Open Letter To Barbara and Jenna

[Nbadan]

http://men.style.com/images/gq/features/070105/GQopenLetterh.jpg


We're wondering: Do you worry that Dad's idea to implement a progressive price index to reduce the cost of Social Security will hurt long-term benefits for working Americans? Just kidding! Who wants another shot of Goldschläger? Whooo-hooo!

You guys sure were fun when your daddy took office. Finally: America had first daughters who could do a respectable keg stand.

The comedy began when you both got busted for underage drinking. Then, Barbara, rumor has it you slinked into a naked party at Yale. Jenna, you face-planted at a frat bash and wound up in The National Enquirer. That was awesome!

But we have to admit, as you've gotten older, those antics have worn thin. Consider that speech you guys gave at the Republican National Convention. We didn't expect FDR's "Four Freedoms," but who wrote that thing? Bijou Phillips? This was a convention speech—it sounded like it was written in the bathroom of the Hustler Club. And by the way, when are you two going to get jobs? As we're writing this, neither of you has one. Chris Klein is busier than you are.

We know the bar is low; Daddy didn't start waking up before noon until he was 40. You two could spend two decades giving each other pedicures and watching That '70s Show and still wind up president—or at least governor of Florida.

But as far as presidential spawn are concerned, you're starting to look bad. That Jan Brady-esque striver Chelsea Clinton? She went to Oxford, got a six-figure consulting job, and has already formed a political action committee for her 2024 presidential bid. Even Ron Reagan is building a respectable career as a talking head. And Amy Carter still makes the best hemp bracelets east of the Mississippi.

You need a road to respectability, girls. Here are a few suggestions to make a lasting impact.

1. Take on a cause. Your mom has literacy. Your dad has that whole world-domination thing. How about your own mission? Third World debt relief? Better health care for the poor? Bottomless margaritas at Fuddruckers?

2. Accomplish a great feat. Enough with the namby-pamby European tours. How about swimming the English Channel, climbing Mount Everest, or opening a case of Red Stripe with your butt crack? Okay, so you can already do that last one.

3. Buy a ball club. It worked for Pops. You don't even have to work on the trades or the scouting. Just go to home games, park yourselves in the box seats, and keep the twenty-four-ounce Coors coming. Voilà! "Executive experience" for the résumé.

4. Upload the Google guys. It's time for serious boyfriends, ladies. Chelsea has that wan Oxford boyfriend. Julie Nixon married an Eisenhower. How about asking out those search-engine dorks, Sergey Brin and Larry Page? They're rich, they're great at square roots, and they've got a Jacuzzi with Wi-Fi.

5. Run away. It would be the biggest cable-news story of all time. Larry King's head would explode.

So get busy, ladies. We'll be watching.

Sincerely,
GQ

P.S. You better take this seriously. We hear Gammie is getting pissed.

Men.Style.com (http://men.style.com/gq/talkback/openletter)

:hat

[ObiwanGinobili]

so they've been college grads for 1 whole year now, right?

and even with "daddy's connections" neither one has a job. pathetic.
Why don;t they volunteer for the Army, Navy or Marines???

See, you've gotta respect Chelsea Clinton on this front, chick went to school ( one where alcohol 101 is not a class) graduated near the top, and now is gainfully employed and takes care of herself.
:tu

[CaptainHook]

http://mishami.image.pbase.com/u48/ethanbird/upload/31016454.subadrv.jpg

[Clandestino]

the wgaf forum...

[exstatic]

the wgaf forum...

...along with their attitudes and job aspirations, apparently.

I almost spit out pasta on the George not waking up before noon until he was 40 bit. Ah, the life of the idle rich.

[Nbadan]

the wgaf forum...

A forum about the ongoing war in Iraq, government corruption and rampant political graft and cronyism, or one about Adrianne's latest personal issues, your favorite movie, and Tom Cruise getting sprayed with water? Maybe Clandestino posted this in the wrong forum? Maybe some people simply don’t give a damn about their country?

[Clandestino]

you bashing the bush daughters is fucking idiotic... what the fuck are YOU doing for your country? jack shit.. that is right.. why don't you post wtf you ARE NOT doing for your country...

[mookie2001]

i wouldnt call that bashing at all
and its from gq

[Clandestino]

i wouldnt call that bashing at all
and its from gq

what would you call it and who cares who wrote it...

[mookie2001]

something funny
number 1 is the only thing you could say if they did theyd DO for their country
the rest is just bullshit

[SWC Bonfire]

See, you've gotta respect Chelsea Clinton on this front, chick went to school ( one where alcohol 101 is not a class) graduated near the top, and now is gainfully employed and takes care of herself.

Another girl who's private life was unfairly scrutinized (even more undeservedly so.)

The douchebag who wrote that article in GQ needs to go back to being the little insignificant nobody that he is, and leave family members out of it.

[samikeyp]

Bottomless margaritas at Fuddruckers?

Hell yes! :)

[Useruser666]

Certain people have so long ago strayed from their goals that they know not the road they travel.

[CaptainHook]

Liberals almost had an alcoholic in the Whitehouse too:

http://home.att.net/~trackitdown/teresa-beer-2-hkbb.jpg

[mookie2001]

OH MY GOD!!!!!
is it legal to hold so many beers?????????????



Liberals almost had an alcoholic in the Whitehouse too:

http://home.att.net/~trackitdown/teresa-beer-2-hkbb.jpg
what do you mean by "TOO"???

[ObiwanGinobili]

BETTY FORD. she was a pill-head and an alkie.
hence the BETTY FORD CENTER.

[bigzak25]

Open Letter To Barbara and Jenna

http://men.style.com/images/gq/features/070105/GQopenLetterh.jpg




Dear Barbara, you are so fucking hot. I want you badly. Oh yeah, hi to you too Jenna. :smokin

[Experiment2100]

You two are not ugly AND rich will ya'll please go out with me, look I said ya'll I speak in your language.

[scott]

I'm all for keeping the personal lives of the President's (or anyone else's) family private...

But I ever bag Barbara, I promise I will posting pics and full commentary on the net.

[SpursWoman]

I think this kind of crap is ridiculous...rip Bush all you want to, but his children should be left out of it.

And I felt that way about Chelsea, too. You can't choose who your parents are and what direction they take you, and don't deserve all of the unfair criticism.

[mookie2001]

HEY Captain hook
what did you mean by TOO?

i would like to know

[Ocotillo]

I believe they are no longer children. That was them up there at the Republican convention doing their "Party on Wayne, Party on Garth" routine for all of America was it not? I guess they decided to give up their privacy.

Now go join the war on terror as your daddy asked other kids that weren't born with a silver spoon in their mouth to do.

[exstatic]

1) In a perfect world, the families would be left out of it. We don't live there.

2) I might be a little indignant if they were making an effort to shield them from the press. They aren't.

[scott]

Ocotillo makes a good point that I never considered... once the children are used to rally support during a presidential campaign, they lose their "leave us alone" privledges.

[Nbadan]

I'm all for keeping the personal lives of the President's (or anyone else's) family private...

But I ever bag Barbara, I promise I will posting pics and full commentary on the net.

http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter99-00/bush.gif


:throwupsp

Scott, please don't!

[Nbadan]

Ocotillo is right, the girls became fair game when they stood before the the podium at the RNC.

Anyone remember that Jenna was gonna go teach in Harlem? Hummm...I wonder what happened? Eurotrip?

http://www.4president.org/barbara2.jpg

Rumor is that Barbara attended a Yale party in her birthday suit...

http://www.swamp-city.com/archives/Barbarasnewnose.jpg

Some sites are claiming the Barbara has had a nose job...

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/black-sheep/barbara-jenna-bush/barbra-bush-fake-id.jpg

Here is her fake ID that got confiscated...

http://home.earthlink.net/~kevin.omeara/bush_twins_draft.jpg

If this one was real, it would regain public support for the war in Iraq...

http://www.kenston.k12.oh.us/khs/where_are_they_now/dan_barbra_bush.jpg

Barbara definitely has the looks and the bad girl attitude, but if she's not careful she's likely to end up with a Liberty College stooge 'interning' for the RNC..

http://wizbangblog.com/images/2005/bushgirls_and_gallo.jpg

Gezz, who's the lucky freak?

http://rmeek141.home.comcast.net/DubyaBarbara.JPG

Good from evil?

[mookie2001]

dam shes hot
do you think shes ever heard of the patriot act
and how dumb would you have to be to think your dads smart

[JoePublic]

The way I see it is when they jumped on daddy's campaign wagon they became fair game. Stupid is as stupid does.

[Nbadan]

Is she or isn't she? The WH ain't saying...


At the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, children sit on their mothers' laps in waiting rooms, waddle down hallways, and wail inside the burn unit, where nurses carefully wrap gauze around their arms, legs, and heads.

It is here, say some doctors and nurses, that Barbara Bush, one of President Bush's twin daughters, has been working in near anonymity as a volunteer.

While no one disputes that she has been in Cape Town for the last six weeks, nearly everything about her stay is shrouded in mystery. Hospital officials yesterday refused to confirm her presence, and many hospital workers ducked questions about Barbara Bush's role at one of the premier health facilities in Africa for children with AIDS and other ailments.

A White House official, Peter Watkins, confirmed yesterday that her mother, Laura Bush, will visit Barbara in South Africa later this week, after the Group of Eight summit in Scotland where President Bush and other leaders of the industrialized world will consider how they can help ease poverty in Africa. The official said Laura Bush and her other daughter, Jenna, will spend five days with Barbara and then will travel to other African countries to speak about AIDS relief and education initiatives.

Boston.com (http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2005/07/06/bush_daughter_is_said_to_volunteer_in_s_africa/)

I guess she learned how to be there without, uh, actually BEING there from her father, who used the same technique in his Air National Guard days in Alabama.

[SpursWoman]

So, they spoke at the RNC...big fucking deal. Are their names on a ballot?



OH! MY! FUCKING! GOD! THEY PARTIED IN COLLEGE! THE! HORROR! :rolleyes

[jalbre6]

After reading the rest of the article, which I pasted below, it sounds like not only is Barbara there, she's got the whole hospital running interference against the media for her.

And any photos of her in a nurses outfit would be appreciated. :lol





Barbara Bush's experience in Africa might seem a made-to-order moment for good publicity, a chance for the Bush family to show a connection between policy and personal conviction. But the Bushes apparently will have none of that.

Watkins declined to say anything about Barbara Bush's stay in South Africa, noting that on principle the White House does not discuss the activities of the president's daughters, mainly because of security concerns.

But like the Clintons before them, the Bush family also treasures privacy for twins Barbara and Jenna. With the notable exception of last year's presidential campaign, the 23-year-old Bush daughters have rarely sought the limelight. Any publicity has mostly been the negative kind, including underage drinking incidents.

It appears that Cape Town residents are willing to oblige the family's desire for privacy.

''Isn't it charming that everyone here in Cape Town has pretty much left Barbara all alone?" said Dr. Mitch Besser, who works with pregnant women infected with HIV. He said he heard about Barbara from a young associate in his program.

''You don't hear about her partying, or being out around the town," Besser said. ''All you know is she is here and volunteering at Red Cross Children's Hospital. I think it is great that the kid of a president can do that quietly."

Both mother and daughter apparently were deeply touched two years ago when they visited a pediatric AIDS unit in Botswana run by Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. After the visit, which was part of President Bush's six-day swing through Africa, Laura Bush said, ''My message is there is hope for children all over the world who suffer from AIDS and other diseases as well, that they are really surrounded by love."

Later, a White House spokesman said the Africa trip inspired Barbara Bush to work with those infected by HIV. But after earning a bachelor's degree in humanities at Yale University in May 2004, she did not pursue a chance to work in the Baylor program.

''When she visited the center in Botswana, she told me she was interested in international health and pediatric AIDS," Dr. Mark Kline, professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, said yesterday. ''She said, 'I just love to do this work.' . . . She called me and said she was interested and we talked about what she might do with the program," but nothing happened.

No one at the Red Cross hospital would discuss how Barbara Bush ended up helping there, or what she is doing each day.

Hospital spokeswoman Diana R.B. Ross said she had heard nothing about Barbara Bush working as a volunteer. ''That's news to me," she said yesterday, standing outside the hospital as children streamed in and out of the building.

Nasrina Teladia, director of the Friends of the Children's Hospital, which runs a volunteer program for the hospital, said Barbara Bush did not sign up through her organization. ''I wasn't aware she was with us," Teladia said. ''Of course, she could have come through special channels."

The Red Cross hospital is set against the majestic backdrop of Table Mountain to the west. The six-story facility was founded during World War II and now is the only hospital dedicated for children in sub-Saharan Africa, according to its literature.

Several weeks before she arrived in May, US embassy officials in Pretoria did an extensive security check on the building, with the understanding that Bush would spend much time at the hospital, a US official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

More than 20 hospital employees, asked if they had firsthand knowledge of Barbara Bush's work, said they had not worked with her.

One doctor, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said, ''We know she's been here, but we don't want to talk about it."

A hospital administrator, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said that friends had told her that Bush volunteered a few times a week in the children's burn unit.

Inside Unit C2 yesterday afternoon, the corridor was quiet. The walls are adorned with murals of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and each room is named after a fairy tale. There's the ''Peter Pan Ward," the ''Bambi Ward," and the ''Goldilocks and the Three Bears Ward."

