Posted on 10/11/2007 2:38:12 PM PDT by avacado
Jenna Bush answers questions from people across America:
If the war in Iraq is so noble, why aren't you and your sister serving our country there?
—Donald Pence, San Francisco
I understand that point, but there are many ways to serve our country, and I think my skills are better suited for teaching and representing the U.S. in Latin America through UNICEF. I respect the men and women of our country who are over there fighting. It is an unbelievably selfless thing to do. But if people really thought about it, they would know it's not even a practical question.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
For the first time in years, I gave Time the web hit they don’t deserve. I read all ten. Jenna did well.
They might have been trying to corner her with something. She did a good job fighting back.
What would give them the right to ask such questions.
Time for them to send a dozen senior editors to Kabul to ride around in a hummer.
question to the idiot who asked her about Iraq-did you demand Chelsea serve in Kosovo and if not, don’t you think it’s way past time to shut your piehole?
I can’t help wondering what “Donald Pence, San Francisco” has done to serve our country beside dreaming up snarky, gotcha questions for the President’s daughter.
Indeed! She appears to be very intelligent and sympathetic. I am confident that she will make her family proud in the years to come!
I’d go just to observe, nevermind report.
If I were Jenna, here’s my response: Mr. Pence, if you had a son or daughter in Iraq, would you want them in harm’s way because a standing President’s daughter was in their unit serving and putting all of them at risk from terrorists eager to hit the President personally? I didn’t think so - perhaps you might like to think before you ask those kind of questions or didn’t you learn question asking in journalism school?
Robert Capa, if photographers count.
Robert Capa, if photographers count.
Why didn’t Chelsea serve in Yugoslavia?
Photographers don’t count. Gotta’ be someone with some serious rank in the company ~
Liberal idiots just ooze childish bile, don't they?
Question 11: Does your sister need an escort to your wedding?
YEAH, LET'S SEND THE FIRST DAUGHTERS TO IRAQ SO AQ CAN KIDNAP THEM AND BLACKMAIL THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
Why didn't Chelsea Clinton serve in Bosnia? Why didn't Margaret Truman serve in Japan? Why didn't Linda Bird Johnson serve in Vietnam?
Anybody who asks that question is too F$%KING STUPID to deserve to have it published in a major magazine.
What have YOU ever done for this country besides TAKE and whine for MORE?
Leftist moonbats are the most selfish, self centered, self important crybabies on the planet.
Very nice! Jenna handled herself well. I wish her all the best in the future. (Please, please, can we have a WH wedding?)
Good point Leah! But that’s the thing with children of politicians: the “journalists” take out their hatred on them instead of their parents. But Jenna never asked to be the President’s daughter, and it’s really unfair to ask questions like that. But I have a feeling that she is a tough person - sort of like her dad ;)
You know, this is the first post I’ve seen about the recent spate of interviews by Jenna Bush.
Yes, she’s engaged. And oncit I remember her being a bit of an airhead.
She’s had some kind of assignment working with AIDS victims in Jamaica or somewhere like that. She wrote a book about it although I’m sure she didn’t really “write” it, as these things go. I also understand that being sent off on this sort of jaunt to instill some humility in the rich and famous is often done and it’s probably a good thing.
Whatever the case, go with me folks, NEVER, not EVER, have we seen Chelsea Clinton do such a thing. Because Jenna was vibrant, concise, enthusiastic and full of class in her interviews.
Jenna even had the good graces to name Chelsea Clinton as a White House kid she admired although Chelsea was pretty much a zero and a liar like her parents as I recall her response to where she was on 9/11/01.
Not that I want to pile on to Chelsea Clinton, who, considering her embarrassment of a father, seemed like a pretty good kid.
But this fact cannot be denied....Chelsea never wrote a book and she never gave a series of such good interviews as Jenna did.
I don’t remember Chelsea boarding a plane to Bosnia when he hit 18, either.
“I recall her response to where she was on 9/11/01.”
Far be it from me to defend Chelsea, but I think it was that lying witch of her mother that had Chelsea in the heart of danger. I believe Chelsea said she was at a friend’s house uptown when it happened.
Q. How do you know when Hillary’s lying?
A. Her lips are moving.
Man, that girl just got the best part of both parents, didn’t she? Positively gorgeous, sweet and, alas, too old for my son (who wouldn’t be worthy of her anyway).
She’s a class act. The libscum who asked that question is typical of his ilk, i.e. not a class act. But I’m sure that’s no shock to anyone here...
“question to the idiot who asked her about Iraq-did you demand Chelsea serve in Kosovo and if not, don’t you think it’s way past time to shut your piehole?”
You mean: Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, Macedonia, Bosnia, Ecuador, East Teior, Kuwait, Liberai, Albania, Congo, Gabon, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Croatia and Kosovo.
O , and btw, while cutting the Military from 2.1 million to 1.6 mil. troops, Cutting the Army from 18 divisions to 10, Navy from 546 to 380 Ships Air Force from 76 squadrons to fifty.
Snark, sarcasm, cynicism, and mocking, are all the liberals have left. They can no longer sum up intellectually honest arguments or serious attitudes.
What does Donald consider 'noble'? The "War on AIDS"? If so, why isn't he working in an African clinic? How about "homelessness"? Why isn't he living in the streets helping those poor souls?
Put up or shut up, Donald.
who in their right mind would ask the daughter of an elected official questions like this?
I like the way Elvis handled questions about the war. He said something like- I’m just an entertainer, and I don’t think it’s my business to talk abotu things like that. Good man. And he served too (drove trucks in the army). Need a few more Elvi
Why doesn’t Time ask Chelsea Clinton why she’s working for a New York hedge fund? Or why her daddy just threw a huge book party in NY for her ex-boyfriend?
Meanwhile Jenna Bush is teaching the poor in Latin America, working with AIDS victims, has written a book about her experiences and is donating the money to charity. ‘Nuff said.
Donald Pence, I have no idea how old you are, but when they were single, did your mother and/or your grandmother and their sisters serve during WWII?
Oops! Should have posted to post #1.
Coming from SF, it’s not his pie hole that he needs to shut.
Old Sarge,
For the record, I was searching for something and STUMBLED upon that Time article. I would not intentionally go to Time.
She's turning into a very fine woman and citizen. And as one poster made the comment, Jenna is helping the poor in poor countries while Chelsea Clinton spends her youth chasing hedge funds. Big difference.
Didn’t Chelsea have the low class to say something stupid like not enough money was spent on something?
Chelsea Clinton made some snide comment that reflected on President Bush because even today Bill Clinton knows that he was in the oval office with Monica while Osama was plotting and planning. And God knows the man wouldn’t have enough class to keep his daughter out of it. But I distinctly recall Chelsea opening her mouth and saying something stupid.
Something the Bush girls have never done. Everything Dubya, Laura and his daughters have done in reference to the Clintons has been with class and dignity.
Very much so! The Bush family is class and dignity.
And isn’t it odd that the press took a hands-off with Chelsea during the Clinton years - while they seem to do everything they can to cast the twins in the worst possible light.
What an asshat of a reply! I guess I am a liberal too because I have been going down to Mexico and Central America since I was a kid and always take old clothes to give to the kids.
SHE'S A FRIKIN' KID!!!!!!!!!! WITH A HEART!
And why don't you write the President, your Congressman, and Senators and tell them to do something about the border instead of frikin' whining about it on the damn Internet!
A nice left hook across your jaw would make my day...
You have nailed the underlying point of the stupid designed to trip her up question.
Prince Harry, who was gung ho about serving in Iraq, was prohibited from doing so for precisely the same reason: too dangerous for his comrades.
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