Off-Duty Bush Home on the Range

Washington Post ^ | 8/10/02 | Scott Lindlaw

[Jewels1091]

CRAWFORD, Texas –– President Bush is filthy, his wrist is bleeding and sweat is dripping from his chin. But he is exuberant as he hauls freshly cut cedar to a burn pile.

"We're lifting weights!" he says, a thick log on each shoulder. Throwing them onto the pyramid, he cries: "Oh, baby!"

This is Bush Unplugged at the Texas ranch he loves. It is the president in his anti-Washington mode, in a world where he can roam canyons, jog across the open prairie, fish for bass and rescue his beloved oak trees from the suffocating cedar.

[Jewels1091]

Read the rest of the article it is interesting!!!!!

I love that....."Most Americans don't sit in Martha's Vineyard, swilling white wine," he says

Any ideas on who his arrow was pointed at?????

[dennisw]

Best Wash Post article I've seen about GWBush. Must be the editors are on vacation in Martha's Vineyard.

[sinkspur]

Bush says he will work the phones some more, probably go fishing, maybe hunt dove

Uh, better not.

Dove season doesn't start until Sept. 1.

[dawn53]

Good article!

[Wphile]

Enjoy!

[Hipixs]

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President Bush clears non-native cedar from the oaks at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Friday, Aug. 9, 2002, which he says robs the native oaks of water and light. The President is vacationing at his 1,600 acre ranch for nearly a month-long stay and allowed an AP reporter to spend a morning with him. (AP Photo/The White House, Eric Draper)

[deport]

Everyone is soon covered in dirt, bugs and tree debris. The payoff comes when sunlight begins to pour into formerly dark oak groves.

Yep, I can just see it now.... Hill donning her work gloves and pitching in to clear brush.... LOL.

[willgetsome]

The Libs hate this guy! Why? Because his interests, passions, and habits reflect that great swath of red on the 2000 election map.

While Libs are drinking lattes, eating sushi, and engaging in "intellectual" discourse about some hauty article in the New Yorker or the New York Times written by some sophisticated poser, Bush is clearing trees with a chainsaw in some hot, dusty canyon while chewing bubble gum.

[madison10]

Is he staying there until AFTER Labor Day? That would explain the dove hunting remark. Cannot a person shoot on their own property?

[Miss Marple]

Thanks! I love his leaving the reporter, 22 years his junior, in the dust! Ha!

[Notforprophet]

Good post! It's nice to hear the POTUS is relaxing and enjoying himself. His job is arguably the hardest in the world, and he deserves every minute of this vacation.

[Miss Marple]

Thanks for the picture! I am saving it, as this is MY president, covered with dirt in old clothes!

Boy, you know the liberals can't stand it! Ha!

[pittsburgh gop guy]

"Bush finishes his three miles in 20:58. Not bad, he says. His best run on this circuit was 20:40."

Our President is FAST! Hell - he has 25 years on me, and I have been running for 5 years, and my fastest 3 miles is just a little faster. What a stud W is!

[Jewels1091]

[Jewels1091]

[ivegotabrain]

Yeah, 'cause playing golf at Kennebunkport is soooo different from swilling wine at Martha's Vineyard....

[McLynnan]

Our W can run circles around men half his age!

There is a patter of footsteps and a rumble of off-road carts behind Bush. Even at this remote place patrolled by fighter jets and by Secret Service agents in sniper towers, Bush is trailed by a security detail.

Miss Marple, this seems to confirm the local rumors about deer blinds, etc.

Here he is at Ridgewood Country Club in Waco this morning for his round of golf. I can't tell for sure, but that looks like David Sibley, former Texas State Senator. Very steamy here today.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

I agree. I can relate so much to this article and to President Bush's mindset it isn't even funny.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

If its on his land he can hunt it when he wants and more power to him

[dawn53]

Yeah, 'cause playing golf at Kennebunkport is soooo different from swilling wine at Martha's Vineyard

You got something against golf?