Posted on 08/31/2004 8:41:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Text of a speech by Jenna and Barbara Bush delivered Tuesday at the Republican National Convention, as transcribed by e-Media Inc.:
JENNA BUSH: It's great to be here. We love Arnold. Isn't he awesome?
Thanks to him, if one of us ever decides to marry a Democrat, nobody can complain, except maybe our grandmother, Barbara. And if she doesn't like it, we would definitely hear about it.
We already know she doesn't like some of our clothes, our music, or most of the TV shows we watch.
Gammie, we love you dearly, but you're just not very hip.
She thinks "Sex and the City" is something married people do, but never talk about.
We spent the last four years trying to stay out of the spotlight. Sometimes, we did a little better job than others.
We kept trying to explain to my dad that when we are young and irresponsible, well, we're young and irresponsible.
BARBARA BUSH: Jenna and I are really not very political, but we love our dad too much to stand back and watch from the sidelines.
We realized that this would be his last campaign, and we wanted to be a part of it.
Besides, since we've graduated from college, we're looking around for something to do for the next few years.
Kind of like dad.
JENNA: Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big. We've spent a lot of time at the White House, so when we showed up the first day, we thought we had it all figured out. But apparently my dad already has a chief of staff, named Andy.
BARBARA: When your dad's a Republican and you go to Yale, you learn to stand up for yourself.
I knew I wasn't quite ready to be president, but number two sounded pretty good.
Who is this man they call Dick Cheney (news - web sites)?
JENNA: I think I know a lot about campaigns. After all, my grandfather and my dad have both run for president, so I put myself in charge of strategy. Then I got an angry call from some guy named Karl.
BARBARA: We knew we had something to offer. I mean, we've traveled the world; we've studied abroad. But when we started coming home with foreign policy advise, dad made us call Condi.
JENNA: Not to be deterred, we thought surely there's a place for strong willed, opinionated women in communications. And next thing we know, Karen's back.
BARBARA: So we decided the best thing we could do here tonight would be to introduce somebody we know and love.
JENNA: You know all those times when you're growing up and your parents embarrass you? Well, this is payback time on live TV.
BARBARA: Take this. I know it's hard to believe, but our parents' favorite term of endearment for each other is actually Bushy.
And we had a hamster, too. Let's just say ours didn't make it.
JENNA: But, contrary to what you might read in the papers, our parents are actually kind of cool. They do know the difference between mono and Bono. When we tell them we're going to see Outkast, they know it's a band and not a bunch of misfits. And if we really beg them, they'll even shake it like a Polaroid picture.
BARBARA: So, OK, maybe they have learned a little pop culture from us, but we've learned a lot more from them about what matters in life, about unconditional love, about focus and discipline.
They taught us the importance of a good sense of humor, of being open-minded and treating everyone with respect.
And we learned the true value of honesty and integrity.
JENNA: When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.
We are so proud to be here tonight to introduce someone who read us bedtime stories, picked up car pool, made us our favorite peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and cheered for us when we scored a goal, even when it was for the wrong team.
BARBARA: Someone who told us we actually looked cute in braces, always welcomed our friends and was there waiting when we came home at curfew.
JENNA: Ladies and gentlemen, one of the two most loving, thoughtful people we know.
BARBARA: Your president and our dad, George W. Bush.
They were truly awful tonight and made me cringe (I'm 20 years old by the way), the only questsion is: Does anyone think this hurts Pres. Bush? Very little if any I think.
You got it. I'm sure their parents are proud of them. They are supporting their father, and in spite of the lackluster performance I appreciate and respect that.
Barabara and Jenna. Your cute and nice but you need to work on the material a little more next time. We still love you (in a purely platonic manner of course since I am happily married.) ;-)
No. Barbara went to Yale.
Did you honestly think they "forgot"?
It made the Bush family look human. The women were aimed at the female/under 30 demographic. Life's not perfect but who cares? Normal Americans can relate.
Are you familiar with the concept of keeping things in perspective?
Why "what"?
What has you tied up in knots?
At the DNC convention, the Kerry girls said they had a hamster that supposedly fell in a lake or such and was drown.
JF'nK supposedly gave it mouth to mouth and it lived.
Hence, the Bush gals got a little dig in on 'em
After the boos last night at an awards show, the Kerry gals are the Rodney Dangerfields of the wannabee elite.
Don't know, maybe it's reading between the lines.
The first part was self-deprecating humor, in which they even included their grandmother, who is one of the most beloved women in the party.
"But when we started coming home with foreign policy advise, dad made us call Condi."
Now, I took this as a subtle shot at Chelsea Clinton, who sat in on foreign policy meetings to give "advice" to the middle east......or was that Amy Carter?
"And we had a hamster, too. Let's just say ours didn't make it."
This was a well-delivered line by Barbara, and an obvious shot at the Kerry daughter's ridiculous story about saving a hamster by giving it CPR.
I seriously think they wrote this themselves; it was that bad.
They were not.
LOL
yes. there seem to be quite a few critics here that expect them to act like professional, polished 30 year olds. i thought they did just fine. there were obviously several "inside" jokes and that seems to bother some here.
Well then I guess we wouldn't have gotten the real deal. Why be phonies and pretend to be something they are not?
You people are being too serious. Besides, they didn't write their own material. Everything is scripted.
If they didn't write that, then somebody's heads will have to roll for sure!
LOL
I find it hard to believe they didn't write that.
Anyone have any recent pics of the twins, didn't they do a magazine layout recently?
Purely out of, um, patriotic interest.
I find it damn impossible to believe that, too.
I don't know who YOU were watching, but I didn't think Jenna and Barbara were either classless OR disrespectful. They poked fun at their parents and grandparents, but it was in a loving way, and I believe most everyone, except a few folks here, understood that. They are VERY close to their Mom and Dad and to Poppy and Bar. Barbara said once that Poppy used to write them letters all the time, but he's since discovered e-mail and keeps in touch that way. I only grew up with one grandparent, all the others had died by the time I came along, but I felt about her the way the twins obviously feel about their grandparents, and it's fun to see families that still interact that way. I think they are an ASSET to their Dad, the giggling notwithstanding.
They brought home to me what I like best about George W and Laura Bush: That they are like the people you meet in real life. Very natural and human.
Most politicians and their families (in both parties) appear very plastic and unnatural. I guess that some would have liked to hear them dissertate on some foreign or domestic policy. That would have been a creepy-clintonesque ploy to me.
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