Bush arrives in Texas for 2nd week of vacation

[peterh]

http://www.fox23news.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=F6EFD8CA-A621-4731-AF0C-18866BE06F21

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - President Bush began the second leg of his Christmas vacation Friday, shadowed by troubles on both the global and domestic fronts: another assassination attempt against an ally in Pakistan, a devastating earthquake in Iran and a mad cow discovery that could damage the American beef industry.

Bush left Camp David Friday morning and flew to Waco, Texas. His plan to fly by helicopter to his ranch was thwarted by fog and drizzle, however, forcing him to travel in a motorcade and delaying his arrival by an hour.

Bush began Christmas week on Monday at his Camp David retreat in the Maryland mountains, and planned a low-key visit to his ranch in Crawford, with no public appearances planned through his return to Washington on the weekend after New Year's Day . He planned to work on his State of the Union address, but remain largely out of sight.

However, Bush often breaks up long visits here with a quick stop in the local coffee shop - where he invariably orders a cheeseburger.



So friggin’ predicable…..

[spinbaby]

1. Work on his State of the Union address?

Gimme a break. He's playing with his Gameboy and watching football.

[otohara]

13. SOTU Speech - Karl Won't Allow Bush to Write One Word

because Bush is incapable of writing as everyone knows. It's no secret.

[Benhurst]

2. "... Bush often breaks up long visits here with ...

a quick stop in the local coffee shop - where he invariably orders a cheeseburger."

What a great photo-op: Bush* scarfing down a mad cow cheeseburger!

:bounce:

[daleo]

5. Politicians and beef - get used to this

You will be treated to plenty of pictures and news reports of politicians eating beef in the next while. At least that's what happened in Canada after our mad cow finding earlier this year.

[ConcernedCanuk]

20. remember though, "our mad cow" didn't make it to market !

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[PartyPooper]

3. What?!? No brush clearing? No fishing? No golfing? No campaigning?

We know Junior can't read or converse...so, what WILL he do to occupy his time at the pig farm?

BTW, this HAS to be his 7th or 8th week (year-to-date total) for "vacation".

:eyes:

[Dimsdale]

6. Hey, lighten up on Chimpy...

that's only two months vacation. With all the "stress" of office, he needs his rest. Besides, we must remember that Our Boy has been on vacation most of his life. He must conduct himself in the manner to which he's accustomed.

BTW, PP, you and I signed on to DU at about the same time. Looks like you've at least 4 times the number of posts. Good Job.

[diamond14]

4. no mention of bush* Iraqmire in this whole article...guess dying

American Soldiers are NOT a concern of bush*....

seems to me that should be really important to bush*, since he has sent so many of OUR young people to DIE in Iraq....


perhaps it's those cheap cheeseburgers that are causing shrub's brain to turn to mush...

shrub has cut back all regulation....which especially is laboratory analyses...including environmental, pharmaceutical, food, meat, fish, water, and more....bush* failure to fund laboratories will reverberate across America for years to come...

bush* failure to analyze toxins does not make them go away...
monkey do not hear toxin, monkey do not see toxin, monkey do not speak toxin....the toxins will STILL KILL YOU !!!!

[pinto]

7. anyone know how long B*sh has actually been in DC the past year,

excluding his overseas tour (Yayyyy! applause inserted)?

I know he's in constant contact with his staff (more applause),
but I was wondering if he was ever in the, you know, office?

[leetrisck]

8. "his Camp David Retreat", "his rach in

Crawford", "his State of the Union address" - and in the meantime "our soldiers" die everday.

[karlschneider]

9. A cheeseburger? Oh, how I wish...

:eyes:
Never mind.

[BiggJawn]

45. "Cheeseburger anna Pride, please..."

Don't cheeseburgers automatically come with a bottle of Texas Pride or Lone Star? Not that he didn't already have plenty on the flight down from Camp David....

