Bush's Country Estate

[QC]

Let's not participate in this little sham by calling it a "ranch." It's nothing of the sort. Instead, it's a place where an aristocrat goes to play gentleman farmer.

In other words, it's Bush's country estate.

[The Doctor.]

1. Should be like the country club...

He'll serve out his term in.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Bush has an inferiority complex and must compete

with Nixon, Reagan, and Poppy. Nixon had the Western White House with its millions of dollars of beach front in San Clemente, California. Reagan had the Malibu Ranch. Poppy has the estate of Kennebunkport.

Bush feels that to truly be a great President, he has to have a great style of his own, like the other Republican Presidents. Unfortunately for him, his "ranch" is a sham and it's located in the middle of nowhere, perfectly reflecting the man within. You're right that the ranch is more like the provincial castles and estates that Louis XIVth had away from the Palace of Versailles, where he could "summer" and "winter" with his court.

[Digit]

4. I thought it was a place where he could go get wasted

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. Why do you think the President of Columbia

was the first foreign dignitary to visit? Bush had to stock up for vacation.

[kestrel91316]

3. I thought it was an abandoned pig farm?

[CrackpotAmerica]

5. As Mad As I Am? Send A Letter!

I posted this earlier...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=20780&mesg_id=20780

I think that everyone should express their outrage by flooding the White House with email.

Keep up the good fight!

[Suttree]

6. he is such a joke.

first of all, he is NOT from Texas.

his "ranch" is not a ranch, because they do not raise cattle/sheep/anything else to make a living. That is the definition of a ranch. A parcel of land surrounded by barbed-wire fence that other people built and that you go to to cut down trees to pretend like you are a hard worker is not a ranch. Real ranchers are a dying breed, thanks to the policies of Republicans that favor large-scale feedlots for fast-food companies, etc. Most ranchers have been selling out their land for subdivision development over the last few years, or leasing it out to weekend accountant hunters from the city who want to feel rugged. But they still won't vote Democrat, for the most part (ranchers). I wonder why?

[Amonester]

10. I'll risk an answer: because they are... morans.

They believe the little king of make believe is a rancher too... :shrug:

WELCOME TO DU!

:hi:

[newyawker99]

12. Hi Suttree!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Starfury]

7. Aristocrats have always loved "roughing it." For example:

Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia's entry for Marie Antoinette:

After she turned thirty in 1785, Marie Antoinette also began to dress with more restraint. She abandoned the more elaborate wigs which had been festooned with jewels and feathers and she refused to buy any more jewels for her personal collection. She was, however, fiercely criticised for building a small mock-village for herself in the grounds of Versailles in 1786.

The building of these kinds of artificial villages was very popular among French aristocratic ladies, who were keen to experience a rural idyll in the comfort of their own estates. This tradition had begun with Louis XIV's greatest mistress, the beautiful Athénaïs de Montespan in the 1680s. Marie-Antoinette's defenders did not think she deserved so much criticism for building the Hameau (as it was known.) Baroness d'Oberkirch complained, "Other people spent more on their gardens!" Even so, the queen was already unpopular and she could not possibly understand how much the Hameau would further damage her reputation. Many people began to see her as a clueless spendthrift who liked to play at being a shepherdess, whilst some of the real peasants lived in very hard conditions.

The similarities are eerie....

[QC]

8. Excellent point--I was thinking of that earlier. Elizabethan courtiers

did the same thing--dressing in lavish "shepherd" costumes of velvet and satin while singing the praises of "country" life.

Same deal as Bush. If he actually had to live rough, like, say, my grandfather, who could till a field with a mule, slaughter livestock, and forge his own tools, all of which he did while also working in the mines, he would run crying to that vile mother of his.

[Kurovski]

9. I'm in.

"Bush's country estate" it is. :-)

Remind me if I forget.

On the same note, it's "corporate media", not "mainstream media."

Just a reminder.

[Historic NY]

11. Should have a French Villa...........

:sarcasm: