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.