Out of Touch: Remember when this President Bush’s father didn’t know that supermarkets used optical scanners at the check out? You do? Good. Now watch this CNN of the current president when he encountered two sisters in dire straits during his visit to Biloxi, Miss. on Friday September 2, 2005:
Bush to women: “There’s a Salvation Army center that I want to, that I’ll tell you where it is, and they’ll get you some help. I’m sorry . . . They’ll help you. . . . ”
Woman 1: “I came here looking for clothes. . . . ”
Bush: “They’ll get you some clothes, at the Salvation Army center. . . . ”
Woman 1: “We don’t have anything. . . . ”
Bush: “I understand. . . . Do you know where the center is, that I’m talking to you about?”
Guy with shades: “There’s no center there, sir, it’s a truck.”
Bush: “There’s trucks?”
Guy: “There’s a school, a school about two miles away. . . . ”
Bush: “But isn’t there a Salvation center down there?”
Guy: “No that’s wiped out. . . . ”
Bush: “A temporary center?”
Guy: “No sir they’ve got a truck there, for food.”
Bush: “That’s what I’m saying, for food and water.”
Bush then turns to the woman who’s been saying how she needs clothes and tells her: “You need food and water.”
