Bush Looking Worse With Passage of Time

[SoDesuKa]

We were told that time would make George Bush look good, but there's no evidence of that happening. In fact Bush looks more of a phony today than he did ten years ago. Remember the Crawford "ranch"? It was never more than a prop, and Bush couldn't wait to dump it. But the ever-compliant media went along with the act, claiming that Bush actually "cleared brush" there.

This is from Time Magazine's 2000 Man of the Year cover story:

It's easy to be unimpressed by George W. Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch. Unlike Reagan's spectacular Rancho del Cielo or LBJ's Hill Country spread, casa W sits on 1,600 acres of brown, minimalist landscape that looks like those planets they were always beaming down to in "Star Trek."

But there's a beauty here that isn't readily apparent, one that Bush desperately wants you to see, and to know his deep bond with this place is gain a special insight into the man. The ranch, just 23 miles southwest of Waco, is Bush's sanctuary; he spent nearly every weekend of the campaign there, and prepared for the debates in its remote two-room cottage.

http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/ranch.html



The ranch is unimpressive. So is Bush.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Yeah, his "deep bond" with a place he bought during the election, and dumped immediately

after he left office.

Such an asshole. Such a fake.

[MH1]

2. But I bet he still owns that acreage in Paraguay.

[hack89]

16. That was a internet myth. nt

[Botany]

9. bingo .... deep bond w/ the place? please

the cattle were rentals, he was a afraid of horses, and Laura had the manure trucked away rather spread on the
hay fields ..... enron bought and built the place prior to the 2000 election to show bush's texas roots.

If we had a media worth a crap eveybody would have known that W was no rancher and that the place was for
photo ops.

[hack89]

15. He still owns it

and there is no indication that he doesn't spend time there.

[lpbk2713]

3. "Unimpressed by the ranch" .... LOL

Ya see one pig farm hollywood set, you've seen em all. :rofl:

[RadiationTherapy]

4. 40, 40-acre plots scooped up in a single deal.

Not only Bush...anyone who "owns" 1600 acres is an asshole.

[Tippy]

5. Bush is blind to the truth.....One day he will pay for what he has done ot this country

[Golden Raisin]

13. I seriously doubt it.

He's the same spoiled, insulated, privileged, patrician brat he was born & all evidence indicates he has and will continue to get a free pass for the rivers of blood he shed in his foreign wars, & the economic chaos and constitutional rape he fostered & presided over at home during his 2 horrible terms. Maybe one day in the future an historian may document the truth but Bush will probably die peacefully in his own bed, super-wealthy, without a conscience or remorse & unprosecuted.

[kentuck]

6. And this incident did not make him feel any more loved...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlAd47fLsDM

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. So is everything else he touched. n/t

[qb]

8. I know it's too much to hope that the media will be exposed & shamed for their part

in the international disaster that was the Bush presidency.
But I'm still hopeful.

[stuntcat]

14. ditto

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[trusty elf]

10. I hope that one day he has a sewage plant named after him.

[onehandle]

11. The Codpiece Cowboy. nt

[northoftheborder]

12. Has he actually sold the "ranch" or is that just a rumor?

[hack89]

17. Just a rumor. nt

[JoePhilly]

18. He now lives in a $3 million house in Dallas.

He and Laura bought the Dallas house in December of 2008, just one month before he left office.

He rarely visits the "ranch" now.

He bought the "ranch" in 1999, just before he announced he was a candidate for President.

The "ranch" was always a prop.