Bush twins could give speeches, first lady says

[UpInArms]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-06-08-bush-twins_x.htm

SEA ISLAND, Ga. — The Bush twins, who have tried to stay out of view for most of their father's political career, may give campaign speeches this year, Laura Bush said Tuesday.

In an interview in the library of a borrowed house on the island where leaders of the world's industrial nations are meeting, Bush said Barbara and Jenna, 22, will work at the Arlington, Va., campaign headquarters when they return soon from a European vacation. They graduated from college this spring.

"They'll go work at the headquarters and then, if they feel confident enough, they may go out on the campaign trail a little bit," she said. Their focus will be young voters.



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[frank frankly]

1. let's make sure to attend and offer up some good Q&A when they are done

they will crack. how could anybody their age defend these facist amaggeddonists?

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Yeah, if they can stay sober and upright long enough....

[truthisfreedom]

15. the one on the left is not a bush. n/m

[Ediacara]

3. I doubt they'll give speaches FOR dad

Word on the street is that Jenna, and maybe Barbara too, are Democrats...

[JI7]

4. young voters like Jessica Lynch ?

[Les BOOGIE]

5. they'll probably be on taxpayers payroll for 80,000 year n/t

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[DinahMoeHum]

6. It's official. They're fair game for our barbs. Let it rip !!!

:evilgrin:

[jeff5]

46. They Deserve Respect

equivalent to that shown to Chelsea by Rush Limberger and company...

[bushisanidiot]

7. Maybe they'll pre-record it and do it Milli Vanilli style! ;)

they could dance, sing and mouth the words!!

[trogdor]

14. Or like Singin' In The Rain.

Pretty face, squeeeky voice.

[Endangered Specie]

8. I sure hope they don't FORGET what to say...

alcohol, youth, and stupidity will do that.

[kskiska]

9. Well, in that case I've lost all respect for them

As James Wolcott wrote in July's Vanity Fair:

I've come to have a grudging regard for the Bush twins. Jenna and Barbara may be spoiled brats – tarty party girls – but at least they're not perpetuating false pretenses, being used as attractive props and tweeting pieties they don't believe. An anonymous chum was quoted in Rush and Molloy's New York Daily News gossip column as saying that the daughters "don't buy into the conservative movement," and young Barbara's opposition to the execution of Karla Faye Tucker earns her special commendation..

"Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up," George Bernard Shaw wrote, and thus far the Bush twins have been undutiful daughters, licensed perhaps by their lenient mother, who's trapped in a gilded cage and cannot bring herself to sing.

[Voltaire99]

21. Wow. I remember when Wolcott was sharper than that.

If party-hardy naivete is all it takes to win Wolcott's regard these days, then maybe he'd like to hear me play my armpit rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Put a Bush daughter on either side of me, and we'll harmonize.

I've always liked Wolcott, a very keen stylist. The pity is he writes for a magazine by, for and about spoiled brats. Do that long enough, and you will start to view the beautiful people as the real people--and begin to read triumph in the babble of the blitzed-out rich.

[gauguin57]

26. oh, you'll want to read this one ...

Wolcott skewers the "strong women" Bush has supposedly "surrounded himself with" in Vanity Fair this month ... the piece is brutal and hilarious. I found myself saying, "ooooooh, GOOD ONE," about 25 times as I read the story (the one referencing the Bush twins, whose upbringing he characterizes with the words "coddling" and "entitlement" -- practically guaranteed to "spit out a pair of Hilton sisters"!!!

Wolcott makes Dubya look like a real creep, and some of the women around him look like mental cases. And he makes us think even LESS of Barbara (Sr.) than we already do!!!!

[Voltaire99]

38. OK, I'll give it a look

[Bunny]

34. Have you actually read Vanity Fair lately?

Graydon Carter is vehemently anti-Bush. Every month it seems there are very unflattering articles re: Bushco in its pages. It's got some celebrity items as well, but it most certainly is NOT "by, for and about spoiled brats".

[Voltaire99]

39. Er. . .have you? Let's see if VF is a brat publication

I say that Vanity Fair is "by, for and about spoiled brats." You strenuously deny it. Let's see if a recent cover helps your case or mine.

David Beckham's on the front, shirt off, abs glistening. See for yourself: www.condenet.com/mags/vanityfair. "Plus," promises the blurb, "a whole lot of personal stuff about him and Posh." Well, well. One point for me.

The next blurb is for a piece titled "Same Skeletons, Same Closet: Inside Bush and Kerry's Secret Yale Brotherhood." If the piece is, as advertised, a look at the aristo origins of Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, I might have to read it. Half a point for you, since it's at least partly critical of Bush (but apparently bipartisan in its bashing).

The next blurb reads "Class and Trash in St.-Tropez." It's about "the resort that was born with a thong on." Heh; weren't we all? One point for me.

Next: "Patriot Games: Richard Clark Still Has Something to Say." One point for you.

Looks like we're both right. There's some anti-Bush material, as you state. And there's a rich helping of brat fare, as I state. Should I get points for the perfume inserts? ;-)

Over the years since it was revived in the 80s, VF has published some useful journalism. Equally has it published plenty of right wing tripe from the pen of C. Hitchens and others. And I've nothing against its trashy side, all the fawning over aristos, celebs and fashion victims--my point was that this house policy of celebrating brats drags down brilliant writers like Wolcott. If the magazine's half to three-quarters crap, there's no preventing spills.

