The Bush "girls" are a disgrace!

[Raven]

Isn't this awful...just awful, awful, awful. As a parent I would be humiliated that my children were this terribly stupid...clueless and arrogant. This is what the President of the United States has raised...what a pity...what a mess he's made...but then, what's new? And this crowd of idiots is cheering these sweatty, nasty girls like they have done something with their lives...these are truly two children who sould be left behind!

[senseandsensibility]

1. Details, please

for those of us who can't bear to watch. What exactly are they doing and/or saying?

[Minimus]

4. lame attempts of cracking jokes

[soothsayer]

5. They're just cutting up and delivering the jokes rove or karen wrote for

'em. Just silly and trite, but hardly evil. Just goofy, but that's ok.

[Raven]

10. Oh, Jesus! I was listening to them on NPR and

whichever one was speaking was just stupid...I can't really describe it...she basically insulted her parents and grandmother...joked about being a drunk...I sensed that the crowd was uneasy with it...she was just plain stupid!

[stevedeshazer]

18. The crowd got VERY quiet

Watching on PBS

[physioex]

19. I agree.....

This was a total failure, and they shouldn't have been put on. Or someone should have read what they were going to say more carefully.....

[MissB]

20. I'm pretty sure that was Jenna (nt)

[senseandsensibility]

30. Glad to hear the crowd was uneasy

But I bet the mediawhores won't say a word.

[ClassWarrior]

49. Actually, I came here looking for info because Wolf and Greenfield...

...were saying it was the worst speech they had heard in years.

Will wonders never cease?

[aquart]

41. Passive aggression wins again?

Lotta pentup hostility in that family.

[belle]

46. Seriously!

[mbali]

61. No wonder

W was drinking pretty heavily when the girls were little.

And, by all accounts, he was a MEAN drunk.

No wonder they never seem to want to go near him.

Imagine what their early years were like?

[physioex]

15. Went kinda like this...

He He He He Like my mom and dad are good parents...
He He He Like we listen to Outkast and watch
Sex and the City... He He He He He....Like our
Hamster didn't make it...He He He He He

And I am NOT joking....

[senseandsensibility]

28. That's hysterical!

I know it couldn't have been that bad, but you cheered me up!

[physioex]

Trust me it was....

Watch it on CSPAN later on......

[minkyboodle]

32. I thought that was a transcript..

seriously it was that bad

[BrotherBuzz]

45. Trust me...they were pathetic!

It was truly horrible. Now, hysterical would be SNL doing a split screen with professional comedians doing the same script opposite a tape of the twins.

[umtalal]

2. I agree. I can't even compare them to Edwards daughter and she is so much

younger than them. Just how is he raising those girls is beyound me!

[lancdem]

8. Cate Edwards is the same age, actually

22

[JI7]

56. i think he was talking about the 6 year old Edwards daughter

[mbali]

62. Bwahahahahaha!!!!!

eom

[mbali]

66. But unlike Bush girls . . .

Cate Edwards didn't grow up in the spotlight.

One would expect a little more poise from women who've been in the public eye since birth.

[seabeyond]

54. raising them, was drunk until fourty

and have never seen them visit either the white house or the "ranch" except one photo opt for easter i think

[Persiflamme]

3. The girls ARE being silly

Had some funny lines, most silly ones. I think that they are 22 year old girls is mostly the problem

[TrustingDog]

9. I find it difficult to diss them. They are just kids...

and yeah, to someone my age, 22 is just a kid.

Just remember how Chelsea was treated by the repug media, do you want to do the same?
shame.

They are No Threat. Their sperminator is. Focus, people.

[Raven]

21. Chelsea was never put up on a podium...she had the good sense

to make something of her life. These two have chosen the limelight here and I will feel free to express my feelings that they are an embassassment to every 22 year old in this country.

[TrustingDog]

33. go ahead, pork away at them, but you dilute the real issues with that.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

43. George and Laura were fertile

beyond that there was apparently little to prove with this "stunt", except of course as Raven points out, it betrays that their parenting was sorely lacking.

