My husband was kind enough to send me a
link to this article on foxnews.com today:
Barbara Bush Endorses Gay Marriage in New York
Okay, that grabbed my attention. Barbara Bush endorsing gay marriage? Are pigs flying? Is it the End of Days? Did Hell freeze over? Whaaaaaaat??
Oh...a little reading and I find out it's not that Barbara Bush, old blue hair steely eyed bitchy Barbara Bush. It's her granddaughter. It's one of the twins. She's GW and Laura Bush' progeny. And she sounds like a bleeding heart Liberal.
The
web site promoting New Yorkers for Marriage Equality puts her in the company of Robert Kennedy Jr., Whoopie Goldberg, Kenneth Cole (married to a Cuomo), Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick; Liberals all.
It gets better. The article includes an interview she did with Chris Wallace on FOX NEWS no less. She's all about "health equity" for people in the U.S. and other countries. Wallace says she sounds like "someone with a mission statement from the Obama White House."
Surprising puff piece from Fox News but, then again, they can't bash the ideals of the daughter of their idyllic former president, can they?
Kudos to Ms Bush and I am not being condescending. It's very hard to move out of the sphere of influence of your folks. I know. I did it. But I am not a public figure and for me it was a personal choice that didn't affect me publicly. I just knew the political beliefs my parents held, particularly my father, were wrong. Apparently the humanitarian experiences she's had deeply affected her, allowing her to look at all sides of the equations, not just the Right side.
