The sad, deluded truth behind Dubya's "Crawford Ranch"

"PHONY TO THE CORE: The "Ole Family Ranch" in Crawford is a Set Completed the Same Day the Election was Stolen
By Cheryl Seal"

http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=6687

In our first quote, further proof that Jesus is taking care of Dubya because he has confessed himself as a sinner and sought the Lord's repentance:

"Oh, and that "homey ole ranch house?" It's actually a 10,000-square-foot single level mansion/compound that won't even be 2 years old until this November! The compound features a swimming pool for daughters Jenna and Barbara, who apparently loudly demanded it - the Bushes call it the girls' "Whining pool." Btw - we hear Bush got a sweet deal on the house construction, (the cost, of course remains undisclosed): the builders came from a religious community in El Mott, Texas."

In quote #2, we find out that you can take the "cow" out of the "boy," but you can't take the "cowboy" out of the...oh, never mind. See for yourself:

"Until Bush and handlers decided that a rural ranch would be a slick bit of PR for the presidential campaign, Bush had no interest in a "home on the range." Instead, his preferred weekend retreat was to the Rainbo Club, an exclusive lakeside hunting club in Henderson County, about an hour south of Dallas, much closer to the comforts of Austin."

That's right, folks, Dubya may enjoy his photo ops on the former pig farm now known as "The Crawford Ranch," but he's much, much more at home living the civilized, privileged life of a little rich boy.

Oh, and in our final quote, he's also "outed" as the Cowboy Who Doesn't Ride Horses. This is from an end note sent to author Cheryl Seal from a proud Texan who has seen through the smoke 'n' mirrors:

"For you information Bush was just given a saddle as a gift that is now on tour around the state. This saddle is of NO use to him since he doesn't ride horses. Ask Vicente Fox - who wanted him to go riding on Bush's trip to Mexico. "

WELL...given the relationship that Bush has with Fox, I'm sure he made it up to him...in OTHER WAYS.



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seemed too "leftywacko" to be true, but it is. Interesting no "major" news groups have made any little "jabs" about it. <sigh> oh well!

Kerry fought in Vietnam and bush is scared of horses.....LOL



Oh....and he can use the saddle for riding Condi!!

She's a trained seal! Case in point-during the Rape of the Union Address she was flapping those flippers as if a cattle prod was inserted into her Colon Pow-hole!

CatWoman, I love those Calico's of yours. Cats rule!

That's interesting because Poppy's "libary" is literally built on the old Swine Center at Texas A&M.

Had to move out the pigs to make room for the "boss hogs" Well it struck me funny-Har, har har.

1: "Enjoyed Cheryl Seal's story about the Crawford "ranch." But she failed to mention that before Shrub bought it, it was a pig farm. And in Texas, it is too small to be considered a ranch anyway -- go look up how many 100 thousand acres LBJ had or how big the King Ranch is."

2: "Apparently Rancho Boguso has done time not just as a small-time cattle ranch but was once a pig farm as well! And those horses you see in photos? Window dressing only - Bush can't ride!!!"

Both are at the end, reader responses described by the author as "Additional Notes on "Rancho Boguso" from Bonafide Texans."

all I can recall from the beginning of this sad chapter in our history is "Crawford", the ranch in Crawford, the Crawford Ranch ... and, then, it seems, as time went by, countries were invaded, and * became the 2nd coming and stuff, 'Prairie Chapel' started to be penciled in more ...

when Vincente Fox visited there the first time, I think it was just Crawford ... by this year, it had become a shrine to Dim Son ...

Crawford is the name of the small town nearby

I have to wonder what will become of it once his majesty is ousted. Laura is on record as suggesting she has no plans to live there permanently in retirement and prefers the city.

A couple months ago there was a Salon review of a book describing how *'s image was totally manufactured by Nurse Rached and Rove. Can't remember the title. I haven't seen it out yet.

ON EDIT: Found the book

Building a better Bush

How an Andover-Yale preppy, scion of one of our nation's most powerful families, was reinvented as a straight-shootin' Texan with "regular guy" values. An excerpt from "Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn't Tell You."

By Paul Waldman

Feb. 10, 2004 | Before a press conference in August 2002 at the Bush estate in Crawford, Texas, workers brought in hay bales to cover up the propane tanks sitting in camera view, the better to give the impression that the president was a real old-time rancher. Of course, Bush had purchased the spread just before the 2000 campaign. The hay-bale tableau was in many ways a perfect metaphor for the persona of George W. Bush himself: Artifice intended not only to conceal reality, but to give the impression that Bush is "real," a simulation of authenticity itself.

