Howell Raines Beats Up on Bush's "Brutality"
Posted by: Clay Waters
6/22/2006 12:38:19 PM
From page 213 of former Times Executive Editor Howell Raines' new memoir (ostensibly about his love of fly-fishing), "The One that Got Away," Raines compares the Bushes to the Clintons and finds one first family rather lacking:
“The Clintons may have lacked social graces, but they did have a social conscience. The dazzling commonness of the Bushes in this regard beats anything I ever expected to see. If generations of wealth and education in the best schools cannot produce a smidgen of nobility in a family, what’s the point? The elder Bush was simply myopic when it came to less fortunate citizens. This younger Bush and his minions meet a needful world with a combination of Eastern snobbery and Texas brutality. Their response to the poor, the lame, the dark of skin is to ignore them, as Hurricane Katrina showed, or otherwise to tax them, convert them, enlist them or electrocute them.”
More lovely quotes from this gracious man's book to come.
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