MOTHER'S REMARK PUTS SILVER FOOT IN BUSHE'S MOUTH

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True!

 

Mother's remark puts silver foot in Bush's mouth

by John Cass/ Published September 7, 2005

 

I was all set to defend President Bush as a guy who really doesn't

want poor

black people in Louisiana and Mississippi to die of starvation and

disease,

no matter what the Democrats say.

 

But then Barbara Bush, the president's mom, went and dusted off the

Bush

family silver foot Monday. And she used it.

 

While touring the Houston Astrodome, where thousands of Hurricane

Katrina

refugees have been huddling, Barbara Bush said they didn't have it so

bad

because, heck, they were poor to begin with.

 

" What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in

Texas, " she was quoted as saying in an interview on National Public

Radio.

 

Thousands of hurricane refugees were sitting on or near their green

army

cots, perhaps thinking of lunch, presumably waiting to be fed

something

hearty.

 

Anything but cake.

 

" Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality, " Barbara Bush said.

And here

comes the fastball over the middle of the Democratic plate:

 

" And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were

underprivileged

anyway, so this is working very well for them. "

 

At least she didn't ask them to sing and dance. But I'm sure it's

working

out very well for them. How often does something nice like a

hurricane come

by and change your life so you can hang out with thousands of others

in the

Astrodome and have Barbara Bush say it wasn't so bad, because you

were poor

anyway?

 

By my calculations, Barb's foot is about a 10 1/2 EE, but by the time

you

read this on Wednesday, after Leno and Letterman get through with her,

she'll have an EEEE at least. There should be some back teeth stuck

to the

pinky toe when the surgeon general finally pulls it out.

 

You've got to figure that somewhere, former Texas Democratic Gov. Ann

Richards is smiling. It was Richards, or perhaps one of her pointy-

headed

ghostwriters, who came up with the devastating line about former

President

George H.W. Bush.

 

Richards said the former president couldn't be blamed for his

misstatements,

because he was born with a silver foot in his mouth. Now it turns out

Barbara was in charge of the silver. She polished it up good and

shiny. And

in political terms, she put her foot in her son's mouth and knocked

loose a

few teeth.