Posted on 09/18/2002 4:50:06 PM PDT by altura
Over a year and a half into the Bush II administration, W magazine has blown the lid off the deep secret about the social whir at the White House under President George W. Bush – there isn't a whir.
In its October issue, the New York-based fashion and style periodical features a story called "The Big Chill," about the lack of social buzz in Washington. Of course, most anybody in Dallas, Austin or Midland could have told them this before George W. ever put his hand on the Bible. If you expected George W. Bush the party animal to show up in Washington, you're 20 years too late.
Before the inauguration, media outlets from D.C. phoned me frantically wanting to know what the Bush social scene would look like. Like a mantra, I would repeat to each one, "He doesn't dance, he doesn't drink, and he goes to bed early." That is all ye know on Earth and all ye need to know.
"You hear a lot of people complaining, especially among Bush's biggest supporters," one Republican stalwart tells W of the lack of social life around the Bush White House. "This crowd is just very insulated. They were isolated in Texas, and they still are. It's a very tight clan, much tighter than their parents'. They had their wagons circled before they ever left Austin."
People, please ... you're reading too much into this. Let's go back a step: "He doesn't dance, he doesn't drink, and he goes to bed early." When he was governor, you had to catch him before dinner and not wait until after or he'd be out the door faster than Superman ducking a pass from Lois Lane. Wherever he was, the governor made a point to leave early to fly back to Austin so he could say good night to his daughters, Jenna and Barbara.
Fort Worth-reared Clay Johnson, Bush's pal from Andover and Yale and former COO of the Dallas Museum of Art, is on the short list with his wife, Ann, for private dinners in the family quarters. He is now White House personnel director, and she is director of the State Department's Art in Embassies program. Ann reports that Bush usually makes invites for these get-togethers at the last minute. "He calls direct, without a switchboard operator," Ann tells W.
Perhaps when he's whipped Osama and Saddam he'll be able to worry about the more important things in life, like making cocktail chat on the Beltway social circuit.
A landlady in Arkansas lived in the apartment next to the one she rented to Roger Clinton in the 1980's. She had tons of dirt on Roger and Bill's cocaine binges, sex parties with underage girls, and other illegal behavior.
It got about as much attention as the interview with the Little Rock ER staff who claimed to have treated the Gov Clinton for cocaine overdose. The press never, ever asked why Clinton would never release his medical records (unheard of for a president--then or since).
One thing that Liberals fail to understand is that the majority of people eventually grow up!
Let's see.....who is more lonely?
A man with a loving wife and great marriage, a family who loves him, loyal friends from years and years of developing meaningful relationships, and a personal relationship with his God...... OR a pre-pubescent 'President' with a non-marriage to a non-wife, who hasn't got a single meaningful relationship in the world because he uses all the people he meets.....especially weak and gullible young females.....but parties hearty?
Tough choice, eh?
Thanks for the ping!
Whereas the worthless scum co-presidents that infested the WH for 8 years before Bush insisted on having it played at every opportunity.
For all you know, I could have a fictitious husband, or three boyfriends, or no one but an old cat to keep me company. LOL!
You, sir, are clueless.
Perhaps your wife doesn't enjoy your company, and thus has led to your sensitivity on the subject.
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