Letters Department
From the Glenwood Springs (CO) Post Independent, May 3, 2005:
As for the ranch, it's notable that Bush seems to not have spent as much time there since campaign season, when Americans Coming Together ran this ad.
Dear Editor,For what it's worth, the President's bicycling habits were confirmed a year ago May, when Bush suffered "minor abrasions and scratches" after wiping out when his bike hit some "loose soil." Kerry also took a biking spill in May 2004, veering into oncoming traffic and falling when slowing down for a stop light. Note to Presidential hopefuls: don't bike in May.
President Bush owns a ranch in Crawford, Texas. The president has acquired a lot of political capital for being a regular, working western guy. It just dawned on me, I have never seen a picture of the Prez on a horse. I have been asking everyone; no one has seen such a picture. I went to Google and couldn’t find a picture there nor have I ever seen a picture of the Bush cattle, or any other livestock.
I checked Webster, and a ranch is a farm where livestock is raised. So how is it Bush is called a rancher, that apparently never gets on a horse, and does not raise livestock? All hat and no cattle?
The president does ride down at the ranch. He rides a mountain bike. You know, same thing, I have never seen a picture of him on his mountain bike. I have nothing against mountain bikes, I have one myself. But there may be a reason we haven’t seen him with his bike. Riding a mountain bike is what East Coast, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, snowboarding liberal elites do.
Wrong image.
Patrick Hunter
Carbondale
As for the ranch, it's notable that Bush seems to not have spent as much time there since campaign season, when Americans Coming Together ran this ad.
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