[Malva Zebrina]

10. I cannot stomach this guy, this coward, this puny prick any longer

He is despicable==he is going on another vactions for a week. He has done nothing but travel around the world on our money, bringing the dullard, upholstry wearing, subservient Stepford with him, on our money, and now sees fit to take ANOTHER vacation in the pig fields of Crawford. That god forsaken dried up place is where he hangs out with pickles, probably binging on booze while he can avoid any public appearances. He is the worst--he is despicable and he is dumb--and his Stepford is twice as dumb.

[pinto]

11. LOL! Now don't beat around the b*sh, M, just call it like you see it.

[llmart]

35. Hey, Marianne!

Thanks for so eloquently stealing the words right out of my mouth. If I were a mother of a dead or injured soldier, I'd be so livid they'd never get me to shut up about this slimy, indulgent frat boy and his drugged up, enabling spouse.

[smirkymonkey]

38. I'm with you!!!

If this guy makes anyone else half as sick as he makes me, he'd be out of office in a New York minute. It's like he has no concept of the suffering he causes and can only think of his own selfish "needs". I do think he's boozing it again, which is probably why he spends so much time on "vacation".

I saw shrub and pickles get off a plane the other day and he looked totally f**ked up! Barely coherent. Why, oh why, do people not see what is really going on here??

[rapier]

12. Orange Alert Bush to Crawford,

Right where he should be during an Orange Alert. During Red Alerts he goes to his undisclosed location.

The pig ranch is very nice this time of year by the way.

[Robb]

14. Hey, ask anyone.

Fucking up a whole country, well dang, that's thirsty work. :eyes:

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. Wasn't one of the alerts

about al Qaeda attacking rural areas? They must know something we don't know?

[Crunchy Frog]

16. It's nice to see Bush

doing the one thing that he's really really good at.

edited to add: Maybe he'll get mad cow disease from all those cheeseburgers but then, would we even be able to tell?:shrug:

[Deesh]

17. Snacks...

Who wants to pitch in and send some snacks down to W at the ranch? Let's pack the pantry with pretzels.

[are_we_united_yet]

18. Why does he need a vacation?

I thought that was what you got when you were hard at work tackling tough issues head on?

[bif]

19. Can you say "Vacation 24/7?"

m/t

[GOPisEvil]

21. Damn, I thought the air smelled foul...

...jeez, does he ever work?

[kskiska]

22. She gave him a book?

The first couple exchanged gifts at Camp David, where the president gave his wife a gold-beaded necklace and earrings as well as a set of dessert plates she had previously found in Georgetown.

Laura Bush gave the president "a couple of shirts, a couple of ties," and a book by Erik Larson, "The Devil in the White City," a nonfiction best seller set around the 1893 Chicago's World Fair.

The president and his wife were accompanied to Texas by Laura Bush's mother, Jenna Welch.

Yeah, like he's going to read a book. Maybe he'll carry it around with him.

[RamboLiberal]

23. That Book should've been titled 'Devil in the White House'

I know a couple of books Pickles should've given him.

What happens if Al Qaida does attack us while he's vacationing at the pig farm? Can Karl Rove be that stupid? Could Americans forgive him if he's off vacationing during an orange alert?

Or is this the clue that this is more hype than substance?

[GerryMH]

30. Stupid?

Do you think the president of the United States is manning an air traffic control station for NORAD? What _exactly_ do you think the president would/could/should do during the course of a terrorist attack that couldn't be done from the other side of a phone anywhere in the world? These complaints are so asinine. If the government that governs best governs least, aren't we best off with D.C. empty and these money squandering pols on 'vacation'?

[tabasco]

32. The President is SUPPOSED to be a leader !

We declare ORANGE ALERT. We are at WAR. Bush sets the example for us by going on VACATION every month. Piss poor leadership no matter how you spin it!

[GerryMH]

37. You didn't address what I asked

I'm not spinning anything. I'm wondering what people think he should be doing. Should he be sitting at a radar station? Should he be pouring over intelligence reports? Should he be serving as an air marshall? What _exactly_ do you think the president could/would/should be doing? Do I understand you correctly, that instead of sitting in Crawford you want him sitting in the Oval Office adding or repealing new regulations? I would assume most DUers would be pleased to know he wasn't 'at the helm' 24/7, whatever they think that actually entails.

