Bush Sisters Write Letter to Obama Girls

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deray mckesson ‏@deray 4m4 minutes ago
The Bush Sisters Wrote the Obama Girls A Letter http://time.com/4632036/bush-sisters-obama-sisters/?xid=tcoshare

(snip)____ In eight years, you have done so much. Seen so much. You stood at the gates of the Robben Island cell where South Africa’s Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for decades, your arms around your father. You traveled to Liberia and Morocco with your mom to talk with girls about the importance of education—girls who saw themselves in you, saw themselves in your parents, saw who they could become if they continued to study and learn. You attended state dinners, hiked in national parks, met international leaders and managed to laugh at your dad’s jokes during the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon, all while being kids, attending school and making friends. We have watched you grow from girls to impressive young women with grace and ease...

Now you are about to join another rarified club, one of former First Children—a position you didn’t seek and one with no guidelines. But you have so much to look forward to. You will be writing the story of your lives, beyond the shadow of your famous parents, yet you will always carry with you the experiences of the past eight years...

Enjoy college. As most of the world knows, we did. And you won’t have the weight of the world on your young shoulders anymore. Explore your passions. Learn who you are. Make mistakes—you are allowed to. Continue to surround yourself with loyal friends who know you, adore you and will fiercely protect you. Those who judge you don’t love you, and their voices shouldn’t hold weight. Rather, it’s your own hearts that matter.

Take all that you have seen, the people you have met, the lessons you have learned, and let that help guide you in making positive change. We have no doubt you will. Traveling with our parents taught us more than any class could. It opened our eyes to new people as well as new cultures and ideas. We met factory workers in Michigan, teachers in California, doctors healing people on the Burmese border, kids who lined the dusty streets of Kampala to see the American President, and kids with HIV waiting to get the antiretroviral drugs that would save their lives. One tiny girl wearing her finest lavender dress looked young, which she was not. She was little because she was sick. Her mom admitted that she might not live to see these drugs work, but her brothers and sisters would. After meeting this girl, Barbara went back to school and changed her major, and her life’s path.

You have lived through the unbelievable pressure of the White House. You have listened to harsh criticism of your parents by people who had never even met them. You stood by as your precious parents were reduced to headlines. Your parents, who put you first and who not only showed you but gave you the world. As always, they will be rooting for you as you begin your next chapter. And so will we.

read full letter: http://time.com/4632036/bush-sisters-obama-sisters/?xid=tcoshare



pics: https://twitter.com/yashar/status/820029679298080768

[loyalsister]

1. Nice

That's really sweet. The Bush twins have aged well.

[DeminPennswoods]

12. Yes, they have

nt

[niyad]

2. yeah, yeah. anybody remember the bush twins and their drunken escapades? the scandals

attached to them? not one word or hint of scandal with the obama daughters.

unconfirmed reports stated that the secret service code names for the bush daughters were "gin" and "tonic"

[bigtree]

4. I'm not sure how that's relevant to anything

...teens and alcohol, lol.

[Lisa0825]

7. I don't recall seeing anything worse than the average college student was doing.

Only difference was that they were in the spotlight.

[cab67]

69. I think the thing that surprised me about Jenna Bush was her naivete.

She got busted for underage drinking at my favorite Austin restaurant - the Zilker Park Chuy's. (World-class margaritas and chiles rellenos.)

That fact, by itself, was unremarkable. She was a college kid. Lots of college kids use fake IDs to buy drinks. Some of them get busted. It didn't need to be the national story it became.

What I found remarkable was that she thought she could get away with it. Her father was the president, and her picture had been shown in the local media quite frequently. People knew what she looked like. She also had gentlemen in suits, talking into their wrists, follow her around. Fake IDs don't work if people know who you are.

[pkdu]

9. "Enjoy college. As most of the world knows, we did."

For sure. nt

[JI7]

10. those are not exactly scandals. no need to attack the bush twins. they voted clinton

And work for liberal causes.

[niyad]

13. must have missed that. not registering as pukes does not make them democrats.

[JI7]

16. they voted for Clinton and support liberal causes.these arent trump kids

[niyad]

17. could you please cite something that actually shows that?

