Actually Jenna has been a very good model of increasing maturity and serious sense of social responsibility.
She taught preschool, traveled on occasion in a representational role with and without her mother and also with the President, and wrote a book about a teenage mother in Central America living with HIV. Not bad for a 26 yr old. Her twin Barbara spent some months interning at an AIDs orphanage in Africa.
Both the twins matured a lot since graduating from undergrad and both are on paths to work as advocates in socially responsible roles.
I think you can probably compare their lives and roles to 28 yr old Chelsea Clinton’s public behavior while a grad student at Oxford, and to her chosen career path with a NYC hedge fund. John Edward did say that hedge fund managers are really altruists dedicated to making the world a better place. Time will tell.
And I think it is lovely she is being married before a limestone altar constructed by her father with his own hands. I do not think the Lord disapproves of men building altars to Him under the open sky, with their own hands. Think I even read about a few who were directed by the Lord to do so!
It’s easy to be a model of increasing maturity if you start by getting bailed out of a minor-in-possession charge while accompanied by the Secret Service.
How much teaching does one do at preschool? Does traveling in a representational role merit combat pay?
Even the charitable aspects of her rehabilitation penance were salted with various pokes in the eye to social conservatives, including her advocacy of contraception, her studied nonendorsement of the war in Iraq during her book tours, and her clumsy suggestion that she best served America by working for the U.N.
Why are we trying to give her credit for her sister’s good works, by the way?
And who on Earth sold you the bill of goods that W. was stone masoning the altar?
“[It] was his idea to build this beautiful limestone altar,” the First Lady told reporters of the now-permanent fixture at the family’s Crawford, Texas ranch – where their daughter will wed on May 10. “It’s the same thing that our house is made of from a local quarry. And they’re the ones that made it.”
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20197930,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines
It’s astonishing what people can convince themselves if they don’t want to think about something else.