Bush is afraid of horses.
Bush is afraid of horses.
In his new autobiography, former Mexican President Vincente Fox notes that President Bush seems to be afraid of horses, once turning down an offer to ride Fox’s horse. “He demurred, backing away from the big palomino. A horse lover can always tell when others don’t share our passion,” Fox said. In fact, Bush’s equestrian incompetence has been observed for years, as Laura Bush jokingly said in 2005:
George didn’t know much about ranches when we bought the place. Andover and Yale don’t have a real strong ranching program. But I’m proud of George. He’s learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What’s worse, it was a male horse.
Watch it:
Fox also called Bush a “windshield cowboy,” or “a cowboy who prefers to drive.”
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“He’s learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What’s worse, it was a male horse.”
Hilarious!!!
Still lmao….
September 21st, 2007 at 4:30 pmYeah, for a guy who has a “ranch” – has anyone EVER seen a photo of him near a horse or a cow? They apparently are running a “brush only” operation down in Crawford.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:30 pmHahahahahahahahaha! I wish I had something more constructive to say, but…. hahahahahahahahahaha! I don’t.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:32 pmum, yeah i pointed this out earlier today. nice to see they are trotting out laura to squash the bad press with a joke, pun intended. they fear bush looking like a pussy. which is what he is.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:32 pmSorry for the off topic:
Trolls have a look at this.
Whos the bad guy in the Middle East?
September 21st, 2007 at 4:32 pmDid he try and milk the horse with his mouth? Just asking.
Ignore the “it”
Buck Fush
September 21st, 2007 at 4:34 pmHe is the epitome of the millionaire Texas cowboy: All hat, no cattle (or horses, either, in Dubya’s case.)
September 21st, 2007 at 4:34 pmYou beat me to it Upside. All Hat, no cattle defines not only Bush, but his presidency as well.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:36 pmAlthough Yale (courtesy of the Kissyface connection in Connecticut) could easily move to the front of the line to land the George W. Bush Library, Harvard could also make a case for such a prestigious honor. But, now Stanford, with its connection to the Hoover Institution could also lay claim, citing its extreme conservative bonafides.
But W does come from a long line of New England bluebloods. As the only occupant of the Oval Office born in Connecticut; having gone to prep school in Andover, MA; to undergraduate school at Yale (CT, having been refused by the University of Texas) and graduate school at Harvard (MA); using his connections to avoid service in Vietnam deserting in the process; his fear of horses; and his affinity to riding bicycles it is absolutely beyond belief that the people of Texas buy the drivel that he is one of them–that is, unless what I’ve just described is what people in Texas have become.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:37 pmconfirmed, george bush is a jerk-off.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:37 pmIsnt that the ‘cow’ [Horse] he tried to milk?
OTopic: Burning Salt water. [alternative energy]
http://www.cheniere.org/video/WaterFuel.wmv
September 21st, 2007 at 4:38 pmAny truth to the rumor* that a landscaping company has a government contract to plant more brush at his ranch so he’ll have something to clear when he’s on vacation?
* okay, I started the rumor
September 21st, 2007 at 4:38 pm“He’s learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What’s worse, it was a male horse.”
positively pornographic coming from the First Lady!
September 21st, 2007 at 4:42 pmTexas buy the drivel that he is one of them–that is, unless what I’ve just described is what people in Texas have become. Comment by curmudgeon
I have lived in Texas since 1968. Texas was a Democratic state for a hundred years. George is a viewed as a Rexall cowboy.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:42 pmHah! Will Ferrell was dead on. Anyone remember this classic http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/XJ&sdn=politicalhumor&cdn=entertainment&tm=15&gps=122_131_1676_830&f=10&su=p284.8.150.ip_&tt=9&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DEkqrI3IibYI ?
September 21st, 2007 at 4:43 pmComment by curmudgeon — September 21, 2007 @ 4:37 pm
I also heard that The Waco Political Science Institute and Beauty Academy applied for the Dubya Liberry; They offered the shelf over the Larry Craig Memorial crapper in the men’s room for the 4 books.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:44 pmThere’s an old saying, that if you milk a bull you’ll have a friend for life.
While it’s not really news that Bush is a phony, it’s refreshing to see him busted by his own wife.
Now let me go puke at the visual of the boy king giving a horse a happy ending.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:44 pmtest
September 21st, 2007 at 4:45 pmSoon we will also confirm that Bush’s speeches were being whispered in his ear.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:45 pmLOL dafletcha. I’ve never seen that B4.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:46 pm#4
Um, Bob H….That video from Laura Bush is from 2005. So, essentially what we have here is Vincente Fox confirming some trivia that the Bushes themselves talked about years ago.
