# Ok, as no one wants to pit the Bush girls.. (lame, help improve it) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 2, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710 "2004-09-02T03:17:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/1 "2004-09-02T03:17:38Z")
…I WILL Who’s stupid ass idea was it to put these two dumb bimbo’s on the stage last night? They were there to introduce their dad who would then introduce their mother. WHAT? Come on! They can’t even spit a line out without giggling. How old are these two twits? 10-11 years old? WHAT?? 22?! Were those bubbleheads drunk? My 13 year old daughter could hop on stage and wing a better introduction then those dingbats. If this is supposed to be a representation of Bush’s family values, these bobbleheads would have been better left in their hotel room catching up on missed episodes of Teletubbies. From what I’ve seen the media is giving these idiots a break as well. The worse I’ve seen said about them so far is “awkward”. Give me a break. If Chelsea Clinton got on stage and acted like this they would have ripped her a new ass. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/2 "2004-09-02T03:22:26Z")
Guess they take after dad. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/3 "2004-09-02T03:23:17Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > If Chelsea Clinton got on stage and acted like this they would have ripped her a new ass. Chelsea didn’t even act like that when she was 13. They tried to rip her a new ass anyway. What a classy bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/4 "2004-09-02T03:24:07Z")
Definately the worst speech of the night. Did they even practice the speech beforehand? And was that baseball game behind Bush a blue screen? It sure looked like one. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/5 "2004-09-02T03:34:26Z")
[I found the transcript](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=CVN%20Bush%20Twins%20Text), but they didn’t include _ **giggles** _, _ **smirks** _ or _ **acts like idiot** _ While I’m at it, what the fuck does this mean? > [@](#): > > BARBARA: Take this. I know it’s hard to believe, but our parents’ favorite term of endearment for each other is actually Bushy. > > And we had a hamster, too. Let’s just say ours didn’t make it. I guess double vision makes it easy to skip a line or two on the teleprompter :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/6 "2004-09-02T03:39:19Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > …I WILL > > Who’s stupid ass idea was it to put these two dumb bimbo’s on the stage last night? . I’m pretty sure it wasn’t _their_ idea. Some people realize that public speaking isn’t there forte (if I’m using that word correctly). Sadly, that doesn’t always get them _out_ of public speaking. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/7 "2004-09-02T03:43:36Z")
Maybe I’d have to actually hear a clip of it, but reading that speech, the worst thing I could say is that it was really corny, but not oh my god, horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Dio2112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Dio2112](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dio2112)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/8 "2004-09-02T03:48:17Z")
**Seven** said: "While I’m at it, what the fuck does this mean? BARBARA: Take this. I know it’s hard to believe, but our parents’ favorite term of endearment for each other is actually Bushy. And we had a hamster, too. Let’s just say ours didn’t make it. I guess double vision makes it easy to skip a line or two on the teleprompter." I don’t recall the exact situation, but I believe there was mention during one of the introductory speeches at the DNC that Kerry had given CPR to a pet hampster. Someone correct me if I have the location wrong, but the twins’ mention of a hampster definitely was a sassy rebuttal of that. The mention of nicknames is a similar “rebuttal” to some maudlin thing said about Kerry/Heinz relationship at the DNC, I think. Hope someone has the actual references to post here. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/9 "2004-09-02T03:52:23Z")
Nice looking girls, no doubt about that. But maybe they should stick to photo-spreads and printed interviews; Televsion does not seem to be the medium that suits them best. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/10 "2004-09-02T04:03:44Z")
