Bush Daughters Take Stage at Convention

[Rose Siding]

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``We spent the last four years trying to stay out of the spotlight,'' Jenna Bush said to laughter from the delegates. ``Sometimes we did a little better job than others.''

The casually dressed young women sprinkled their five-minute speech with pop culture references.

``They do know the difference between mono and Bono,'' Jenna Bush said of her parents. ``When we tell them we're going to see OutKast, they know it's a band and not a bunch of misfits.''

The twins followed California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to the stage. They pronounced him ``awesome.''

Jenna joked that their appearance provided an opportunity for ``payback time'' on live television. Barbara confided that her parents' favorite term of endearment is ``Bushie.''

``We had a hamster, too,'' Barbara said. ``Let's just say ours didn't make it.'' That was a reference to the revival efforts that the daughters of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said he performed on a family pet.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4465424,00.html

[physioex]

1. Here is what I recall....

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....

[parasim]

3. Like I've said before, I've seen funnier stuff on Hee Haw

[ilovenicepeople]

2. I noticed something tonite

Jenna and her mother both have the same nervous laugh.:wow:

[rfranklin]

11. That's a sign of inner turmoil, isn't it?

Pathological laughter as an obsessive-compulsive phenomenon.

Mendhekar DN.

Department of Psychiatry, G.B. Pant Hospital, New Delhi, India. [e-mail]

METHOD: Pathological laughter has been known to occur in organic and functional psychotic disorders and is sometimes seen in hysteria. Though it is an important phenomenon, its significance in other psychiatric disorders has been negligible. This case report highlights the phenomenology of pathological laughter as an obsessive-compulsive phenomenon in an adolescent girl. RESULTS: The girl was brought by her parents with a history of laughing without reason, but on detail evaluation, it was found that her laughing was an irrational and ego-dystonic phenomenon. She also showed resistance to her symptom. A family history of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the parental grandfather, the habit of smiling in her father and her childhood emotional trauma and sexual abuse could have contributed to the formation of the symptom. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor drugs and behavior therapy showed good improvement in this case. DISCUSSION: Pathological laughter, though common in organic and psychotic disorders, can present primarily as an obsessive-compulsive phenomenon as well. This case suggests that each and every patient with a history of pathological laughter in a psychiatry clinic should not be labeled as psychotic unless he or she is assessed in detail. Copyright 2004 S. Karger AG, Basel

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15057032&dopt=Abstract

[kskiska]

4. Most of the Freeps are embarrassed

and could have done without their performance.

Now we know why they were kept under wraps all these years.

[vickie]

7. Are the freepers complaining about the 'performance'?

[kskiska]

23. A sampling:

To: NormsRevenge

Why? Why? Why? We're leading in most polls right now!

7 posted on 08/31/2004 8:47:24 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: NormsRevenge

They were awful. I couldn't wait for them to be off stage.

8 posted on 08/31/2004 8:47:24 PM PDT by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: Maceman

My gut sank as they went on and on and on....

I would be embarassed if I raised children like that.

10 posted on 08/31/2004 8:48:35 PM PDT by ambrose
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To: NormsRevenge

They were God aweful. Who vetts that stuff?

13 posted on 08/31/2004 8:48:53 PM PDT by ClintonBeGone
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To: Ramius

They were far from "fine." They were obnoxious and disrespectful to their grandparents. It was a train wreck and their "bit" should never have been approved.

18 posted on 08/31/2004 8:50:13 PM PDT by comefrombehindwin
more…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1204416/posts

[Carni]

25. YES! I read that too! LMAO

It's amusing in light of the family they were spawned from...like it's some big freaking surprise that they are morons? LOL!

[liberalmuse]

5. That's not funny.

Who in the hell wrote those lame jokes, Don Rickles? Jesus, what kind of people would use a dead hamster as joke fodder--I mean 'family values' joke fodder? Sick fucks.

