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Prez is Past His Partying
The Dallas Morning News
| September 18, 2002
| Alan Peppard
Posted on 09/18/2002 4:50:06 PM PDT by altura
Over a year and a half into the Bush II administration, W magazine has blown the lid off the deep secret about the social whir at the White House under President George W. Bush there isn't a whir.
In its October issue, the New York-based fashion and style periodical features a story called "The Big Chill," about the lack of social buzz in Washington. Of course, most anybody in Dallas, Austin or Midland could have told them this before George W. ever put his hand on the Bible. If you expected George W. Bush the party animal to show up in Washington, you're 20 years too late.
Before the inauguration, media outlets from D.C. phoned me frantically wanting to know what the Bush social scene would look like. Like a mantra, I would repeat to each one, "He doesn't dance, he doesn't drink, and he goes to bed early." That is all ye know on Earth and all ye need to know.
"You hear a lot of people complaining, especially among Bush's biggest supporters," one Republican stalwart tells W of the lack of social life around the Bush White House. "This crowd is just very insulated. They were isolated in Texas, and they still are. It's a very tight clan, much tighter than their parents'. They had their wagons circled before they ever left Austin."
People, please ... you're reading too much into this. Let's go back a step: "He doesn't dance, he doesn't drink, and he goes to bed early." When he was governor, you had to catch him before dinner and not wait until after or he'd be out the door faster than Superman ducking a pass from Lois Lane. Wherever he was, the governor made a point to leave early to fly back to Austin so he could say good night to his daughters, Jenna and Barbara.
Fort Worth-reared Clay Johnson, Bush's pal from Andover and Yale and former COO of the Dallas Museum of Art, is on the short list with his wife, Ann, for private dinners in the family quarters. He is now White House personnel director, and she is director of the State Department's Art in Embassies program. Ann reports that Bush usually makes invites for these get-togethers at the last minute. "He calls direct, without a switchboard operator," Ann tells W.
Perhaps when he's whipped Osama and Saddam he'll be able to worry about the more important things in life, like making cocktail chat on the Beltway social circuit.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; partying
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A nice article from a kinda liberal society columnist referring to the W put down of Bush's party habits.
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posted on
09/18/2002 4:50:06 PM PDT
by
altura
To: rintense
Thought the Bush Babes might enjoy this, if you want to ping them. Thanks.
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posted on
09/18/2002 4:50:51 PM PDT
by
altura
To: altura
I guess when they've had eight years of Caligula, a President not being serviced by an intern and lying every second of his miserable life seems like a Puritan.
To: altura
bttt
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posted on
09/18/2002 4:55:53 PM PDT
by
lodwick
To: altura
Heavens!! This President isn't interested in shallow, phony parties with shallow, phony people...What a nerd!
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posted on
09/18/2002 4:58:29 PM PDT
by
Guillermo
To: altura
Actually, I've always wondered why the most powerful man on the face of the earth was watching the Superbowl alone. Yeah, yeah, I know he needs his "me time" but it seems that he's a very lonely guy.
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posted on
09/18/2002 4:59:07 PM PDT
by
SBeck
To: Paul Atreides
Especially when Caligula's still out there, working the global party circuit in retirement. This is one of the great things about Bush - he finished his adolescence a while ago. Clinton still hasn't, and never will.
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posted on
09/18/2002 5:00:00 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: altura
Thanks! They are NORMAL people! Amazing!
To: Miss Marple; Howlin; PhiKapMom; rintense
If you expected George W. Bush the party animal to show up in Washington, you're 20 years too late
LOL.... they are beginning to catch on.... You'd have thought after the first August vacation in Crawford they'd have caught on.....
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posted on
09/18/2002 5:00:09 PM PDT
by
deport
To: deport
The liberals just can't stand it that they don't have a party animal like slick in the White House..to booze it up with.
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posted on
09/18/2002 5:02:21 PM PDT
by
GailA
To: SBeck
he's a very lonely guy. Or is just very comfortable being alone.
To: SBeck
Guess what? My husband watched the Superbowl while I was cleaning the kitchen. We detest Superbowl parties, and prefer to stay at home.
He isn't lonely; he just likes his wife's company.
To: Argus
I'm sure the press was hoping they would catch our President in a state of inebriation. Be on the lookout for articles portraying them as boring and unsophisticated.
To: GailA
The liberals just can't stand it that they don't have a party animal like slick in the White House..to booze it up with. Its not just the liberals that are suffering from Slick Willie partying in the White House....
I hear that the ChiComs are suffering from withdrawals of state secrets as well.
To: altura
Hmmmm- isn't it at least comforting to know that we don't have a President who masterbates into the oval office sink and has phone sex for hours at a time into the wee hours of the AM on unsecured phone lines? Just where did all that energy come from by the way? Did Clinton have the super energy his supporters say or was it something else?
To: Paul Atreides
The irony is that the kind of Hollywood trash the Clintons like to hang out with are the truly boring and unsophisticated specimens in our national zoo.
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posted on
09/18/2002 5:12:52 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: altura; Wait4Truth; Miss Marple; ohioWfan; mtngrl@vrwc
Loving it!!
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posted on
09/18/2002 5:13:55 PM PDT
by
lawgirl
To: altura
Clinton used to control the Washington Press Corps by threatening to cut off the supply of chardonnay and ord'oeuvres from anyone who reported the truth about him. Now all of them either have to go cold turkey or buy their own drinks.
It's the Big Chill, all right, but not for conservatives.
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posted on
09/18/2002 5:14:55 PM PDT
by
Cicero
To: altura
"media outlets from D.C. phoned me frantically wanting to know what the Bush social scene would look like" And I guarantee if he was having parties they would be writing articles about how inappropiate it was to be doing so, during these days of national crisis and war on terrorism.
To: altura
I guess my hubby and I are boring too...so be it....we don't have to be around a bunch of phoneys, who pat you on the back and tell you what a great guy you are...then tear you apart when they get to the car....W and Laura enjoy each other's company just like most married couples.
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