Why was Barbara Bush considered an ugly crone?

One hot bitch.

She always looked like her children's grandmother. She came out of the womb a wrinkled hag.

No. And the pearls were faux.

So hot! An underrated sex symbol! She’s serving Striptease era Demi Moore in OP’s pic.

In her youth, average looking but with an impeccable pedigree and ready to breed. The hubby was handsome in a fratboi asshole kind of way.

She finally found a way to lighten age spots.

They ALWAYS referred to her as

GRANDMA 👵 BUSH

It wasn't so much her being an ugly crone as a TOTAL FUCKING BITCH-CUNT.

She always looked old. HW Bush was pretty hot in his youth though even if he had no lips

That ugly old bags only redeeming quality is that she hated Jeb.

Your mean Jeb!

I wish this had audio

She was NO Eleanor Roosevelt

She was the sex-symbol spokesperson for Quaker Oats!!

Prettier than the bride

Right up there with Mamie Eisenhower as the ultimate FLILFs.

OP, who said she was an ugly crone?

Not sure what Poppy saw in her. It wasn't beauty.

Her real father was preposterous Satan-worshiper Alistair Crowley. Yes, Bar's mother was a SATANIC WHORE!

Oh. He saw money. Ok, makes sense.

George liked to call her Philippa. Phillippa Bush.

Barbara originally set out to be President James Buchanan's First Lady, but when that didn't work out she switched parties.

Just ask Pat Stevens:

Bab's original appearance on the Pat Steven's Show:

"You must be very proud of your son . . . "

She was actually a much more popular FLOTUS then the pretentious cunt who preceded her. The Fraus loved her as she "appeared" to be one of them.

Her own hand rejected her.

Bitch stole my act.

Barbara Pierce was born on June 8, 1925 to Pauline Pierce (née Robinson) and Marvin Pierce.

She was raised in the suburban town of Rye, New York. Her father later became president of McCall Corporation, the publisher of the popular women's magazines Redbook and McCall's.

She had two elder siblings, Martha (1920–1999) and James (1922–1993), and a younger brother, Scott (1930–2022).

Her ancestor Thomas Pierce Jr., an early New England colonist, was also an ancestor of Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States. She was a fourth cousin, four times removed, of Franklin Pierce and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Jackie O? Didn't have a pedigree of this quality.

Attractive enough. Fertile.

Actually, at r18 she was quite pretty (though not beautiful). I don't get what r18 is talking about.

She was considered a catch when Poppy married her because she was attractive, very popular, a Smith girl (before the Ivies allowed women, Smith was the most highly regarded academically of all the Seven Sisters, and was considered on a par with Wellesley and Vassar socially), and from a wealthy and prestigious family--she was a direct descendant of former US president Franklin Pierce. She was apparently pretty mean during her high school years (she was embittered because her mother had no time for her and frequently disparaged her), and though she repented her meanness as a popular girl later in life, she always was infamous for having a viciously sharp tongue when the occasion arose. She traumatized her granddaughter Jenna for telling her she looked chubby in a swimsuit, and when jenna confronted her about it, she apologized and said she sometimes said mean things she later greatly regretted that were the sort of things her own disapproving and hypercritical mother would say to her when she was young.

She lost her looks soon after she got married, and I think her toddler daughter Robin's death in the 1950s was quite hard on her and made her age prematurely. Apparently that was the great tragedy of her life, and she used to go out all the time at Kennebunkport to the water's edge to grieve for Robin until the end of her life.

My understanding was that she was a very strange woman. She had a ferocious temper she could turn on people who criticized her family members, but could be critical of them herself; she was a great reader, but never encouraged her children to be readers, and visitors to the Kennebunkport compound said there never were any books in the house because no one besides her read. (W.'s unlikely marriage to the quiet and decidedly unfabulous Laura Welch was probably not only because she was pretty when younger but also because she was also a reader like his mother.)

Richard Nixon's infamous and hilarious comment about her on the White House Tapes, when her husband was the director of the CIA: "Now there's a woman who knows how to hate..."

I'll give it to the ole cunt she was a better driver then moi.

The flippant remark made against citizens seeking new opportunities after losing all they owned in Katrina is her epitaph.

It's rumored that pegging is what kept her marriage to 41 alive.

That's why her Secret Service code name was "Tranquility," since he'd usually pass out.

Because she looked the kindle dowager she got a pass. Bar was the cuntiest cunt who ever cunted. I should know.

😂 😂

She was lumpy.

She sucked more cock than Nancy Reagan.