> [@Dio2112](#): > > I don’t recall the exact situation, but I believe there was mention during one of the introductory speeches at the DNC that Kerry had given CPR to a pet hampster. Someone correct me if I have the location wrong, but the twins’ mention of a hampster definitely was a sassy rebuttal of that. The mention of nicknames is a similar “rebuttal” to some maudlin thing said about Kerry/Heinz relationship at the DNC, I think. Hope someone has the actual references to post here. From Alexandra Kerry’s speech to the DNC: > [@](#): > > We were standing on a dock waiting for a boat to take us on a summer trip. Vanessa, the scientist, had packed all her animals including her favorite hamster. Our over-zealous golden retriever got tangled in his leash and knocked the hamster cage off the dock. We watched as Licorice, the unlucky hamster bubbled down to a watery doom. That might have been the end of the story. But my dad jumped in, grabbed an oar, fished the cage from the water, hunched over the soggy hamster and began to administer CPR. There were some reports of mouth-to-mouth, but, I admit that’s probably a trick of memory. He was never quite right after that, but Licorice lived. Like I said, it may sound silly. We still laugh about it today. But, to us it was serious and that’s what mattered to my father. So the hamster rebuttal was, I guess, the best the twins could come up with since they apparently didn’t have a happy childhood memory of their own dad to share. “Daddy drank” isn’t too endearing, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/11 "2004-09-02T04:13:29Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > Nice looking girls, no doubt about that. But maybe they should stick to photo-spreads and printed interviews; Televsion does not seem to be the medium that suits them best. Oh, I don’t know, I could see 'em on TV and doing quite well. You know, in movies I shot. In my bedroom. (Is it wrong of me to want to cornhole 'em while saying things like, “John Kennedy was a _great_ President. Pot should be legal. Solar power is good for America.”? ) ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/12 "2004-09-02T04:18:48Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > Nice looking girls, no doubt about that. But maybe they should stick to photo-spreads and printed interviews; Televsion does not seem to be the medium that suits them best. Jenna looks _waaaayyyy_ too much like her mom for me. Almost like her face aged twice as fast as the rest of her body. :eek: And **Tuckerfan** , I’ll check with Alan Keyes (my personal walkin’ moral compass, but I think that is indeed wrong. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/13 "2004-09-02T04:36:05Z")
The worst thing was that their speech was inauthentic: it sounded like something that a 50 year old man would say to a bunch of high school kids in a desperate attempt to seem hip. Given that Bush preaches strong moral values and parenting, it’s hard not to see him as a giant hypocrite. The Bush daughters spent college in a beery, pot sampling haze punctuated by the occasional nudist party. Apparently, this sort of thing is only bad when Democrats or poor people do it. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/14 "2004-09-02T04:37:00Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > (Is it wrong of me to want to cornhole 'em while saying things like, “John Kennedy was a great President. Pot should be legal. Solar power is good for America.”? ) If it’s wrong, I don’t want to be right. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/15 "2004-09-02T04:38:51Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > the occasional nudist party. Linkity link link? ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/16 "2004-09-02T04:43:40Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > [I found the transcript](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=CVN%20Bush%20Twins%20Text), but they didn’t include _ **giggles** _, _ **smirks** _ or _ **acts like idiot** _ > > While I’m at it, what the fuck does this mean? > > I guess double vision makes it easy to skip a line or two on the teleprompter > > :smack: Is that transcript real? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/17 "2004-09-02T05:06:20Z")
> [@syncrolecyne](#): > > Is that transcript real? > > :eek: [http://mfile.akamai.com/920/rm/video.washingtonpost.com/media/politics/083104-26v.ram](http://mfile.akamai.com/920/rm/video.washingtonpost.com/media/politics/083104-26v.ram) ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/18 "2004-09-02T05:07:00Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > [I found the transcript](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=CVN%20Bush%20Twins%20Text), but they didn’t include _ **giggles** _, _ **smirks** _ or _ **acts like idiot** _ > > While I’m at it, what the fuck does this mean? I just read the transcript. It’s funny, because I know what all the words mean individually, but I couldn’t make heads or tails of the speech. I have no idea what the hell they were talking about. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/19 "2004-09-02T05:10:49Z")
While I agree that the girls were a bit ditsy, I really don’t see how it serves any greater purpose to truly bash them. Their dad’s the asshole; they can’t really help it that they’ve grown up rich, insulated and with all the lesser traits their father and mother have passed along in genes and upbringing. In other words, IMHO we should leave them alone until they’ve become their own persons – which is clearly a long ways away. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/20 "2004-09-02T05:20:04Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > …(Is it wrong of me to want to cornhole 'em while saying things like, “John Kennedy was a _great_ President. Pot should be legal. Solar power is good for America.”? ) Don’t you have any cousins? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710.md?page=2)