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MasterShake69 -> RE: How come Hannity doesn't get fired? (2/3/2009 10:07:30 PM)
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http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/061000wh-bush.html
George W. had generally enjoyed a privileged upbringing, particularly after he moved with his family at the age of 13 to Houston from the West Texas oil town of Midland. There the family settled into a large house with a pool on a 1.2-acre lot, and George attended the eighth and ninth grades at Kinkaid, an excellent private school.
Those who played basketball, baseball or football remember George as moderately talented but exceptionally scrappy, sometimes too much so. Once the coach had to pull him out of a basketball game when he became angered at a referee's call and hurled the ball at an opposing player. A Rebel From Texas [image]http://partners.nytimes.com/images/g.gif[/image]eorge W. Bush was a slob. School rules required boys to wear jacket and tie during meals and classes. He tested these rules by frequently wearing sneakers (without socks), ancient pants, a wrinkled shirt, a disastrously knotted tie and sometimes an army jacket. Friends say his aim was not just to rebel but also to remind everyone that he was a Texan, not a preppy. Students all ate in the Commons, an elegant dining hall with high ceilings, somber portraits and dark wood paneling -- the formal atmosphere undermined by the pats of butter that the boys sent hurtling at one other or at the walls, where they stuck if catapulted with enough force. George and the other jocks mostly sat together at one end of the Commons, while the academic types and nerds sat on the other end.
Most of the time, there were only 2 blacks among the 240 students in the class of '64, although in their final year they were joined by the son of the prime minister of Somalia. (He proved to be a useful resource to the teenage boys because he had several wives and, under pressure, revealed something of the mysteries of sex.) "Much to my astonishment, the fellows from the South, especially the guys from George's little Texas group, were more friendly than their Northern counterparts," recalled Conway A. Downing, a black student from Virginia. "At least with respect to African-American guys in the class, he got along very well with them." José R. Gonzalez, a Puerto Rican, has the same memory of Mr. Bush, as unusually friendly, open and unpretentious. "A guy from Puerto Rico was sort of unusual at Andover," Mr. Gonzalez recalls, "but it didn't bother him." Mr. Gonzalez remembered being invited once to spend Thanksgiving vacation with George at his grandfather's house in Connecticut. It was only after he arrived at the house that he figured out that the grandfather was a United States senator.
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ORIGINAL: Owner59
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ORIGINAL: MasterShake69
Lets get to some facts.
Where did Bush spend most of his life? TEXAS?? I don't think he has a fake Texas accent ;)
His foreign policy was viewed as being a cowboy. The cowboy reference typically was used as an INSULT against Bush and not a complement.
Bush believes in Jesus while Obama believes in himself.
Bush unlike Nike or Pepsi never had a logo. While Mr Obama has his symbol. He had become a product for the masses. Obamas campaign mirrored that of the old pepsi campaign a choice for a new generation.
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ORIGINAL: Cagey18
Many people believe Bush was a Cowboy.
Funny how Bush picked up his ranch when the campaign started. But it was unpatriotic to point it out during the campaign.
He became a Cowboy in Crawford in order to use the Texans' connections. Does that make him a Cowboy...no?
However I don't think Bush believes in any horses or cattle, just himself.
With slick marketers Bush was a product just Nike.
Is Bush a Cowboy? In the Cowboy world he is still considered one. In the rational world we know he's really a frat boy from Connecticut.
He was raised in Connecticut and schooled in Massachusetts,then moved to Texas (to fail and lose money at two business ventures).
My brother moved to Texas right after enlisting.He`s been there for over 40 years and still has a Jersey accent.
The ranch was a prop.Bought for the campaign and now sold.
While listening a town hall broadcast,I heard a Texan(born and bred) say that bush was "all hat and no cowboy".He mentioned Connecticut and the Ivy league thing and said in Texas,this was a true insult.
And bush claims to talk with Jesus.Which usually means one`s nuts.
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