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George "Frenchy" Bush
Kudos to Kevin Horrigan, for he has captured the very essence of George Bush.
That being there are a set of rules for himself and then those that apply to everyone else. His entire life is doing whatever he feels like doing, then relying on his surname and family connections to whitewash the scrapes, messes, dirty laundry and lawbreaking he inevitably stumbles through.
In this particular case of vacationing, it's because the presidency is 'hard work' and he "has to think about Iraq everyday."
Makes one wonder what the 160,000 soldiers, the ones stationed in Iraq who actually do the hard work and think about survival everyday, both deserve and feel?
Plus, Dubya has mucho brush to cut and tree limbs to saw if he can only get in the right light and angle for the photo-ops.
And then he's gotta break his bike...you know them new bikes are wild creatures, don't like to be ridden and do their best to buck off riders. But true Texans are a tough breed and Dubya is determined that no bike shall get the better of him.
Kevin HorriganFor the rest, go here.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
August 17, 2005
Record-breaking Bush
As they say at the ol' ballpark, records are made to be broken, but then there are the Holy Grails: the 56-game hitting streak, the 100-point night, the 215-point season, the 335 days of vacation at a presidential ranch. The great ones -- DiMaggio, Chamberlain, Gretzky and Reagan -- put the records where they couldn't be touched.
Or so we thought. We misunderestimated George Walker Bush, a man with the heart of a champion and the work ethic of a French civil servant.
Sunday marked the 335th day, or part of a day, that Bush has spent at his ranch in Texas since becoming president. According to figures compiled by Mark Knoller, CBS Radio's veteran White House correspondent, this ties a record previously thought to be unassailable: Ronald Reagan's 335 presidential ranch days.
More amazingly, it took Reagan 2,922 days -- two full terms -- to amass his record. Bush caught him on only the 1,667th day of his presidency. Put another way, Reagan spent 11.4 percent of his presidency at his Rancho del Cielo near Santa Barbara. To date, Bush has spent a full 20 percent of his presidency at his place near Crawford, Texas.
As a connoisseur of the leisure arts, I find Bush's achievement to be far more remarkable than Reagan's:
• No. 1: McLennan County, Texas, is a much less hospitable venue than Santa Barbara.
• No. 2: At 59, Bush is 15 years younger than Reagan was in the fifth year of his presidency and, presumably, should need less rest.
• No. 3: Bush also overcame the rest-and-recuperation advantage Reagan endured as a consequence of being wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt.
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