(Laura) Bush Says She Discussed Gesture With Jenna

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- Everyone does things and says things they are sorry for, first lady Laura Bush observes. And she's not necessarily talking about plain-speaking Teresa Heinz Kerry.

"I think I had a little girl who stuck her tongue out at the press last week. I shouldn't have brought it up, but it happens," Bush said Wednesday on "The Early Show" on CBS.

Daughter Jenna, 22, laughed and stuck out her tongue at news media July 20 during a campaign trip to St. Louis with her father. Photographers caught the waggish pose as Jenna sat in the presidential limousine.

"I didn't actually know about it," her mother said. "I was hiking in Glacier National Park with no news, no telephones. So when I got off my hike I called her and she sort of went on about it like she was sure I knew about it, which I didn't."

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-brf-laura-bush,0,1912464.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[goclark]

1. Who is the "little girl?" Jenna can vote

This is no baby, this is an adult that acts like a little girl of 2 years.
Emma Clare and Jack have better manners.

[frylock]

28. bush's don't become adults till age 40..

just take a look at daddy's youthful indescretions.

[smirkymonkey]

33. And they never actually become human

:evilgrin:

[CO Liberal]

55. But, Unfortunately, They ARE Able to Reproduce....

[mom cat]

31. How many soldiers and prisoners in Iraq are 22 or younger?

And these idiots want to do an ad with Dr. Phil on parenting? :wtf: How dare they presume to tell anyone how to parent!

[CarolynEC]

2. Laura Bush, Outdoorswoman?

Now she's hiking around glaciers,incommunicado with the outside world?

Talk about makeovers... when will we see the anime version of LB on the Cartoon Network?

They are SO f***ed up over at the Bush campaign.

[jackstraw45]

4. I'll BET it was for a campaign video/ad for the convention....

No DOUBT.

[democrat_patriot]

19. Exactly!

*: "Me and Laura love and respect Amerika. We often hike our lovely National Parks, like....ummmm...ummmmm...that one up North....you know.....begins with an 'i' or a 'y'...ummm....TERROR!"

Laura: "I can't stop smiling...it hurts".

*: "See how our loveley heterosexual marriage makes us happy?" (terror)

Laura: "No, seriously..my cheeks are all crampy"

*: "Take another blue one honeykins..."

[saigon68]

12. STEPFORD WIFE

YUCK

[daleo]

40. In this day and age, the president's wife would not be out of touch

I mean, imagine the potential for panic (terrorism, kidnapping, etc.) if she just went missing. She is bound to have plenty of secret service with her, that have the latest telecommunications gear.

[Habibi]

51. Will they show her

sitting on a boulder, having a smoke break?

[booksenkatz]

3. WHY SHOULD THK BE SORRY FOR WHAT SHE SAID??

My 4-year-old knows not to stick his tongue out at people, especially not in a moment of decorum. He will also be taught that when someone is slandering you day after day after day, you have the right to say, at the very least, SHOVE IT, to the author.

How dare you compare THK with your spoiled, immature little girl. Go Cheney yourself, Laura.

[madaboutharry]

5. "A little girl" - What BS!

Sorry Laura, Jenna is a 22-year old grown woman. She is the same age as the soldiers dying in Iraq.

[northzax]

8. yes, to us

but to parents, you are always little. I'm 29 and my mother still sees me as a child sometimes. Human nature. especially when I act immature, which is I think what she was implying here.

[City Lights]

17. You'll always be your mother's child.

The question is, when she talks about you to others does she still refer to you as her little boy?

[northzax]

18. not often

but she still uses the diminutive of my name, something no one who met me after age 10 calls me. so it's the same thing, right?

[City Lights]

22. So anyone still using the diminutive of your name, including

childhood friends, is implying that you're just a little boy? I don't interpret it that way, and never seek to diminish anyone's stature when I use their childhood nickname. I still have a friend - now nearing 50 - that I've always known as Billy. My public defender cousin is Donny. However, I'd never refer to either of them as a little boy. I do see a difference. But that's me. :-)

[northzax]

26. anybody else using the diminutive

would be unnacceptable to me. anyone besides my mom and my older sister, who have used it my entire life, would annoy me.

I still think that LB was implying that Jenna was acting like a little girl and that it was unnaceptable to her.

[Sunny_Sunshine]

30. My twins are 6 months younger than the Bush twins

I'm trying to imagine referring to my 5'10" daughter as "my little girl" At least with a straight face. I actually have more problems with Laura's comment than with Jenna sticking out her tongue. I do not see my children as "children" in fact I would like a better term to refer to them, as "my children" does make them sound immature when they are actually way cool adults.

[stevedeshazer]

6. Perhaps the new Outdoor Laura

will see the need to fully fund the National Park Service.

