Originally posted by: sbp
The truth hurts Dems
Former first lady Barbara Bush doesn't think much of the nine Democrats vying to challenge her son, President Bush, in next year's election.
"So far, they are a pretty sorry group, if you want my opinion," Mrs. Bush said Monday in an interview on NBC's "Today" show. "This is the world according to Barbara Bush, not George, not George H.W., not anybody."
Bush's father also criticized the Democratic candidates, complaining that they have used "vicious rhetoric" against the president.
"The one who makes, you know, the most outrageous charges against the president, and then he gets his 20 seconds on the evening news," former President Bush said. "Hey, I didn't ride in here on a watermelon cart, I know how it works."
The interview is part of Barbara Bush's promotion of her new memoir, "Reflections: Life After the White House." The book begins with her son's inauguration and she acknowledges she did not think he would prevail in the razor-close 2000 election.
"I just thought it's too difficult," she said. "And you're not going to like this, but my gut feeling is that all the media is against George, Republicans, any Republican."
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Funny I always thought of Dems as spineless complainers who whine all the time.