don’t you just whisper it to me. Just between you and me.” Chung was far nicer in 1993 to Bill Clinton’s mom.”
You can watch the Connie video here …if you can see past Newt’s mom’s cigarette and his pops constant sloughing.
Shame the cannibalism rumours turned out to be false: she could have fed a family for a week.
And risk all the choking deaths from those goddamn pearls?
They’re just prizes.
Dear Elder President Bush:
I speak for a number of your observers when I note with approval your reported friendship and warm paternal affection for Bill Clinton. I’m sure any man who’s children have been such a disappointment can readily relate.
But we fear you are at some risk, a “moral hazard”, as it were, by associating in such intimate proximity with a known adulterer, one who’s depraved adherence to liberal “situational ethics” denies the accepted and timeless standards of correct behavior. If marriage vows are to be taken lightly, can respect for private property long endure?
It could be said that your Christian charity to the repentant sinner speaks well of your character. I have no opinion. However, under the circumstances of your marriage, I think it safe to say that, should you suffer a lapse of moral rigor such as so frequently befalls Mr. Clinton, you may find the American people generous in thier understanding and acceptance.
By the same token, we hope you will accept our tendency to make whip-lash sound effects when ever your name is spoken.
I laughed at the yogurt line. Which means that yogurt really is funny. Which means that Barbara Bush is also funny. Which means that the analogy is invalid, and that the yogurt line really isn’t funny. So Barbara Bush isn’t funny either. Which means that the analogy is valid, and the yogurt line is funny, which means that Barbara Bush is funny which means that the analogy isn’t vlaid again and dammit my brain just exploded.
What is Al Franken’s take on this?
Well, at the risk of getting myself flamed in two threads at once, I will say that I have been thinking along similar lines. Look at it this way. Much has been made of the fact that the NOLA hurricane victims are poor, which is why they didn’t evacuate, and why they did this and that over the past week.
I can’t help thinking that, for these people who lost everything, and yet didn’t have much everything to lose, who were unemployed, underemployed, or on public assistance, this could be a chance for many of them to start over. If their debts have been wiped out along with their possessions, if they’re given a chance, and if they take it, then they can look at themselves as having nowhere to go but up.
:::Rilchiam dons riot shield and steps back:::
Not gonna flame you, Rilchiam, but that was kinda stupid. Poor people still have lives and homes; they also have families. A lot of the people who were there in the Astrodome had lost family members, and it really wasn’t working well for them.
As for their debts being wiped out – not that simple. Your car may be underwater and totalled, but you still have to make payments. The horrible bankruptcy bill passed earlier this year (literally written by credit card company lobbyists) makes it a lot harder to declare personal bankruptcy.
Barbara Bush said what she did because she’s a queen bitch. You, on the other hand, (I think) just haven’t thought it through.
Bush was proud of the way that Texans was opening their hearts and pocketbooks for the evacuees and was lauding them. And being relocated to Texas (as opposed to, say, Mississippi) was working well for the evacuees because most of the people she spoke to (who were underprivileged) planned to stay in Texas because they were so impressed with their Southern hospitality.
Could she have been more articulate? Yes. She’s not a polished politician. ::shrug::
Donnie Rumsfeld, is that you?
I think she said exactly what was on her mind.
I’m also surprised to hear that folks from Louisiana would need to be shown how to provide Southern hospitality.
Barbara Bush not a polished politician? You’ve got to be joking.
Former First Lady
Wife of the Former Ambassador to the United Nations
Wife of the Former Director of the CIA
Mother of the current President
Mother of the former Governor of Texas
Mother of the current Governor of Florida
She’s got more political experience in those roles than most members of Congress.
The entire family has made a ton of political hay in trying to show how they’re “just plain folks.” Bullshit from day one.
Nah.
She’s just thrilled at how inexpensive it’ll be to get landscaping and other yard work done.
Them Mexicans have got themselves some real competition now!
-Joe
As if possessions make up all of life.
Oh, wait, for Babs, they well may…
These people lost their identities, their homeplace/neighborhoods; all aspects of what make up living.
Yep-sleeping on a cot, not sure where (fill in the blank) is or if they are still alive–yep, it’s one big party in Houston!
You Bet!
Bush Suspends Pay Act In Areas Hit by Storm
Course, boy genious forgot to include Texas in the order. :smack:
Mom’s gonna be pissed!
Dumbass. Everyone knows you pay landscapers and the like under the table.
See? No need to include Texas. Once you get two dueling groups of poor starving people you can save big. You can cut out all that OSHA shit and everything!
Everyone wins! Everyone important, anyways. Well, everyone except for the poor people, and who gives a fuck about them? Nobody important gives a fuck about them, that’s who!
-Joe
I mixed the two First Ladies; my comment applies to Laura Bush, and NOT Barbara Bush.