What to Wear When Visiting Hospital Patients ---pix->>>

[Stephanie]

Barbara Bush, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush, participates in a discussion with her mother, U.S. first lady Laura Bush (not pictured), during a visit to Saint Mary's Hospital in Gwagwalada, outside of Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006. The U.S. government is supporting Saint Mary's Hospital in preventing mother to child transmission of HIV by providing antiretroviral drugs which are being distributed free of charge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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[fasttense]

2. Do you think she could show some cleavage?

Our wounded soldiers would sure appreciate a visit like this.

[ktlyon]

13. that is cleavage?

defective buttons, there should be a law... this poor child is a victim of defective buttons........ just kidding I blame the mother for letting her out in public like that... really I don't care poor taste is everywhere

[Javaman]

23. wardrobe malfunction...n/t

[ktlyon]

26. yes

funny

[havocmom]

3. Hmmm, Jenna not the only twin with hostility toward parental unit

[Botany]

4. I have no problem w/ her outfit ....

.... it is Africa and it hot. I just hope she goes back and tells dad that
condoms stop Aids .... and his right wing fundy ideas help spread it.

[Lerkfish]

5. In pic one, she has the same Zanax stare of her mom.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

58. Damn, I thought I was the only one who's been seeing that

She takes on the glazed Stepford look more and more as she ages.

She'll make an investment banker a fine wife some day.

[madrchsod]

6. yup- true class

mom`s got her virgin white on....do either of these twits respect foreign customs? it certainly doesn`t appear so

[NanceGreggs]

7. What a lovely example of Good Family Christian Values ...

One can just imagine what would have been said by the Fundies and the Family Values crowd had Chelsea Clinton paraded around in an outfit like this while on an 'official' trip ...

[MemphisTiger]

8. She has a hot quality about her in the first pic

She's revolting at the same time captivating.


I think I need a drink. :beer:

[Lochloosa]

42. It's like someone you know will get slutty with you...

at 2am leaving the bar

[MrModerate]

9. The total lack of class in the Bush clan . . .

Seems genetic. Laura is thick as a brick and Babs senior is a certifiable gorgon with a tin ear the size of Texas.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

92. gorgon

:spray:

[ewagner]

10. I don't get it...

The Bushies control EVERYTHING with such an iron fist, I don't understand how they can slip up by letting Barbara (or Jenna for that matter) wear the clothes they do.... It doesn't fit the mold....

[FreedomAngel82]

32. Maybe they're the one's

who have control over everything. ;) Like they tell dear old daddy they're where this or that or they'll spill secrets. I wonder if they know Jeffy boy.

[patrice]

11. Another Follower.

Tacky chic is In, and we Must be In.

What's she doing with that lady's hand? Holding the index finger? I hold hands with others often, this certainly doesn't look like holding hands to me.

[LibDemAlways]

12. She looks disheveled, like

she was interrupted from a nap and told to get her ass out there and pose for the cameras. You would think her mother or an aide would have told her to button her blouse and hide the bra straps. This is a trip at taxpayer expense. If she's going to go, she ought to make some effort to look presentable when cameras are present.

[goclark]

14. There is another photo of her in a TIGHT green dress

she looked like Pamela Anderson while visiting AIDS charity supporters.

It is insulting while she represents the USA.

Please bring us some first children with class --Chelsea,the Nixon Kids, Amy and even Ron Reagan as a ballet dancer!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

15. I thought the other one was the evil twin

oh well, if you have em flaunt em. But really, she doesn't quite have em.

But my son in law tells me she's hot.

It's all in the perspective, I guess.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Looks like it was taken at a binge drinkfest in Crawford.

[The Whiskey Priest]

17. The middle picture

Both of the Bush women are not allowing the woman to hold THEIR hand, they are holding hers……struck me to be symbolic

[Celeborn Skywalker]

18. Doesn't really bother me, to be honest. (nt)

[patrice]

19. How old is she now?

[Javaman]

36. Old enough to know better. n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

20. Wash. Post gossip column said she was dressed inappropriately...

at the inauguration of Liberia's new President. I haven't seen a photo. Someone upthread guessed that these girls are "acting out" against their parents. I wonder if that could be true.

And, yes, it's unfair to call attention to the twins. But IMAGINE if Chelsea had dressed like this!!!

