Jenna Bush is far more compassionate and insightful than Meghan McCain and Abby Huntsman.

[Drunken Irishman]

I didn't care for Bush's presidency but I think he, and Laura, did a good job with their daughters.

[lunatica]

1. I think their daughters grew up

Lots of people don’t. Trump, for example.

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Agreed but Jenna is always all class. Meghan McCain is not.

[lunatica]

4. Jenna was wild, but was probably always

a sweet person. I don’t remember her ever being nasty. She was probably as non political as any political kid can be. She’s turned out OK.

[GWC58]

9. Meghan is too much

Rightwing Nutjob-ish & Abbey Huntsman is getting there, fast! 👺👿

[Blue_true]

11. Meghan is like her dad. Many times John McCain seemed to stir shit just to see what happened.

She was brutally close to him for a good reason, that acorn didn't fall far from the tree.

[StevieM]

15. Meghan McCain is awful. (eom)

[TexasTowelie]

3. I agree with your first sentence,

but I think that you forgot about the underage drinking arrests in Austin.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4567576/Barbara-Jenna-Bush-write-college-drinking-arrest.html

[Volaris]

5. If that was the crucible that has made her better than her father, then so be it.

If that was her 'oh fuck, I'm turning into my dad' moment, and she had the insight to make a different choice, then all respect to her, as far as I'm concerned.

[dalton99a]

6. More details in this 2007 write-up:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/girl-gone-mild/

[democratisphere]

10. Kids will be kids.

Jenna and Barbara are now exceptional human beings.

[TexasTowelie]

13. I agree that kids will be kids

and I also know how my parents would have reacted if I was in a similar situation. In the overall grand scheme their transgressions were trivial and it's great that they became better people.

[sharedvalues]

16. Didn't one of them marry a wingnut right winger?

I’d love to hear more about the daughters, but I know that one of their husbands was in deep, and worked for Rove— by choice, not merely by birth.

[Bluepinky]

17. Meghan McCain's husband is a conservative writer, blogger and commentator.

Jenna Bush’s husband, Henry Hager, was previously an aid to Karl Rove

Barbara Bush married someone this fall, he doesn’t appear to be involved politically. But Barbara seems to be a wonderful young woman, who started up a nonprofit group that focuses on healthcare issues in underserved areas in this country and in Africa.

[phleshdef]

12. Thats meaningless, kids being kids type shit.

[TexasTowelie]

14. I agree that it's trivial.

I only wanted to point out that they were rebellious when they were younger--much like myself and millions of other young adults.

[pnwmom]

18. "Underage" is the operative word. I think we can forgive a college drinking offense,

can't we?

[TheBlackAdder]

19. Everyone does stupid stuff as kids, it's part of growing up.

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Most of us could have been arrested a dozen times as a kid, the rest a hundred times.

Jenna Bush's fame is probably what contributed to her arrest.



I can't tell you of how many kids I grew up with were complete reprobates, yet were never caught.

Then, years later, they seem to have amnesia and present themselves as being pious children to others.

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[dalton99a]

7. Agreed. They did a good job with the twins

[UTUSN]

8. Yip, I suffered from Meegan's month mourning and counting