London Times: Bush’s terrible twins try a little African charity

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London Times: Bush’s terrible twins try a little African charity

Edited on Sun Jul-10-05 02:31 PM by DeepModem Mom

(On edit: If these girls have indeed "grown up," and are engaged in worthwhile activity, even though service in Iraq is an option they didn't choose, maybe we should recognize their possible lifestyle change.)

Bush’s terrible twins try a little African charity
Tony Allen-Mills, Washington

THE terrible twins appear to have been tamed. After four years of grabbing headlines as the party-loving, cocktail-swilling student daughters of President George W Bush, Jenna and Barbara Bush have settled into an unexpectedly sedate adult lifestyle that yesterday found both of them in Africa helping children with Aids.

Jenna is accompanying her mother Laura on a five-day tour of African countries where the president’s wife will speak about Aids relief and education initiatives. Their first stop was South Africa, where Barbara Bush has been quietly working for the past six weeks as a volunteer in a children’s hospital.

The emergence of the 23-year-old twins as hard- working supporters of African causes is in marked contrast to their chequered careers as celebrity students with a penchant for breaking America’s draconian underage drinking laws....

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Jenna, the blonde one, last week accompanied her parents on an official visit to Denmark, followed by the G8 summit. The tight jeans and belly-baring tops had been replaced by a conservative tweed jacket and comparatively sober skirts.

Since her graduation last spring, Jenna has been working as a low-paid teaching assistant. Barbara, generally regarded as the more serious — or less frivolous — of the two, left Washington almost unnoticed in late May to work at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1687790,00...

- Good for them.	aquart	Jul-10-05 02:34 PM	#1
- They are TRASH in skirts nt	goclark	Jul-10-05 02:34 PM	#2
- Now, now, goclark....	DeepModem Mom	Jul-10-05 02:36 PM	#5
- They can't be without a binge but so long	goclark	Jul-10-05 02:57 PM	#11
- LOL!	DeepModem Mom	Jul-10-05 03:24 PM	#12
- Capetown is great for partying.	DemExpat	Jul-10-05 04:39 PM	#17
- Whatever..	zidzi	Jul-10-05 02:34 PM	#3
- Military uniforms	recovering democrat	Jul-10-05 02:35 PM	#4
- These sloanes strike a sharp contrast with Chelsea, don't you think?	Taxloss	Jul-10-05 02:39 PM	#6
- LOL! Kudos for your British reserve, Taxloss. nt	DeepModem Mom	Jul-10-05 02:41 PM	#7
- They're GROOMING BOTH of THEM - God Help Us!	patrice	Jul-10-05 02:45 PM	#8
- How much you wanna bet...	TWriterD	Jul-10-05 02:49 PM	#9
- Stepford Husbands?	Demeter	Jul-10-05 04:03 PM	#15
- Ugh - to fine, upstanding Young Republicans...	TWriterD	Jul-10-05 06:54 PM	#18
- I have to be supportive of the Bush spawn	CatWoman	Jul-10-05 02:51 PM	#10
- Looks to me like Barbara is the only one doing charity work	DebinTx	Jul-10-05 03:52 PM	#13
- Their little stint in Africa doesn't fool me........	llmart	Jul-10-05 03:59 PM	#14
- Again - why post this crap here? The repukes, and especially bunkerboy,	TankLV	Jul-10-05 04:23 PM	#16