[grasswire]

28. here's the pic

[KoKo]

35. ummm....she could have used an old-fashioned "slip" but the dress is

so tight there wouldn't be room. Ugh...totally innapropriate. Her shoes must have cost enough to to pay for treatment of hundreds of little kids, though. The dress looks like the "Dollar Store's Bargain Bin."

[DeepModem Mom]

38. Thanks. You know, I'm sorry, but that won't do. I would have told...

a daughter that she couldn't go to that occasion in that dress. And she wouldn't have considered it anyway. I wonder if there's any real communication between these girls and their parents, or has been in the past.

[ObaMania]

87. The twins don't do anything for me, but..

.. this pic is sexy in a freaky kind'a way. Any more of these somewhere? :eyes:

[ieoeja]

59. Washington Post Blue-Bloods

Now maybe you people see why the Clintons are so hated by the DC press corps. It is a popular myth that anybody in this country can grow up to become President. But when a poor boy from Arkansas did just that, the DC blue-bloods were willing dupes for the new Rightwing propaganda machine.

Remember W's first inaugural? Outside the White House as the Clintons left, W's supporters chanted, "at last the hillbillies are gone!"

Some of those supporters, disgusted that the Presidency had been occupied by a commoner, fired up the rumours of "trashing the White House" and "stealing the silverware". I found the reaction by the nominaly liberal members of the DC press corps very enlightening. Almost to the person, now that they no longer had any reason to rally around Clinton, they joined their conservative counterparts hollering that, "we always knew they were white trash".

And to see this same crap right here at DU....

[Virginian]

21. Maybe the shirt doesn't fit anymore.

It looks like the first set of buttons aren't completely buttoned. Maybe it is too tight for her and instead of having a gap where the button holes don't quite meet the buttons, she left it open to make it look like it was supposed to be that way.

Hasn't she been in South Africa for quite some time now? Hasn't she been out of the spotlight, like there have been NO pictures of her for say NINE MONTHS? Maybe her boobs have gotten larger and she no longer fits into her old clothes.

I still think she looks like Lee Harvey Oswald.

[sandnsea]

22. Clinton's free HIV drugs?

Just asking.

[TahitiNut]

24. Nigeria is 50% Muslim ... probably including the woman to Barbar's left

Such 'fashion' shows a cultural insensitivity, imho. No, I'm not saying she should wear a hajib! I'm merely suggesting that a sane, respectful person would opt to dress to the more modest end of their own 'fashion spectrum' when they're, under any sense of the word, 'representing' a country rather than merely engaging in private toursim. When, instead, she chooses a style that's clearly to the less modest end of her own cultural fashion spectrum, it's rational and sane to infer that she's being grossly insentive if not deliberately disrespectful.

It's just not a time for her accommodate the "Show us your tits!" clarion cry of her habitual venues.

[shanti]

41. thank you!!!

that's what the issue is - when you're in a country with a high population of muslims, you adapt to THEIR rules, and this is a no-no. the *ush clan is so culturally DENSE!!

[TahitiNut]

65. As a guest, one should be both respected and respectful.

Hospitality is a fundamental duty of Muslims, perhaps more in Arab countries, but nonetheless fundamental to the faith in all Islam. The expected reciprocation on the part of the guest is neither onerous nor secret - it's to desist in any proselytizing and to dress modestly. Indeed, as a young unmarried woman, Barbar's dress would be regarded as even more sluttish and disrespectful than if Laura were to dress that way. In a sense, though, I guess she's merely inviting the regard she's earned.

What frosts my toenails is the fact that, as a diplomatic representative of my country, her nauseating sluttishness and abysmal cluelessness reflects on all of us! This isn't a discussion regarding how she dresses in her own neighborhood or as a mere tourist. About that I don't give a shit. This is about putting her in a visible role as a representative of me and my nation. It's a fucking insult!

[The Straight Story]

68. Hmmmm now I am not sure I can agree with that

How many muslims dress like us when coming here?

[patrice]

71. Many, even though we couldn't give a shit what they wear.

[uppityperson]

73. Many, that's why you don't notice them.

Besides, just because some people might not dress like us when they visit doesn't excuse the administration's representatives from dressing respectfully.

[npincus]

25. "Modesty" must be her middle name.

[Squatch]

27. I must be missing something...

DUers are deriding her for wearing a nice-looking outfit on a continent where 1/2 the population runs around bare-breasted?

[hunter]

76. Nope, that's "Girls Gone Wild" drunken America...

...where all the young women run around bare breasted.

