Salon: Documented PROOF that Bush is LITERALLY "all hat, NO cattle"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

We noted that "the presidential-getaway-as-ranch" construct has always been a way "to make a millionaire from Yale look like some kind of workaday cowpoke." The Times says that vacations in Crawford give Bush, "who was born in New Haven, Conn., and schooled at Yale and Harvard," a chance to "remind the nation that he's a Cowboy President."

But if part of being a cowboy involves having something to do with cows, the Times says the president is a few head short of a herd. "There are some guys that are all hat and no cattle," former Texas congressman Kent Hance tells the Times. "The president's not that way; he's hat and five cattle."

Even five may be a stretch. As the Times reports, Kenneth Engelbrecht kept a herd of about 200 cattle on a portion of the property he leased from the Bushes, but Engelbrecht and the Bushes parted ways recently, and Engelbrecht took his cattle with him. The White House is circumspect about how many cattle are in Crawford now. Deputy White House Press Secretary Dana Perino initially told the Times that the president still has "a few" cattle on the ranch. Pressed for details, she said there were "four or five."

Engelbrecht won't say anything, it seems. "My deal with the Bushes was to stay clear of everything," he tells the Times. "We left on good terms, still friends with the president. So far, I haven't found that anything's helped me by putting it in the paper. They're pretty ticklish about that."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html

[KeepItReal]

1. How can you be a badass cowboy with NO HORSES??

"Having a ranch is sort of a symbol of status in Texas."

There are no horses on Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch. He calls himself a "windshield rancher" and has delighted in giving VIPs a tour in his white pickup or on his John Deere Gator.""

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164691,00.html

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

2. We live in Texas - hey, we have a ranch, too!

The fact that we live in Valley Ranch near the Cowboys' training facility doesn't keep us from having a ranch, right?

Need to come up with a name for it now.

[KeepItReal]

3. But do you have 1600 acres?

The fact that he puts on this cowboy facade, has this huge ass ranch (since 1999), and has not 1 cow or horse of his own??

I can understand if you can't afford the upkeep of animals, but I think he can afford a pony at least.

[Greenpeach]

6. With all that shit...

he's sittin' on? There must be a pony in there somewhere!

[mark11727]

8. And here it is...

[KeepItReal]

9. That probably was the last horse he rode

:rofl:

[TrogL]

4. The only work he appears to do on the "ranch" is to "clear brush"

And in the only picture I've seen on him, he's doing it wrong.

[miss_kitty]

5. Bush is all asshat, NO cattle.

JMHHO

[geniph]

7. He's afraid of horses

always has been.

He's as much a cowboy as I am a toaster.

[Zuni]

10. I have probably ridden more horses than W

the last time I rode an animal was a pony at the state fair when i was a kid