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sorry, guys

Scott — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:44:09 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/washington/16cnd-jenna.html?hp

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Nerf Herder

Scott — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:06:26 GMT

So how many here have heard the Nerf Herder song this tribe is named after?

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Grass roots movement

Scott — Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:38:37 GMT

The internet is a powerful tool. We could start our campaign now, but we need to be covert so the media doesn't pick up on it until it's too late...

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Jenna is hot

Hubert — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:54:13 GMT

There is no two ways about it. Jenna is turning into a lovely young woman.
I would really enjoy having her in my new Tribe - Republican Womens Club

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Drudge?

Scott — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 03:44:05 GMT

I just heard Matt Drudge comment on the rumor that Jenna will be running in 2016. Wonder where that started...

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Set your VCRs

Scott — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:05:47 GMT

Jenna and Barb are going to introduce their mother tonight.

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Jenna and Barbara Bush

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:07:22 GMT

Jenna and Barbara Bush
The party girls reconsidered.
By Michael Crowley
Posted Friday, July 23, 2004, at 10:38 AM PT

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http://slate.msn.com/id/2104204?GT1=4244
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From the earliest days of the republic, American presidents have been humiliated by their wayward and self-destructive children. John Quincy Adams' son was a debt-laden alcoholic who was kicked out of Harvard and later drowned in a possible suicide. Andrew Jackson Jr. was a decadent freeloader whose mother was once shocked to discover his collection of "disgusting pictures of nature." William Henry Harrison referred to his incompetent sons as "the destruction of my hopes" (although his grandson, Benjamin, became president).

Modern presidential kids haven't fared much better. John F. Kennedy Jr. labored all his life to be taken seriously before his untimely death. Amy Carter was known as a spoiled brat and later flunked out of Brown. Reagan daughter Patti Davis took drugs and married a yoga instructor, posed nude for Playboy, and penned erotic novels with names such as Bondage. And while George W. Bush has (for better or worse) matched his dad's success, it took him almost 20 years to realize that college was over.

These cases aren't flukes. "Being related to a president [brings] more problems than opportunities," explains Doug Wead, a former aide to George W. Bush, in his book All the President's Children. Wead's historical research, he writes, found "higher than average rates of divorce and alcoholism and even premature death. Some presidential children seemed bent on self-destruction." Wead theorizes, a bit crudely, that the pressure to win the approval of a father who also happens to be a world leader simply crushes many presidential offspring.

By these standards Bush's twin daughters, who after 22 years are finally revealing themselves to the public, almost look like overachievers. Yes, they come across as obnoxious pampered party girls—stylish vixens straight out of Rich Girls or The Simple Life. Tales may abound of their bad manners, including casual obnoxiousness toward their Secret Service details. And though they keep gossip columnists and paparazzi busy, they seem strangely uninterested in the world around them. But if the Bush girls can manage to stay alive and sane—or at least out of Playboy—they'll be in comparatively good shape.

Jenna and Barbara are fraternal twins, delivered within a minute of one another by Caesarian section on Nov. 25, 1981. They're far from identical. Like the Bush family itself, there's a cultural duality to them. The first President Bush was the blueblood son of a Connecticut senator who summered in Kennebunkport, Maine. George W. also attended Andover and Yale but remade himself from preppy scion into a boots-wearin' oilman; now he summers in Crawford, Texas, and seems far more Houston than Greenwich. The twins have split this difference. Jenna is the Red Stater: She stayed at home in Austin to attend the University of Texas. "I knew I wanted to go to a big Southern school," she told Vogue. Barbara channels the family's Eastern-elite spirit. She applied to nine colleges, including Princeton and Harvard, wound up at Yale, and made regular trips from New Haven into Manhattan. The split also reflects the differences between their parents. Jenna emulates her father's mischievous spirit, while Barbara seems to have inherited more of her mother's bookish reserve.

What they do share is a taste for hip clothes, a good party, and a celebrity milieu (they've reportedly clinked glasses recently with P. Diddy and Ashton Kutcher). OK, so they're not a couple of Chelsea Clintons. But in historical terms—and especially given what we know about their dad's own reckless youth—they could be a lot worse. That may be partly because George and Laura have been more libertarian than conservative in their parenting. As the Washington Post's Ann Gerhart details in her biography of Laura Bush, The Perfect Wife, the Bushes have been permissive, laissez-faire parents more interested in shielding their daughters from prying eyes than in drumming solid values into them. Fearing that media scrutiny could warp their girls, the Bushes fiercely hid them from the public throughout W.'s career. Until this summer, Bush never brought his daughters onto the campaign trail or included them in official family portraits. (Although it's not quite true that they were never used for photo-ops. "George [H.W.] came out after our little talk and was immediately rushed by the grandchildren—as primed by the handlers," Barbara Bush once wrote in her diary.) After Bush's election in 2000, the White House pressured national reporters to leave the girls alone—even bullying them if necessary. After one scribe asked a question at a White House briefing that referred to Jenna's drinking, press secretary Ari Fleischer called him later to creepily warn that the question had been "noted in the building."

