London Times: Bush’s terrible twins try a little African charity

[DeepModem Mom]

(On edit: If these girls have indeed "grown up," and are engaged in worthwhile activity, even though service in Iraq is an option they didn't choose, maybe we should recognize their possible lifestyle change.)


Bush’s terrible twins try a little African charity
Tony Allen-Mills, Washington


THE terrible twins appear to have been tamed. After four years of grabbing headlines as the party-loving, cocktail-swilling student daughters of President George W Bush, Jenna and Barbara Bush have settled into an unexpectedly sedate adult lifestyle that yesterday found both of them in Africa helping children with Aids.

Jenna is accompanying her mother Laura on a five-day tour of African countries where the president’s wife will speak about Aids relief and education initiatives. Their first stop was South Africa, where Barbara Bush has been quietly working for the past six weeks as a volunteer in a children’s hospital.

The emergence of the 23-year-old twins as hard- working supporters of African causes is in marked contrast to their chequered careers as celebrity students with a penchant for breaking America’s draconian underage drinking laws....

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Jenna, the blonde one, last week accompanied her parents on an official visit to Denmark, followed by the G8 summit. The tight jeans and belly-baring tops had been replaced by a conservative tweed jacket and comparatively sober skirts.

Since her graduation last spring, Jenna has been working as a low-paid teaching assistant. Barbara, generally regarded as the more serious — or less frivolous — of the two, left Washington almost unnoticed in late May to work at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town....


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1687790,00.html

[aquart]

1. Good for them.

[goclark]

2. They are TRASH in skirts nt

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Now, now, goclark....

:)

[goclark]

11. They can't be without a binge but so long

Next thing you know they will be in a bar in Africa doing the Funky Butt!

[DeepModem Mom]

12. LOL!

[DemExpat]

17. Capetown is great for partying.

http://www.capetowntravel.com/entertainment/nightlife.asp

:D

DemEx

[Cha]

3. Whatever..

It's got to be hard to live down having a mass murderer as a father who is masquerading as the president(sic)of the USA.

Everything is about photo ops with the bushits.

Are they still pushing "abstinence"?

[recovering democrat]

4. Military uniforms

would look soooooooooooo much better on them than the "conservative tweed jacket and comparatively somber skirts".

Otherwise, I could really care less what they do. It is what their father does that I find so horrible.

[Taxloss]

6. These sloanes strike a sharp contrast with Chelsea, don't you think?

And believe me "sloanes" is a word I chose carefully. I had other, more pungent, words ready.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. LOL! Kudos for your British reserve, Taxloss. nt

[patrice]

8. They're GROOMING BOTH of THEM - God Help Us!

Please Lord, let them find meaning in their lives that doesn't include me and mine!!

Can't really imagine either one of them getting dirty doing real service.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

9. How much you wanna bet...

one (or maybe both?) of the Terrible Twosome will get married before Smirk's term is up? Ooh boy, a First Family Wedding to take our beautiful minds off of all the death and destruction.

[Demeter]

15. Stepford Husbands?

Kinda makes me shudder.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

18. Ugh - to fine, upstanding Young Republicans...

from prominent families. And they'll breed. Just what the world needs...

[CatWoman]

10. I have to be supportive of the Bush spawn

kudos to them.

Now, where's my garlic and crucifix? I've obviously been bitten :D

[DebinTx]

13. Looks to me like Barbara is the only one doing charity work

Jenna is just riding along with her mother, accomplishing what?

[llmart]

14. Their little stint in Africa doesn't fool me........

this is all just to take the heat off of the plummeting approval ratings. You don't know the real story. They're probably put up in a nice, cushy place and just make photo ops.

Yeah, I'm cynical. I don't believe any of this. They're still spoiled, rich kids.

[TankLV]

16. Again - why post this crap here? The repukes, and especially bunkerboy,

get enough fellating press 24/7/365 - we don't need to do their propaganda here.

Besides, this is NOT LBN - this same crap was posted here a couple days ago.