[NYC Liberal]

24. Here are two articles:

http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/10/03/barbara-bush-daughter-of-president-george-w-bush-attends-clinton-fundraiser/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/buzzfeedpolitics/bush-girls-fell-for-obama

George W. Bush told French President Nicolas Sarkozy that he had early intelligence that Democrat Barack Obama would be his successor in the White House: His daughters were enthusiastic supporters of the Democrat, according to an account from a top French official.

The 43rd president backed John McCain, his fellow Republican, former rival, and uneasy ally. But Bush told his French counterpart that his twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, made no secret of their allegiance to Obama, who wielded a strong generational appeal, according to Jean-David Levitte, the former French Ambassador to the United States who was then in Paris as Sarkozy’s top foreign policy advisor.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/buzzfeedpolitics/bush-girls-fell-for-obama?client=safari

[Tanuki]

32. Barbara attended a Hillary fundraiser in Paris

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/10/02/politics/barbara-bush-hillary-clinton-fundraiser-huma-abedin/index.html?client=ms-android-att-us

There's a picture of her posing with Huma Abedin and others at the link.

[nolabear]

20. Oh come on. They were kids and seem to have grown up fine.

Good Lord, if all of us who have been ridiculous as teens were excoriated for the rest of our lives there wouldn't be a reason to strive for anything.

[nini]

22. well, I did some drinking myself at that age

They were fairly normal really.

They are being exceptionally sweet to the Obama girls and that shows some character and kindness. I appreciate that.

[JenniferJuniper]

23. I liked their rebelliousness to tell you the truth

[WillowTree]

25. They write a lovely letter to the Obama girls, and this is your response? Classy. Them, that is.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. I have no problem with those young women. Hell, Barbara campaigned for Hillary.

So they got drunk? Who didn't, at that age?

[Skittles]

30. please stop

the Bush girls did fantastic considering who their father was

[snooper2]

48. Hey we still remember when you got drunk at the pool hall and passed out

right in the middle of a game

Nobody gives you crap for that!

[cwydro]

50. I had some drunken escapades in college too.

I'm not going to judge them on that.

[IronLionZion]

58. Oh yeah, well the Obama girls wore short sleeve dresses in the summer

and that was severely scandalous to some conservative idiots

[NCTraveler]

60. That's right. Uppity little girls should have known their place.

What scandals?

[Ellen Forradalom]

64. Malia took a toke at Lollapalooza

Like anyone gives a shit. Jenna's drinking in college was a tad undignified but that makes her like thousands and thousands of other college students. She grew up. No one cares anymore.

[mexit]

71. Time and Trump

have made me look at things in a broader light.

[pennylane100]

74. Their behavior was not scandalous, it was just kids growing up under the spotlight.

The fact that so many of us (well, at least me) hated their father did not help them. They have turned out very well.

[demmiblue]

3. That was classy. n/t

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. Nice letter, especially since they didn't use their special twin language.

[lillypaddle]

53. Haha!!!!

[mcar]

6. This is classy

[50 Shades Of Blue]

8. That was really lovely.

[Freethinker65]

11. Thanks for posting this. Very inspiring.

[cilla4progress]

14. Lovely

[alphafemale]

15. They have grown into classy young ladies.

That was a nice gesture.

[niyad]

18. since they are now 35, hardly "young ladies"

[alphafemale]

29. Stay classy.

That was charming.

[Lisa0825]

42. I am 48, and I consired 35 to be a young lady. Bitter much? nt

[Pacifist Patriot]

46. Me too.

[7962]

75. Good lord, is this your regular mood?

they're 30 yrs younger than I, so yeah, "young ladies"

[RedWedge]

19. People can change. It's important to remember that.

It doesn't mean they will, or that it's uniformly easy. But it many cases, it's possible.

[LAS14]

51. They especially change between teen years and adulthood! :-)

[milestogo]

21. Very nice ladies.

[Hekate]

26. That is a lovely gesture, and so classy. Only other First Children know what it's like, to be sure.

[unblock]

27. Not to piss on the parade, but

They sent this letter after Jenna's gaffe at the golden globes, right?

On one hand, whatever got them to send a nice letter doesn't much matter, it is indeed a nice letter.