[umtalal]

11. Cate Edwards is the same age. She was a delight to watch.

I am not saying this because her father and mother are democrats. Bush's daughters are not doing it for me. They are brain dead.
They have not been coached well. They forgot their audiance is "coservative." Speaking of being drunk and sex and the city is just plain dumb in a public speech ;especially if the audiance you are targeting are in small town america!

I hope they grow up and wisen up for their own sake and not anyone else's.

[MaineDem]

64. At 22 they aren't "girls"

They're young women. They aren't the most intelligent nor mature 22 year olds I've ever heard.

But, I was thinking, they probably were forced into doing this and just read the wrods they were given. It's sad really.

[MissB]

You did a much better job.

Most of us would agree on that :)

[pss]

6. Whew!

Creepy people never realize just how creepy they are...

[Minimus]

7. "mom and dad kickname for each other

is bushie"

[hlthe2b]

78. So does that mean Georgie calls Pickles "bushie" too?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When they said that I saw some sort of stunned looks...

[DWolper]

12. Old fashioned again

I just can't imagine talking about anybody's children that way. Leave those young girls out of all of this! And by the way, they HAVE done something with their lives. Graduating from Yale and the University of Texas is something to be proud of. Maybe we don't like their father's presidency, but that kind of talk about two 22 year-old kids should be repudiated by all. Then again, I think I am too old for this forum if most think otherwise.

[MissB]

17. I think the problem is

that the children are making themselves a part of the campaign. It isn't like they are young children, unable to speak their minds.

For better or worse, the children that are campaigning for their dad/stepdad are putting themselves out there for criticism.

[Raven]

34. And how do you think that Bush kid got into Yale for God's sake!

Probably over others who deserved to be there. And Oh, by the way, there are 18, 19, 20 21, and 22 year old kids that had to grow up pretty fast when this President shoved them off to Iraq. I have absolutely NO sympathy for the Bush girls at all.

[Lindacooks]

38. They aren't 'young girls', they are adults

however immature.

And the other poster is right, 18 year olds were sent off to die by these brat's father. THEY ARE FAIR GAME.

[Joylaughter]

58. Adults who have the world's ear

Educated adults who come off as rebellious teenaged brats. They set a bad example for young adults. Public speakers are fair game.

[physioex]

40. Graduating from Yale....

BWHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAH...More proof that rich affirmaive action is a failure...

[mitchum]

47. Fuck them!

They are campaigning for their goddamn father. They are fair game.

[GalleryGod]

76. I agree. Hit the Road Old 123 posts

:argh:

[onecent]

13. College Graduates? My God

And these two graduated from college????? God help us all.

Giggle Giggle Giggle...and what was that snip about Sex and the City and how embarrassed Grandma Barbara Bush was? Catch that?

Twits.

[physioex]

22. Goes to prove that Rich Affirmative Action .......

Defintetly a failure. Wonder who did their homework for them in college?

[minkyboodle]

35. biggest advertisement for the Estate Tax I've ever seen

[Apple Smoothie]

73. Certainly not their parents!

lol.

[PA Democrat]

80. Bush once stated that he helped them with their homework by "typing"

their papers for them. Guess he was incapable of anything more "reaching".

[stevedeshazer]

14. Just saw them in the seats now

Camera panned them post-speech, they knew they flopped.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

27. Probably thinking "I can't wait to get back to the dorm and do a dozen

boilermakers!"

"Oh yeah, we graduated already."

[TheFarseer]

16. Yeah, this is pretty rough

I wouldn't say a disgrace or anything. Not funny just goofy and lame. I'd still take either of them back to my place ;^)

[YoQuieroLiberty]

60. It's funny

Change the name from Bush to Kerry and I'm sure a lot of people here would agree with you.

[slojim240]

23. Chelsea out classes them all.

But then, look who are her parents.

[leetrisck]

24. I can't scrounge up any sympathy - our military

are considerably younger - AND DEAD.

