Jenna Bush: "I think there are many ways to serve your country"

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/09/27/jenna.bush.ap/index.html

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On other issues, Jenna Bush ducked a question about whether she agreed with her father about the war in Iraq, but she said she understood critics who argue that she and her twin sister, Barbara, should serve in Iraq.

"Obviously I understand that question and see what the point of that question is for sure. I think there are many ways to serve your country. I think ... what's most appropriate for me to do is to teach or to work in UNICEF and represent our country in Latin America."

When asked who was the child in the White House she always thought she'd want to emulate, she replied Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York., a Democratic presidential candidate.

"I think Chelsea Clinton is, is very kind and, um, smart and articulate," she said.

"She's always been very friendly to us, but we just wanted to be ourselves, but she was, she's beautiful and poised all the time."

[TheUniverse]

1. Dying in Iraq is for poor people!

[BamaLefty]

3. Yeah...

Everyone know the Bush twins don't do war.

[Zensea]

7. Dying in Iraq is for people who volunteer for the military

Yes, I know that some soldiers volunteer as a way out of poverty, but many soldiers volunteer because they are militaristic yahoos.
Then they get more than they may have bargained for -- an actual war.
My perspective is shaped by, among other things, that I was a conscientious objector at the end of the Vietnam war.

It is too easy and cliched to trot out the "dying in Iraq is for poor people" meme.

[TheUniverse]

13. Its the truth.

There is a poverty draft. I know people first hand who volunteered for college money. And don't forget about the hundreds of thousands of poor Iraqis who died because they were to poor to leave the country... What about them?

[Zensea]

16. Did I say it wasn't the truth? No, I didn't.

Please re-read my post.
Some people do volunteer to get out of poverty as I wrote already.
Yet some don't.

Plus I will add that there is nothing that requires you to volunteer even if you are in poverty.
I've been in poverty before and never considered, even for a second, volunteering for the military.

[TheUniverse]

19. Theres one more thing.

Not all the people who volunteered for military service knew they were going to Iraq. Many people joined after September 11th because they thought the country needed them. How were they to know that George W Bush was going to abuse his power and send them to Iraq in an oil war? For Example, Pat Tillman volunteered for the military after 9/11, and then spent some time in Iraq, even though he disagreed with the war. GWBush let down the troops, and I stand by my statement. The Bush twins and the whole bush family itself sees dying in Iraq as something for the poor, and not for the elite.

[BamaLefty]

2. Well um, thanks, Jenna? n/t

[Mythsaje]

4. Somewhere knives are being sharpened...

She can't open her mouth without some here jumping to the attack.

[FredScuttle]

18. When she opens her mouth like this

I can't resist...

[Mythsaje]

21. So what?

How many of us have never been in similar condition?

[niyad]

24. I haven't, nor have most of my friends.

[Mythsaje]

27. That's fine...

But I'm sure not going to judge someone for being the same kind of nitwit most of my friends were at that age.

[FredScuttle]

29. ah, but were we the First Children?

If I had to put up with shit about Billy Carter, you damn well better best believe I'm going to take every shot at the First Drunken Ho's

[Mythsaje]

31. Why?

Aren't we better than that?

[monktonman]

5. smart and articulate

wow just like Obama.
But unlike you Jenna.
what a dumb-ass

[meegbear]

6. Why don't you set up a 'Support the Troops' kegger?

That'll show 'em.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. The inclusion of her "um" is totally inappropriate

There have been great studies on this, where newspaper writers remove "ums" for people they value, and include them (especially for women and minorities). It's disgraceful, whether applied to Jenna or anyone else.

[kenny blankenship]

25. Unless it was the judgment of the writer/editor that the "um" was intentional

An um can mean many things.

[Frank Cannon]

33. I agree. It's a cheap shot. (n/t)

[bdamomma]

9. oh Jenna, you did not fall to far from the tree huh?

I love this comment she made:

sounds like they are accusing Chelsea for not being herself?

"She's always been very friendly to us, but we just wanted to be ourselves, but she was, she's beautiful and poised all the time."


yea, two drinking frat girls just like daddy!!!!

[BOSSHOG]

10. Maybe she could go down the list of how notable "conservatives" have served our country

- limbaugh
- hannity
- krystol
- hume
- rove
- cheney
- coulter
- romney and his sons
- and a passel of other various and asundry conservative chickenhawks

NONE OF THESE JERKOFFS HAVE SERVED OUR COUNTRY IN ANY CAPACITY

I PUT BUSH IN A SEPARATE CATEGORY HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY. DISHONORABLY.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. You can serve your country eight years' worth of steaming plates of poo

Like dear ol' Dad.

[Bitwit1234]

12. Having sex and running naked thru the halls sure helps.

[Atman]

14. "As long as they don't involve wearing camo, or using a common latrine!"

Sign up, you silver-spoon tool.

I love the "work in Latin America" part. Yeah...like close to Paraguay, per chance?

.

[snappyturtle]

15. Jenna may be called upon by the POTUS to check out land

in Paraguay!

[YOY]

17. Actually she's right, but she's not the kind of person to do UNICEF work

That's for people who this song apply to: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7972502044467208144&q=U2+Walk+on&total=427&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

Since her daddy dearest is so anti-UN it makes all her actions hollow and pointless unless she had the courage to openly renouce his beliefs.

I have served my country. It was not in the military.

Give til it hurts...

[Rocknrule]

20. Her father is a half-retarded playboy who thinks he's the king of the world

No surprise that she's an airheaded valley girl

[sinkingfeeling]

22. UNICEF isn't a program of the United States, Jena. It's a UN organization.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

23. Well, I can't blame her for not enlisting.

She's what, seven, eight months pregnant?

[Johonny]

26. Why don't Dems use as a talking point

Bush (republican candidate) has failed to convince his siblings this war is worth dieing for, if he can't convince his closest relatives why has he convinced you?

[gatorboy]

28. They mean they want to be non-alcoholics like she is.

"Chelsea's so....like, NOT DRUNK all the time!. GAWD!"

[Horse with no Name]

30. Actually it is nice to see that they aren't insulated from what people think

I think it is very enlightening for them to realize that many think they should be on the front line of their Daddy's war.
I think giving props to Chelsea Clinton was very gracious.

[Ino]

32. What the heck does this even mean?

"I think Chelsea Clinton is, is very kind and, um, smart and articulate. She's always been very friendly to us, but we just wanted to be ourselves"

They want to emulate her (kind, smart, articulate, friendly), but that would mean not being themselves. Never mind... it makes perfect sense.

[Deja Q]

34. If it was Bill O'Reilly and not Diane Sawyer, how would he have reacted to her ducking?

"You're not answering my question."?

Mind you, if Chelsea Clinton was given the same treatment by Diane or Bill, I wouldn't have expected anything different either.

[lonestarnot]

35. Wouldn't wanna risk a leg or anything, it'd be too deal with, afterall I'm a bushitler kid.