Posted on 11/27/2006 11:30:43 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
Amid a growing barrage of front-page headlines, U.S. embassy officials "strongly suggested" President Bush's twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush, cut short their trip to Buenos Aires because of security issues, U.S. diplomatic and security sources tell ABC News.
But the girls have stayed on, celebrating their 25th birthday over the weekend and producing even more headlines about their activities.
Officials say the media coverage upstaged publicity plans for the new U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne, who had only recently arrived in the country.
Neither the White House nor the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires responded to requests for comment.
The Argentinean press blitz followed a report on "The Blotter" last week that Barbara Bush's purse and cell phone were stolen last weekend while dining at the popular San Telmo outdoor marketplace despite being guarded by the Secret Service.
Stories of the twins' visit took on wild proportions in the Argentinean press. One tabloid headline had the young women running nude in the hallway of their hotel, a report the hotel staff denied to ABC News.
According to sources, the U.S. embassy encouraged the two girls to cut their stay short because the added attention was making their security very difficult.
But to the dismay and anger of some U.S. embassy and security staff, the girls stayed on.
Thursday night, an ABC News producer was able to walk into their hotel unchecked and engage Barbara Bush in conversation while she checked her e-mail on a computer in the lobby. Jenna sat talking with friends on a sofa nearby. No Secret Service agents were anywhere to be seen in the lobby, according to ABC News' Joe Goldman.
And yesterday the Bush twins were spotted at the Sunday soccer matches, wearing team jerseys and sitting in the owner's box, watching Argentina's top team Boca Juniors compete. Several games have been canceled due to violence in the crowds this year. In fact, last weekend no spectators were allowed to attend the match other than season ticket holders.
Sources tell ABC News the twins plan to stick to their original itinerary and stay in Buenos Aires until Thursday.
This thread is just like old times. Wish I could find that 1,000-post thread from a few years ago where the Bush twins were declared evil for what they wore in a picture on the way to an Easter service with their family.
I guess the teeth-gnashers are feeling overdue for another Laura Bush dinner joke controversy?
Wow--You THINK??!! I've noticed you can read too...and comprehend it!! Unlike some, who shall remain nameless!!
You think? Are you literate?
You- and your friends- accused me of coming on the thread and Bush bashing. Prove it.
Point to one word of Bush bashing from me on this thread.
LOL! I hope no one leaks any jokes Laura told over Thanksgiving dinner..........it will be another feeding frenzy on the vile First Lady! LOL!
How come you can refer to Bushbots on this thread, but everyone is forbidden from remembering that you bash Bush on practically every other thread?
Yes, the notorious Este Lauder mafia. Sacre Bleu!
Your post was even more stupid that Bush bashing. It was merely false accusation of people who didn't believe the ABC story nor think the Bush daughters had done anything wrong. (btw, we WERE right, you know?)
But while bashing Bush supporters, you certainly took some serious backhanded swipes at what the Bush daughters were doing.
Doesn't look like you bothered to find out the story wasn't true, but rather, reacted with undue emotion.....
(I guess the fact that you bash the President for anything and everything incessantly colored my reading of your post.....)
Bashers can insult us at will, but squeal like stuck pigs if we return the 'favor.'
That's how it works with these guys.....
Being twins these gals can easily impersonate each other, pretend to leave, and not leave at all.
Rumors...let's see the proof of that!
It is very selfish of them to stay and very foolish of the President to allow it.
First and foremost Jenna and Barb are not "girls". Young women is a more appropriate term, since they just celebrated their 25th!
Furthermore not even the President of the United States (their father) can tell them what to do or not.
At 25 one should be able to make choices regardless of the fact that their parents are in a very important and highly visible position!
Yes, did you know that Danny DeVito has signed some of the recent California bills into law?
Did I address my initial post to you? Or to the post after post about these brave courageous women for not heeding a security warning from the US embassy?
If the story is false, are they no longer brave and courageous and all the other cheerleading BS for whatever any Bush does at any time?
When I bash Bush it's because of policy. And I've also praised him when I thought him correct. Personally I think he has a certain charm.
On the other hand, can you think of a couple of Bush policies you disagree with. Could he have made one or two mistakes as President? Or is he infallible?
You certainly took great glee in bashing the Presidents daughters. What policy do you have against them? Just their lineage perhaps?
And did you just make that 'brave and courageous' stuff up? Are you jealous, sabra?
I find it curious that one is so pathetically lacking in life that one must come on a thread about two beautiful young ladies just to mock the people who like them.
I'm sure you've been on threads where I have voiced my complete disagreement with the guestworker program, but then, if you admitted you knew that I disagreed with President Bush on certain policy decisions, then you couldn't use cute insults like "Or is he infallible" now, could you?
Once again, your lack of rational thought process and desperation to insult amuses me.
Do you hear squealing?
It's laughter.
This started out as a political board where serious issues were discussed.
Your group attempts to turn it into a giggly fan club.
I keep forgetting we're a group...or is it a coven this week???
Let me try to explain it to you one more time.
The truth of the story is not the issue.
The reflex hypocrite reaction of some posters to the story they believed was the issue.
No Secret Service agents were anywhere to be seen in the lobby,
very unlikely
How many times have leftist journalists made up stories that were not true???
But I think you're REALLY being funny about the 'this used to be a serious board' when you YOURSELF referred to the Chelsea Clinton criticisms that were a part of this forum before I even became a part of it. Those were serious political discussions, were they? HA!
I guess, like all perpetual malcontents and grousers, your memory dims of what really used to be, eh?
Want to try again? I'm having fun here.
(You're losing this really badly right now.....thoughtless emotion will do that to you).
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