[umtalal]

29. Thank you for that leetrisck. And if not dead they are injured and maimed.

[Leilani]

25. Neither girl has a Texas accent!

Funny bout that!

[AuntPatsy]

39. Not really....

My girls do not have a big accent either, only when they are a bit peeved can you tell they are from the south....and we are in deep texas and they were raised on a real ranch situated out in the boonies until we moved thankfully back to civilization...

[mbali]

69. Neither does anyone else in the Bush family other than W

Not Jeb, not Doro, not Neil, not Marvin, not their kids.

How odd...

[Leilani]

86. Exactly my point!

Just Dubya!

[Mojambo]

26. The word you're searching for is

Vacuous

[berry]

85. Oh, and speaking of vacuous, another line that seemed to shock

the crowd was when one of them (I think Barbara) said that she wasn't really "political." This to a crowd that lives for politics. And how were they to take that? Interesting, I thought.

[IronLionZion]

31. He only has a wife and daughters for political reasons IMHO

he married Laura during a campaign. They didn't even have a honeymoon or anything.


Now the Kerry/Heinz kids and Cate Edwards come across as very intelligent and well-behaved young people. Hell, just to prove this isn't partisan, I think even Mary and Elisabeth Cheney are better behaved and dignified than the Bush girls.

[grasswire]

36. they had no village, I guess

Nobody taught them their proper "place" in history and the decorum they owe the American people. They live a lifestyle provided by the people. They should have been taught some manners and some dignity by SOMEONE. Laura obviously failed them as badly as George did.

[carpetbagger]

42. Their village is on the other side of the tracks from all of us.

They've got the Gravy Train For Life*

*The Gravy Train For Life (TM) has been brought to them, but not to you, by a Haliburton, Enron, and by a generous donation from the House of Saud, "Where Oil and Terra Come Bubblin' from the Ground"

[stellanoir]

37. "It's pay back time." Jenna Bush

I actually agree with her on that count.

Saw them on GMA the other morning. It was terribly uncomfortable to watch.

But they told a tale of having friends sleep over as teens. In the morning they said their mother would come in and their friends would think, "why did we sleep here?" Their mother would then tell them that there were some photographs in a lower drawer that needed organizing. They thought it was funny but were groaning at the same time.

Huh. . .? Was so telling. Gee Laura, are we just a tad anal compulsive and a bit of a control freak. . .? I feel sorry for these girls truly.

My kid has had tons of sleepovers. They always stay up way too late. That's the whole point of the event. In the morning most mother's with a lick of sense know to leave them alone until they become vertical and then just say, "let me know when you're hungry."

Can you imagine, bothering a kid with an inane chore in front of their friends. Sheeesh.

Couldn't believe it.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

59. Mighta been looking for boozing, or doing an intervention.

Part of me respects the twins for being autonomous young women in a family of power merchants of death.

They just enjoy themselves and to hell with public image and politics, y'know?

It's that early adult phase of somewhat self-destructive rebellion and seperation from dominant parents that can save you from suffering as a shadow of your parents. That's what happened to * and it nearly killed him with booze combined with cars and planes. Now it kills his enemies and infidels...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html
(So George, How Do You Feel About Your Mom and Dad? Psychiatric History of Junior)

I hope the twins get healthy and find a way to cope with the horror of the murdering family they didn't ask to be born into.

[Malva Zebrina]

44. Keep in mind that Karen Hughes was their coach

for this embarrassing diplay of airheadedness.

[BrotherBuzz]

55. I understand she's a sterling baton twirling coach.

[physioex]

57. What a failure.....

I understand the phrase "Ten Minutes from Normal"....

[goodhue]

48. They rock!

It couldn't be worse.

[KoKo]

50. 22 years old and they act like 12 year olds. Don't have a personal story

about their father. Attacked Kerry girls by saying...heh..heh..heh OUR hamster died...and joked away the whole thing about how "bad" they are.

Said some disgusting thing about their parents calling each other arond the house, "bushies." I won't even go into why they found that funny...but they did...

