Barbara Bush's boundless compassion

Posted on: Wed, 09/07/2005 - 12:13 By: Tom Swiss

Well, we can see where George W. gets it from. The Nation reports:

Commenting on the facilities that have been set up for the evacuees -- cots crammed side-by-side in a huge stadium where the lights never go out and the sound of sobbing children never completely ceases -- former First Lady Barbara Bush concluded that the poor people of New Orleans had lucked out.

"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 is working very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program...

On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going...

And to think, I used to believe Barbara was the one decent human being in the Bush clan.