Bush, Fox Get Neighborly Back at the Ranch | LA Times

Bush, Fox Get Neighborly Back at the Ranch
The president shows his Mexican counterpart Texas hospitality as they seek to mend fences. Immigration, security, water are on the agenda.

By Maura Reynolds and Richard Boudreaux, Times Staff Writers

CRAWFORD, Texas — Eighteen months after relations derailed in disputes over Iraq and the death penalty, Mexican President Vicente Fox arrived Friday for a two-day visit with President Bush at his Texas ranch, a trip designed largely to signal that the relationship is back on track.

The two leaders — both dressed in blue jeans, boots and open-collared shirts — exchanged greetings in Spanish after Fox and his wife, Marta Sahagun, stepped out of the Marine helicopter that ferried them to the ranch. "El presidente," Bush said as he greeted Fox.

"Hola. Buenas tardes," Fox replied, before they piled into Bush's mud-spattered white Ford pickup and drove to the ranch house, with Bush behind the wheel.

The visit culminates months of diplomacy aimed at healing the rift, which opened wide in August 2002, when Fox canceled a summit at the ranch to protest the execution of a Mexican citizen convicted of killing an undercover Dallas police officer. Relations continued to sour in subsequent months as Mexico, then a member of the United Nations Security Council, opposed U.S. plans to invade Iraq.

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Notice how the Spanish is so simplistic, even Bush could understand..... fluent my ass...

The first frump is out of it. She does not want to be a part of this group. She is never looking where others are. I like the way Fox holds Marta's hand. Marta looks as though she is trying hard to be polite on this scammed up "tour"





developing an old man's paunch and he really looks quite out of shape.



They look like a defeated couple leaving in shame. We are treated once more to the broad beam. Does anyone ever show her these pictures? I think not, otherwise she would find a suit with a jacket that would cover that fat ass. Unless she is just proud of it and thinks it looks sexy--like when she was twenty. Maybe that is why she does not seem to be relating to Marta--who is quite slim and always exquisitly and tastefully dressed.

They are both wrinkled and sloppy looking.

How could he be getting a paunch? I heard he made the noble sacrifice of giving up sweets sometime back? Also, doesn't he spend several hours a day hooked up to some water-resistance machine while he jogs in the White House Pool?

Same w/Pickles. With all the mind-numbing drugs she's on, shouldn't she have lost her appetite?

beside Fox. All those great ranch pics of junior looking like...well....Jr. (Not of course that size matters!) No wonder he has to swagger and walk like an ape.