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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 11:29 AM
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Bush twins quit the boozing to help dad
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9645537%255E2703,00.html

NEW YORK: George W. Bush's daughters, 22-year-old twins Barbara and Jenna, are better known for their underage drinking busts than their love of politics.

Asked once whether she was a Republican, Barbara is said to have made a face, rolled her eyes and replied: "I really wouldn't label myself that." On a visit to Paris, Jenna let slip that she was against the bombing of Afghanistan.

It is a measure of student hostility to the Bush administration that the US President and his wife Laura decided not to attend the twins' graduation ceremonies. Jenna received her English degree in Texas on Saturday and Barbara will collect hers in humanities at Yale today.

...more...

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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 11:33 AM
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1. wha????????
Edited on Sun May-23-04 11:33 AM by thebigidea
"Pretty and ebullient, they might prove useful counterpoints to John Kerry's daughters Vanessa, a 27-year-old medical student, and Alexandra, 30, a filmmaker who paraded bra-less at the Cannes festival in a see-through dress."

What? WHAT?!?

WHATTT?!

Useful counterpoints?!?

USEFUL COUNTERPOINTS?

"Look, two drunken tarts. Look at the useful counterpoint."
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 12:01 PM
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5. In Australia, drunkeness is a virtue...
Have another beer, mate!
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 03:24 PM
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24. Yes, how disgusting

a medical student.
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psychopomp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 11:33 AM
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2. Crack-up title, that
"You can choose your friends but you can't choose your parents."
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 11:34 AM
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3. "quit the boozing"??? Bullshit.
Anyone who's ever done the political party circuit knows the booze flows more freely than water. There are three obsessions at any such gathering: sex, booze, and money - in that order. The stench of pheromones is palpable. I've never been in any gathering so redolent of lust and booze -- not even a toga party at my fraternity. DimSon is pimping his daughters.
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Lou_C Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 11:45 AM
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4. I love Australians
Our corporate press and media would never print anything like that.

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Bhaisahab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 06:33 AM
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36. if i'm not wrong, The Australian is owned by Murdoch. anyone? n/t
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w13rd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 12:02 PM
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6. Pardon me...
...but if they aren't Republicans, and they aren't in favor of his policies, why campaign for him? "Vote for Bush, he's a...um...acceptable father...sorta..."
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 12:11 PM
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7. Jenna-"I don't care who you vote for, where's the bar?" n't
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loyalsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 02:53 PM
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20. bribary
Edited on Sun May-23-04 02:54 PM by loyalsister
They just finished college. I bet Bushco said they'd cut them off if they didn't. These kids have been indulged their whole lives. They could easily decent political views and get sucked into the bullshit because they've never had to get a job before.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 12:12 PM
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8. The TITLE of the article says they'll quit boozing
But the article itself doesn't. Besides, they're over 21 now, so they're closing the bar door after the horse as gone out.

:headbang:
rocknation
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w13rd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 12:15 PM
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9. I quit drinking when I turned 21 too...
...do I get to be President now?
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 12:29 PM
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10. check out this article: EUROPEAN VACATION!
i don't think they're planning on "quitting the boozing" just yet.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5040629/

Bushes: Into the Real World
Newsweek

May 31 issue - Now that the first Daughters have graduated from college (Barbara from Yale and Jenna from the University of Texas), what's next? First up: a taste of the spotlight. The two have already sat for an interview and photo shoot for Vogue—the first of many interviews they'll do this summer. Then, after a European vacation with friends, the twins will return to Washington to work for Dad. They have their choice of jobs: pitching in at the suburban Virginia HQ, helping at a field office or perhaps hitting the campaign trail. The president is elated about their deciding to join the family business, but are the Bushes nervous about the increased scrutiny of their daughters? "You bet," says one White House official.

—Tamara Lipper
© 2004 Newsweek, Inc.
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retread Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 12:54 PM
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11. Good GOP values. The family that drinks together falls off
bicycles together!!!
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 07:11 PM
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29. or segways!!
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 01:00 PM
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12. Oh here we go with the propping up of the Bush girls, including the
fat assed, botoxed, bad eye lifted, aging one who seems to be competing with her twenty two year old daughters in her choice of horrible clothes.