But this zealous privacy strategy was imperfect. Back in Texas, it kept the girls' pictures out of the newspapers. That worked fine when they were younger. But it didn't help them when they decided to rebel. Once they tasted the freedom of college in 2000, the twins reacted with typical undergraduate abandon: binge-drinking, using fake IDs (and, less typical for undergrads, ditching their Secret Service agents). Even then, the news media mostly looked the other way (except in extreme cases, such as to report the girls' run-ins with the police for underage drinking). But there was no controlling the tabloids, which reported lurid tales of public makeout sessions and other alcohol-soaked debauches. And in a world of cell-phone cameras and mass e-mail, every drunken dirty dance or topple from a barstool could be chronicled at sites like this one. (Sample excerpt from one correspondent: "It was an interesting conversation she was having, and I wish I could have gotten a pic of her grabbing her breasts. She seemed to be a very nice person.")

With the girls starting to acquire something of a trashy image—and a dicey re-election campaign coming up—the Bush family realized the media could be their friend after all. Now a slick makeover is underway. This month the first daughters have been unveiled to the world with all the coordinated hype of Apple's latest iPod rollout. First came a Vogue magazine spread, featuring the girls in elegant designer gowns*, and their first-ever print interview. Then Jenna appeared at some of her father's campaign events, followed soon after by her sister. This week they made solo headline appearances at a handful of campaign events—another first. And on Friday they'll host an (undoubtedly informative) online chat at the Bush campaign Web site. It's not hard to guess what this is about: A president seen as a blustery warmonger can surely use a couple of pretty young daughters by his side to help soften his image.

It's a bit propagandistic—but, so what? The Bush girls deserve a little good press. They've been held to standards that millions of college students couldn't meet—partly because they are presidential daughters, and partly because they are daughters of this president, and therefore are assumed to have inherited his youthful fecklessness and dipsomania. A prudish media tittered for years over their collegiate drinking exploits. But what could be more ordinary? It's true that they seem strangely uninterested in the exhilarating world history unfolding around them—"I'm just not political. ... There's nothing about the process that has ever interested me," Jenna said—but there are worse things. They could be robotic drones reciting their dad's good-versus-evil rhetoric from talking points. Or worse, aspiring Manhattan PR girls. Instead, Jenna professes plans to teach at a charter school, while Barbara purportedly hopes to work with AIDS-stricken children abroad. And both have shown flashes of political independence: Jenna is reported to have protested her father's 1998 execution of Karla Faye Tucker*, while Barbara was recently quoted as telling a friend she doesn't accept the label of "Republican."

It's true that the Bush girls have wealth and privilege on their side. But dark psychological forces are aligned against them. In addition to the unique pressures borne by presidential children, daughters face an especially complex set of expectations involving feminine virtue and intelligence and ambition. Chelsea, for all she's been through, managed to thread this needle. But it's not easy. So, don't be too hard on the Bush girls. The odds are against them.

Correction, July 23, 2004: The article originally claimed that both girls were wearing Calvin Klein gowns. In fact, Barbara wore a Calvin Klein gown, but Jenna wore an Oscar de la Renta. Return to that corrected sentence. Also, the piece originally reported that Karla Faye Tucker was executed in 2000. She was executed in 1998. Return to that corrected sentence.

Michael Crowley is a senior editor at the New Republic.

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Bush Twins Break Silence About Campaign, Parties

Scott — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:25:00 GMT

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&u=/nm/20040713/pl_nm/bush_twins_dc&printer=1

Bush Twins Break Silence About Campaign, Parties

By Adam Entous

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shielded for years from public view, President Bush (news - web sites)'s twin daughters have broken their silence in an interview describing a karaoke party at Camp David and how they surprised their father by deciding to join his campaign.

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"It's not like he (Bush) called me up and asked me," Jenna told Vogue magazine in their first joint interview, released on Tuesday. "They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this."

Bush is protective of his 22-year-old daughters, and White House spokesman Scott McClellan has asked the media to "show respect" as they emerge from private life as students to work at Bush's campaign headquarters in the Washington suburbs.

Barbara made her campaign trail debut on Tuesday in Michigan. Jenna joined Bush last week on a bus tour of the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

"Strangely, politics and family life never crossed," said Jenna in the interview, which will appear in Vogue's August issue and includes a glossy photo spread featuring the twins posing in formal dresses as well as more casual clothes.

She described how their 20th birthday party was held at the Camp David presidential retreat less than three months after the Sept. 11 attacks.

