In the December issue of Playboy magazine, Natalie Maines--the Dixie Chick who made controversial comments about George W. Bush a few years ago--has kind words for another Bush basher:
"Some people call me brave, but I don't think what I did was brave at all. Brave is Kanye West, after Hurricane Katrina, saying George Bush doesn't care about black people. That was one of the greatest television moments of all time. I would never have said that. I'm a coward compared with him. It was so honest and sincere, and he knew what he was going to say. I would have chickened out. That was just so brave. And true."
That quote wasn't "brave" by Kanye West. It was ignorant and grossly misinformed. I don't really want to get political on this site, but Kanye doesn't have a clue about the President. I mean, he didn't even address Bush's hatred of Mexicans, Asians, women, kittens, apple-pie, sunsets, etc. It's like he dipped his toe into the pool but didn't jump in.
It's been far too long since we've had a great George W. Bush-Doctor analogy. Thanks Barbra Streisand!
'I'M SURE President Bush is a very nice guy, but some people voted for him because they thought he was a person they could have a beer with. What is that about?! Do you want to have a beer with the doctor who's going to operate on you, or do you want him to be the top of his class . . . be a bit in awe of him?"
I would love to have a beer with a doctor who was going to operate on me. I've always wanted to have a "crazy surgery story" in my back pocket that I could bust out at parties to impress the ladies. Sure it would suck to have a scalpel left in my lower intestine but that's the price you gotta pay for being the life of the party. The fact that I'd probably end up starring in my own TLC special about surgery mishaps is just gravy. That kind of story would totally beat my story about almost meeting Dustin Diamond at the mall when I was in high school.
