Stalk of the Town: Barbara Bush Still Working Out Obvious Daddy Issues
The time: 9 p.m.
The date: November 27, 2006.
The place: Village Restaurant, West 9th and 6th Avenue.
Sighted: "Barbara Bush (the twin) slurping oysters and sucking face with a chaddy guy. I didn't see a purse."
The fact that President Bush's twin daughters like to booze it up? Not all that surprising. The fact that it's Barbara Bush who's taking the lead in the ongoing race to get back at Daddy for making them grow up surrounded by suited dudes with earpieces who are always harshing their buzz? That IS mildly surprising. Our money was always on Jenna. She was, after all, first out of the gate, she didn't even pretend to waste her time at an Ivy League school, and frankly, she just looks a bit dirtier.
Nevertheless, it's Barbara we find sucking face in public a day after the whole Argentina debacle. (The chad in question is most likely Jay Blount, her fellow Yalie and sometime boyfriend.) And it was Barbara pictured straddling Gawker fave and all-around wonderful human being Fabian Basabe at a club back in the day. A few weeks ago, she even showed us a new way to hold more than one drink when tailgating. Useful!
The only question becomes, what's next? How can she piss Daddy off even more? Our unsolicited advice? The two words every father fears: Paris Hilton.
