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Bush Talks About Life Outside the White House [did not watch President Obama's address....]
ABC News ^

Posted on 02/26/2009 4:58:46 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Bush Talks About Life Outside the White House 'The Only Thing We Don't Have Are the Newspapers,' Says Former First Lady By JONATHAN KARL and KAREN TRAVERS

HOUSTON Feb. 26, 2009—

Commercial airline travel, trips to the hardware store for nightlights and walks around the neighborhood all part of everyday life these days for former President George W. Bush and his wife, former first lady Laura Bush.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Mrs. Bush said she and her husband were settling into a normal, post-presidency life at their new home in the Preston Hollow section of Dallas after spending a month at their ranch in Crawford while the house was finished.

Watch This Exclusive Interview With Laura Bush Tonight on 'World News' at 6:30 p.m. ET, and Again Tomorrow on 'Good Morning America', 7 a.m. ET

Mrs. Bush said she has yet to cook a meal herself, because friends have been bringing over prepared dinners to welcome them back to town. The Bushes have had several large dinner parties with old friends, but they had to resort to borrowing furniture to accommodate their guests.

"We have very little furniture. We don't have a kitchen table or a dining room table," she said. "Friends loaned me a kitchen table and the other night I had 16 people for dinner and I had to borrow chairs from the Secret Service next door."

After years of having everything they wanted right at their finger tips, the Bushes are finding that sometimes the little things are the most difficult to get.

"The only thing we don't have are the newspapers. It has been slow to get The Dallas Morning News delivered," she said. "People bring the newspaper to us later in the day. It's just not being delivered yet."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bush43; dallas; dubya; presbush; presgeorgewbush; texas
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To: Revolting cat!
I am quite literate, so don't go making assumptions about people you don't know anything about.

As far as my grammatical mistakes are concerned, I was too angry to care about weather the exclaimation points or capitalizations were right.

I was getting my point accross.

now be a good troll and PISS! OFF!

101 posted on 02/26/2009 8:03:38 PM PST by Pippin
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To: Krodg

I’m not upset, I guess I assumed he was born in Maine, though now that I think about it, the family home there was just a place that the various family members would gather to visit. I know that Poppy and Bar lived in different places in New England, before heading out West to make a new life.


102 posted on 02/26/2009 8:07:37 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: jveritas

The Bush haters on FR cannot let it go, they are as bad as the left wing lunatics.

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Right ... they are just as deranged .... lunatics.


103 posted on 02/26/2009 8:32:29 PM PST by STARWISE ( They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter))
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To: roses of sharon
More ... for the hate-filled creeps.

President Reagan


104 posted on 02/26/2009 9:20:27 PM PST by STARWISE ( They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter))
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To: STARWISE

105 posted on 02/26/2009 11:37:41 PM PST by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: SuziQ

"He's going to be doing fundraising to get his Presidential Library built, and get his new Institute up and running. I think he envisions it to be a sort of think tank."

He's also going out on the speaking circuit.

106 posted on 02/27/2009 3:32:57 AM PST by Mila
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To: Paladin2

My point wasn’t whether George was equal to Reagan in all things, only that they both prefered their “ranches” and their wives prefered the city.

Still grateful we had George instead of Gore and Kerry.

Grateful God gave us both Reagan and Bush.


107 posted on 02/27/2009 3:57:28 AM PST by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: Revolting cat!

And I assume you’re a European because your family once came from there?

I spent all of three months in the state I was born in, because my father was stationed there at the end of WWII.

George H.W. Bush was attending Yale after fighting in WWII when his first child, George W., was born a year after I was born.

Neither of us is sympatico with the States of our birth. We were just the tip of the iceberg of the babies of victorious and lucky to be alive veterans.


108 posted on 02/27/2009 4:11:19 AM PST by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: Marysecretary

LOL :)


109 posted on 02/27/2009 5:11:58 AM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: DrDeb

Amen...


110 posted on 02/27/2009 7:16:00 AM PST by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military)
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To: jveritas

Amen


111 posted on 02/27/2009 7:22:14 AM PST by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military)
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To: skeeter
Fence building, log splitting photo ops no longer necessary.

Neither are pointless jabs at W.

112 posted on 02/27/2009 9:30:47 AM PST by AxelPaulsenJr (Please God Save The United States From The Democrats, and Barack Hussein Obama. Amen.)
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To: patriciaruth

It is a sad fact of life that these types of pro W threads always seem to bring out the W. haters of Free Republic. I would have thought by now that their time is all taken up hating a legitimate target, Hussein Obama.


113 posted on 02/27/2009 9:33:54 AM PST by AxelPaulsenJr (Please God Save The United States From The Democrats, and Barack Hussein Obama. Amen.)
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To: Mila
He's also going out on the speaking circuit.

That he is, and I hope he makes boatloads of money in the process! ;o)

114 posted on 02/27/2009 11:08:52 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: roses of sharon

ROTFL! Quite the contrast, eh?


115 posted on 02/27/2009 11:09:25 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: roses of sharon

Thanks for posting the picture of President Bush. It’s refreshing to see a man pulling a little around-the-house labor.

You would never see Obama do such dirty and undignified things (/s) like chop wood.


116 posted on 02/27/2009 11:22:36 AM PST by JenB987
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To: DrDeb

What a Great Post! Thank You.


117 posted on 02/27/2009 12:53:59 PM PST by Pagey (B. Hussein Obama has no experience running anything, except his pedestrian mouth.)
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To: AxelPaulsenJr
Reagan (whom I loved) had his log splitting photo ops, Clinton had his overlarge bible. Its the way its done.

Someone asked about Crawford, I gave my opinion.

Sorry if you don't like it.

118 posted on 02/27/2009 1:28:21 PM PST by skeeter
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To: All
Such delicate sensitivities.

Some folks here really gotta grow a thicker hide.

119 posted on 02/27/2009 1:30:28 PM PST by skeeter
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To: StarFan

I agree. It will be a long four years. I do wonder whether he is actively trying to ruin our economy with this hideous spending binge. Then he can take advantage of more “crises” to rush through more radical changes that most people don’t want.


120 posted on 02/27/2009 2:05:58 PM PST by OneTimeComment
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