Folks on this forum have made many good and worthy points about Katrina and its aftermath. However, Barbara Bush seems to have rendered moot all future debate over who was to blame, what should have been done, etc.:
Ex-first lady sees Katrina's good side
Washington -- As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who "were underprivileged anyway," saying many of the poor she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit.
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in an interview Monday with the American Public Media radio program "Marketplace." "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them."
Maybe wiser heads have more to add -- I, for one, am speechless.
Caroline
Ex-first lady sees Katrina's good side
Washington -- As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who "were underprivileged anyway," saying many of the poor she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit.
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in an interview Monday with the American Public Media radio program "Marketplace." "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them."
Maybe wiser heads have more to add -- I, for one, am speechless.
Caroline