But in the ''dressing room," where nurses take off gauze and put on new bandages, a small boy screamed in pain as two nurses wrapped his head in white.

At the nurse's station, also called ''Thumbelina's Office," the supervisor said she may have met Bush, but couldn't be certain. ''We have so many volunteers, and since no one signs in, we don't always know who they are," said the supervisor, who declined to give her name.

[jochhejaam]

A forum about the ongoing war in Iraq, government corruption and rampant political graft and cronyism, or one about Adrianne's latest personal issues, your favorite movie, and Tom Cruise getting sprayed with water? Maybe Clandestino posted this in the wrong forum? Maybe some people simply don’t give a damn about their country?

Open letter to bad ann,

Or maybe Clandestino doesn't give 2 flips about some ultra leftwing liberal airing another view critisizing the leader of the Free World and stooping even lower and degrading his daughters. Could be some people are tired of hearing the incessant venom, whining and criticism spewing forth from the minds of people who offer no constructive ideas on how to handle any of the worlds problems other than to jackhammer home tedious compaints ad nauseum. Limiting one's thoughts to critical and myopic examination and interpretation of others does not equivocate to "giving a damn".

Not unlike the waffling Kerry, your agenda offers no constructive alternatives to handling the problems in our world, rather you are limited to an agenda that consists of a "litany of complaints".

Thank you for starting "just another thread" that is nothing more than narrow-minded rhetorical cant.

There are 3 types of people in the world,
People that talk about people. (that would be you)
People that talk about things.
People that talk about ideas. (should be are goal)


:elephant :elephant :elephant

[ClintSquint]

It is our duty to call out our leaders when we feel they need to be called out.

Calling out the President does NOT make you unpatriotic or a "liberal"...it makes you normal.

[jochhejaam]

It is our duty to call out our leaders when we feel they need to be called out.

Calling out the President does NOT make you unpatriotic or a "liberal"...it makes you normal.

Unfortunately people have majored in "calling someone out" and not even minored in problem solving..

How many millions sit back and blindly cast stones (call out) and it ends there? It takes no intelligence to mime the prognosticators. Lemmings, nothing more.

[Nbadan]

Or maybe Clandestino doesn't give 2 flips about some ultra leftwing liberal airing another view critisizing the leader of the Free World and stooping even lower and degrading his daughters. Could be some people are tired of hearing the incessant venom, whining and criticism spewing forth from the minds of people who offer no constructive ideas on how to handle any of the worlds problems other than to jackhammer home tedious compaints ad nauseum. Limiting one's thoughts to critical and myopic examination and interpretation of others does not equivocate to "giving a damn".

:rolleyes

Yeah, after all, if you really gave a damn you would be posting from Iraq right now, right? This is a discussion forum.

Influencial Progressives have offered alternatives to the status-quo of daily killings in Iraq, the corporate press ignored them. Progressives offered viable alternatives to W's plan of Social Security reconstruction - the corporate press ignored them. Progressives argued that W's health plan would cost billions more than the WH's estimates - the corporate press ignored them. Progressives argued that a secret intelligence wing set up by high-ranking WH officials were fixing the facts in the case for war against Iraq - the corporate press ignored them. Anyone see a pattern here?

[Nbadan]

How many millions sit back and blindly cast stones (call out) and it ends there? It takes no intelligence to mime the prognosticators. Lemmings, nothing more.

Complain as they might, to those 'lemmings' credit, there are no large-scale public anti-war demostrations being held in the U.S.. Everyone, liberal and Conservative, supports the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. If anything, it seems to be that people are voting against this administration's war policies by keeping their son's and daughter's from joining the Army and Marines. Now that's action were it hurts.

[jochhejaam]

This is a discussion forum.


Utterly profound!
You have a flair for stating the obvious, you must have been right at the top of your class...?

[JoePublic]

Utterly profound!
You have a flair for stating the obvious, you must have been right at the top of your class...?

At least he was in class...where were you?

[jochhejaam]

At least he was in class...where were you?


What are you his bodyguard? :lol

[Marcus Bryant]

This thread makes the term "obsession" come to mind.

[CalsonicKansei]

hot

[JoePublic]

What are you his bodyguard? :lol

No, I'm your daddy.

[mookie2001]

So, they spoke at the RNC...big fucking deal. Are their names on a ballot?

no but once you put yourself in that arena you become a public figure
you cant have it both ways
go on the campaign trail, speak at events...people are going to treat you like a public figure