[Mighty Undecided]

38. No more than "librarian" Laura was for funding libraries or "schoolteacher

laura was for funding schools. Or flyboy W was for getting veterans benefits. It's all dress up to them.

[Longhorn79]

59. Well, the funding is there for schools, but they screwed it up

35% increase in public school funding and there are definitely children left behind. My good friend teaches special ed, and her kids have to take tests to make sure they're not "left behind". They are severely mentally handicapped; of course they're left behind. You're not gonna win a fight on the vets benefits, though, from Kerry's platform. Neither give more than lip service.

[Nite Owl]

7. Guess she's her father's

daughter. I don't get the comparison with Teresa's remark. Teresa had a direct confrontation. It's like when they compared her to Cheney's outburst to Leahy. It isn't the same and that's what they try to do make it a wash.

[JI7]

9. is Bush sorry about making fun of troops for dying in Iraq and not finding

WMD ?

[Sequoia]

58. Nice photo you've got of Kerry and Edwards

They sure are handsome when they smile and look so happy. I'd vote for happy any day.

You can bet if Edwards' daughter did that Rush Limpball would be crying. But those Bushies think "it's cute and oh well...she was only having fun. It's not like she was falling down drunk for crying out loud. You democrats just don't know how to have fun".

Sure are lots of new people on DU these days. Welcome!

[Az_lefty]

10. Sorry Laura, but yo have a spoiled 22 year old acting like a little girl

she's growing up to be just like Dad.

[llmart]

11. "Little girl?"

Someone who's 22 isn't a little girl any longer. Always making excuses for their behavior.

[DaveSZ]

14. Is this the new environmentalist Laura?

She needs to slap her husband upside the head.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x66062

[prolesunited]

13. And just why didn't they ask Laura

if Cheney saying fuck on the senate floor was appropriate or her husband calling a reporter a major league asshole was appropriate. :mad:

[DelawareValleyDem]

15. Let's just hope

she didn't teach Jenna how to drive.

[TahitiNut]

16. Can't you just see Dick Cheney leering at Jenna and saying ...

... "Hello, little girl. Wanna play with Uncle Dickie?" Laura Bush has a lot in common with Patsy Ramsey, imho.

[The_Casual_Observer]

20. Is a compare/contrast in order here?

The high quality of the youth in the Kerry Edwards camp VS these nitwits. No surprise here, chimp spawned what a chimp spawns, worthless twits that have absolutely no dignity. They are an embarrassment and an insult to the image of the upright hardworking young adult citizens in this country.

[0007]

21. This is Late Breaking News?


Isn't it quite obvious that Jenna is still a twelve year old with a sixteen year old mother and a very strange acting father.

[Neshanic]

23. "little girl" so sickening. "Little girl" like drinky- drink like dad

[Geo55]

24. Hmm

Now Jen , that was pretty weak...
Unka Dick has a much better way of expressing himself,
it's easy...make a fist , now , see your middle finger ?.....

[qanda]

27. She looks like she's had some plastic surgery

They are always harping on John Kerry and botox, I wonder if Laura is getting a couple of shots herself.

[nolabels]

32. Just say no

PLASTICS ARE NON-BIODEGRADABLE CAUSING MOTHER EARTH TO REJECT THEM. THESE ARE A SERIOUS THREAT TO ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM AS THEY HAMPER THE GROWTH OF PLANTS.
PLASTICS CHOKE DRAINS AND SEWERS RESULTING IN OVERFLOWING GUTTERS.

http://www.ndmc.gov.in/plastic.htm

[smirkymonkey]

34. I appreciate the double entendre of your sig line!

Just say no to plastic bags:

[nolabels]

41. Sometimes it seems confusing but then I realize who they installed

(snip)
Definition:

\Dou"ble-en*ten"dre\, n. entendre to mean. This is a barbarous compound of French
words. The true French equivalent is double entente.]
A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation,
one of which is often obscure or indelicate.
(snip)
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/double+entendre

(snip)
Pronunciation: gag

Dream Dictionary

Definition: Dreaming that you are gagging indicates that you are not able to express yourself in how you really feel about a situation. Alternatively, this dream may forewarn that you need to keep quiet before you put your foot in your mouth.
(snip)
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dream/gag



http://cagle.slate.msn.com/2000/candidate/gwbush/bush1.asp

[Mithras61]

29. Man, her eyes in this pic freak me out!

It reminds me of a Sci-Fi flick I saw once where aliens would take over people and then those people would have solid black eyes with no iris...

[DS1]

53. I think it's a pshop, judging by the hyperlink n/t

[goclark]

54. Jenna is Rosemary's Baby

I have never seen anyone's tongue curl like that in my life.