Wow. That’s quite a scoop.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:47 pmThis is quite ironic for any of us who have referred to this administration as a donkey show.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:48 pmtest Comment by Admin — September 21, 2007 @ 4:45 pm
Mr P?
September 21st, 2007 at 4:48 pmI’d take a windshield cowboy over a far left socialist like Hillary anyday.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:49 pmThere’s only two horses Junior can ride . . .
September 21st, 2007 at 4:49 pmThe one at the supermarket . . . &
His Uncle Dick’s pony .
Comment by Roger_Roger
Really, so why then did Clinton and Bush both promote NAFTA and CAFTA and why is Hillary a Christian?
According to MR P’s blog, we already have free healthcare.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:51 pmAs a former stallion owner, I know that either Laura Bush is making up a cute story,….or Bush’s stallion milking didn’t last very long.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pmHorses have a hard time distinguishing fear from danger. They know when people are fearfull, and interpret it as threatening.
In Bush’s case, they are excellent judges of character.
I’d take a windshield cowboy -Rr
I bet you would and did. What do you think of the welfare state of Iraq Roger?
September 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pm#4
Um, Bob H….That video from Laura Bush is from 2005. So, essentially what we have here is Vincente Fox confirming some trivia that the Bushes themselves talked about years ago.
Wow. That’s quite a scoop.
Comment by Exley — September 21, 2007 @ 4:47 pm
i reported on the vecente fox thing not her dumbass on a video – check your facts exley you moron
September 21st, 2007 at 4:54 pmI’d take a windshield cowboy over a far left socialist like Hillary anyday.
Comment by Roger_Roger — September 21, 2007 @ 4:49 pm
are you admitting to some sort of brokeback moment in your own past? we all know you conservatives liek backdoor action now so enlighten us as to your own pecadilloes.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:55 pmI am reminded of Neal Horsley [a Republican Fundie]
“Is it true?” Colmes asked.
“Hey, Alan, if you want to accuse me of having sex when I was a fool, I did everything that crossed my mind that looked like I…”
AC: “You had sex with animals?”
NH: “Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.”
AC: “I’m not so sure that that is so.”
NH: “You didn’t grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?”
AC: “Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?”
NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality… Welcome to domestic life on the farm…”
September 21st, 2007 at 4:57 pmDon’t the real cowboys in Texas herd cattle with mountain bikes? And during bad weather they can use SUVs, equipped with air conditioning, surround sound stereo, “magic fingers” in the driver’s seat, and solid gold trim.
Would love to see an updated western, set in Texas. Perhaps Chimpy could play whatever role Andy Devine did in the past?
Hollywood, whaddya say?
September 21st, 2007 at 4:57 pmI’d take a windshield cowboy over a far left socialist like Hillary anyday.
Comment by Roger_Roger — September 21, 2007 @ 4:49 pm
R2!! you Beast! So Brokeback Mountain was written about you!
Maybe you just can’t quit Dubya, huh? Must be that big………er, belt buckle of his.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:58 pmjesus im glad my ancestors didnt trek though georgia on their way to Texas.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:58 pmThis story will be a bit more topical once the gas runs out…
Until then, it’s kind of a non-story.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:02 pmHe’s a Rhinestone Cowboy. Or something.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:03 pm#31 Your incomprehensible final sentence aside, you wrote in posting #4:
“nice to see they are trotting out laura to squash the bad press with a joke”
Well, no…They are not “trotting her out” to squash the story with a joke. That clip of her joking was from 2005.
Pay attention.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pmWait, isn’t Hillary a dude?
September 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pmI dont blame him, as someone who works in Radiology, I have seen my share of horse injuries . smart man
Comment by ron — September 21, 2007 @ 4:59 pm
the kind inflicted on men say from oregon?
or the kind where a horse gets scared b/c a guy is scared and it kicks his face in?
September 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pmRe: Post #37 –
You’re right. Horses, under certain circumstances, can be dangerous.
For those who might doubt this, check out this story:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002382718_horse15m.html
September 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pmJust add it to the growing list of things that George is afraid of:
* Unscripted questions
* Unscreened Audiences
* Confrontation
* A level playing field
…
September 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pm#31 Your incomprehensible final sentence aside, you wrote in posting #4:
“nice to see they are trotting out laura to squash the bad press with a jokeâ€
Well, no…They are not “trotting her out†to squash the story with a joke. That clip of her joking was from 2005.
Pay attention.