And, Jenna in jeans? please...

[despairing optimist]

51. Tonight was the night of the un-McCain and the un-Rudy

and boy, did they all suck! It's been hard to stay awake. The last time so many bores were assembled under one roof, NYC's inspectors evacuated the building.

Tonight seemed more canned than last night's Sinatra clip. I guess it had to be because the theme was "People of Compassion." Lord knows, with that crowd they couldn't possibly bring that one off live.

I sensed a lot of defensiveness tonight from those at the podium, twins included. That's good, very good.

Santa's coming early this year, I think.

[WI_DEM]

52. I missed this, what did the pundits have to say about them?

[Pirate Smile]

65. There is another thread where they said Wolf Blitzer was

going after them and Jeff Greenfield said the writer will be fired.

[MaineDem]

70. I heard someone (CNN I think) say they were awful

This guy said all reports, from both sides, panned their presentation.

[hexola]

53. Oh please...typical white American idiots...

but hardly a disgrace...!!

Who cares what they do with there lives...?

What was "arrogant" - they seemed pretty tame...

[LisaL]

63. Give them some slack, will ya?

I mean, what do you expect, with a father like that?

[Pirate Smile]

67. MSNBC has a link to play the video of their speech

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5810451/

[vetwife]

68. I was ROFL when Laura said

My husband is the very same.Not changed a bit since I met him at a BBQ years ago...Does that mean he is still drinking and doping Laura?
I thought he changed at 40 when God told him to.

[Hailtothechimp]

71. Literate.....but just barely.

As I watched them I was glad neither one was a male.

[KelleyKramer]

72. They were turning their back to see themselves on screen

It would be generous to say they were pathetic.

Whoever decided to let them on that stage during prime-time is the Kerry campaigns best friend tonight.

[bo44]

74. does anyone doubt they will cash out just like daddy did riding poppy's

coattails? The Oysters are fair game if you believe this. They are shucking and jiving with the hope of landing book deals, endorsement etc. That is why they are deserving of the cameras and the poison ink. Fuck 'em. Their shills.

[Jen]

75. Just like dear old dad.

They aren't very polished public speakers, but you think they would have been given better material.

[elf]

77. entire Freerepublic community embarrassed

shocked by the twins!

[AuntPatsy]

79. True, but then again, FP loved the putdown on Kerry's girls..

pathetic bunch of loonies...

To: MHT
HAHAHA! They had a hamster too. Theirs didn't make it!



2,430 posted on 08/31/2004 7:30:07 PM PDT by rintense (Results matter.)
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To: shiva
They had a hamster, too!

Theirs didn't make it.

LOL



2,431 posted on 08/31/2004 7:30:07 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Right_in_Virginia
Ha....the hamster was IN!!!



2,432 posted on 08/31/2004 7:30:09 PM PDT by goodnesswins (VICTORY...........brings peace.)
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To: Petronski
Their hamseter didn't make it. LOL



2,433 posted on 08/31/2004 7:30:09 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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[opihimoimoi]

81. PUB AIRHEADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[blueblitzkrieg]

82. I've never been critical of the twins before...

but damn, watching them was so embarrassing it was painful. Horrible delivery, giggling throughout the speech at their own lame-o jokes, just horrible.

The Kerry daughters were funny and charming and intelligent. There is no contest.

Most of the freepers admit their speech was terrible, but some of them are deluding themselves into thinking that younger voters will like it. I'm younger than the Bush twins...trust me, it takes more than references to an Outkast song and other assorted lame pop-culture jokes to sway me. Most young people aren't that stupid to be impressed by that idiotic speech.

[liveoaktx]

83. Omigosh, I did NOT watch the RNC but had to turn it on JUST FOR THIS

What a couple of morons. Did someone actually WRITE this for them?
Ugh! 22 is NOT a baby age-these WOMEN have graduated college and are friggin adults. This is a commercial for STFU.

[Only Me]

84. Thank U for this thread. I really needed a good laugh! n/t