Audacity, Thy Name Is Bar
Sep 22nd, 2007 at 4:52 pm by Susie
This one leaves me speechless:
“America’s Grandma,” Barbara Bush, is at it again. No, she is no longer advising us that half-drowned African American’s who survived Katrina should be comfortable in their distress because they are accustomed to living in squalor, today she is offering up advice on how to raise our children - based I suppose upon her great success in raising hers. She is a public advocate for gathering one’s family around the dinner table for conversation, assuring us in her new TV ad that this very act of togetherness will prevent our children from becoming alcoholics and drug abusers. This, from the mother of George and Neil and Jeb??? The first being a former drug abuser and alcoholic, the second a principal figure in an S&L banking scandal that cost the country billions, and the third complicit in the stealing of elections for his brother, which nearly cost the country the country. Can there be no end to Republican Chutzpah?
No end in sight that I can see.
Maybe she’s slyly admitting she never spent any time with those freaks.
Isn’t there a sister somewhere, aside from the one that died so young?
Doro Bush Koch.
don’t forget granddaughter crackhead noelle bush raised by jebby!
I haven’t seen the ad, and to be fair, family meals strike me as a positive thing, overall. The problem is the old bat’s (reported) assumption that they’ll magically solve all your child-rearing problems. If so, this simplistic approach seems to be one more instance of How Conservatives Are Different From Normal People.
(It reminds me of those Purity Balls, where the dads’ rationale seems to be that, while their little princesses surely could never entertain any sexual feelings of their own, they could be led astray by a need to be assured of their own prettiness and lovableness if they didn’t get some appropriate assurance on that score from their fathers. Dad takes her to the Purity Ball, and Presto! he’s got that whole thing covered and needn’t worry about his daughter’s sexuality ever again.)
Purity Balls… Ick…
Her husband must be a DINO.
Well, there is a tiny grain of truth to the purity ball theory. Girls with low self esteem do often indulge in self-destructive sexual activity. And fathers can help in the self-esteem department.
I’m trying to think of a worse way to go about raising a daughter’s self esteem and sexual standards than a purity ball, though, and I’m coming up dry. The closest I’ve come up with is Dad dressing up in little girl drag and cruising the malls for boys with her. But that’s still not as creepy as a purity ball.