Abuja is not that sort of place. You may remember the huge riots about plans to hold the "Miss World" beauty pagent there. Hundreds of people were killed in riots, and the contest had to be moved to London.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2505353.stm

[ContraBass Black]

85. Which half?

[SPKrazy]

88. LMAO!

:rofl:

[grasswire]

29. more pics on another thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2373294

[Yollam]

30. She looks fine.

She didn't pick her idiot parents. Leave her alone already.

[Stephanie]

39. No

They are using her as a propaganda tool so she is fair game. She is traveling on my dime, representing the U.S., badly. Fair game.

[Yollam]

40. It's a breezy shirt. It LOOKS FINE.

She's a young lady dressing as young ladies do. If Chelsea wore something like this, we wouldn't care. This thread is petty, trivial, and says that a woman can't wear a light shirt with a hint of cleavage in a tropical country if she wants to. Spare me. She can wear what she wants.

Wake me up when she gets a DUI, okay.

[shanti]

it's not WHAT she's wearing

it's WHEN AND WHERE she's wearing it! do you think she'd get away with this in the sistine chapel?

[Yollam]

47. Whatever. Knock yourself out.

I don't see the Nigerians getting all incensed about it.

[NotThatNolan]

51. I'm trying to imagine the reaction had she dressed like a puritan.

And I'm coming up with flashbacks from when pictures came out of John Roberts with his kids.

[Crankie Avalon]

31. Doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me...

...while loose, flowing clothing makes more sense in a hot place than a tight, constricting outfit, no one ever claimed this kid was the sharpest knife in the drawer, did they?

[FreedomAngel82]

33. The shirt doesn't bother me quite like the dress

The dress is way too tight but the shirt is loose and everything. I personally would've button a few more buttons since I don't like low neck things. I think she dresses better than the other girl.

[KoKo]

37. Her bra straps are hanging out of the shirt. It's disrespectful to those

around her. It would be okay if she was back in college or hanging out with her buddies. Sleazy.

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[thebigidea]

66. whereas you sound like a bunch of bad cut and paste

[KoKo]

69. Get used to it! WE ARE THE DU FASHION NAZI'S!

And we have as much right to be here as YOU DO!!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

77. I was able to teach my pet chimp how to cut and paste too. n/t

[Avalux]

80. Welcome to DU.

Nice homepage you've got there. :hi:

[Jara sang]

34. Barabara Bush the younger is a sleaze.

[Beaverhausen]

43. Take this junior high school discussion to the Lounge please

Not worthy of our time or energy. Let the lounge lizards have a go at her.

[Stephanie]

44. Mr. Beaver

This young lady is an official goodwill ambassador of the U.S. attending state functions in foreign lands. On my dime. This is not Brad and Jen. This is the U.S. government's representative in Africa, and the Bush admin is milking every photo-op to convince the public that the U.S. is doing what it should to fight AIDS. Lies and more lies and she's the propaganda tool for it. If you love the Lounge hie there yourself.

[Beaverhausen]

45. That's Miss Beaver to you

I disagree that what she is wearing is worth our attention. Her father has and is killing thousands of innocent people. Could we focus on the important stuff please?

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[txindy]

54. Substantive issues only, 24/7

Did you not get the memo?!

:rofl:

Here's to the ability to multi-task! :toast:

[Gabi Hayes]

60. ouch!

you so nasty!

[Gormy Cuss]

49. Normally I would agree about clothing threads, but she pulled a Cheney

Cheney and his dogsledding outfit was in poor taste and so it this half-buttoned, sloppy undergarment look. She is not a petulant teenager, she's an adult who should know better. The outfit is wholly inappropriate for the venue and she's a representative of the U.S. government in Africa. There is no excuse for it. This outfit just says "whatever." I wouldn't waste my time commenting on it if she were wearing it at an outdoor cafe in America --then it would be her business alone.

[txindy]

57. She's also the official face of the US there, along with her mother

If she's to represent this country, she needs to stop dressing for official events like she's on her way to a frat party.

[TahitiNut]

67. I don't think the appalling DIPLOMATIC ineptitude of the Bush Regime ...

... is a Lounge topic. Diplomacy may not be important to the Bushbots (or their mirror images), but it's important enough to be discussed in a political forum, imho. Just because some might be myopic regarding the mores and protocols of diplomacy in Nigeria and other lands, that doesn't mean it's insignificant.

