Jenna Bush, Author, Finds Eager Audience at Signing(5 Hour lineup in advance)

[RamboLiberal]

Wholesome tween idols are in dangerously short supply, according to Jackie McKone. So the Arnold mom was perfectly glad to rise at 5 a.m. yesterday to snag tickets to a Disney Channel "Hannah Montana" concert for her daughter Molly -- and then spend five hours at the mall waiting to see the 11-year-old's newest pop-culture heroine, Jenna Bush.

"We wanted to meet a real role model," said Molly's friend Samantha Newman, 10.

The two girls were among the 220 people who jumped through endless security hoops to hear the president's daughter read from her new nonfiction young-adult book at the Borders bookstore at Westfield Shoppingtown Annapolis. "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope" is part biography of a young Latin American single mother living with AIDS and part inspirational call to action.

After a major publicity rollout by publisher HarperCollins -- including interviews this week in People magazine, The Washington Post and on ABC's "20/20" -- Bush's first bookstore appearance in a three-month, 25-city tour was an unusual test of the 25-year-old's star power. No doubt that in a normal book-signing session, she could have drawn a mob of the casually curious, but how many fans are fervid enough to show up at 9 a.m. for a 2 p.m. event?

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Many in the crowd cited their longtime support of both Bush presidencies as their main reason for coming out. But several said they don't side politically with the family -- including McKone, who saw the teacher-turned-UNICEF intern as a worthy celebrity role model for her daughter. "She's doing something good," she said, "not like Britney Spears."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/29/AR2007092901331.html?hpid=topnews

IMHO she'd be a more worthy role model if she signed up for daddy's war or at least spoke out against some of the Repuke policies especially the inane abstinence over condoms education to prevent aids. Guess the cult is still alive. I don't knock Jenna and I hope that she has grown and is not the hell-raiser and silver-spooned teenager she was when daddy illegally took the WH. I don't think it bodes well though that she's marrying another Repuke and Bushbot!

I want to still :puke: at the cult members who lined up to see her.

[Kelly Rupert]

1. Why exactly would enlisting make her more of a role model

than raising awareness about the plight of AIDS victims?

[physioex]

6. Ohhh Please....

No she has gone the way of her father in killing brain cells.

[Kelly Rupert]

7. Meaning what? n/t

[physioex]

8. She won't do much for AIDS awareness....

So why not join the army?

[Kelly Rupert]

9. Sounds like those kids are interested enough.

Better that than Hannah Montana.

[physioex]

10. I will wait till the sales numbers come in...

Thank you very much. Mary Cheneys books was suppose to be "big" also.

[Kelly Rupert]

11. So if you don't hit the bestseller list, no matter how admirable your book's content,

you should have joined the Army?

[physioex]

13. Nothing to do with book sales..

Only if you agree with what your father is doing.

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

2. The USA literati------Jenna and OJ. God,what have we become?

[Benhurst]

3. Maybe it will be a really big seller, like Mein Kamph.

Or even Fanny Hill.

[physioex]

4. With any luck it will go the....

Way of Mary Cheney's book....

[Cha]

5. Oh gawd...spare me the

ignorance that runs rampant in corporatemediacontroled Amerika.

[Disturbed]

12. This book will sell well to pre-teens, esp. ones with Repug

parents.

By BooksNThings05 - See all my reviews
"In all my years as a book reviewer, I have never read such a poorly written book. Very elementary writing style and laughable in places. Seriously didactic. An example of how a publishing company can turn even the poorest written book into a seller with a huge marketing campaign."

Note: This it not my review.

[Cha]

17. Thanks for the "review".

Like the corporatemedia is going miss a chance to get bushit's offspring's book shoved down our throats.

[Bitwit1234]

14. Shows the younger generation in this country are stupid as hell.

I would wait 2 seconds to see her.

[provis99]

15. maybe she should write something she knows about

like "College Keg Partys" or "I Can Drink More Than Daddy Can!" or "How to Get the Secret Service to Party With You!"

[Bluebear]

16. "I think there are many ways to serve your country." - Jenna Bush

Evidently a national booksigning tour equates to "serving your country" in Bushworld.