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President George W. Bush, Part 1 - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
I found this refreshing and enjoyed watching all 4 parts. As a person he (and his family) is a Class Act.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ke6wKzPwM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ke6wKzPwM
Nope, you missed it. I didn't care for him much as a President either. I just didn't think it was fair to judge him by what his Teenage daughters did. Lord knows, almost everyone that has had teenagers put us through some sort of misery. Nor did I think it was fair to bring up a DUI he got in 1976. Clinton admitted smoking pot but claims he didn't inhale, (yeah,right) and Obama admitted to cocaine use while in their youth. The fact is, we don't care it shows me they are a lot like the rest of us. Now Marion Barry on the other hand???:
I'm not defending the guy. I don't think he needs defense. His last 4 years in office were a debacle and I think he would agree for the most part. But the liberals are still blaming him... still....
So many of the dems get tired of republican talking points about the current President and suggest that we move along as if this stuff is not current events. They don't afford the same to the previous President. I don't see it as fair.
So many of the dems get tired of republican talking points about the current President and suggest that we move along as if this stuff is not current events. They don't afford the same to the previous President. I don't see it as fair.
I think George Bush was a disastrous president. As a normal fellow, I find him quite charming. Always have. Why defend him so furiously? And you blame dems for doing the same thing with their guy? Kind of hypocriticial isn't it?
LOL! You didn't think I would let you get away with that did you? Gotcha!
LOL! You didn't think I would let you get away with that did you? Gotcha!
Yeah, bad element.... I'm ashamed of them.
By the way, not only did I "test" the waters, I lived in them.
By the way, not only did I "test" the waters, I lived in them.
I never suggested they were perfect. It looks like to me they were a real Family.
Teenagers partying, Oh the Horror. If you took a poll, my guess would be, most all of us tested the water at that age.
This article was written about 12.5 years ago. Let’s fast forward,
Jenna is an author, an editor-at-large for Southern Living magazine, a special correspondent for NBC's Today Show and a contributor to NBC Nightly News . has been married for about 5 years and has one child.
Barbara worked for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution. Previously, she had been working with AIDS patients in Africa, in Tanzania, South Africa, and Botswana, among other places, through a program sponsored by the Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine's International Pediatrics AIDS Initiative
Again, Oh the Horror!
Teenagers partying, Oh the Horror. If you took a poll, my guess would be, most all of us tested the water at that age.
This article was written about 12.5 years ago. Let’s fast forward,
Jenna is an author, an editor-at-large for Southern Living magazine, a special correspondent for NBC's Today Show and a contributor to NBC Nightly News . has been married for about 5 years and has one child.
Barbara worked for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution. Previously, she had been working with AIDS patients in Africa, in Tanzania, South Africa, and Botswana, among other places, through a program sponsored by the Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine's International Pediatrics AIDS Initiative
Again, Oh the Horror!
Where I live, I've dealt with Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush's entourages. (They used to stop in at the saloon I ran.) It is what it is and no ones entourage was better or worse than the others. It takes a lot of people and a lot of stuff to keep proper tabs on these guys.
As for the Bush daughters escapades.... I'm pretty sure other peoples kids have screwed up a little bit. Not me... other peoples kids.
As for the Bush daughters escapades.... I'm pretty sure other peoples kids have screwed up a little bit. Not me... other peoples kids.
"he (and his family) is a Class Act."
You might not think that if you'd lived in Austin while the Secret Service (and taxpayer money) were being used to protect them from the consequences of their behaviour.
http://www.salon.com/2001/05/31/twins_2/
"I don’t envy Jenna and Barbara Bush, going off to college under the watchful eye of the Secret Service and the international media. But the sudden flurry of headlines about the first twins’ alcohol-related mishaps raises new questions about the way their father handled his own “young and irresponsible” past.
I always thought it was a bad decision for Bush, as a politician, to refuse to acknowledge his wild youth — which, by his own account, lasted until he was 40. But now it seems it was a bad choice for Bush as a father. After his 1976 drunken-driving arrest was revealed last year, Bush said he didn’t admit it when he decided to run for president because he didn’t want his daughters to know about it. That was a mistake, and the twins’ recent run of bad behavior seems designed to let him know that.