As such, they are fair game. I do not want the goody two shoes to come here and whine at me for "attacking the twins" and becoming "as bad as they".

They work for their serial killer dad now. They are complicit in the destruction of this country and support the deaths of tens of thousands of innocents that their stupid and ignorant dad has ruthlessly murdered. Take a look at the prison scandal pictures--this is what the twins are supporting by their volunteer work and willingess to be used as props by their war criminal, AWOL, phoney asshole of a father.

Have at them I say.
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 01:31 PM
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14. you kick ass, Marianne
As such, they are fair game. I do not want the goody two shoes to come here and whine at me for "attacking the twins" and becoming "as bad as they".


:thumbsup: Hell yes! If it isn't safe to go after that entire criminal family on here, where is it safe to do so? They are all fair game, every last loser one of them.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 03:28 PM
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25. I heartily second the "Marianne Kicks Ass!" motion.
You do indeed kick ass, Marianne. Have at 'em is damn right.

They're not kids anymore.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 08:06 PM
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31. I agree that "You Kick Ass, Marianne!"
They are certainly fair game (both for their shilling and the fact that they will be handsomely rewarded with BFEE's ill-gotten gains)
No quarter.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 01:15 PM
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13. They and Dad were doing shots...
thats why they needed to concoct the "fell off the bike" story. Fell off the WAGON is more like it.
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DaveSZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 01:32 PM
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15. "Our corporate press and media would never print anything like that."
Edited on Sun May-23-04 01:48 PM by DaveSZ
If you'll look up in the leftmost corner of http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/ you'll notice the Newscorp logo.

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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 04:41 PM
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27. Methinks you speaketh the truth!
Jenna is said to be just like her father.

He looks just like my college students after a binge. They are always falling on their faces.

http://www.wgoeshome.com
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 01:35 PM
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16. So Crawford is some familial rehab facility now? Right.
n/t
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Fovea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 02:30 PM
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17. if it were
Noelle would be there.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 02:36 PM
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18. will Noelle give up Xanax?
will Neil give up Thai hookers?

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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 02:50 PM
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19. OMG... I Thought For Certain The Subject Line Broke LBN Rules... But NO...
that's actually the headline!!! Too funny!

-- Allen
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 02:56 PM
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21. The Bush Twins look like they have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome..
Not as bad as some I know. Their eyes are slightly far apart, a classic symptom, plus they seem brain damaged, but it could be just taking after daddy.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 07:14 PM
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30. yeah he was drinkin when they made them
didn't quit until he found jeebus in 1987 or 88?

recently read bush: portrait of dynasty, gives some insightful family details.
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GreenGreenLimaBean Donating Member (395 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 03:06 PM
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22. I nominate this story as "Headline of the Year"
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rustydog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 03:20 PM
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23. When I read: "Bush twins enlist in military" to support daddy's war
I'll have something nice to say about the drug-addicted look-alikes.
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nolabels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 04:26 PM
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26. Do as the (sic) leaders do, not as they say
The military is getting a black eye from *, but just remember who calls the shots and where the buck should of stopped and didn't.

It's a can of worms but throwing the baby out with the bath water wont help

http://www.awolbush.com/kerry-vs-bush.asp
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 07:01 PM
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28. Jenna majored in English?
Listening to daddy mangle the language must drive her to drink.
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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-04 08:30 PM
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32. Good. Now they're sober enough to join the Army!
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andino Donating Member (668 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 05:07 AM
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34. Does the Texas Air National Guard take women?
eom
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 04:34 AM
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33. Bum ... mis-read the headline that time ...
I read it as "Bush twins to help dad quit the boozing" ...

I thought it was too good to be true ... :-)
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AnnitaR Donating Member (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-04 05:21 AM
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35. Why the hell should THEY quit boozing???
Shit their father hasn't quit boozing the whole time he's been in office!

He can't eat a pretzel or ride a back without scraping half his face off!

The whole lot of them are just :puke: !
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