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I'm watching Spike Lee's Very Important and epic 4-hour documentary When the Levees Broke . In addition to reminding me of many things which went Horribly Wrong in the summer of 2005, the movie plays Barbara Bush's crass and insensitive remark about the victims of Hurricane Katrina being in a position to benefit from the hurricane. Although receiving aid is nice and all, the way she said those words - and the unfeeling boorish sentiment it exposes showcases her to the world as a disgusting harpy. And, the mother of the current U.S. president too. I was curious to see the results of a Google search for the pointed headline I chose for this comment. It turns out this isn't a unique sentiment in the least -unsurprisingly, really. Her exact words - thanks Japan Today - were: "and so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this — this is working very well for them," Spike Lee's movie is even-handed enough to point out that there are both elements of not...