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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (508567)	12/12/2003 3:39:15 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Oh now c'mon. Laura may have just been shuckin' around. Bush is probably not afraid of horses. Perhaps he is just not terribly comfortable around them - like a lot of folks. Do you ride? If not, a horse may be pretty intimidating. I guess this will just have to remain one of the two great unanswered questions of the world.

To: bentway who wrote (508567)	12/12/2003 5:18:03 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

search.csmonitor.com Trust the horse, not Vincente, he's the "fox".

To: bentway who wrote (508567)	12/12/2003 5:22:09 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769667

This is pretty good evidence the Bush family is NOT afraid of horses. Laura Bush, the new First Lady, an amateur genealogical researcher, discovered that her husband's great-great uncle, Chadsworth Bush, a fellow lacking in character, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Texas in 1889. The only known photograph of this rascal shows him standing on the gallows. On the back of the picture is this inscription: "Chadsworth Bush, horse thief, sent to Texas prison in 1885,escaped 1887,robbed the Texas Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889." After letting George W.Bush and his staff of professional image consultants peruse the findings, they decided to crop Chadworth's picture, scan it in an enlarged image, and edit it with image-processing software. The following biographical sketch was sent to the Associated Press: "Chadsworth Bush was a famous rancher in early Texas history. His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets, and he was involved in intimate dealings with the Texas railroad. Beginning in 1883,he devoted several years to service at a government facility, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889,Chadsworth Bush passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed." Thus passed the very first "hanging Chad."