That's Doro on the left.
Posted on 10/18/2003 12:22:02 PM PDT by buzzyboop
There’s the great Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital,” of Portland, Maine, the woman it was named after says as we approach for a recent visit. “And—this makes me laugh—look at the nurses standing across the street smoking.” Inside, on a walk through the maternity ward, the former First Lady pokes a little fun at the hospital president when he coos, “Isn’t she sweet!” at a newborn in a little blue cap: “You think that’s a she, do you?” To a new father who boasts that his child came into this world after only three pushes, she purrs, “Yes, it was easy for you.” Then, out of earshot: “Typical. The men always go pale.
America’s favorite grandmother keeps up a running comedy routine on and off the speaker’s circuit, where she’s a regular these days. But Mrs. Bush is more pointed in her humor than almost anyone else in public life. With candor in politics in such short supply, she has been celebrated for her barbs all the way back to her “rhymes with rich” reference to Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.
“She may be one of the last really outspoken public figures,” says Rob Allyn, a Republican political consultant in Dallas who has worked for the Bush family, “because with people coming of political age today, message control is the doctrine.” A doctrine Barbara Bush never needed, since her family is her message and she is the one who controls it.
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From the article:
It’s actually “a pain in the neck” to be the sibling of a sitting president, she says, and tells how her daughter, Doro Koch, picketed outside Vice President Al Gore’s residence “in disguise” during the 2000 recount. “That’s Doro!” Mrs. Bush hoots when telling about it. “She felt better” after yelling at the Gores’ house for a while, Mrs. Bush says.
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