On the other hand, this is *exactly* the sort of thing a p.r. consultant comes up with.



http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LEV1THSHhYb3UAn6xx.9w4;_ylu=X3oDMTE0bnRrcG50BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMzBHZ0aWQDVUkyRkJUM18xBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1484306760/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fwww.usmagazine.com%2fentertainment%2fnews%2fjenna-bush-hager-makes-hidden-fences-gaffe-at-golden-globes-2017-w459736/RK=0/RS=NjhP5ss3w3ycrGFM5asBZL.Fk5Q-

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34. she handled fallout from that gaffe with the same elegance as this letter

...besides, Pharrell Williams immediately put it to rest.

"Don't worry @JennaBushHager! Everyone makes mistakes," he tweeted. "Hidden Fences does sound like an intriguing movie though. Just saying.."

Silliness, having nothing at all to do with this letter from both of the Bush daughters.

[JI7]

41. they were very good to the Obama girls when they were first going to move in . Laura and the BUsh

twins.

Michelle Obama has talked about this many times.

the one thing i remember was how the BUsh twins were showing hte obama girls they can jump on the bed. the obama girls were little kids at the time so they were making things fun for them.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

56. Micheal Keaton also made a similar mistake

What's the problem with some people? Does this gaffe prove something?
She's a member of the KKK?

I don't get all the crap about this, since people make mistakes like this all the time.

[unblock]

59. i agree, it certainly seemed to me like an innocent mistake

but it is nevertheless the kind of mistake that sends someone in a political family to a p.r. consultant to ask if this is a problem and do i need to do anything about it.

[NCTraveler]

61. What I like about them most...

Is they seem to have a clear history of truly learning from mistakes. Also a history of showing true compassion. Just what we expect from those around us.

[George II]

31. Very nice letter, surprised it came from women named "bush".

[Stonepounder]

33. Very sweet and very classy. They have certainly grown up.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

35. Glad they have turned into adult women with grace

[GeoWilliam750]

36. Very nicely done

[skylucy]

37. Very nice and very classy.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

38. Nicely done.

[cbreezen]

39. Aren't the Obama girls

sisters, as well?

Anyway, nice letter.

[bigtree]

43. no need to be redundant

[Maru Kitteh]

40. Wow. I am truly impressed. That was a very thoughtful and kind gesture

and I can only say nicely done.

[Lucinda]

44. KNR

[Raine]

45. Very nice & very classy nt

[Raster]

49. I thought so too.

[randr]

52. Grace and Dignity we certainly won't be hearing from the new occupants

[leftynyc]

54. Classy move

They've become productive members of society, kept their heads down and lived their lives. I've got no beef with the Bush girls. (now sarah's kids on the other hand - nothing but gutter trash).

[Sunlei]

55. Very nice 8 yr letter. A shame the entire 8 years they never spent any time together.

[C Moon]

62. and I thought the Bush years were tough.

[Grins]

63. Well done. And now we have the Trump kids, Ivanka and the two barbarians, Uday and Qusay

And now we have the Trump kids, Ivanka and the two barbarians, Uday and Qusay.

[LisaM]

65. I, for one, am not going to swoon over this.

They were the beneficiaries of a stolen presidency and now we are on the verge of another one, and I'm just not going to dignify the Bush daughters with any false equivalencies to the Obamas. Of course you can argue that the Bush daughters are, like any First Family, thrust into a position they didn't ask for, but I recall that it was Jenna Bush who suddenly decided before the 2004 election that she didn't want her father to lose the election (something about how she couldn't imagine how she'd feel if he lost) so she threw herself into campaigning and re-invigorated his campaign.

The letter may ooze charm, but I'm just not buying it, and it's really ironic that it comes prior to another stolen election.

[Smickey]

66. "So welcome... to the machine."

Pink Floyd (of course)

[smirkymonkey]

67. I have a new admiration for them.

I would give anything to have them back in the White House over the Trump children of the corn, anything. Of course I would prefer Democrats, but at least these girls are decent human beings. The Trumps are just sickening examples of humanity.

[mehrrh]

68. Thoughtful

Very nice of them to write to the Obama girls who have now joined that very exclusive club of former White House children.

[renate]

70. that's really sweet!

And they have a nice sense of humor, too: "Enjoy college. As most of the world knows, we did."

And the end of the second-to-last paragraph is very interesting and impressive, too.

Good for them!

[etherealtruth]

72. A lovely letter

[westerebus]

73. Good on them.