Working three jobs "uniquely American," Bush says

[GarySeven]

From Drudge, of all places (apologies if this is a dupe):

"...While talking with audience participants, the president met Mary Mornin, a woman in her late fifties who told the president she was a divorced mother of three, including a 'mentally challenged' son.

The President comforted Mornin on the security of social security stating that 'the promises made will be kept by the government.'

But without prompting Mornin began to elaborate on her life circumstances.

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MS. MORNIN: That's good, because I work three jobs and I feel like I contribute.

THE PRESIDENT: You work three jobs?

MS. MORNIN: Three jobs, yes.

THE PRESIDENT: Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that. (Applause.) Get any sleep? (Laughter.)

That's right - working three jobs to support a mentally challenged son is part of what it means to be an American, part of our heritage, part of our national pride. In what other nation could you possibly work to eke out a bare subsistence living? Thank God we all live in such a nation that any person - no matter how humble their origin - can grow old and die, having to work each and every day of their lives without protection from sickness, discriminiation or unsafe products, so that we can go to graves we cannot afford and return to the obscurity from which we came.

[rodeodance]

1. i think he had this mother up on stage with him (as I recall).

[Moderator]

2. locking

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