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...stretching towards snow-capped peaks in the American West. “W the President” is a stark black-and white look favored by day-traders who sport its polo shirts and carry its coffee mugs. And last but not least there’s the Farm-Ranch Team for all those down-home country boys. This site sells Silver W’04 belt buckles, leather “W’04” coasters, and “W’04” western hats. The Bush website makes sure to boast...
BUSH’S HILLBILLY RANCH...
...BEEN CALLED THE BIGGEST BIGOT IN AMERICAN MEDIA. HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THOSE CHARGES? I don't have any comment about it. It's absurd. You know, ask the kids who have sickle cell that come to the ranch [a New Mexico facility that he built for children who have cancer or blood disorders] whether I'm a bigot or not. Have we made fun of African Americans or Asians or Caucasians? Yeah, sure. But people have to calm down...
...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...
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...