[diddlysquat]

25. Apparently Laura meets with old friends every summer and

does a hike somewhere. I remember because last year she and her lady-friends came to my state (WA) and hiked the Olympic Nat'l Park. This was her 2nd choice last summer due to a forest fire somewhere else. So this year they did Glacier. I do agree that in public she should not refer to her adult daughter as a little girl. In private she can call her whatever she wants but this a girl who is supposedly going to be teaching 4th grade next year. I sure wouldn't want someone that immature teaching my kid.

[Kadie]

35. First of all "little girl" ?

What is that all about? Are they going to start referring to them as "little girls" so no one will take them seriously? (like they would anyway) It wasn't too long ago they were pumping up the "little girls" when they were getting ready to hit the campaign trail. Talking about there future careers etc... Gimme a break.

Second of all "I think"? What in the hell is that. "I think I had a little girl who stuck her tongue out at the press last week." There are pictures of it everywhere, your own daughter talked to you about it. What do you mean "I think"?

Good grief, no wonder these girls are out of control.

OK, end rant.

[progressivebydesign]

36. "Little girl"???

Wow... she's pretty damn tall for her age. She acts like she's 8, but parties like she's 25, I can see where he'd be confused. My husband's 21 year old daughter would smack him if he refered to her as a "little girl", so would his 12 year old.

[SOS]

37. After January 2005

we will have youngsters who know enough not to stick their tongues out at the press.
It'll be nice to have a new level of maturity in DC!

[bobbieinok]

39. 'waggish'???? that's a supposedly good paper playing the game

that is, the semantic game

"Photographers caught the waggish pose as Jenna sat in the presidential limousine."

[Catfight]

42. She looked just like a pig face, like her Uncle Jeb.

[Gman]

43. Jenna is such a poised, mature and classy spokesperson

for the President of the United States.

and I use that term loosely.

[Child_Of_Isis]

44. she's never hiked a day in her life! NT

[Clyde39]

45. Compare Jenna (and Barbara) with the Dem daughters

Trashy versus classy!

[Dastard Stepchild]

46. Isn't sticking out the tongue...

supposed to be innocent, girlish fun? Just a cute young gal and her daddy out on a big day together. Unlike that cheap tramp Alexandra Kerry, who was spotted snogging John Cusack all over Beantown while her poppa was stumping for voters.
;)

[Debi]

48. Give the girl a break....

It was John Cusack.....YUM!!!

[Dastard Stepchild]

57. heard that :)

He actually got those sisters fighting over him. I understand the sibling rivalry there!

[goclark]

47. "Little Girls" should be arrested

for drinking under the age limit.

"Little Girls" could volunteer to help their father in the campaign,like Emma Clare. But --- "little girls" could not get paid for said employment because it would be illegal.

I wonder how much the "little girls" are getting for helping their Dad this summer? I would not be the least bit surprised if it was 6 figures.

[Malva Zebrina]

50. I read that Cheney's daughter, who works on his staff, gets a six figure

salary

No doubt in my mind that the strapless sisters are making the same.

On edit'

correction-sorry for the wrong info
-the only link I could find states that Mary makes $75,000 after taxes for managing the vice president's campaign.

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2004/2-20/view/actionalert/action.cfm

[oasis]

49. Someone please award Laura a blue ribbon for "Cluelessness".

[SoCalDem]

52. TWENTY-TWO year olds are NOT "little girls"... ..and...

to be "scolded" by a parent when you are an adult is a shameful thing.. BUT then they have NO SHAME.. they are Bushes...

This is a pattern in their family.. The whole family "juvenilizes" everything..and excuses it as "just being a kid"..."being silly"..."no big deal".. etc etc..

George's SEC stuff..an oversight..something that can happen because "he didn't understand the paperwork"..(like forgetting your homework at home)

George's boozing, until he was FORTY.. "just hangin' out with the boys"..."blowin' off steam".."goofin" off"..

George's TANG service.. "skipping out on duty" (DURING A WAR)..knowing that it was no big deal because someone would "fix" it for him....blaming it on being "young and irresponsible"..

Laura's total escape of any consequences when she "just happened to crash into her ex-boyfriend's car"...hard enough to KILL him", and a month or so later, she's off to college, as if NOTHING HAPPENED...

The "girls" were off limits to news media, even though they were OVER 18 when Bush came into office.. and as they have aged, they are STILL off limits when it suits the family..

Bar & Poppy are ALWAYS interjecting words such as "OUR BOY", when speaking of George.. It just points out that even though he "is" the leader of the free world, he still must be treated like "a little boy" who always seems to get bad advice...nothing is ever HIS fault..

It's a pattern..it's pathological

[KansDem]

56. "Don't bite the hand that feeds your Daddy, dear"

"The Media are our FRIENDS...Without them, you're Daddy is history..."