Do the Bush twins even have jobs?

[devilgrrl]

Some wrote a post whining about Chelsea Clinton's $100,000+ plus salary for actually WORKING!!!!!! :wow:

Well, what about Barbara and Jenna? What are they doing for a living?

[JuniperLea]

1. Chelsea sure is looking cute these days

and she is one sharp cookie. Good on her!

[Lochloosa]

37. Yes, she certainly has grown up..

[Sanity Claws]

2. They're from a rich family.

They don't have to work. Work is just for serfs like us.

[friesianrider]

3. Yeah Chelsea that slacker...

She is a fucking Rhodes Scholar (and it sounds like she is a pretty smart cookie on her own merit and not Daddy's last name), so it isn't like she graduated from State U. with a 2.5 GPA.

I know Jenna supposedly works as a teacher, although I doubt it given what a flake she is. Don't know what Babs does, if anything.

[daninthemoon]

5. I think I heard Bill say she is doing something about building hospitals.

[CottonBear]

I don't think Chelsea's a Rhodes Scholar, but she did attend Oxford

University in England. Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar.

Jenna couldn't get a teaching position until she passed a certification test (No Child Left Behind rule). Barbara was/is supposedly teaching in South Africa(?)

They really don't ever have to work if they have access to the family fortune through allowances, trusts or inheritances.

I haven't seen them or heard about them since right after the new year. They're probably embarrassed by Idiot Dad and are laying low for security purposes.

[friesianrider]

12. You're right CB

I checked online and of course Bill was a RS, and so was her boyfriend. Thanks for the clarification :)

[CottonBear]

17. You're welcome! n/t

[elehhhhna]

19. jenna wen tto Africa and the Grand Canyon w/ her mom this summer

[elehhhhna]

20. jenna wen tto Africa and the Grand Canyon w/ her mom this summer

[tenshi816]

21. According to Kitty Kelley's book,

the Bush women don't work. Ever.

[Patiod]

14. uhh...hello...what's WRONG with a 2.5 from a State U???????

Geez, the insensitivity of some people around here!!!!!

B-)

/go Nittany Lions!

[friesianrider]

26. LOL...

I can make fun of state universities because I go to Penn State (but thankfully my GPA is better than a 2.5! :P

[Sanity Claws]

31. Penn State? Is that the same as the State Pen?

[Patiod]

45. Oh, that's original

Never heard THAT one before

[StellaBlue]

49. State universities ROCK

They are PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. Like PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

[Patiod]

15. dupe

[arcos]

4. They do have blow jobs at least...

:evilgrin:

[lancdem]

6. Someone on DU wrote that?

Chelsea's a consultant in New York. A $120,000 salary in N.Y. is like $30,000 where I live. Plus, she has a master's from Oxford so she's highly qualified.

[devilgrrl]

10. yes. here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4818983&mesg_id=4819230

[StellaBlue]

52. I have a masters in English

from the second-ranked English dept. in the UK (after Oxford)...

you think they will hire me?

am I 'qualified'?

Funny, I can't seem to find a job here in Texas...

Chelsea is a product of elitist social promotion, cronyism, nepotism, entitlement, what have you, just like the Bush girls.

Let's hope she uses her position to do GOOD in the world. I hope so.

[abluelady]

7. Maybe They're Like Their Dad

They have jobs, but they don't work. Jobs=work? Not in the Bushes' cases.

[SteppingRazor]

8. Jenna teaches at a low-income school in D.C. -- no, seriously!

I know it's weird, but it's true.

Last I heard, Babs was doing work with AIDS victims in Africa.

I know, I know -- again, seems a little weird. Maybe they've got Rich Guilt Syndrome? :shrug:

[CottonBear]

16. That's good news. I think they avoid being seen w/ * & Pickles

as much as possible. I don't think they like their dad's politics at all. Didn't Barbara speak out against an execution in Texas a few years ago?

[SteppingRazor]

23. I think they're just not that interested in politics in general. n/t

[goclark]

18. Uuum I thought she decided to not take that teaching job

If Barb jr was in Africa where are all the photo ops?
I can't imagine not seeing her with a lion or two.

[NYCGirl]

24. From article I cited in my post below:

At the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, children sit on their mothers' laps in waiting rooms, waddle down hallways, and wail inside the burn unit, where nurses carefully wrap gauze around their arms, legs, and heads.

It is here, say some doctors and nurses, that Barbara Bush, one of President Bush's twin daughters, has been working in near anonymity as a volunteer.

(snipped)

Barbara Bush's experience in Africa might seem a made-to-order moment for good publicity, a chance for the Bush family to show a connection between policy and personal conviction. But the Bushes apparently will have none of that.

Watkins declined to say anything about Barbara Bush's stay in South Africa, noting that on principle the White House does not discuss the activities of the president's daughters, mainly because of security concerns.

[SteppingRazor]

27. No photo ops allowed, apparently.

Story here:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2005/07/06/bush_daughter_is_said_to_volunteer_in_s_africa/

[July]

34. Doesn't that seem odd?

From the photo op family?