Comment by Exley — September 21, 2007 @ 5:04 pm
i refuse to pay attention…tpm is indeed trotting her out, but not for the reason i stated….there a non denial denial like you conservopus like
September 21st, 2007 at 5:05 pmWatch out folks, the troll is trying to be funny.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:05 pmWait, isn’t Hillary a dude?
Comment by Roger_Roger — September 21, 2007 @ 5:04 pm
evidence against: kankles…sorry try again
September 21st, 2007 at 5:05 pmThe same way Bush claimed to be a peacemaker in Iraq.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:06 pmc’mon jake your not too busy reading legal briefs are you – give us a comment to piss on
September 21st, 2007 at 5:07 pmNo, Exley, pay attention, this is about the NEW Vicente Fox book.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:07 pmc’mon jake your not too busy reading legal briefs are you – give us a comment to piss on
Comment by bob h — September 21, 2007 @ 5:07 pm
Did you mean reading or sniffing those tighty whitey legal briefs, bob h?
September 21st, 2007 at 5:09 pm…a “brush only†operation down in Crawford.
Comment by gulfwargrunt — September 21, 2007 @ 4:30 pm
they grow podiums there too…
September 21st, 2007 at 5:10 pm…
your guess is as good as mine, though jake never said he too has a wide stance…..jake?
September 21st, 2007 at 5:10 pm#50
Is this a joke? The Fox book is new. The Laura Bush clip, contrary to Bob H’s posting, is from 2005. Read the TP article.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:10 pmNo, Exley, pay attention, this is about the NEW Vicente Fox book.
Comment by Xisithrus — September 21, 2007 @ 5:07 pm
the one hes using to highlight what kind of a vapid waste of skin herr bush is…yeah that one.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:11 pm#50
Is this a joke? The Fox book is new. The Laura Bush clip, contrary to Bob H’s posting, is from 2005. Read the TP article.
Comment by Exley — September 21, 2007 @ 5:10 pm
already covered it exley read above – i know reading is hard for you
September 21st, 2007 at 5:11 pmIs this a joke? The Fox book is new. The Laura Bush clip, contrary to Bob H’s posting, is from 2005. Read the TP article.
Comment by Exley — September 21, 2007 @ 5:10 pm
in the article above:
“In fact, Bush’s equestrian incompetence has been observed for years, as Laura Bush jokingly said in 2005:”
Duh!!
Reading comprehension problems?
September 21st, 2007 at 5:14 pmcmon i admire the terrier in you exley puzzle it out
September 21st, 2007 at 5:14 pmLOL @ Exley.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:15 pmWho cares if he is a horse lover or not?
September 21st, 2007 at 5:16 pmBob h – everyone started really ignoring “it” (whisper Jake) so “it” went away. If you don’t feed “it”, it goes away.
Ignore the “it”
Buck Fush
September 21st, 2007 at 5:19 pmI have wondered for over 6 year’s what the chimp would of thought of my Clydesdale stallion….Even gentle giant’s get irate over nut job’s like bull shit…
September 21st, 2007 at 5:19 pmOur little pal exlax loves to point out the irrelevant.
My suggestion to you reichwingers: get a life, k?
September 21st, 2007 at 5:21 pmBush is JR now…
(Boston accent) “Hey JR, I’d like you to meet my friend Thatherton here; He’s a real cowboy”
September 21st, 2007 at 5:21 pmWhat a perfect example of this little rich boy from New England. Bush is NO Texan. He just moved here a several years back to run a couple of companies into the ground while padding his bank account through corruption. Like he’s done with our country.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:23 pmWayne,
“Reading comprehension problems?” Apparently so for Bob H….But I think he finally understands.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:23 pmBush is scared of horses. That’s funny. There’s just so much material he gives comics that this was overlooked. I mean the daily butchering of the english language alone is enough to keep an army of comics employed.
He’s scared of horses. That is so funny.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:29 pmIf GWB is afraid of horses at least he can get along on a Segway. What? He can’t do that either? Ok, then a bike. No? WTF can this guy do? What an embarrassment.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:30 pmWTF can this guy do?
Comment by Dave C
Not Eat pretzels…
September 21st, 2007 at 5:41 pmIf President Fox is wearing a glove, he just removed it and slapped Bush in the face with it.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:45 pmBush loves to pose as a cowboy at the so-called “ranch”, sauntering bow-legged towards the camera, with his hands at his side like he was ready to draw a six-gun, and with his hard-on thrust forward. The so-called ranch is a movie set. The buildings at the entrance to the ranch are fake, and the real ranch is set several dozens of feet away. This wonderful ranch used to be a pig farm before 2000 and Bush lets local ranchers run their cattle on it, just to give it a working ranch image. Before all this ranch and cowboy dress-up started for Bush in 2000, and before he moved into the Texas Governor’s mansion, he was living in a private gated community next to a golf course and miles away from the nearest horse. The man has been, is, and will always be a complete fraud with each and every breath he takes.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:50 pmComment by Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver — September 21, 2007 @ 5:50 pm
But ya gotta admit he has that Redneck Texas swagger down cold, been watching all the John Wayne movies he can find …. and that inflatable codpiece is a true work of art. Heh heh.
