Our Marie Antoinette

Nature vs. Nurture for Our Leader? Here's a case study in what a "good" upbringing can lead to.

From the matriarch of the Bush clan:

At a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "This is working very well for them."

"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."

Barbara Bush: Things Working Out "Very Well" for Poor Evacuees from New Orleans

This from the women who also said:

Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

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