Posted on 12/31/2005 5:49:13 PM PST by kristinn
CRAWFORD, Tex., Dec. 30 -- On most of the 365 days he has enjoyed at his secluded ranch here, President Bush's idea of paradise is to hop in his white Ford pickup truck in jeans and work boots, drive to a stand of cedars, and whack the trees to the ground.
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This might strike many Washingtonians as a curious pastime. It does burn a lot of calories. But brush clearing is dusty, it is exhausting (the president goes at it in 100 degree-plus heat), and it is earsplitting, requiring earplugs to dull the chain saw's buzz.
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Ronald Reagan chopped wood and rode horses, Bush's father sailed off the shore of Kennebunkport, Maine, and Bill Clinton jogged. For George W. Bush, clearing brush projects the image of a cowboy president, a tough rancher fighting the elements to survive. That is, of course, the White House's projection; the president's critics take a dimmer view.
"Most likely he's doing that to show the media he's got a chain saw," joked Larry Mattladge, who raises Black Angus cows three-quarters of a mile from the Bush ranch and built his fence rows out of cedar posts. "It's a man's thing. Brush clearing is not only for the young at heart, it's for the young. It's to show he's a Texan."
Presidential historian Robert Dallek said: "This is part of his macho image. Obviously this is nothing Bush has to do. He's the son of a rich man who doesn't have to spend his time cutting underbrush."
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"He shouldn't have time to be clearing brush," said Kay Lucas, a grandmother and antiwar activist who drives 25 miles a day to care for the Crawford Peace House, a gathering spot for Cindy Sheehan and her protest against the war.
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This from a paper who refuses to acknowledge that we are at war after 9-11.
May good ol' fashioned cedar fever infest these idiots from January to December.
Congress is allowed a vacation, but not the President. HYPOCRITES!!!
He probably pretends the trees are MSM reporters!
Did the WaPo ever criticize Clinton over his vacations? Vacations where he had to freeload on some rich FOB because the parasite and his wife never even owned a home of their own till leaving the White House?
365 days on his secluded ranch? Is this number accurate? and, most of those days are not your traditional day off. Every day POTUS works.
Hey, I wonder if that's Salt Cedar he's clearing?
Further, the idea of a presidential vacation is a joke - he's never more than seconds form a phone and is constantly working while in Crawford.
Happy New Year kristinn! See you at CPAC!
"He shouldn't have time to be clearing brush"
Of course he should, unless he's a pinhead micromanager like Bozo the peanut farmer. Besides, how can he think clearly if he's not rested and clear-headed? Exercise is great for the little grey cells.
Anybody remember any demonrats saying that Beelzebubba "shouldn't have time" to be committing adultery in the Oval Office?
They're faced with three more years of reporting from Crawford. They came so close to vacation at Martha's Vineyard and Jackson Hole and Paris.
Hell can be a righteous thing....
The press should have to live in tents while in Crawford. I'd drive over just to see that.
Bush lied...trees died?
Maybe golf or tennis would be acceptable to these twits. Whose business is it how he spends his time off and gets exercise? I think this person has run out of anything meaningful to report.
More proof that a slimy Leftist "journalist" can't even recognize hard work when he sees it first hand. Just like he can't understand "heroism" when he sees it first hand. Secretly, these "journalists" are not at all that far removed from self-loathing suicide. I just wish they would spare us the fruits of their psychosis and just do it already.
Yeah. He was even involving himself in the scheduling of the White House tennis court. What a disaster that sweater-wearing, light-turning-offing, goober-raising dope was.
Bill Clinton should not have enough time to have Monica give him blow jobs.
They are making up for the fact that they never reported on Clinton's massive cocaine abuse and philandering during his "R&R's".
That presstitute is just an urban animal who has not the slightest clue of why taking a chainsaw or an axe to one's land to either improve the land or make someting from a tree would appeal.
Consdier this: for most of us the only opportunity to gazr on something unseen by any other man is when we open a log with a band milll, or a chainsaw.
I just cut off a Lysiloma about three feet thick, with a fork made of 2.5 foot thick prongs. The wood is simply beautiful and will make superlative tables.
Same with an even larger oak in Miami, alongside my friend's home.
A 40+ yeear old Stihl 070 still starts on the first pull and powers a 54" bar.
I do understand Bush's cutting with a chainsaw when he doesn't "have to." So does the rest of AMerica's non-Blue state urban Liberals.
But, like most Americans, I'm not a Liberal presstitute.
Sorry about forgetting the SPELL button. :-(
Happy New Year to you, too! See you at CPAC.
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