Just Don't Call It a Vacation

[Robbien]

President Bush spent the day yesterday on his Texas ranch riding his mountain bike and watching the Olympics on TV. But don't call it a vacation. Bush arrived at his 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel ranch in Crawford on Wednesday night, where he'll spend a week enjoying a bit of down time. (That's the White House's preferred phrasing.)


Other than his daily national security briefing and a meeting Monday with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and senior defense officials, his public calendar is a wide open space.

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"A CBS News tally shows that President Bush is now making his 38th visit to his Prairie Chapel ranch since taking office. Add up the number of full or partial days he has been there -- it comes out to 254.

"That's about 20 percent of his presidency. Add in his time at Camp David and the Bush family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, and the percentage more than doubles. And the White House is self-conscious about it."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18516-2004Aug20.html

[Khephra]

1. Prairie Chapel

Don't you just love how religion comes into everything that involves Bush?

[Runcible Spoon]

2. * spends more time down

* spends more time down than a clinically depressed quadriplegic hooker named Eeyore.

(***no offense to the clinically depressed, quadriplegics, hookers, Eeyore, or any combination of teh above)

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