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Title: George Bush the Texan is 'scared of horses'
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URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai ... =/news/2007/09/21/wbush121.xml
Published: Sep 21, 2007
Author: Alex Spillius in Washington
Post Date: 2007-09-21 13:17:21 by robin
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Comments: 41
President Bush may like to be seen as a swaggering tough guy with a penchant for manly outdoor pursuits, but in a new book one of his closest allies has said he is afraid of horses. Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, derided his political friend as a "windshield cowboy" – a cowboy who prefers to drive – and "the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life". ''A horse lover can always tell when others don't share our passion," he said, according to the Washington Post. Mr Bush has spoken of his fondness for shooting doves and cutting brush on his Crawford ranch in Texas, which he bought in 1999. The property reportedly has no horses and only five cattle. Mr Fox is the latest old friend to turn on Mr Bush as the US president faces a lonely final 18 months in office, derided for failures in Iraq and at home. Donald Rumsfeld, his defence secretary until last November, asked recently if he missed the president, said flatly: "No." Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, has attacked the Bush administration's economic policy at length in a new autobiography, accusing the Republican president of poor fiscal discipline and betraying the party's basic principles of low spending. Asked for his reaction to criticism from former aides, the president replied: "My feelings are not hurt." George Bush the Texan is 'scared of horses'
By Alex Spillius in Washington
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but where is the horse?
He recalled a meeting in Mexico shortly after both men had been elected when Mr Fox offered Mr Bush a ride on a "big palomino" horse.
Mr Fox, who left office in December, recalled Mr Bush "backing away" from the animal.
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#12. To: robin (#0)
Perhaps he fears sharing the fate of Catherine the Great.
OMG...
myth http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/catherinethegreat/a/histmyths1.htm
Catherine died in bed of illness ...probably died from Equine herpesvirus :P
lol! http://www.amazon.com/Catherine-Great-Love-Sex-Power/dp/0312328877 From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com Let's get one thing straight right away: Catherine the Great did not die having sex with a horse. She died of a stroke -- confirmed by autopsy -- at the age of 67. And while she admitted that she "passionately loved riding," her 34 years on the Russian throne were marked by more than equestrian prowess: She overhauled her country's antiquated legal system, extended its borders into territory formerly held by Poland and the Ottoman Empire, established the great art collection now housed in the palace she had built for it, the Hermitage, introduced inoculation against smallpox, and managed to dispose of -- by assassination, execution or neglect -- her only competitors for the position of Empress of All the Russias. The "horse story," says her most recent biographer, Virginia Rounding, is a "scurrilous piece of fabrication," most likely put about by French Republicans who were enraged by this otherwise enlightened monarch's opposition to the French Revolution. Them Frenchies.
She was an ethnic German, too. Whenever the Russians wanted things done right, they imported Germans to do the job. I read in Slezkine's book that the only ethnic group in Imperial Russia that were wealthier and better educated as a group than the realm's Jews were its ethnic Germans.
#30. To: Peetie Wheatstraw, Zipporah (#27)
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The lovely actress Catherine Oxenberg is a direct descendant. (I don't know why I remember that bit of trivia.) http://www.tv.com/catherine-oxenberg/person/56180/biography.html
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#22. To: Zipporah, Peetie Wheatstraw (#19)
#23. To: robin, Peetie Wheatstraw (#22)
The Truth:
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