Loyalty to family and “the ones that brung ya,” a quality long valued and rewarded by the Bush dynasty, was on quiet display at a crowded, pre-event reception last night for Barbara Bush’s A Celebration of Reading Dallas at the Meyerson. There in the throng was W’s wife Laura and their twin daughters Barbara Bush and Jenna Hager–the “outgoing one” who works as a correspondent for the Today show. It’s no coincidence, probably, that W gave a big exclusive prime-time TV interview (it ran on NBC last night) to Today’s Matt Lauer.
Over in a corner chatting amiably was Neil Bush, W’s brother, whose career includes more than a few potentially embarrassing high-profile flaps. Now involved in the oil business in central Texas, Neil said that four of his children would be on stage later, introducing some of the evening’s authors. Finally there was George H.W. Bush, who was asked about Gov. Rick Perry’s comments accusing W of being a big-government overspender. “I have great confidence in my son,” Bush 41 replied. “He saw what he had to do and did it. If he’s criticized, I find it hard to believe.”
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Trying to siphon off some of the commenters at Unfair Park?
And where was the fetus-in-a-jar? Inquiring minds want to know.
No mention of Lauren Bush? Why copy Unfair Park’s post?
Makes you proud to be a Texan to have both Bush AND Perry out making the talk show rounds.
As if the rest of the country (and the world) didn’t already have an opinion of us, it will be further cemented by their overall attitudes, lack of knowledge, and total “dad-gum, by golly, hell yeah, Texas is #1″ personas.
Sigh….
Call me lil’ Barbara B! We’ll go out for margaritas!
I got you on that, Sammy. It’s one thing to embrace the idea of a multicultural society, full of different languages, accents, colors.
But Texas talk is over the top, can’t we import John Kerry?
I won’t criticize GW, except to say he was the worst president of the United States since James Buchanan. If daddy don’t like mean people saying bad things about his baby boy, then he should move to North Korea where that is not allowed at all!
Perry, Bush and now Palin? It’s like a biblical plague. Next we’ll see some frogs jumping out of the Trinity.