1ST HUNTER BUSH BAGS FIVE BIRDS

New York Post ^ | 1/02/04 | BRIAN BLOMQUIST

[kattracks]

January 2, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - President Bush started the new year with an early-morning quail-hunt with his father at a friend's ranch in southern Texas and a lunch with James Baker III, his special envoy on Iraq's international debt.

[kattracks]

1ST HUNTER BUSH BAGS FIVE BIRDS

Not counting Saddam.

With all due respect to our brave troops.

[Kenton]

"I think I shot five - I'm not that good a shot, Bush said afterward.

Yeah, but at least Dubya's credible when he goes out hunting. Not like when Clinton or Kerry donned hunting clothes for their campaign photo-ops.

[Nat Turner]

He carries GUNS and actually shoots -=- he must be a dangerous right wing gun-nut extremist < /sarcasm-off> LOL

[TexasCowboy]

"He carries GUNS and actually shoots..."

Yep! He just lost the PETA vote!
Woe is me!

[NY.SS-Bar9]

Umm... don't believe for a minute that this makes W any more pro-2A than any other candidate. Let's see what happens when the AWB issue comes up next year.

[uncbob]

Umm... don't believe for a minute that this makes W any more pro-2A than any other candidate. Let's see what happens when the AWB issue comes up next year.

Agree 100%
ust remember what Clinton the duck hunter did

Bush's bird hunting doesn't impree me at all

It ain't about HUNTING

[Rebelbase]

Won't be long before we start seeing articles from the left speculating that this was a staged hunt with caged birds being released.

[Rebelbase]

"Como estas?" he said, asking the Spanish-speaking residents near the Mexican border how they were doing"

I get it now. This was a Presidential photo-op to show Bush as part of an armed border patrol.

[marktwain]

"I think I shot five - I'm not that good a shot, Bush said afterward.

This is just appropriate modesty. GWB is an extremely competent man, fighter pilot, and accomplished athlete. I bet he is an excellent shot. I have known lots of men like this, and growing up as a hunter in Texas, I'd bet that his skills are way above average.

None of the excellent shots that I know would ever answer a question about his ability with a brag. All would answer in much the same way the president did.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ditto that. Kerry's photo with the shrimpy shotgun was a laugher. He obviously doesn't own one.

[Vision]

What's with all this sissy bird hunting. Can someone up there shoot a deer.

[gieriscm]

Truer words never spoken.

[listenhillary]

Then there was Jimmah Carter hunting killer attack wabbits.

[StonyBurk]

With all due respect to our President-- do recall how
Teddy Roosevelt came to Colorado to hunt bear. People
who wanted to keep th ePresident happy--and make him look
like a great hunter. went out and shot a bear -then wired
it up in a tree for the President to find, and bag.Much
like President Clinton finding rocks on a sandy beach to
shape into a cross-- or that photoop of the Draft dodger
lovingly replacing a small American flag to a place of honor
that somehow ,miraculously had fallen to the ground. Not much faith in photo-ops.If the birds wasn't eat-must be turkey.

[NordP]

Hi Kat! Happy New Year to yah! --- LOVED THE DEER POST, Vision!!!

It's nice to see that those on this thread have life in perspective. BUT, if someone goes all crazy on our wonderful W for hunting, re-post this for me, would yah? It's my answer to another on the Dose that didn't like W hunting....

I'm not that hot on hunting either, but I don't get on other's cases for doing it. It's just a testostrone related thang, that I (thank goodness) can't do. That's why the guys were supposed to bring on in the food, long ago. It's just ancient residue - not to worry.

Also, if someone didn't kill food, we wouldn't have anything to eat. As Ted Nugent told Flipper on Sean's radio show - I'm paraphrasing - You just have a hired assassin to kill YOUR food! ---Okay, I admit, I have hired assassins killing mine, too. Now, it's time for you to admit that too.

So, have a great day, and know that you'll have a bountiful harvest to dine on tonight (because of some butcher in _____), that the Bushs will be dining on quail (because they caught their own food), and that you live in the greatest Country in the World. ---That should be WAY more than enough !

[OldFriend]

Notice the media unable to resist commenting that the President is campaigning.

CNN was just hysterical over the kissed baby!

[headsonpikes]

I'm guessing that they won't think much of this event over at DUmpster. ;^)

[ExSoldier]

"do recall how Teddy Roosevelt came to Colorado to hunt bear. People who wanted to keep th ePresident happy--and make him look like a great hunter. went out and shot a bear -then wired it up in a tree for the President to find, and bag."

Not that I don't believe you, but you don't have an "about" page and you've only been here since March...can you cite some proof for that outrageous statement to this history teacher?

[Naspino]

Won't be long before we start seeing articles from the left speculating that this was a staged hunt with caged birds being released.

Not only that but the bird's were drugged and a ex-CIA sharp-shooter that worked for one of his big oil cronies actually did the shooting in secret. It was all staged to make Bush look human. Pathetic. Wait--- isn't this DU?

[marktwain]

do recall how Teddy Roosevelt came to Colorado to hunt bear. People who wanted to keep th ePresident happy--and make him look like a great hunter. went out and shot a bear -then wired it up in a tree for the President to find, and bag.

No, I do not recall it, and I doubt it very much. Teddy was an avid hunter before, during, and after his presidency. I doubt if he would have gone along with such a charade. He was on of the early hunters who formed the concept of "fair chase".

I suspect that you are citing an early urban legend.