These reporters are disgusting. Bush lives very modestly in an environmentally friendly house. This is known as a "spread". The Maine house is her grandfather's. What does that have to do with anything?
How does the reporter define "routine jetting"? Would that be more or less jetting than the Kerrys, Edwards, Kennedys, Clintons et al do?
Time to hurl.
“As the privileged daughter of President Bush, jetting routinely between the spread in Texas and the little place up in Maine, Jenna Bush could have done whatever she wanted.
These reporters are disgusting. Bush lives very modestly in an environmentally friendly house. This is known as a “spread”. The Maine house is her grandfather’s.”
Seems to me, if you read the whole article, the reviewer is trying to say favorable things about Jenna. The reviewer is saying, Jenna COULD spend all her time at one or both of two very nice places, she COULD routinely jet back and forth — but she ISN’T. The reviewer goes on to say what she has been doing: working at a charter school, volunteering with UNICEF, etc.
I think we should reserve our indignation for pieces that are attacks on the people we admire — there are plenty of that type of article, but this is really not one of them.
As for the houses in Texas and Maine — I don’t know about your standards, but both of those are very nice real estate indeed. I don’t think it’s a misnomer to characterize Jenna Bush as a privileged young woman. All credit to her to want to transcend that privileged status — I think that is what the piece is saying.