George W. Bushs Daughter Barbara To Headline Planned Parenthood Fundraiser

[Jimbo101]

Huffington Post

Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, will headline a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in North Texas on Wednesday.

She will be the keynote speaker at Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas’ annual Fort Worth luncheon, helping to raise money for an organization that provides an array of reproductive and sexual health services, including abortions.

Bush’s public appearance before the group is striking, given that her father, President George W. Bush, was a staunch abortion opponent during his time as Texas governor and as president.

But it’s not entirely unexpected. Bush’s mother, former First Lady Laura Bush, has expressed support for the legality of abortion on a handful of occasions. The younger Bush, the CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps, called Planned Parenthood an “exceptional organization” in a June New York Times interview, and attended a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Paris in October.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. ...

[Ilsa]

2. Good for her. I hope she raises millions for PP. nt

[Mendocino]

14. I hope for brazillions!

Seriously, good for her!

[calimary]

25. LOL!

Agreed, Mendocino! Glad to see she's stepping forward like this. Her sister Jenna has always gotten all the attention, I know not why. Because blonde?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. You have to give Dubya credit for letting his children make up their own minds.

[dem4decades]

7. And unlike that dick Chaney, I bet W will publicly support her.

and i do mean dick!

[Lucky Luciano]

8. Amazing what orange fuckface does.

By comparison, it becomes easy to say complimentary things about W.

[GaYellowDawg]

15. Yes, you do.

I'm pretty damn reluctant to give Dubya credit for anything, but you do have to give him credit for that. I'm actually beginning to think that with a different vice-president, he could have made a mediocre president.

[groundloop]

16. I hated W's politics, but he'd probably be fun as hell at a party.

[ret5hd]

39. Probably brings the best coke!

[PragmaticLiberal]

41. Yeah, I thought that all along.

I'm not excusing what W did but I think his mistakes were more out of ignorance than malice.

Basically, without "Dick" I believe he would have been "just a guy" as far as President's go.

Not great, not horrible...but just there.

[IronLionZion]

43. I don't think W made up his own mind

more like he just did what he was told by his powerful special interests and Cheney.

[Lucky Luciano]

4. I guess the apple fell from the tree....

...rolled down the hill...got picked up by a passerby who brought it on an airplane to the other side of the world.

[sagetea]

17. If not made it to the other side of our Galaxy!

NT

[poli3]

26. she takes after her grandfather

Bush Sr. was the last sane republican

[LOL Lib]

5. Wow!

This is proof that smart republicans recognize the good that comes from PP. it's those narrow minded religious kooks that are truly the enemy of the American people.

Edit: wait...is "smart republican" an oxymoron?

[demmiblue]

12. She isn't a republican. n/t

[Skittles]

6. kudos to Ms. Bush

I think those girls turned out very nicely, in spite of their dipshit father

[smirkymonkey]

9. Wow, those girls actually turned out pretty well.

I'm surprised, but quite impressed.

[Dave Starsky]

40. They must take after their mother.

I never had a problem with Laura. She seems like a basically good person who was always a champion for libraries and education, despite the crazies around her.

[Turbineguy]

10. Kinda cool.

Trump is helping her dear old dad improve his legacy too.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. I'm liking that kid more and more. Sorry, woman. She is an adult, of course, now.

and she's grown up well. Kudos to Ms. Bush.

[demmiblue]

13. Brava, Barbara!

[sagetea]

18. Ms. Bush for PP

Ms. Obama (Malia) for #NoDAPL. There is always hope.

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/316685-malia-obama-joins-dakota-access-pipeline-protests

AH'O

sage

[dalton99a]

19. And attended a fundraiser for Hillary? Very impressive.

[mcar]

20. Good for her!

[elmac]

21. Maybe, just maybe

A possible Democratic President Bush in the future? God, I never thought my keyboard would ever type that one out...

[uponit7771]

22. A good step

[bhusar]

23. Give credit where credit is due.

I like W more now than I did back then. Its amazing that he seems a million times better than Cheeto

[poli3]

27. It's not W, it's Bush Sr's influence

W. was just Cheney's puppet.

[0rganism]

28. lol! Trump redeeming W's legacy

W no longer the Worst Ever
that mantle has passed to a new bearer, and i really can't imagine anyone seizing it from his tiny grabby hands

[StevieM]

37. I always thought Reagan was worse than Bush. But Trump may give him a run for his money. (eom)

[raccoon]

38. I doubt even a hologram Hitler could do that. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

33. Low bar. W caused a whole lot of suffering.

[NYC Liberal]

35. Easy looking back now.

The guy was a sociopath. He mocked dead soldiers to their mothers' faces, joked about hanging MLK Jr, started a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, made fun a blind reporter...not to mention all the serious impeachable actions he took like illegally ordering torture and lying to Congress.

That has no bearing on his children though. Just like Reagan.

[StarryNite]

24. WOW!!!

I'm very impressed!

[Greybnk48]

29. I'm happy she's with us!

Go girl!

[AJT]

30. The twins are strong independent woman.

[videohead5]

31. Didn't

Their Great Grandfather have something to do with the founding of planned parenthood?

[AngryAmish]

32. Too bad her grandmother did not use PP.

[Upthevibe]

34. My understanding is that the Bush Twins are quite Liberal. We can't blame the kids for the actions

of their fathers (see Ron Reagan and even our own Stephanie Miller whose father ran as V.P. on the Goldwater ticket). Good for her!

[elehhhhna]

36. I saw the Bush sisters arguing in a big SUV once

in a Walgreens parking lot, when we had first moved to Texas. They parked directly in front of me front to front. This was when they were staying at grandma and poppies house , on time out after being naughty and appearing drunk in the National Enquirer.


They seemed like normal kids to me. And good on Barbara.

[sheshe2]

42. Good for Barbara.