The Silver Foot strikes again.

Former Texas Governor Ann Richards once said of George Bush the Elder that he was born with a "silver foot in his mouth."

Evidently it's a family thing. While volunteering with George the Elder at the Astrodome helping refugees from the storm, Ms. Bush said: " And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this - this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

Oh really? Working very well means having your home and possessions destroyed, and having to spend several days in a hot, fetid stadium with no certainty of rescue? Having to wander the streets of a destroyed city, with disease, armed thugs, and no food or water except what you can loot from find in abandoned stores?

It looks like at least one person in the Astrodome was over-privileged. This is where the Bushes come from - a place where failure and misery don't exist, and where people get second, third, and sixteenth chances after they make a mistake or are the victim of circumstance. And the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree - George W. Bush ate cake with John McCain and clowned with country singers while thousands of people in New Orleans starved and drowned.