[Southsideirish]

6. How can these two same sex people be considered twins?

Something odd here.

[DarbyUSMC]

27. Fraternal twins can be of the same sex. People usually hope for

a boy and a girl but it's just as likely they'll both be the same sex. There are more fraternal twins born than identical.

[juajen]

8. There you have it

George Bush couldn't even save a hamster. From their lips to ours.

[Spiffarino]

9. Chris Wallace thought they were wonderful

I skipped over to Faux just to see what their take was. Most of the Kool-Aid drinkers thought they were horrible, but Chris Wallace raved about them. He said they made their daddy "more human."

Right. As in how one incredibly shallow, stupid human can beget two even more incredibly stupid and shallow humans.

Pardon me while I :puke:

[lanparty]

10. 4 daughters ...

... 4 bikinis ...

One pool of jello. There's only ONE way to solve this debate!!!!!!

[comradebillyboy]

17. crass.....but funny

[Gore1FL]

30. crass, but Pay per view!!

n/t

[Piperay]

34. I'm sure that the bushweiser twins

have already been there and done that. :o

[KittyWampus]

12. Look Away! Look Away! Look Awaaaaaaaaaaay!

:wow:

[PartyPooper]

13. Their father killed frogs with firecrackers.

Tee hee hee.

:evilfrown:

[grytpype]

14. They bombed!

Wow, they really stunk up the house, didn't they? No discernable talent whatsoever. The apple doesn't fall far from the Idiot Tree.

[w13rd0]

15. Did their hamster not make it...

...because Daddy was practicing a bombing run with a bottle of gin and flaming shit?

[Rose Siding]

16. The National Review blog on the Jenna and Jenandtonic:

THE LOOK OF DISAPPROVAL
Did you see Cheney after the Bush girls?
Posted at 10:33 PM

WOW!!!!!
Arnold is the first speaker at a Republican Convention in over 30 years to sing Richard Nixon's praises.
Posted at 10:33 PM

WHERE ARE THE REAL BUSH TWINS!?!?!
These women are definitely impersonators because this the scariest, weirdest, strangest thing I've ever heard at a convention. Did anyone vet this?
Posted at 10:31 PM

PERSPECTIVE
The girls must go. The girls must go. I can't take it. Bring back Arnold!!!

But Andrew Stuttaford is across from me and says: "Okay, a little perspective: It's not worse than the hamster."

I'm not sure I would go that far.
Posted at 10:30 PM

OMG!!
The twins are, like, totally freaking me out. Like I'm totally having a dawson moment.

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/04_08_29_corner-archive.asp#038863

[REVOLT823]

18. I flet embarrassed and uncomfortable

watching them, until they panned to Cheney, who looked like he had an extreme case of indigestion, then could laugh again.

[maddogesq]

19. MaD Dog NEWSFLASH: Prozak and tequila: IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING! nt

.

[leesa]

20. I wonder if they know what the party is for?

[Hekate]

36. Oh, they know what parties are for; they're party girls...

"No wait, you like meant the GOP? It does too stand for Grand Old Party, how was I to know? Omigod, shut up. I was too reading the Teleprompter."

Giggling is an adolescent girl thing -- really young. The worst of the giggles (the high-pitched ones) comes on when the first big flood of hormones hits. The Twins' delivery, the lame stories, the clothes, the posture -- all they needed was a neon sign blinking "We're 14 years old!"

I'll bet Scary Grandma and Creepy Uncle Dick made them go to bed without dessert tonight.

These two are college graduates -- even the little I watched was embarrassing. Greatly delayed emotional and social maturity must come from their dad.

The UK article is much too kind; the LA Times does it better, saying they have "implied raunch," which they do.

Hekate

[aaronbees]

21. excruciating

was that speech just five minutes?
Seriously, it felt like 20 minutes of discomfort and giggling stupidity to me.