The popular perception is that George W. Bush is just a "regular guy" -- unpretentious, friendly, likes country music and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, not some highfalutin know-it-all who thinks he's better 'n other folks. But this image is a persona, carefully constructed over the years to deal with one of the key difficulties facing members of the Bush dynasty. After all, we are talking about a man afforded advantages available to literally but a few dozen Americans, who walked on a path paved with the priceless cobblestones of influence and wealth, who earned so little in life but was given so much. Given that Bush's father was defeated in 1992 in large part because of his perceived inability to understand the struggles of ordinary people, the son's advisers understood that a man with George W.'s particular combination of experience and skills could hardly be presented to the public as a model of empathy. So as the scion of the Bush dynasty was prepared for his entry into public life, he was burnished with a down-home gloss and a new man was created. The creation of this persona came off virtually without a hitch.

more…
http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2004/02/10/fraud_excerpt/

"Why Are These Men Laughing?"
Esquire, January 2003

http://www.ronsuskind.com/newsite/articles/archives/000032.html

"...when I spoke to White House chief of staff Andrew Card, he sounded an alarm about the unfettered rise of Rove in the wake of senior adviser Karen Hughes’s resignation: "I’ll need designees, people trusted by the president that I can elevate for various needs to balance against Karl. . . . They are going to have to really step up, but it won’t be easy. Karl is a formidable adversary."

"It’s an amazing moment," said one senior White House official early on the morning after. "Karl just went from prime minister to king. Amazing . . . and a little scary. Now no one will speak candidly about him or take him on or contradict him. Pure power, no real accountability. It’s just ‘listen to Karl and everything will work out.’. . . That may go for the president, too."

During his unsuccessful run for Congress in 1978, Bush remarked to a fellow Republican, "I've got the greatest idea of how to raise money for the campaign. Have your mother send a letter to your family's Christmas card list. I just did and I got $350,000!" The notion that there might be something unusual about George and Barbara's Christmas list hadn't occurred to him.

So his water is clean and ours is dirtier each year he is in office. Our great President who talks to God.

10,000 sq ft.....wonder if it has been constructed with the intent to sell it off as a manufacturing plant once Georgie leaves office?
The only photo-ops of Georgie at the ranch is not of him riding horses, rounding-up cattle, feeding cattle, etc., but of him cutting down green trees on the property...so much for being an environmental President. He sure as hell don't need it for the imaginary cattle or horses. Think he could be clearing it for the parking lot? Any bets on how fast he gets rid of "his ranch", once he leaves office?

and I understand him getting rid of the juniper/*cedar* trees and brush. These trash trees grow up in the midst of oaks and cut off their water, so there's a whole program from the county extension agents on how to get rid of the cedars to let the oaks grow. We also try to keep our brush cut down so that we don't have huge fires that race from property to property. That has nothing to do with being a bad environment president, the OTHER business-related travesties he's perpetrated do. Otherwise, it's in the same category as someone mowing their lawn, pulling weeds, or cutting down trash trees in their suburban back yard.

why he feels it necessary to do this work himself, enlisting his staff and willing press corps members to donate their time. Can you say "photo-op?"

Maybe all this brush clearing is the real reason he hightails it to the "ranch" every chance he gets, before the whole place is overgrown.

his own gardener out of his own funds, he could do what most people do around here-get some goats to eat it down! Nope, he probably keeps a lot of it around just so that he can get some photo mileage out of it.

...until, I assume, his Alzheimer's reached the more advanced stages.

At the time of the CBS (later to be Showtime) movie controversy, there was some pro-Reagan talking head on one of the cable news shows (don't remember the name, sorry). He said that the Secret Service would accompany Reagan out to the yard, where he's spend an hour or so raking leaves. They'd escort him back into the house, put the leaves in lawn trash bags, and the next day empty the bags back onto the lawn so he could go out and rake again.

Bush has a real need to prove himself as the one thing that he most certainly is not: a "real" man, a "regular" guy. He's a rich boy from a family of power, greed and corruption and that's all he will ever be.

Reagan had his leaves, Dubya has his shrubs 'n' cedars.

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