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Barbara Bush Comes Out for Gay Marriage, and Twitter (Mostly) Applauds [VIDEO]
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsBarbara Bush -- the twin daughter of former President George W. Bush -- has caused quite the stir today. In a video from the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights organization, the brunette twin announces her support for the New Yorkers for Marriage Equality campaign. Watch: Just 22 seconds long, that video has sure got a lot of people talking. On Twitter, the overwhelming reaction is positive, with people cheering Barbara for breaking ranks with her father, who was famously opposed to gay marriage. .bbpBox32451867472564224 ...
Young Barbara Bush Backs Gay Marriage
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsFormer President George W. Bush's daughter Barbara is the latest relative of a prominent Republican to support gay marriage. In May, her mother, Laura Bush, gave this answer to a question about gay marriage: "When couples are committed to each other and love each other, that they ought to have, I think, the same sort of rights that everyone has." John McCain's daughter, Meghan, supports gay marriage, though her father's against it, and the lesbian daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney supports it too. Gay rights leaders have seized on the generational split as a sign that support for ...
Daughter of George W. Bush Supports Same-Sex Marriage
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyBarbara Bush, one of the twin daughters of President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, is making public her support of gay marriage, a stand that is at odds with her father's position on gay marriage. In a video released Monday, Barbara Bush says: "I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality. New York is about fairness and equality. And everyone should have the right to marry the person that they love." The video was produced by an advocacy group called the Human Rights Campaign as part of the New Yorkers for Marriage Equality campaign. Like many conservatives, Barbara ...
Colorado Treasurer Moonlights for Up to $150K, and He's Not Alone
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyColorado's state treasurer may earn up to $150,000 annually -- in addition to his $68,500 state salary -- under a contract to consult for his former real estate investment company. Republican State Treasurer Walker Stapleton, elected this fall, is the second Colorado elected official to continue consulting with a former employer. Secretary of State Scott Gessler plans to work for his former law firm, which specializes in elections law, up to 20 hours a month. Gessler said he can't support his family on his $68,500 annual state salary. As with Gessler, questions about conflict of interest -- ...
Condi Rice: Pro-Choice, Libertarian . . . and Evangelical
By David Gibson - Politics DailyFormer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared in a recent interview that she is proudly evangelical but also distanced herself from many of her fellow believers by saying that she tends to support abortion rights and civil unions for gay couples, and she feels evangelicals too often alienate others with in-your-face rhetoric. "It's extremely important not to assault people," Rice told Christianity Today, the flagship evangelical magazine, in a Dec. 20 interview. "Sometimes I think evangelicals come at people so hard and so fast and don't take time to listen to where somebody is," she ...
Sarah Palin in a Little Rock Sam's Club: Signs Books, Ignores Media
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyLITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Sam's Club – the Walmart-owned megastore that sells almost everything in bulk – is hardly the epitome of glamour. So where does a superstar like Sarah Palin set up shop to sign books here? Amid the pallets of canned green beans? Behind the sea of poinsettias? Near the crates of toilet paper? Palin's choice: In the back of the store behind the frozen-food freezers. But her reception in Clinton – and Mike Huckabee – country was anything but chilly. More than 500 people lined up on a cold night here to meet Palin, who signed her new book, ...
Sarah Palin Takes Aim at Barbara Bush, Michelle Obama
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyYes, it's Thanksgiving, but there's just no holiday from Sarah Palin news. While promoting her new book, "America by Heart," she's managed to toss barbs at two first ladies, one current and the other past (and a Republican at that). Responding Wednesday to Barbara Bush's comment that Palin is "very happy in Alaska, and I hope she'll stay there," the former governor of the 49th state lashed out at "blue bloods" in an interview on the Laura Ingraham radio show. "I don't think the majority of Americans want to put up with the blue-bloods," Palin -- who is considering a run for president in ...
Barbara Bush Reminds Sarah Palin It's My Party Too
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyThe country loved First Lady Barbara Bush with her coif of white hair, full figure, and sensible clothes. After Nancy Reagan and her size two designer dresses, Bush was down-home and nonthreatening. But anybody who knew the Bushes, or covered them when they were in the White House, understood that Mrs. Bush was far from a retiring matron, that she is strong-willed, opinionated and the member of the family most likely to carry a grudge. For those who remember her famous smack down of Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 -- "I can't say it but it rhymes with rich" -- shouldn't be surprised at how deftly ...
Watch Out, Sarah Palin: Barbara Bush Is the Original Mama Grizzly
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyBarbara Bush is the grande dame of the GOP. And she finally has said something that a lot of Republicans – not to mention Democrats and independents – have been thinking about Sarah Palin. Barbara, never one to mince words, shared her opinion about Palin on CNN's "Larry King Live" Monday night. "I sat next to her once," Barbara Bush told King. "Thought she was beautiful. And I think she's very happy in Alaska, and I hope she'll stay there." The former first lady's sentiment touched a nerve in tea party circles on Monday. On Glenn Beck's radio show, he hinted that her remark was ...
Barbara Bush Hopes Palin Stays in Alaska
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 21) – Asked what she thinks about Sarah Palin, the matriarch of the Bush family responded with characteristic diplomacy. "I sat next to her once. Thought she was beautiful," Barbara Bush told CNN's Larry King. "And she's very happy in Alaska, and I hope she'll stay there." The 85-year-old former first lady chuckled and smiled at her subtle sarcasm. Her comments come as Palin, former Alaska governor, revealed this week that she's considering a 2012 run for the White House, and said believes she could beat President Barack Obama. Bush and her husband, former President George ...
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