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Huffington PostBarbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, will headline a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in North Texas on Wednesday.
She will be the keynote speaker at Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas annual Fort Worth luncheon, helping to raise money for an organization that provides an array of reproductive and sexual health services, including abortions.
Bushs public appearance before the group is striking, given that her father, President George W. Bush, was a staunch abortion opponent during his time as Texas governor and as president.
But its not entirely unexpected. Bushs mother, former First Lady Laura Bush, has expressed support for the legality of abortion on a handful of occasions. The younger Bush, the CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps, called Planned Parenthood an exceptional organization in a June New York Times interview, and attended a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Paris in October.
eppur_se_muova
(36,290 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Mendocino
(7,509 posts)Seriously, good for her!
Agreed, Mendocino! Glad to see she's stepping forward like this. Her sister Jenna has always gotten all the attention, I know not why. Because blonde?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,714 posts)dem4decades
(11,304 posts)and i do mean dick!
Lucky Luciano
(11,260 posts)By comparison, it becomes easy to say complimentary things about W.
GaYellowDawg
(4,449 posts)I'm pretty damn reluctant to give Dubya credit for anything, but you do have to give him credit for that. I'm actually beginning to think that with a different vice-president, he could have made a mediocre president.
groundloop
(11,523 posts)ret5hd
(20,522 posts)PragmaticLiberal
(904 posts)I'm not excusing what W did but I think his mistakes were more out of ignorance than malice.
Basically, without "Dick" I believe he would have been "just a guy" as far as President's go.
Not great, not horrible...but just there.
IronLionZion
(45,532 posts)more like he just did what he was told by his powerful special interests and Cheney.
Lucky Luciano
(11,260 posts)...rolled down the hill...got picked up by a passerby who brought it on an airplane to the other side of the world.
sagetea
(1,375 posts)NT
poli3
(174 posts)Bush Sr. was the last sane republican
This is proof that smart republicans recognize the good that comes from PP. it's those narrow minded religious kooks that are truly the enemy of the American people.
Edit: wait...is "smart republican" an oxymoron?
demmiblue
(36,893 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)I think those girls turned out very nicely, in spite of their dipshit father
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I'm surprised, but quite impressed.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I never had a problem with Laura. She seems like a basically good person who was always a champion for libraries and education, despite the crazies around her.
Turbineguy
(37,368 posts)Trump is helping her dear old dad improve his legacy too.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)and she's grown up well. Kudos to Ms. Bush.
demmiblue
(36,893 posts)sagetea
(1,375 posts)Ms. Obama (Malia) for #NoDAPL. There is always hope.
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/316685-malia-obama-joins-dakota-access-pipeline-protests
AH'O
sage
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)mcar
(42,375 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)A possible Democratic President Bush in the future? God, I never thought my keyboard would ever type that one out...
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)bhusar
(131 posts)I like W more now than I did back then. Its amazing that he seems a million times better than Cheeto
poli3
(174 posts)W. was just Cheney's puppet.
0rganism
(23,970 posts)W no longer the Worst Ever
that mantle has passed to a new bearer, and i really can't imagine anyone seizing it from his tiny grabby hands
StevieM
(10,500 posts)raccoon
(31,125 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)The guy was a sociopath. He mocked dead soldiers to their mothers' faces, joked about hanging MLK Jr, started a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, made fun a blind reporter...not to mention all the serious impeachable actions he took like illegally ordering torture and lying to Congress.
That has no bearing on his children though. Just like Reagan.
StarryNite
(9,460 posts)I'm very impressed!
Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)Go girl!
AJT
(5,240 posts)videohead5
(2,181 posts)Their Great Grandfather have something to do with the founding of planned parenthood?
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Upthevibe
(8,072 posts)of their fathers (see Ron Reagan and even our own Stephanie Miller whose father ran as V.P. on the Goldwater ticket). Good for her!
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)in a Walgreens parking lot, when we had first moved to Texas. They parked directly in front of me front to front. This was when they were staying at grandma and poppies house , on time out after being naughty and appearing drunk in the National Enquirer.
They seemed like normal kids to me. And good on Barbara.