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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:44 AM
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In all fairness, Barbara Bush's quote is being taken out of context
Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 11:45 AM by tk2kewl
She is widely quotes as saying this:

this is working very well for them


But what she actually said was this:

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.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054719

So, lets be fair and accurate, and let everyone know what she REALLY meant.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:45 AM
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1. Indeed. It's GOOD to be fair. nt
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:46 AM
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5. ..and balanced.
:mad::grr:
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:46 AM
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2. Exactly.
Let's make sure the full import is given.
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:46 AM
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3. You're right! It's not as bad as we are making it out to be...
ITS WORSE :nuke:
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:49 AM
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11. I no longer view this morph of mine as hyperbole...
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:56 AM
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21. nope, pure reality
Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 11:56 AM by MadAsHellNewYorker
:grr:

and great morph, btw! :yourock:
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:56 AM
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22. GREAT GIF!!!
saved that one for school
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spuddonna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:46 AM
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4. Totally agree! :)
It really isn't fair that they take her quote out of context. I demand that the MSM play the entire thing!! Think I'll send a note to Keith Olbermann...
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:47 AM
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7. Excellent idea!
:thumbsup:
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:47 AM
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6. We must always be fair.
I think we owe it to them.
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:48 AM
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8. Movin on up... to the Astrodome
Ugh. She's awful
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seshers Donating Member (206 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:48 AM
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9. What she actually said is WORSE
So I agree. Let the quote speak for itself, in it's entirety. She's a classist, racist pig. How about that?
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:23 PM
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28. an insult to pigs everywhere!
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:48 AM
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10. Accuracy and context are important
If you don't have that, you may not get the real story.

Thanks for your precise correction.
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:55 AM
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19. I think this quote might be my 9/24 poster.
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flakey_foont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:50 AM
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12. Old Lady Bush shoots off her piehole again
'compassionate conservatism!"................the apple doesn't fall far from the tree does it?
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:51 AM
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13. The apples are rotten to the core.
:puke:
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:51 AM
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14. Lemme see, this is what you printed as what Barbara Bush said...
..."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."

That's pretty clear to me. Nothing out of context there.

Now take the other statement made by Barbara: "...What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality."

That's pretty clear to me also. Seems to put everything into context.

Barbara is saying, "For God's sake people in Texas, stop being so nice to these people who are destroying your beautiful minds. Now they'll all want to stay in Texas and expect this nice treatment all the time!"
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:52 AM
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17. Now you're getting the picture
;)
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:51 AM
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15. I was amazed she took the time
2 allow her beautiful mind 2 wander among the 'underprivileged'. JC & lemonade, when was the last time U heard someone use that word?
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:11 PM
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27. I think it's time to coin a new word...
"overprivileged"
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Sentath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:34 PM
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29. overprivileged is not new at all
One of the scariest definitions comes from here:
http://www.marketingpower.com/mg-dictionary-view2302.php

and says in part "that has more than enough money to purchase the necessities ... appropriate for its class status."

<bad UC accent>Anyone for a round of class war?</bad>
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complain jane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:52 AM
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16. I don't think there's much difference unless I'm misunderstanding it
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:53 AM
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18. The point is that what she said is far WORSE than what is being reported
Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 11:54 AM by tk2kewl
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 11:55 AM
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20. God, I LOVE how the MSM is so FAIR and BALANCED
:grr:
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4 t 4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:01 PM
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25. What about
"the chuckle" what the fuck is so funny It sounds to me like she thinks this is an improvement for those people. How mean can you get?
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:06 PM
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26. There is no God.
If ever someone deserved to be struck dead on the spot by lighting...
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:46 PM
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30. That's fair. And it's still horrible.
What an elitist bitch.
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 01:07 PM
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33. its WORSE... and everyone in America should here the ENTIRE quote
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melissinha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:56 PM
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31. yeah right
they like the dignity of showering en masse, waiting in line for food, sleeping in a large room with the lights on and in many cases, speakers blaring, they like wearing hand-me downs....

This disdain by Barbara only furthers my view of what should happen tot he Bush family, because father and sons have gambled with the finances of millions of people,when we get him, we should take his entire family's fortune ptu it back in teh treasury, leavnign them penniless and to deal with the life in the "Ownership society".
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 01:34 PM
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34. penniless and powerless
then let's see if any of their elite supporters will help them out
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defiant1 Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 01:01 PM
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32. What?!?
An inconsiderate, out of touch Bush?!?!??

I didn't think any existed.

:sarcasm:
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 03:55 PM
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35. Kick n/t
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 03:57 PM
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36. Texas hospitality
Oh yeah, baby. Once you get to Texas you don't wanna leave.
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chicagiana Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 04:30 PM
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37. Yes living in a stadium ...

Yes, living in a stadium with beds 3 feet to your left, right front and back is working out quite well you freeper bitch. We should all be so lucky to live in an abandoned sports stadium with nothing but the clothes on your back and some old matriach Republican hag to chuckle and tell you how lucky you are.

The Bush clan never had the "Warm Springs" experience. They never learned what it's like to be an "average American".

In order to emphasize, I'm sure that old Marie-Antoinette Bush would have to spend the night at a Holiday Inn which lacked coolies to beat when you get frustrated.
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