"We had 20 of our friends, and there was a really nice dinner and a karaoke machine afterward, and of course my dad had a sports tournament for the guys," Jenna said. "He's so competitive, so active. He was stressed out, I know, but we still had the party."

MOM "HAS FUNNY QUIRKS"

Jenna said her parents have the "best marriage," citing as proof that "my dad thinks my mom's funny even though she's really not -- she's cute, she has funny quirks."

Jenna said her mother would tell them to clean their bedrooms. "I call her OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) to her face, but I'm glad now because some of it's rubbed off on me," she said.

Jenna also described how the president interacted with the girls' boyfriends. "He's not the shotgun-dad type, he's the joking-around-to-the-point-where-he-scares-the-heck-out-of-them type."

There has sometimes been tension between Bush and the media over coverage of his daughters, especially when both had run-ins with the law over alcohol three years ago.

In an incident in Austin, Texas, in 2001, Barbara was sentenced to perform community service and attend an alcohol awareness class, while Jenna, who had been found with a false ID, was fined $600 and lost her driver's license for 30 days.

The only "drink" referred to in the Vogue interview are soy lattes, which the twins get at Starbucks .

Vogue said they are far better traveled than their parents were at their age. Barbara's graduation trip included stops in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Prague. Jenna went to Spain.

Barbara, who majored in humanities at Yale, said she planned to sign up for a program in which she would work in Eastern Europe and Africa with children afflicted with AIDS (news - web sites).

"We thought it would be better to wait (to start) until after November," Barbara said of the presidential election.

Jenna, who has an English degree from the University of Texas, plans to teach. "I'm just not political," said Jenna. "I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life."

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Jenna fighting crime in Spain!

Scott — Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:04:17 GMT

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/16/bush.daughter.ap/

Jenna Bush agents join fistfight
President's daughter unhurt in Spanish incident
Wednesday, June 16, 2004 Posted: 2:09 PM EDT (1809 GMT)

Jenna Bush in a 2002 file photograph

MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Bodyguards for President Bush's daughter Jenna Bush were entangled in a fistfight with two men trying to steal a cell phone in southern Spain, a U.S. Embassy official said Tuesday.

The fight happened last Thursday while Jenna Bush was vacationing with some friends in the coastal city of Tarifa, continental Europe's southernmost point and a famous destination for wind surfers, embassy spokesman John Law said.

The 22-year-old Bush was sitting at a hotel terrace when two men tried to steal a cell phone on a nearby table. Law said it wasn't clear to whom the cell phone belonged, but Bush's bodyguards reacted immediately.

One secret service agent punched one of the suspects in the mouth, Law said, adding that he had no other details of the altercation.

He could not confirm reports by state news agency Efe that one of the secret service agents pointed his gun at a suspect.

Jenna Bush was not hurt and did not press charges against the men, who were not arrested, Efe reported.

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Bush twins might give speeches...

Scott — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 21:08:21 GMT

Definitely something to look forward to...

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20040609/6270305s.htm

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pilgrimage

Scott — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 17:27:57 GMT

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040602/482/mad80306021652

President Bush's daughter, Jenna, walks with unidentified friends on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, Wednesday June 2, 2004. Jenna and her friends started the estimated 112 mile (180 kilometer) pilgrimage last Saturday and are expected to arrive in Santiago Thursday after completing 19 miles (30 kilometers) a day

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Lick Bush!

Thu, 04 Dec 2003 03:51:02 GMT

America needs me.
The world needs mah leadership.
It is time for the King to re-emerge.

Ah will be appearing in Times Square, New Year's Eve.
Ah intend to drop the cloak of secrecy of the last 25 years.
Mah fans demand ah campaign fo' President and save the world.

See ya there.
Brang donuts. Brang drugs.
Brang signs so ah kin recognize mah supporters.

Be theah or be square.
Vote Bush and yore cruizin' for a bruizin'

Think of Tha Kang as Leader of the Free World.
Won't ya hep me? Can ah count on yo' vote?
Thank ya, that ya verry musch!
How bad could ah be?

Ah don't need enny campaign contributions. Afta all, ah'm rich.
Mostly ah jess need y'all to brang chicks and dope to mah campaign rallys.
That'll brang lotsa other supporters. It'll all grow from there.

Mah whole plan (platform) boils down to:
Make love, not war.
Make crystal meth, not Pentium chips.
Less taxation, less privatization.
More medication, more fornication.

Sincerely,
Tha Kang (who will soon become tha Prez)
PLEASE SPREAD THA WURD!!!

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googlism

Scott — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:35:22 GMT

I was playing around with this web site and put Jenna's name in, and one of the interesting things it came up with was:

"jenna bush is old enough to be prime minister of canada"

I checked it out and it's true, but the only catch is she has to be a Canadian citizen...

"Keep marching on... Jenna Bush Army" - Nerf Herder

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