Oh, piffle. They were supposed to be a light moment, and they were. They weren't there to do heavy oratory on foreign policy. They did just fine.
I for one thought they were great. (Of course, I had them on 'mute') ;-)
Two children who love their dad and tried to help. Not sophisticated, not funny but very sweet. To stand up in front of millions takes guts and a lot of love.
At least they didn't wear a dresses showing their breasts. Talk about cringing!
Is it bad for me to imagine the Bush daughter's making a "Lance Sandwich"?
Ye see...reading this, it's funny!
It's ALL in the delivery.
I thought Laura's speech was brilliantly written. I thought she was wooden in the delivery.
I am not a square, but I certainly am no hipster either. That being said, I found their duet a little bewildering and somewhat off-putting.
I think about 1/3 of the way into it, they took some affectinate jabs at their granny, and that went over like a lead baloon. They could never really recover from that gaffe - it left a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
If that part had been left out, their routine would have gone over better, I suspect. But what do I know?
Yeah their delivery was awful but they tried, and they're not politicians anyway so it's all good.
I work pretty hard at being studiously non-hip (it actually takes a lot of effort to feign complete ignorance of pop culture) -- and I found much of this completely embarrassing, as did my teenagers -- who actually are pretty hip.
What it proved was that while the twins haven't completely absorbed the proper raising that their parents and grandparents certainly gave them, Pres and Laura Bush love their daughters. And that's what being family is all about.
If it were a political ploy, I'm not exactly sure who the "Sex and the City" line was aimed at attracting. Talk about a show well past its hip prime...
They did great; and I'm 30 years old and hip... they did very good.
If they did one more variation of the "we thought we could do this, but then found out that there's somebody named ____ already doing it!" gag, I was going to scream.
It was thoroughly lame, but at least they remained very good-looking throughout. Especially the brunette. (Why did the blonde wear an Al Sharpton jogging jacket anyway?)
I was cringing too.
But I will say that Barbra came off much better and more well-spoken than Jenna.
I saw it on C-span this morning, and I cringed, too. It was a disaster, IMO.
Carolyn