[mrdmk]

39. Your answer

Mr. Bush needs to act like a leader who concerned about the state of this country and the people, not a “photo-opt” on vacation. Mr. Bush’s leadership skills are destructive and shortsighted, nothing more, nothing less. There will be lots of policies to fix after this man is out of office, get the picture.

[llmart]

36. Better yet she should've given him

Michael Moore's latest book "Dude, Where's My Country?".

I'm recommending it to all you Du'ers if you haven't already read it.

[Malva Zebrina]

44. He gave her a gold beaded necklace?

Each bead was probably an inch in diameter, very shiney, not real gold, and she will wear it with her latest upholstry, bodice challenged, creation.

[Clyde39]

24. How do his vacation days compare to Clinton's?

I thought the sentence that says, "He planned to work on his State of the Union address, but remain largely out of sight" was very interesting. I can't picture him working on a speech at all, but the stay out of sight sounds like him. Maybe he'll finally pick up a newspaper and actually read about things going on in his country and the world!

[young_at_heart]

28. I've heard he's had more vacations than any other president

Can't verify it though, but it sounds right. I know he goes to Camp David just about every weekend and of course, the Texas ranch is where he's the happiest!!!

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

25. I thought he was going to Iraq again

and had "banned" Blair from going. What happened to that situation?

[maggrwaggr]

26. AWOL again. The story of Shrub's life.

The guy must be exhausted to need all this vacation time.

What a wimp.

[xxqqqzme]

27. working on HIS SOTU

the translation is this....his speech/body language coaches R putting in long hours w/ squatter 2 make him camera ready by Jan 20. Given his complete lack of concentration, they have to run him thru the course every few months. It is difficult 2 re-train a chimp after 50+ years of nasty habits.

[dbt]

29. He really DOES need to work on that SOTU speech, you know.

Last year's model is going to be hard to top. It was so packed with factual information about how we just HAD TO INVADE IRAQ RIGHT NOW BEFORE SADDAM GASSED US ALL WITH DRONE AIRCRAFT, if you recall.

I'm sure this year's model will include a reading of the names of all American military personnel who have been killed in Iraq Nam, along with circles and arrows and a paragraph explaining how the death of each one contributed to making us safer from Terra.

Fuck bu$h.
Fuck bu$h three ways.
Deeply.
Severely.
And several times.

:argh:
dbt

[SpiralHawk]

31. now, now, now - don't get snippy

Chimpy is "recreating prudently."

And 00 he has to do this. It's the only way he can keep his listing in the Guiness Book of World Records for "the most thoroughly vacationed President."

[truthisfreedom]

33. ahh, but is he really in texas? or did he fool the SS again and run away

somewheres? where to this time, georgie? fun in the sun?

[grasswire]

40. excellent point

How do we know where he is?

He could be whoring it up in Mexico, reliving his youthful days, for all we know.

[diamond14]

42. shrub is likely off with condi somewhere...gosh, all these crisis..and

not a word from the squatter.....has he actually made any public appearances since so many of OUR soldiers were KILLED this week..and since the mad-cow crisis or the orange alert crisis, or the Pakistanian assassination attempts crisis or the Israel-Palistine crisis???? has anyone actually seen the pResident during all these crisis??? calming the populace??? we're huddled here in DC holding our duct tape and plastic, waiting for a leader...military jets roar overhead, while missile-launching humvees roll around town.....is anyone out there????

[robbedvoter]

34. Is anyone keeping up his vacation "workdays" ratio?

In 2001 it was like 40% vacation - and I doubt the % went any lower!
So, it's a good thing we've got our ducktape good and ready, as the "leader of the free world" is taking his watchful eye off us...

[CBHagman]

41. La-di-da, it's all right for some!

"Second leg" of a vacation. Raise your hand if you can even get your mind around such a concept.

Now raise your hand if you understand working six-day weeks, car pooling, and wondering how the hell you'll ever retire.

[bikebloke]

43. The 3 F's is all he does.

Fund raising.
F*cking off on vacation.
Photo ops.

(I know, I know...let the lurking freeps get their knickers in a twist trying to suss it out)