Bush does drop into the Coffee Station, but it's pretty hard for him to slip about quietly, and the days when a President could slip out and go to a feed store for coffee without any Secret Service protection are long gone.
Don sees things the way Don sees them, but he doesn't spend much time in Crawford, and I do, and I can tell you that the people in Crawford like George Bush.
I suspected for quite a while that the paper was planning to turn into a Texas political paper, and wrote that back in October when the editorial first came out. I also strongly suspect that most of the people who are writing these stories read the article I wrote, because I notice that they generally follow the theme I wrote, particularly about the town's love for the Pirates.
Crawford was not in fear that the town would dry up and blow away if the President left. While the town has embraced the President, the focus of the citizens of Crawford is their kids. By extension, that means the school and the sports teams. They love Bush because he's shown great kindness to the kids.
The article is pretty accurate. I strongly suspected that Leon wouldn't want me anymore after the football season was over, and that would pretty much put me out of the sports coverage business. I think I'm pretty good, but most of the papers around here have sports photographers, and even if they aren't very good, they usually have connections with the paper, or do it for free. Also, I have to admit that I'm spoiled, and really don't want to cover other high school teams. However, they asked me to do the basketball season, which means that they're going to keep covering the team, even though more people see the photos on my web site than in the paper.