I need a break from the election.
Former First Lady (and Queen of Arrogance), Barbara Bush aka Babs the Impaler™ was interviewed in front of an audience of nearly 300 brain dead idiots (who actually wasted their time listening to her drivel) by Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, as part of the American Conversations series at the National Archives in Washington.
Her arrogance ("beautiful mind", "katrina victims better off in the Astrodome") has no bounds
Let me just give a snippet of some of her gems
On the difference between being wife of President George H.W. Bush and mother of President George W. McDoodypants: "It hurts far more to hear criticism of your son than of your husband, it hurts much more if your son's president. My husband ... he's in agony half the time."
Oh too bad Babs, what about the innocent Iraqi civilians hiding in cellars and afraid to go to the markets – no agony for them huh, but plenty for your men? Or the people still displaced by Katrina – life is a bowl of cherries for them of course! And the poor, poor Georgies in your life, they just can’t take the heat for being two of the biggest morons in history to ever lead a nation.
"You hear people say things that are untrue and unfair. It really hurts. George W. doesn't watch the press. He'll call us ... (and say) 'I hear the TV, turn it off.'"
Oh yea, you know what hurts -- losing your home while the chairman of a near-bankrupt mortgage company walks away with $100 million. Or sending your child to Iraq, and not knowing if he/she is coming back - that hurts a lot. When a 61-year old sociopath calls his mommy to cry about people saying mean things that isn't hurt, it's immaturity. You know what else hurts -- that same 61-year old sociopath lied over 200 times to the American people about Iraq. He commuted Scooter Libby’s after he was convicted for lying. He LAUGHED when Karla Faye Tucker was about the be executed. He supported without reservation Alberto Gonzalez' dismantling of the Justice Dept. Those all hurt. And why would you Babs have to turn the TV off? --- I would assume you only watch Fox News. If memory serves me correctly, they haven't said one hurtful (or truthful) thing about your W in over 7 years.
On her husband: "He does a lot of things, although he just had a back operation and he's recuperating. I used to always say I wanted more quality time with him — not any more."
I don't think you have to worry Babs --- you will never find quality and Bush in the same paragraph or the same room. You also will never find compassion, intelligence, warmth, generosity, humility or humanity.
On Tony Blair: "I like Tony Blair very, very much, and I think he suffered a lot because of his support of the United Sates, but till this day he feels he did the right thing and I think he did too."
No Babs, Tony suffered a lot because of his support of your son.
On her daughter-in-law: "I love the way Laura has gone to and has gone to help women in Pakistan and all over the world ... And she's wise enough to do that."
But of course your murderess daughter-in-law says SUCH wise things about people with Parkinson’s. During the 2006 mid-term elections, Laura Bush belittled actor Michael J. Fox, a proponent of stem cell research and victim (along with 1.5 million Americans) of Parkinson's disease. Of his advocacy efforts, Mrs. Bush sneered, "It's always easy to manipulate people's feelings." Silly me --- it took me this long to see what a help she is!
On her son: "I'm very, very proud of him and he's the most disciplined person I know. I got there yesterday afternoon, ... we had dinner with friends and then he went to bed early and he was up and gone by the time I got up at 8 o'clock."
Disciplined – okay I will give him that. Picks up brush like no one, chokes on pretzels, can’t open doors, massages Prime Ministers, hires incompetent sycophants, asks if Brazil has black people, and refuses to go to one funeral of a fallen soldier. Yep he is disciplined. And we are SO proud of him too. In fact, things are going so swimmingly well economically right now, the collective American populace is going to ask him to stay a third term -- to make up for Poppy's little "no new taxes" slip.
On why she focused on literacy programs during her years in the White House: "I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money."
Let's rename her Babs the Bargain-Hunter. Compared to your son’s foray into literacy -- the raping of the treasury after reading My Pet Goat, your project was truly a bargain.
"I just decided if everybody could read write and comprehend, so many our problems ... could be solved. ... Thirty percent of our children drop out of high school. ... It's terrible."
Babs, if your son could read, write and comprehend maybe he wouldn’t destroy everything he touches. Including this country. Now that is what really is terrible.