Posted on 08/31/2004 11:30:11 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
aybe girls do just want to have fun. The Bush girls, at least.
Forget four years of shunning the spotlight. President Bush's twin 22-year-olds, Jenna and Barbara, strutted into it last night with a sassy, sexy serenade to their parents at the Republican National Convention, every wisecracking word broadcast live on national television. They spared no one.
"She thinks 'Sex in the City' is something married people do, but never talk about," Jenna, the blonde, razzed her grandmother, Barbara Bush. Jenna was referring to the HBO program "Sex and the City."
Mrs. Bush's namesake, the brunette, said of her alma mater, "When your dad's a Republican and you to go to Yale, you learn to stand up for yourself."
And dear old dad?
Jenna Bush took Mr. Bush's words about his own youthful indiscretions as her punch line. "We kept trying to explain to Dad that when we were young and irresponsible," she said as Madison Square Garden erupted in cheers, "well, we were young and irresponsible."
For a coming-out party, the girls were notably underdressed: Jenna in a shiny brown jacket over white T-shirt and jeans, Barbara in a sleeveless black dress with embroidered yolk. But they embraced that aesthetic, seeking to fill any coolness gap their father might face with the MTV set by mentioning OutKast and even its lyrics.
Mr. Bush's daughters have slowly been emerging as public figures in recent months, occasionally appearing on the campaign trail. "Since we've graduated from college, we're looking around for something to do for the next few years," Jenna said by way of explanation on Tuesday night. "Kind of like Dad."
The twins' turn yesterday at the microphone, part of the introduction of Laura Bush, brought the first public words many had heard from their mouths.
Barbara Bush took the teeniest slap at the opposition, invoking the story Senator John Kerry's older daughter, Alexandra, briefly stole the show with at the Democratic convention in July. Ms. Kerry described a dad so devoted that he dove off a dock to save her pet hamster from drowning.
"We had a hamster too," Ms. Bush said last night. "Let's just say, ours didn't make it."
Okay, I'll buy that. One question, though: who (besides Fox News) is even carrying the RNC Convention live? I don't recall seeing it on CSPAN, and I know for darned sure that once this night's events go through the Left-o-Filter of the "mainstream" media, the message will have been irretrievably corrupted.
Did the twins' appearance tonight turn any voters away from the President?
Doubtful.
Did they turn some toward the President?
Possible.
Nothing wrong with their being there at all.
Bah. You're only as old as the woman you feel.
LOL
How did they get the embroidery needle into the yolk without breaking it and getting it all over the rest of the dress?
Yoke. Y-O-K-E. I never even made it through college and I know the difference between a yolk and a yoke, for Petes sake!
Can I work for the New York Times now?
The twins were talking to their own MTV generation and did a decent job.
I don't think so, it was an entertaining show, but I can see where some might object to it, and to the joke.
I think they missed the target and reached 14-17 year olds though.
LOL ; )
I watched on PBS, CSPAN and the cable networks.I rewatched on CSPAN tonight..and they'll rerun major speeches Sat. morning..Still amazed at Maryland Lt.Gov.Steele's speech..He was terrific..a new star!..The networks carried Arnie, I believe.
Well said and ditto that...
Two UT sorority sisters that sound like airheads? What are the odds?
I think you just hit on a very significant point here. Almost without exception, nearly all tongues are wagging about the Bush girls. Nary a peep about Schwarzenegger's kick-butt-and-take-names speech nor the First Lady's genuinely warm and personal accounts of events of recent past.
ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/MSNBC/PBS/CNN/CNBC.
I watched in on CSpan, gavel to gavel coverage. I was impressed by George P Bush, Rod Paige & Michael Steele.
Bet you never thought the New York Times would be kinder critics of the Bush twins than you and your wife.
Two UT sorority sisters that sound like airheads? What are the odds?
Only one went to UT. The other went to Yale.
She "STOLE THE SHOW" with this story? Am I the only one who finds this pathetic? Must have been a pretty boring convention.
If the Republicans continue to lose focus in their attempt to be all things to all people, they are going to lose their base.
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