[OilemFirchen]

22. Like, uhm, like, uh, like here's the, like, words and stuff

Text of speech by Jenna and Barbara Bush

"Besides, since we've graduated from college, we're looking around for something to do for the next few years.

Kind of like dad."

"And if we really beg them, they'll even shake it like a Polaroid picture."

Ohhhh... the agony...

[NYC Liberal]

31. "And if we really beg them,

they'll even shake it like a Polaroid picture."

Pickles and Dubya? I really didn't need that image! :puke:

[goclark]

45. Do they still make polaroid pictures?

I have not heard the word in the last 10 yrs.

An older person,that has no clue, must have written this horror speech.

My first impression: Speech was awful.
Twins were drunk.

[allemand]

47. I think they stole that line from Clark

Wasn't it part of that award winning campaign video directed at young voters, when Clark quoted the Outkast lyrics?

On edit: I now remember that Clark quoted the lyrics not in the video itself, but in the show where the video was shown.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

24. It was as if they were B actresses playing the parts of ditsy blonds

giving a high school speech.

Politics aside, the fact that someone thought this would help their party speaks to the fact that the Republicans are being managed by beings from another planet.

[Edgewater_Joe]

26. They Made Paris and Nicole Look Like Kate and Bette

... and they killed the buzz of Der Gropenfuhrer pretty
quickly.

This has been a BAD convention, from the hideous set to the
half-empty arena to the lame "correspondents" to the
ultra-Caucasian demographic.

And tomorrow we get Zell "Flippity Floppity Floopity
Flee" Miller and V.P. DICK.

I think I'd rather f*** myself ...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

32. ROFLPIMP

[SKKY]

28. Good god! After watching that, I needed...

...to pour a nice stiff "Jenna Tonic" and let my brain rest. That was a painful experience.

[Neecy]

29. I missed it (thank god)

From everything I've read tonight I'm glad I skipped Tuesday night with the Clampetts.

[DoYouEverWonder]

33. This has been a great night for Dems

LePore loses in WPB and the Bu$h twins bomb. Yahoo!

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[ksatriyakiller]

37. skank ho bitch slutty bitch

hahaha

[LeftHander]

38. No question now....The Republican Party is the Bush family....

The RNC is a Bush family love fest.

[freestyle]

39. They looked and sounded like Beavis and Butthead

What was up with that little laugh every other sentence? They were just sad and showed more Ivy League education gone to waste. The empty speeches from the Bush family were in stark contrast to the intelligence and class displayed by Teresa and the Heinz and Kerry children.

[livinginphotographs]

40. That's what I was thinking....

I was remembering the Kerry daughter's speeches, and just amazed how the Bush twins came off like bad actors reading an unfunny script. It looked like a school play.

Someone should really be fired over this........I'm thinking.....Bush!

In all seriousness, though, I was truly embarrassed for them. They were worse than Ahnold, and he was pretty bad.

[Orangepeel]

41. the speech was written to make them seem 13

:shrug:

I thought the whole performance was insipid, but then again, I'm smart enough not to vote for their father.

[Ilsa]

42. Reading that text was bad enough...

I bet watching it was painful!

"Besides, since we've graduated from college, we're looking around for something to do for the next few years."

Hey girls, how about becoming productive citizens and following through on your commitments?

Huge contrast between them and the Kerry "girls".

[ignatius 2]

43. Don't want to meet yo' mama..just want to make you cumma..

Bwahaha..I wonder if those family value purple heart band aid wearers know the rest of the lyrics from the song she quoted.

The GOP gettin' all jiggy. BWAHHAHAHA!!!

[Tight_rope]

44. The Twin Twits!.....Pure Imbeciles.

[Javaman]

46. Since the repukes ripped off SNL...

I'm sure the real SNL will have a field day with the likes of those two twits this Saturday night. That's one time I will make sure I tune in to watch.

Also, generally speaking, how children behave in public is a reflection of the parents.

Like the saying goes, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but here in Texas, the cow shit doesn't fall far from the bovines ass.