September 21st, 2007 at 6:02 pmStraight from the horses mouth.
September 21st, 2007 at 6:03 pmLOL, that’s great!
“The Horse Jerkerer”.
September 21st, 2007 at 6:37 pmSenor Fox must’ve finally caught on that all he got/would ever get from Dubbie was a good using. Weren’t they bosom buddies once upon a time?
September 21st, 2007 at 6:45 pmHe wore cowboy hats and boots and spoke with that unmistakable cowboy drawl…. but he’s afraid of horses. And remember, the media sold him to us as the more “authentic” candidate. That vile Al Gore was such a phony.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:36 pmThat’s not a cowboy, that’s an oilboy!
September 21st, 2007 at 7:39 pmRAGTIME COWBOY George
He always sings
September 21st, 2007 at 7:48 pmHeavy metal to the cattle
as he swings
back and forward in the saddle,
on a bike – a pretty good bike!
‘cause Hussain tried to kill his pater,
he was a major Saddam hater
your kids will pay for his war later
how they run – yes they run! -
when they hear him ‘a-comin’,
cause the western folks all know,
he’s a high-falootin’, rootin, tootin’,
cowboy phoney from Kennebunkport,
Ragtime Cowboy
Talk about your Cowboy,
Ragtime Cowboy George.
Hey RSC, wanna know another thing those phony Democrats don’t do?
F**k little children.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:58 pmWas W pulling a larry craig in the barn stall? Better there than the airport, but laura caught him. Oh and she is still in love?
September 21st, 2007 at 8:25 pmDubya is what is known as all belt buckle and hat with no cattle. Drug store cowboys have crap inside their boots while real cowboys have crap on the outside of their boots.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:58 pmEveryone laughed at Laura’s joke that night – and I also thought it was funny – it did, however, seem extraordinarily inappropriate for the prim librarian, stepford Laura. We all know Bush loves to dish it out, but he sure can’t take it.
I believe that shortly after that, Stephen Colbert began to speak and it wasn’t long before the jokes on Bush weren’t accepted.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:44 pmAt that time, I remember thinking of what the reaction might have been were it someone else making the joke.
George Bush grows only one crop on his ranch — brush.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:45 pmMemo to Bush: Fix Laura’s chip. I think her chip malfunctioned. The White House certainly scraped from the bottom when Robotic Laura becomes the spokeperson for the Horsephobic-in-chief.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:45 pmApparently, similar properties in the Crawford, TX area are referred to as farms, not ranches.
So what makes the place where Chimpy, Condi and Jeff Gannon sometimes reside so special?
Prior to his purchasing the property, was it known as a hog ranch?
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:26 am…and horses are afraid of him, with good reason – the dubster hangs with some pretty kinky mofos.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:42 am#57, Wayne…Thank you! Seems as if you can read — a skill that apparently has eluded Bob H and Xisithrus…
They erroneously seemed to believe that Laura Bush was speaking in response to Vincente Fox’s new book. They seem to have missed that Mrs. Bush’s comments were made in 2005, and not in reaction to Fox’s book, as bob h incorrectly wrote.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:42 amThis must be about some Bush lookalike, since it was written way before his time:
(Johnny Mercer, 1936)
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:46 amFool Zero, You have recalled for us Bush’s theme song. It is quite accurate in description!
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:16 amYippy!
ZERO BIGMOUTH,
Fact is, most modern ranchers ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD actually own animals. Just because Shrub travels in a helicoptor does not make him a “rancher”. What makes Shrub a “rancher”? Because he says he is and you believe him?
Please.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:38 amwait a sec – you mean there are still people who buy into Dubbie’s halloween act that he’s a down-home feller???
Maine for summers, Connecticut for winters, private prep schools, private college, CHEERLEADER, silver spooner Dubbie??? Is a down home feller!?!!??!??
He’s a god-damned phony (better actor than Reagan) talking with a phony accent, wearing phony clothes, living at a phony ranch clearing phony brush. Anyone who’s not seen through that by now needs their eyes examined, badly. It may be glaucoma, or it may be macular degeneration, but it sure as hell ain’t common sense, and it sure as hell don’t do nobody a plugged nickel’s worth of good.
September 23rd, 2007 at 1:37 pm