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Bush’s advice to ’08 candidates: ‘saddle up.’

Even though President Bush doesn’t plan on staying awake for the results of tonight’s Iowa caucuses, he did have some advice today for the ’08 candidates:

bushbr.jpg Bush, a veteran of two successful White House campaigns with only a year to go in office, declined to predict winners. “I just can’t tell and neither can you. It is wide open,” he said in a Reuters interview on Thursday. [...]

Whoever wins tonight, it will be a glorious moment but my only advice is ‘saddle up’ because it’s the beginning,” said Bush, owner of a Texas ranch.

“The primary season has an interesting way of testing people. What looks like a smooth road gets bumpy awfully quickly,” he added.

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