[loyalsister]

45. huh?

I would think one would appreciate the fact that it includes some writers who have something of substance to say.
This assessment of quality of the publication based on audience seems to be an imposition of self-presumed intellectual superiority.

[Bridget Burke]

10. Mostly, they'll stay out of sight.

But they'll be in a place where they can be supervised. No trouble allowed!

[Cocoa]

11. they're not fighting in Iraq

just like Dad, they were too busy politicking for some repuke.

[NashVegas]

12. Stop Pimping Your Daughters, Pickles

geez

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[hatrack]

16. "Like, voter fer my Dad, ya know? That would be, like (*hic*) COOL!!"

Can't wait to hear their thoughts on foreign policy and the tax structure.

[w13rd0]

17. Sorry...

...but if Bush decides to use his "twins" to advance his lies, they become fair game. Isn't this the way of Boosh? Over and over, throw Colin under the train, throw Condi, throw the twins, throw Stepford Laura, pffft...

[Submariner]

18. If they have time for a Yurp vacation

why don't they go to Iraq and help those wounded by their daddy's war?

[notadmblnd]

32. according to my 11 yr old son...

the correct way to spell Europe is YERP. I get confused when I read it a yurp I'm too used to interpreting his phonetically spelled words.

[Malva Zebrina]

19. I have the feeling that Jenna is being primed to enter politics in some

form to continue the Bush dynasty--just a feeling

[AlGore-08.com]

20. That headline is really unfortunate - - sounds like "Donkeys could fly"

This just in: pResident Bush could walk and chew gum at the same time. Scientists at NASA are rumored to have developed a super-strong but lightweight computer controlled "exoskeleton" which would co-ordinate the pResident's voluntary muscle activities...

[Voltaire99]

22. "Their focus will be young voters." Whose focus will be their cleavage.

You go, girls. The frat boy vote is never a given.

[CO Liberal]

23. No - Their Focus Will Be Their Next Drink

Like father, like daughter......

[Tommy_Douglas]

24. Young Voters...

What exactly could they say to me?

"Hey we're rich, spoiled, had everything handed to us, and now we'd like to talk to you about voting Republican..."

Piss off...

[Emboldened Chimp]

25. Say it once, say it a thousand times: FAIR GAME

[0007]

27. I'm getting sicker and sicker and sicker

:puke:
:puke:
:puke:

[Bandit]

28. Monkey See Monkey Do

Gore's daughter speaks at DNC

LOS ANGELES -- Al Gore's eldest daughter tried to soften her father's image in a Democratic National Convention speech, praising his "old-fashioned politeness" as "refreshing in today's world" and providing personal insight into the man who could be president.
<snip>

To the delight of the roaring crowd, Schiff walked off stage arm-in-arm with her dad. Her mother Tipper and siblings Kristin and Albert III applauded from the audience.
Schiff's goal was to humanize the candidate best known as a stiff policy wonk. So the 27-year-old and mother of a 13-month-old highlighted the role that family plays in Gore's life and shared stories designed to illustrate the kind of father he has been to his four children.
"Dad is a man of faith in the most gutsy, practical sense. He wants to see goodness prevail," an animated Schiff said.
<snip>
Delegates from Alaska cheered as Schiff recalled how he taught her to build an igloo that she and a friend wanted to spend the night in. So Gore bundled them up, ferried out hot chocolate and "welcomed us like adventurers back from the North Pole" when "we ended up waddling back inside, our lips blue from the cold."

http://quest.cjonline.com/stories/081700/dem_0817005598.shtml

[cliss]

29. Oh, heh heh this'll be great

I'd love to hear the little girls talk about the virtues of abstaining from drinking, since they're going to be targeting young audiences. Maybe dad'll listen.

[TryingToWarnYou]

30. Speeches? Heres some ideas....

Some suggested topics for speeches:

How to use a beer bong

How to use the other kind of bong

How to ditch the secret service guys so you can get plastered.

Investing in quality fake ID's

Living with an alcoholic father

[Neshanic]

35. "Keeping Family Values in compromising positions"

[proud patriot]

31. They enter the Campaign, they are no longer off limits IMHO

The media will then be able to talk about them

[Bluebear]

33. Theme: "Dos Exxis or Corona -- YOU decide!" nt

[TahitiNut]

36. "Hello. My name is Jenna and I'm an alcoholic."

:shrug:

[Galley_Queen]

37. The Duh Duh Duhbya Twins

"Hold my beer and watch this!"

[drscm]

40. Do you suppose that they'll be able to pronounce the words? eom

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[young_at_heart]

41. Will they go after the "youth vote"?

Somehow they don't inspire me as knowledgeable about anything related to politics!

[Nihil]

42. Yep, I bet they could!

I'm *sure* that the twins could give speeches.

What's more, they are both educated, literate and (barring the effects
of the odd binge) are well-spoken.

That puts them well above their father in terms of suitability to run
the country, never mind just give speeches. Let 'em go!

Nihil

[Piperay]

43. I doubt they can stay sober

long enough to campaign. :beer: :beer: :hangover:

[RapidCreek]

44. Like the ones they gave at frat parties in College Station?

Heck I'd be up for a couple of those kinds of speeches....as long as they're buying.

RC