Bush daughters edge back into spotlight

[sabra]

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http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/12125711.htm

Bush daughters edge back into spotlight

JENNIFER LOVEN

Associated Press


DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - In front of the television cameras, Jenna Bush listens silently to Tanzanian orphans who have been left by AIDS with no family. Across the continent in South Africa, twin sister Barbara quietly cares for children afflicted with the devastating disease.

First lady Laura Bush's trip to Africa this week has brought her 23-year-old daughters back into the spotlight that they have shunned for most of their father's presidency. The trip also found them - at least by Wednesday - dealing with it in different ways.

Jenna Bush has emerged as a prominent, if quiet, partner in her mother's African goodwill tour. Accompanying Mrs. Bush as she left South Africa for Tanzania and the trip's final stop in Rwanda, Jenna decided to begin taking part in all her mother's events.

It was a reversal from the early part of the trip, when both she and Barbara did everything they could to remain unseen and unheard.

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[neuvocat]

1. How sad they're more charitable than Bush.

That confirms it for me: he isn't their dad.

[leesa]

12. Strictly PR.

[neuvocat]

13. True

[merwin]

23. Laura is pro-choice. I think there's a lot more that she disagrees with

him on, but is too much of a coward to say anything. Just sits there and smiles like a good wife is supposed to.

[Maddy McCall]

27. Really? I've never heard this.

[wallwriter]

2. Don't they know there's a war on? ENLIST! ENLIST! ENLIST!!

[renaissanceguy]

18. I join you in shouting

ENLIST, YOU LITTLE BITCHES!


http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.26198687

[democratic veteran]

24. Enlist?

Enlist, don't you know they are busy defending the millionaire's money like good republican's should.

[puddycat]

3. What? They are not in the service fighting in Iraq? n/t

[FlemingsGhost]

4. Paris Hilton-style diplomacy.

I'm so proud to be an American.

[LiviaOlivia]

5. Ginna and Tonic do Africa

I bet they're privately asking Mom: "Can we go home now?"

[natrat]

6. gross

[Old and In the Way]

7. I wish I could believe that their motivations are grounded in personal

convictions...but I don't.

[Missy Vixen]

8. Something's going on

>It was a reversal from the early part of the trip, when both she and Barbara did everything they could to remain unseen and unheard.<

Does this strike anyone else as a bit, well, smelly?
Why do I think that we're going to be inundated over the next few days with winsome photographs of Jenna and NotJenna with all the kids they can round up? After all, we can't demand Karl Rove resign. It's much more important to focus on the Jenna and NotJenna Humanitarian Tour.

Julie

[ebayfool]

31. The Jenna and NotJenna Humanitarian Tour ... yup!

They've tried everything else to deflect attention, now we get to meet the bottom of the barrel. I don't know just how much sympathy they can generate w/these two, though.

An awfully fast reversal in attitude - they spend all that time dodging the press, then have some kind of mystical overnight transformation that makes them decide to embrace it?

Yup, :freak:

[0007]

9. What a bullshit article......


Jenna did everything she could to remain unseen and unheard?

[leesa]

10. I thought Laura The Joker' Bush was busy ending the scourge of inner city

gang violence. What happened to THAT ruse? Has the problem been solved already??

[GreenArrow]

16. she's traced the source of the gang problem

back to Africa, and is investigating further in the field.

[Divernan]

11. Much ado about nothing: Jenna handed out trinkets; Barb spent a few weeks

"working in a south African hospital with a few friends." With no medical training - what could she do in the way of "work" - do you think they had her emptying bedpans? And " a few weeks" is no commitment at all. Probably barely learned her away around the hospital facilities. Hey, Barbara - Join the Peace Corps!

And Jenna was playing Lady Bountiful, handing out trinkets such as pens and postcards of her pets to the little black kids. Boy, that white man's burden is sure onerous!

Given how their father did not deliver on his big-mouth promises of foreign aid to Africa for the AIDS problem, these de minimis actions by these two wastrel women does not impress. I bet their grandmother is really worried about them ruining their beautiful minds, surrounded by suffering as they are in Africa.

[Vickers]

14. 23 years old? Get your ass to a recruiter's office!

C'mon, spreading freedom, promoting democracy, freeing the oppressed, you know, all that bullshit your dimwitted dad talks about!

[oasis]

15. Bush pleaded for new recruits a few weeks ago. It's time to ante up girls.

Don't be like your daddy when his nation needed him. GWB:hide:

[ovidsen]

17. Stay tuned!

The Bush twins will soon be touring with Cameron Diaz for a wild TV series special on cool ways to help the disadvantaged in Africa! It's coming soon on VH1!

Maybe after that they'll all enlist...

[bushisanidiot]

19. When daddy AWOL was their age he was drunk driving and snortin' coke

looks like the girls have some catchin' up to do to keep up with 'ol pops.

[shanti]

20. oh paleeze!

i'm sure they were forced to do this! a tiger doesn't change its stripes.
:puffpiece:

[Demeter]

21. Well, They Can Just Edge Right Back Out

Honestly, we've got the perfect Presidential offspring example in Chelsea Clinton. Posers, take note of how it's done: with grace and class and breeding.

[Seabiscuit]

22. How does one "edge" into a spotlight????

[July]

33. The same way you become a "prominent" yet "quiet" partner.

Always remember, words have no meaning for this administration.

[mitchum]

25. Just window dressing and PR bullshit

The ENTIRE family can go to hell

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[pinniped]

28. I hereby nominate them both for the Nobel Prize.

In what field, I have no idea.

[B Calm]

29. I hereby nominate them both to enlist their help in Iraq!

[pinniped]

30. Impossible, the repuke quota in Iraq has been met with the arrival...

of those repuke radio hosts.

[booksenkatz]

32. Telling Jenna about your difficult life? You might as well tell

the cat.

[LibDemAlways]

34. This is so transparent.

Chimp's poll numbers are in the toilet. These two useless bimbettes spent their college years and post college year partying. They giggled their way through the repuke convention last summer.

Now, when chimp desperately needs a boost in the polls, the Girls Gone Wild suddenly go public associating themselves with charity work in Africa. AIDs babies no less.

Smells like a cynical PR ploy to me.

[onager]

35. Wag The Dog(s)!

n/t

[symbolman]

36. Fuck that!

DRAFT THEM! FRONT LINES - they helped the creature run for another SQUAT in OUR White House, they can sure as hell sign up on the dotted line and go fight for the freedoms their daddy screams about..

Maybe we should all stop by the enlistment centers wherever we live and have a mass mailing to the white house of Enlistment FORMS all filled out with his daughters names?!!!

I just may start this on Takebackthemedia.com when I get time, anyone think it would be worth it? Newsworthy?

[UTUSN]

37. Thank Goodness They're Rested Up after Their Exhausting Campaigning

from the election.