There’s no evidence either twin has a drinking problem, but the string of news items involving their partying and scrapes with the law in the last few months can’t be ignored. First came the tale of Secret Service agents ferrying home Jenna’s boyfriend after he was arrested for public drunkenness. Then there were randy National Enquirer photos of Jenna, a University of Texas freshman, and a beer-drinking pal, and a story about her alleged marijuana use. Yale freshman Barbara, supposedly the studious twin, had a false I.D. confiscated at a New Haven, Conn., bar. In April, the Enquirer featured a lurid tale of Barbara’s drunken spring-break binge in Mexico, and by the end of the month all major newspapers were carrying a story about Jenna being cited by police at an Austin bar for underage drinking, while Secret Service agents waited outside.
Now, barely a week after a court appearance to deal with that alcohol citation, Jenna has been caught again using a false I.D. to buy alcohol at an Austin restaurant, with sister Barbara at her side.
Of course, many of us would have provided lively tabloid fodder in college if we’d been subjected to the scrutiny Barbara and Jenna Bush must endure. And their college drinking doesn’t mean they’ll turn into alcoholics as adults. Most teenage party girls become responsible citizens, eventually. Still, their recklessness in the first months of their father’s presidency suggests their parents screwed up by downplaying and even denying President Bush’s own drinking problem."
(BTW, Leno's remark that George the Second has avoided talking policy for the last 6-7 years includes at least a couple years that he was (nominal) Leader of the Free World. I wonder if that was intentional.)
You might not think that if you'd lived in Austin while the Secret Service (and taxpayer money) were being used to protect them from the consequences of their behaviour.
http://www.salon.com/2001/05/31/twins_2/
"I don’t envy Jenna and Barbara Bush, going off to college under the watchful eye of the Secret Service and the international media. But the sudden flurry of headlines about the first twins’ alcohol-related mishaps raises new questions about the way their father handled his own “young and irresponsible” past.
I always thought it was a bad decision for Bush, as a politician, to refuse to acknowledge his wild youth — which, by his own account, lasted until he was 40. But now it seems it was a bad choice for Bush as a father. After his 1976 drunken-driving arrest was revealed last year, Bush said he didn’t admit it when he decided to run for president because he didn’t want his daughters to know about it. That was a mistake, and the twins’ recent run of bad behavior seems designed to let him know that.
There’s no evidence either twin has a drinking problem, but the string of news items involving their partying and scrapes with the law in the last few months can’t be ignored. First came the tale of Secret Service agents ferrying home Jenna’s boyfriend after he was arrested for public drunkenness. Then there were randy National Enquirer photos of Jenna, a University of Texas freshman, and a beer-drinking pal, and a story about her alleged marijuana use. Yale freshman Barbara, supposedly the studious twin, had a false I.D. confiscated at a New Haven, Conn., bar. In April, the Enquirer featured a lurid tale of Barbara’s drunken spring-break binge in Mexico, and by the end of the month all major newspapers were carrying a story about Jenna being cited by police at an Austin bar for underage drinking, while Secret Service agents waited outside.
Now, barely a week after a court appearance to deal with that alcohol citation, Jenna has been caught again using a false I.D. to buy alcohol at an Austin restaurant, with sister Barbara at her side.
Of course, many of us would have provided lively tabloid fodder in college if we’d been subjected to the scrutiny Barbara and Jenna Bush must endure. And their college drinking doesn’t mean they’ll turn into alcoholics as adults. Most teenage party girls become responsible citizens, eventually. Still, their recklessness in the first months of their father’s presidency suggests their parents screwed up by downplaying and even denying President Bush’s own drinking problem."
(BTW, Leno's remark that George the Second has avoided talking policy for the last 6-7 years includes at least a couple years that he was (nominal) Leader of the Free World. I wonder if that was intentional.)
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