One of the late night comics (I’ve forgotten which) joked:

Bush has only been president for one year and he has already put his wife on the one dollar bill.

She used to be a bevy of beauty.

Loved her. Class. Manners. Pearls. I loved Michelle Obama too! Style and glamour. Pour Jill Biden. But she's learning. She started to run a comb through her hair which is a good start.

She I'd not a direct descendant of a president. Cousins...4th...how many removed? Hell, we are probably all that closely related as DL posters.

Ok...

He's better looking.

[quote]She was actually a much more popular FLOTUS then the pretentious cunt who preceded her. The Fraus loved her as she "appeared" to be one of them.

I recall reading the ole Bar and 41 were very well liked by the White House staff compared to the Reagans and Clintons.

Does anyone remember when Oprah and a few first ladies were reciting The Vagina Monologues and Barbara kept getting stuck with the lines about her vagina being less than wonderous? There turned out to be quite a bit of unintentional laughter from the event.

Kitty Kelly says she is the illegitimate granddaughter of famous Edwardian England Satanist Alaestair Crowley of whom her grandma was a groupie.

Haters gonna hate that’s why

"Barbara Bush -- that woman knew how to hate."

I must remind you that making derogatory or inappropriate comments about a person's appearance is not respectful or appropriate. Barbara Bush, who passed away in 2018, was a former First Lady of the United States and a respected public figure. She should be remembered for her contributions and achievements, rather than comments on her physical appearance. It is important to treat all individuals with respect and refrain from making derogatory comments or engaging in negative behavior towards others.

R50 has stated her boundaries!

She was hot in her youth PLUS worth a fortune after her parents' death. George was enchanted with her to the end. He dabbled a bit but always came back to mama.

It's amazing how many topics involve criticizing a woman's looks. Sad but not surprising.

Her name has always seemed like it should have been used as the lewd moniker for one of James Bond's girlfriends. It's deliciously vulgar.

She did not always dress to advantage.

Good Vanity Fair profile from 2007.

She was bent over more times than a palm tree in Miami during hurricane season….

Nancy probably started the :ugly crone" meme.

Well, her face was good enough to put on the one dollar bill...

You're right. We should criticize more men's looks.

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She kept her dead fetus in a jar and showed it to her children.

Case,

Closed.

She was arguably a handsome woman with a very patrician look…

She was not a crone.

She was a stuck-up old cow who ate grass in the Rose Garden and increased our Washington methane rates.

According to the Times write-up of Mrs. Reagan’s impromptu appearance on ABC News, she “had been desperately trying to call Barbara Walters, an old friend, to privately correct something Ms. Walters had said on the air. … But somehow, Mrs. Reagan was connected to Peter Jennings on the air.”

The Times column continued, “While Mr. Jennings and David Brinkley sat by, bemused, Mrs. Reagan unloaded on both her successors.”

Mrs. Reagan “insisted that, no matter what Barbara Bush said, she had given Mrs. Bush a full tour of the White House. … And she complained bitterly that the Bushes had never invited the Reagans back for a state dinner.”

She looked like George Bush's grandmother when in fact it was his wife. Quite surprising at the time. As a couple they looked decades apart. George had a fetish for old twat.

The Regans began the decline of the United States into magashithole status. Low class, under-educated.

George married young, to a woman who had blue blood and a healthy reproductive system.

Looks, were a minor concern.

I'd loved to have been there when Babs learned the Reagans were gifted a home post-Presidency.

I'm sure she was equal parts disgusting/amused.

She prematurely aged--she was a crone, but not an ugly one.

citing documents from the Reagan Library archives, Page wrote that the names of the Bushes, then vice president and second lady, were crossed out by hand from both an initial invite list and an accompanying plan for them to “greet guests in the Red Room.”

The Bushes appeared only under a “Suggested additions” section on the second and third invite lists, according to Page.

On the third list, their names had again been “slashed out by pen.”

The snub did not go unnoticed, Page wrote: “When deputy White House chief of staff Michael Deaver cautioned Nancy Reagan against excluding the vice president and his wife from the dinner, saying it would be a breach of protocol, she reportedly responded, ‘Just watch me.’ “

According to Page, Mrs. Reagan similarly slashed out the Bushes from the invitation list for her husband’s birthday in 1986, though an aide got them back on.

At the end of Reagan’s two terms, Mrs. Reagan was obliged to give Mrs. Bush a customary tour of the White House. According to the Washington Post, it was “brief and unsatisfying.” (Coincidentally, that tour was one of the incidents Mrs. Reagan felt compelled to speak out about in 1993 — leading to her denouement with Mrs. Bush.)

