Word: crawfords
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...game for more Scrabble. There is wood to be cut in the family woodlot. I've been a prisoner of the New York Times and have read enough for a while and want to get loose. Next week I'm out of here. And maybe the President is too. Crawford, Texas, is a fine place. A man could never weary of the wonders to be found there...
...Bush, a lifelong New Hampshire, New Haven, Boston, Washington and Texas suburbanite, and with nary a whisper of rebuttal from his political opponents, has even managed to persuade most Americans that he’s lived on that ranch in Crawford his entire adult life, when he bought it in 1999 and only for use as a “summer White House.” Can you imagine how loud the cries of “phony” would have come had John Kerry attempted a similar real estate acquisition last year...
Ultimately, I guess George Bush’s (professionally primped) rancher’s hands and (ever-changing) rock-solid principles and (cynically transplanted) Crawford roots matter in different ways for different voters. But surely we can all agree that John Kerry’s nails should (not) be taken seriously...
...publishers of The Iconoclast endorsed Bush four years ago based on the things he promised, not on this smoke-screened agenda." AN EDITORIAL in The Lone Star Iconoclast, a weekly newspaper in Bush's hometown of Crawford, Texas, announcing its endorsement of Bush's opponent John Kerry...
With so much on the line, Bush started prepping this summer and has had occasional full-length dress rehearsals, but the pace picked up last weekend at his Crawford, Texas, ranch. New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, who played Al Gore in the 2000 drill, stood in for Kerry, and admaker Mark McKinnon assumed the role of the first debate moderator. It all took place in a one-story building known as the Conference Center, where Bush practiced behind a lectern and aides flashed cue cards that told him how much time he had left, just as officials will...