Text of Speech by Jenna and Barbara Bush

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/31/04 | AP

[cyborg]

Mom Bush was laughing pretty hard. Besides it was their speech and if the convention handlers thought it to be sooooooo offensive then they could have changed it. Tough if some people don't like it.

[P-Marlowe]

I would be embarassed if I raised children like that.

Spare us the ridicule. I would be embarrassed to have a parent like you.

[Agrarian]

"I can tell their grandmother is all torn up about it..."

That was the "not very hip" look -- not exactly something to get torn up about...

We didn't see her face during some of the more puerile moments, but it doesn't matter: shpeculating on what Grandma thought is an exercise in futility -- she's too seasoned a political wife to let embarrassment show for the television cameras even if it were there.

My observation was my own, not one professing to come from reading an elder Bush mind.

If you think the twins was appropriate, came off well, and did good service to W, more power to you -- your opinion. Mine just happens to differ.

[oceanperch]

You and my adult son, he said the speech was good I said yeah but did you listen to them? He said NO snicker snicker.

[AndyJackson]

prigs are prigs and are best left as democrats.

I just wish they would stay that way and stop wandering over to this side. It would have the further benefit of frightening some otherwise sensible and decent people into voting Republican instead of frightening them into voting democratic.

[Texasforever]

I tell ya what hot shot. You are two 22 year old girls whose father is a REPUBLICAN president and is the most hated president in recent history in the age and social group that these two kids live in. You want to help dad and someone decides to put you before 10 million people for the first speech in your life and then someone else writes the words you are going to speak. All you know is you want to help dad and you get up there and you do your best and then they hear DAD's own supporters blasting them just like those on the other side blast them. This is ridiculous and this forum should be ashamed of itself for the utter stupidity shown over this incident.

[Porterville]

Some people aren't comfortable with themselves.

A good person is one you can look into their eyes and is willing to laugh at themselves; regardless of status.

I would never want to work with a person who behaves like a conceited backside.

[Howlin]

Mine just happens to differ.

It sure is; evidently you feel pious enough to comment on and disagree with how two presidents of the United States and their wives have raised/viewed their children/grandchildren.

Not me.

And you just show you don't know anything about Barbara Bush.

[oceanperch]

LOL He lives up here in the PNW I believe he works with software/computer stuff.

[Howlin]

Does this look like somebody who would take CRAP off anybody?

;-)

[Howlin]

I highly doubt that either W or Laura would, at that age and on a public stage, have acted the way those two did.

Who ARE you? You certainly don't know what you're talking about; at 22, George W. Bush was a party guy.

[Fausto]

They did sound more like high school than college.

As a now late 20-something male I've got to let you know that's what most females I deal with act like these days.

[AndyJackson]

Why did the blonde wear an Al Sharpton jogging jacket anyway?

First, I think her name is Jenna. Second, why well-healed well-brought up women dress one way rather than another way is an inexplicable mystery, and I would just be guessing that it has nothing to do with Al Sharpton whatsoever. Third, you should have learned a long time ago to spend your brainpower on issues you might have a chance in hell of worrying about to positive effect, rather than one so utterly devoid of any useful outcome as women's fashion.

[Agrarian]

"Also, I find your notions about public vs private behavior frightening."

I'm impressed that you are able to discern the full range of my notions about public vs. private behavior from an inconsequential post on an inconsequential thread. You must frighten easily if you are terrified by those who consider the difference between how to act when on a public stage and how to act when relaxing with friends and family a part of civilized behavior.

Of course, as others have pointed out, this was obviously something either approved by or concocted by handlers, and they're the real pros, so don't get shook up by what a country boy like me thinks...

[Porterville]

I liked them too.

After such a strong showing from Aronld, they scheduled the Bush women to add a feminine touch to the convention... excellent... it was beautiful. I don't know much about proper etiquette but the whole seen was like a meal at a fancy restaurant; starting with a bold merlot and a fillet mignon and finishing with a light desert of creme brulee..... loved it... and felt very satisfied.

[A Citizen Reporter]

"Who ARE you?"

Somebody who's trying hard not to "shpeculate"......

[cyborg]

The republican convention is the superior convention on so many levels. After listening to Kerry, I felt like popping a xanax. The Governator is like audio uppers for the brain *lol*

[Agrarian]

"I tell ya what hot shot. You are two 22 year old girls whose father is a REPUBLICAN president and is the most hated president in recent history in the age and social group that these two kids live in. You want to help dad and someone decides to put you before 10 million people for the first speech in your life and then someone else writes the words you are going to speak. All you know is you want to help dad and you get up there and you do your best and then they hear DAD's own supporters blasting them just like those on the other side blast them. This is ridiculous and this forum should be ashamed of itself for the utter stupidity shown over this incident."

Good point. I apologize to all. I shouldn't write off-hand posts at this hour of the night.

[Howlin]

Who let the prigs out?

[boycott]

The person that put their act together for the convention should be restricted to cleaning the bathrooms from now on. It was lame and kind of crude.