[ContraBass Black]

86. The Lounge doesn't want it.

[FooFootheSnoo]

48. the shirt is too small

It looks like the armholes are cutting into her armpits, that bothers me more than the cleavage. It looks very painful. I think she should have buttoned up the shirt a little, but I've had problems myself with those kinds of buttons coming undone on their own. Maybe she didn't notice. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. However, she can afford to wear clothes that fit a little better.

[Imagevision]

50. Babs is thinking; " why me??" of all places to be!!

[txindy]

52. This while promoting abstinence, eh?

While laughing at her own hypocrisy on that issue.

[Stephanie]

53. Yes, I believe abstinence is the official Bush AIDS policy

I wonder how that's working for them?

[ieoeja]

55. I see the religious right is live and well at DU.

Like the form fitting dress she wore the other days, I think this outfit looks very ... liberal of her!

Go for it, Barbara! And to heck with all the sticks-in-the-mud here.

[MadJohnShaft]

56. Future US Senator

[Gabi Hayes]

61. wish they'd catch one of the twins in something like this

[cynatnite]

62. another meaningless pic from the fashion police

:eyes:

and the point to this is....?????

I don't get it. What does what they wear have to do with anything?

[uppityperson]

72. When in Rome, dress as the Romans do to show respect and not offend

bare arms and chests are considered offensive in many countries, hence the women wear sleeves, like most of them in these pictures. Children can sometimes get away with less stringent behavior. It has nothing to do with fashion and in many places this outfit would be fine, but as the daughter of Mr.bush, she should have been dressed more modestly.

[cynatnite]

78. complete and utter BS

And if she dressed more 'modestly', then what???? Does that somehow mean something? Like it helps his image????

It just sounds so...so....RW. Dress modestly, hem at the knees, sleeves over arms...just add the goddamn burka while you're at it. :puke:

[uppityperson]

91. Yes it does sound conservative. But that's how they dress there.

And showing respect for the country you are visiting is a good thing. I am glad to be able to wear tanktops here, but must dress more modestly at work also. No need for a burka, but showing respect for where you are visiting is polite, unless you are there to try to change their dress code.

[Stephanie]

90. Because she is dressed for a Girls Gone Wild video -

- not for an afternoon of prayer and discussion with African women with AIDS. That's what it has to do with. She is there as an ambassador of the United Staes, and she treats it like a big joke, just as her father treats the Constitution. That's why.

[Bushy Being Born]

64. Two questions:

1. Exactly what is wrong with her dress? I don't get it. And if I did, I still wouldn't care.
2. Is the answer to #1 even remotely as important as just about anything else we could rather focus on right now?

[patrice]

74. Who's "we"?

[uppityperson]

75. It is disrespectful and immodest to show arms and chests there

some places this is fine. Where she is, as a representative of the USA, it is showing disrespect for the mores and the culture.

[hunter]

70. Half the population of Nigeria is Muslim.

This is almost certainly part of the Bush Administration's "Crusades."

Even if the young Barbara Bush is unwitting, someone in the party delibrately let this pass.


Abuja Mosque

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

79. It's Not Barbara In This That I Have A Problem With

She's still young and immature.

But if you were her friggin mother, at an event this friggin important, could you possibly not tell your daughter "Have some class and button that other button. We are here on important business for gods sake"

That is what I'm in awe of. Laura is sittin right there next to her. What kind of mother is she to have not strongly advised barbara to dress more appropriately?

[Retrograde]

82. when DO republicans grow up?

"She's still young and immature"

She's 23 at least. An age when a large number of people in this world have adult responsibilities, such as jobs and families. She's old enough to sign binding contracts, vote, drink, join the military - in other words, she's an adult.

Jeesh. It's like her father all over again - just one more youthful indiscretion. i refuse to cut her any slack for her behavior- and her an Ivy League graduate to boot.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

84. I Hear Ya. I Just Wanted To Put Laura Down Instead LOL

[Neshanic]

81. Too slutty and casual for a visit to a hospital. BBQ maybe, hospital no.

[SPKrazy]

83. Sooooooo?

Why does anyone give a sh!t what Barbara B* is wearing?

She looks kind of slutty in both this pic and the green dress.


It's okay with me.

[upi402]

89. Holy SH*T she's a Democrat! You go girl.

and shake it like a Polaroid picture.