Why isn't this woman in Iraq fighting "the war of terra?" :

[cboy4]

Jenna Bush begins national book tour




ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Jenna Bush looked poised as she stepped to the podium, but she couldn't quite hide the butterflies as she stood before an eager bookstore crowd Saturday to introduce her new book, "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope."


"This is my first day, so I'm a little nervous," the 25-year-old first daughter admitted.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070929/ap_on_re_us/books_jenna_bush_4;_ylt=AohKEf3862nX8DeUg7kCX8sE1vAI

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Her beautiful brain cannot be bothered with such ugly stuff....ask her ugly Grandma.

[JDPriestly]

2. I wonder if they vetted the crowd before the event began.

[Deja Q]

3. Isn't Borders a 'buy blue' store?

[Snarkoleptic]

4. Failed the drug test?

[Ghost in the Machine]

12. Didn't you get the memo??

[muntrv]

5. Because she's a chickadeehawk.

[DesertRat]

6. She has other priorities

[merh]

7. If not fighting there, she could at least go teach at one of those

fine schools we have built in Iraq as we make the nation better than how we found it. :crazy:

.

[Sukie1941]

8. or work in a canteen in Kuwait

or some other "safe" place.

[merh]

9. I mean, after all, the surge is working, right?

:shrug:

[Postman]

10. Why does she look cross-eyed to me?

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[renie408]

15. I thought the same thing. n/t

[Kelly Rupert]

11. Her book has a rather humanitarian bent.

She's not her father; I don't see why she should have to go fight for something because a parent is a hypocrite.

[renie408]

16. Yeah...

I have a hard time dragging anybody's kids into things. She didn't get elected to anything. I hated it when they did it to Chelsea, it doesn't seem right to do it to the Bush twins.

[cboy4]

18. That's an interesting comment to make right after you agreed

with someone that she looks cross eyed. LOL!!!

[renie408]

20. I just AGREED that I thought she looked cross eyed (which she does to me)

I just don't think that being the President's daughter means she should have to defend herself because she isn't fighting in Iraq.

Besides,there is nothing wrong with being cross eyed. Our mechanic is cross eyed and he is the nicest guy on earth.

[cboy4]

22. "Our mechanic is cross eyed and he is the nicest guy on earth."

:spray:

[mainer]

13. Border bookstore clerk told me book isn't selling

At least, not in his Boston store. He says the customers wouldn't TOUCH a book by a Bush spawn.

[Aristus]

14. Poor thing got daddy's silly-looking monkey face.

Barbara was luckier.

[MrsMatt]

17. And if your parents were in favor of the war

would you be in Iraq?

She may be her father's daughter, but she is still her OWN person. Give her a freaking break. For all you know she may be agains the war, but just not publically vocal about it.

[cboy4]

21. As long as she doesn't support her father, or doesn't support

the war, no she doesn't have to be there.

However, if she does think the war is great and loves the surge and agrees with her father that this is the global war on terra...

Then fuck yea she should be there.

And I feel the same way about not only her, but anyone else who loves the war, but doesn't quite love it enough to be there.

Do you understand better MrsMatt?

[MrsMatt]

25. The point I was trying to make is

that we do not know what her views on the war are - she has not shared them. I'd like to give her the benefit of a doubt.

Although we are the offspring of our parents, we are NOT our parents. I do not share the political philosophies my parents did (may they rest in peace - I have no avenue at this time to try to change that), and I reject the notion that my father's political beliefs are my own.

Do you understand better?

[Gemini Cat]

26. Go ahead and give her the benefit of the doubt all you want.

Especially after she campaigned for her dumbya daddy.

[nam78_two]

29. She campaigned for her dad in 2004

Any adult working on a Bush campaign in 2004, that too in such a high profile manner, holds some portion of the blame for this disastrous presidency :shrug:. Maybe she did so because of family obligations and secretly disagreed with every position he has ever held and is at heart a pro-environment, anti-war, humanitarian lefty (we don't know and I don't think writing this book is any indication that she is the next mother Theresa so I personally doubt it).

Regardless, she campaigned for him as an adult. If she is doing an interview she should be able to answer simple questions about the war, i.e. where she stands on it, given that a few years ago she was telling us why we should vote for that war-mongering idiot father of hers. IMO kids who actively participate in election campaigns can no longer claim to be completely unaffiliated with the political views of their parents. If at this point in time,now 3 years down the line her opinions have changed and she is anti-war, she can express it. If not, she is part of the machine that foisted this awful man on all of us a second time and she can't really be classed as a "child who had nothing to do with the sins of her parents". I would say she would be off the hook if she condemned the war now, but she isn't doing that.

I would ask any military age person who actively volunteered for the Bush campaign in 2004 why they aren't in Iraq right now, if they aren't outspokenly against this war at this point and I think that is pretty fair.

[AlCzervik]

19. maybe she isn't pro war, it's possible, just like Pickles and Battle Axe Barb are pro-choice.

[charlie]

23. Maybe she sent her ghostwriter to enlist n/t

[cboy4]

24. LOL!!!

Good one

[Booster]

27. Actually I agree with her statement that she would put the soldiers

in more danger - either by her ineptness or just being the daughter of the Dimson. If she's a chip off the old block, she's fuck up every mission she was assigned to.

[Bluebear]

28. "There are many ways of serving your country" she said the other day.

Selling and signing books must be National Service in Bushworld.