President Bush Starts a *MONTH-LONG* Vacation in Texas.

they do have email, phones,etc in texas

and hes not fucking up, hes following a v. explicit plan

Unless a national security advisor attempts to bring his attention to a memo that Al-Queda may be planning a major attack on the United States in September.

Yes, he did. And again for all of August of 2001, and we all remember how great September was that year.

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Unless a national security advisor attempts to bring his attention to a memo that Al-Queda may be planning a major attack on the United States in September.

Or unless they try to pull the plug on a brain-dead woman OH NOES!

the full WP article about it in here: http://www.journaltimes.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=1625

"I'm looking forward to getting down there and just kind of settling in," Bush told reporters from Texas newspapers during a roundtable interview at the White House on Monday. "I'll be doing a lot of work. On the other hand, I'll also be kind of making sure my Texas roots run deep."

YOU WERE BORN IN NEW ENGLAND AND YOU WENT TO THE SAME PREP SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AS JOHN KERRY. YOU GOT AN MBA FROM HARVARD.

"Spending time outside of Washington always gives the president a fresh perspective of what's on the minds of the American people," White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters Friday. "It's a time, really, for him to shed the coat and tie and meet with folks out in the heartland and hear what's on their minds."

exactly. good thing he hasn't been on tour stumping for a shitty plan to trash social security for the last 7+ months.

Until now, probably no modern president was a more famous vacationer than Ronald Reagan, who loved spending time at his ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif. According to an Associated Press count, Reagan spent all or part of 335 days in Santa Barbara over his eight-year presidency -- a total that Bush will surpass this month in Crawford with 3 1/2 years left in his second term.

Clinton's tally was 152 days in eight years...

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As long as that "heartland" is contained within the country of motherfuckin' Texas! YEEE HAW! Don't mess with Texas, momfuckerz!

"Okay, i'm all packed up. Let's go."

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That's a damn lie.

When one of his daughters dies in Iraq, maybe I'll feel sorry for him.

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don't you remember him complaining repeatedly about that last year?

Um, actually the last time he took an extended vacation in August was in August 2004. He has done this every year of his presidency.

thing about the accent & speech-style is that there seems to be very conscious use of it, to add to his "not-really-educated-yet-just-folks-and-not-a-multimillionaire" image. yes, he is verbally dyslexic and yes he knows how to pronounce "nuclear," but he does not choose to.

of course, Clinton could switch between his ultra-folksy & stentorian delivery, too, but he didn't exude quite the anti-intellectual vibe.

Do you know how many "fake cowboys" there are in Texas? And do you realize JUST HOW TEXAS THAT IS?

http://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/cousins/georgebush/images/bushjeans-2.jpg

The "Southern heritage" thing is pretty big, too, even though San Antonio is as much a part of the South as Cleveland is part of the Northeast.

Poll: Fewer Americans Think Bush Is Honest

By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer
46 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Less than half of Americans now say they think
President Bushis honest, according to an AP-Ipsos poll taken at a time of increasing concerns about Iraq, a potential problem for a president who won re-election declaring that "people know where I stand."

The percentage of people who say they consider Bush honest has dropped slightly from the start of the year. In January, 53 percent described him that way in the AP-Ipsos poll, while 45 percent said they did not believe he was honest. Now, people are just about evenly split — 48 percent saying he's honest and 50 percent saying he's not...

But Rather was born/raised/educated in Texas and went to a shitty state school. Rather's demeanor reads as much more 'Texan' to me than Bush's version of the idealized cowboy Texan (which bears little resemblance to the way 80% of us live).

so is louisville the south? and is cincinnati not? (not being a dick, just asking)

louisville is the midwest/south.

Sure enough. There's a definite southernness to East Texas (east of Houston, esp.) Hell, Juneteenth took place out in Galveston.

But Texas as a "southern state" is pretty tenuous because of the variety of cultural influences. Central Texas doesn't really fit in the same way (Austin in particular). And if I recall correctly, San Antonio is the largest city with a majority Latino population, so I'd consider that a considerably more important aspect of the city's identity. D-FW didn't really explode until the emergence of the railroad, and fuckall lives in West Texas so neither area really embodies the south either.

As this pertains to the "realness" of George W. Bush's Texan, his New England pedigree is all but cast aside by his supporters. And he's lived here most of his adult life and married someone from here and raised his kids here. The "idealized cowboy" is played up big time, but in spite of that he's as much a Texan as he can possibly be at this point. Still a douche, though.

North - Ends west at Pittsburgh, maybe even Philadelphia. South is the PA border with WV and VA. MD and Delaware are the north.

South - Virginia south. West to Kentucky, down through Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Midwest - Ohio to Minnesota east-west, furthest south is Oklahoma. UP of Michigan not really anything. Its like the Newfoundland of the US. North Dakota and South Dakota not included, but Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma are. Missouri included.

West: Texas, Rocky Mountain States, Nevada. From Colorado north to Montana, west to Idaho. Northeastern corner is the Dakotas.

Northwest: Oregon and Washington. Spokane is more Western.

Southwest: Arizona, Western and Southern New Mexico.

West Coast: California, for all intensive purposes. Even if Seattle and Oregon share the same coast, its not the same vibe. California's coast also differs greatly from its eastern 2/3s, which fit more into the West, what with mountains and deserts.

also, much of eastern Oregon is Western, too, like Umatilla or the Dalles.

this is the kinda landscape that one travels thru as you head east on I-80.

Almacy said the reason that Bush is in Crawford, Texas, is due to the renovation of the West Wing of the White House.

"He's operating on a full schedule; he's just doing it from the ranch instead of from the White House,' Almacy said. "The only week he had officially off was this last week.'

Also: T/S: 'Brush-Clearing' as yet another way to push the "ordinary Man of the People" narrative with his suburban/exurban/rural voters