Loved when Bar mentioned Fancy Nancy transforming the FLOTUS office into her own personal "beauty parlor."

Bitch was hilarious!

Any other First vs. Second Lady rivalries?

Michelle and Jill were close.

Heard Hillary and Tipper were not on the best of terms with one another.

I don't ever remember seeing Laura being in the same vicinity as Lynn.

Nancy Reagan was so trashy.

Nothing says “trashy” like being a shitty parent.

The snub was an disinvitation to the event of the decade, a state dinner with Princess Diana and her husband.

I think it's a charming tribute, seeing her face on every box of Quaker Oats.

Her mom catted around with Alestier Crowley and 9 months later, Barb was born and looks just fucking like him.

It's practically a case of Datalounge malpractice that this SNL clip from 1989 with Phil Hartman as Barbara Bush and Jan Hooks as Nancy Reagan hasn't been posted yet

R50 was produced by ChatGPT.

Op why are you stuck in 1989?

😂 and it is ridiculous

Handsome woman.

R77, meet R19.

[quote]I must remind you that making derogatory or inappropriate comments about a person's appearance is not respectful or appropriate. Barbara Bush, who passed away in 2018, was a former First Lady of the United States and a respected public figure. She should be remembered for her contributions and achievements, rather than comments on her physical appearance. It is important to treat all individuals with respect and refrain from making derogatory comments or engaging in negative behavior towards others.

R50 - I don't want waste my BEAUTIFUL MIND thinking about your sycophantic BS.

The neighbors cat is in heat

Quite pendulous tits.

R62 wow you weren't kidding.

The former president commented on the reaction this morning on NBC's "Today Show."

"I had no intention of creating a national dialogue," Bush said. "My intent was to describe a relationship between my mom and her son and an interesting anecdote that helped the reader understand why my mother and I are so close."

That. That is even more strange.

The story.

She wasn’t as big of a cunt as Melanie. Also she’s not a whore

^^^ And I never want to see either of them naked.

I think she just gave up on being a desirable feminine wife because her husband just wouldn't let go of his affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald. Probably a combination of spite and resignation.

She looks like Joan Norton, Doc Martin's nosy, bossy Aunt.

You can say a lot of bad stuff about her but she seemed very comfortable in her own skin which I always admire

I think that was a lot of pretending and facade R93.

Rich. Bitch.

This never stops being hilarious everytime I see it...

This alone makes Barbara Bush an honorary Datalounger:

[quote]On a personal level, she can be domineering. Aides, old friends, even family members give eerily similar accounts of her offering unsolicited advice on appearance: “You’ve got to do something about your hair,” she told one aide; to another, who had just grown a mustache, she said, “Has George seen that? Shave it off!” She is full of admonitions about smoking, now that she has given it up, and diet—especially diet.

[quote]Peggy Stanton, a friend from the years when Bush served in Congress, remembers being embarrassed at lunches of the congressional wives’ club. “I was a pretty healthy eater, and Bar would say, ‘Now, watch Peggy, she’s going up for her third helping.’ Which was true, but I didn’t necessarily want the world to know.”

[quote]“You’re too fat,” Barbara tells her younger brother, Scott Pierce, when he puts on weight. And when Bush was vice president, according to an aide, Barbara boiled over one day at the sight of the staffers eating junk food on Air Force Two. “She said we were all fat, we all ate too much, and from then on we would only get fruit and so on,” a change that was instituted immediately.

Why? Because she was Blanche, she was!

I love that Barbara smoked Newports, of all cigarette brands. Bitch was hardcore!

Have there been any good documentaries about the George '41? I really enjoyed the 2020 docuseries on The Reagans that aired on Showtime in 2020. Reagan-heads and MAGAts would have hated it

Amateur.

The Showtime doc on the Reagans was excellent. They really broke things down and showed how awful the Reagans and the people who surrounded them were.

R102 - yes, it was fascinating because it drew such an interesting through-line from the earliest days of Nancy and Ron's relationship to the utter destruction they wrought on American society through the late 80s. And, of course, set the path for modern age of ultra-conservatism and MAGAism. They also got a lot of people (including members of his cabinet or White House staff) to speak very candidly about them. Their son participated, too, and, I was pleasantly surprised at the lack of rose colored glasses. It was a frank and unsparing portrait of them. Usually these prestige docu-series have too many episodes. I would gladly have welcomed a longer series.