Makes me wonder if it's true, since Bush SOP is exploit every opportunity and blast the photo all over.

[pitohui]

50. i doubt it's true

but i don't blame her, i wouldn't work either if i was filthy stinkin rich, life is too short

[July]

35. Teacher's aide.

Supposedly snagged by a NCLB requirement and couldn't be a teacher.

[mcar]

39. That's what the WH says

but are they really doing that? That was the spin during the campaign but I've seen no sign that they are actually working.

You can be sure that if Jenna and Not Jenna were doing those things, we'd have seen photos by now.

[JuniperLea]

42. Exactly, now see post #11

and watch this putt.

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[calico1]

11. Its kind of hard to hold down a job

when you are drunk, stoned, or hungover most of the time. :rofl:

[NYCGirl]

13. Barbara is volunteering at a hospital in South Africa

http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2005/07/06/bush_daughter_is_said_to_volunteer_in_s_africa/

[Divernan]

25. Read the whole article - no one first hand confirms her presence there

The Director of the Hospital says: "it's news to me." The head of the Hospital Volunteer Group says if Barbara Bush was there, she hadn't signed up through the volunteer group. There's one quote that someone "heard" Barbara Bush visited a pediatric burn unit a couple of times a week.

I had heard she was there for less than a month with a couple of friends. She certainly has no training for such work. If she really cared about pediatric aids, she would have followed through with the Baylor program - and she didn't.

[NYCGirl]

28. I did read it. We don't know for sure. She may have and maybe not.

That's all. Either way, it's refreshing they didn't try to make political hay out of it.

[Divernan]

29. But your post says she IS, and you admit you don't know

If you want to see what real volunteers do in Africa, go see the film, The Constant Gardener. It will break your heart at the fate of Africans and their children. But these people are not dabbling at stopping by a few times a week. They are getting up close and personal as the saying goes. If Barbara Bush is breaking with the Bush family tradition of greed and self-interest, she would do a million times more good to do it publicly and put pressure on the Bush administration to put money into health care for American as well as African children, and not pour billiions a month into the blood-soaked sands of Iraq.

Look at the good Princess Diana did in publicizing the injuries to children from mines in war areas, and the suffering of those with aids.

Each Bush daughter COULD do a world of good, but neither of them is.

[NYCGirl]

30. I hope she IS doing something, and I hope she ISN'T publicizing it.

It'd be nice to think that there is some decency (probably from their mother's side).

[tabasco]

32. Decency from their mother's side?

If not for good old boy Texas justice, Laura Bush would have been convicted of manslaughter.

Around my parts, they call it vehicular manslaughter, and you DO get charged under the circumstances of the Laura (Welch) Bush case.

[NYCGirl]

33. Do you think she meant to do that?

Edited to add: I have nothing against her. She's just married to the creep.

[tabasco]

43. It's possible. As I understand it, it was a recent boyfriend.

Lonely intersection. Only two cars in the vicinity. You tell me.

Laura married into money, rather than finding a man with character. She has become part and parcel of the Bush crime syndicate. She helps GWB catapult the propaganda and is complicit in the crimes of the administration.

[NYCGirl]

51. What about the other girl in the car with Laura? Do you think she'd

take the chance of killing them both?

Edited to add: You know, sometimes you fall in love with guys who aren't right — it sucks, but it happens. Maybe she loves the fool.

[melody]

22. being public embarrassments?

Just like their dear, old dad.

[Iris]

36. whether or not the Bush girls have jobs doesn't discount the fact that

$100K is an extremely high salary for a under-25 "consultant."

[marshall]

40. The rich get richer

It's unfortunately part of the American system, no matter who you are.

[Beaverhausen]

41. Not in New York City

[Iris]

47. Uh - my sister graduated the same year as Chelsea and she started out at

30K in NYC, which is part of the reason she now resides in Atlanta.

[Stinky The Clown]

38. The twins are doing what they always do .......

.... which is shit like this. Like father like daughter.

[MrSlayer]

44. They really don't need jobs.

If I came from that kind of money I would never work a day in my life.

[stanwyck]

46. Sure they have jobs. Just not

the kind most of us would recognize. These are society girl type jobs. You don't have to get up before 9am and fight rush hour traffic to get there. Or, heaven forbid, take mass transit. You don't really have a time you're expected in the office. But you are expected to be on hand for photo opps. during corporate social occasions -- to impress the fat cats.
You don't really have any assignments. And don't bother learning the day to day office routines. Maybe come by the office once or twice a week. To have lunch with the suits.
They might need your advice on buying some new artwork for their offices or what gifts to give their administrative assistants.
They have jobs the same as Barbara Bush did...or Nancy Reagan (who actually did have a short-lived acting career). But very different from Elizabeth Edwards or Hillary Clinton.
Think more the rich girls from the '50's. The conservative's favorite decade.
These girls work about as hard as their Daddy.
Only I don't think we've seen either one of them clearing brush.

[pitohui]

48. no they don't have jobs last i heard

why should they take a job from someone who actually needs it anyway

there are limited numbers of jobs & i doubt these girls are good for anything except abusing alcohol