Is Bush afraid of horses???

I heard this on the Stephanie Miller show this morning. Can anyone confirm?

I know it's not the biggest deal in the world, but you have to get a kick out of a guy who has carefully honed his image as a cowboy being afraid of horses. And if that's the case, what is the ranch for -- other than politics -- to clear a neverending pile of brush?

What a joke!

But I have heard that he doesn't know how to ride horses.

but I don't have anything to confirm or deny it

heh..

in that pic you have of him falling down or whatever he's doing there.

Both went to preppy schools, both went to ivy league schools, both raised by new england families. One pretends to be a cowboy, the other acts like a New England son of well-off parents. Can you spot the phoney?

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:hi: Bush is the phoney. What do I win?

That wasn't a very good contest.

I've heard that too and I believe it.
Horses are very good at judging character.

and they loathe him

Fox raises horses & asked Bush to go for a ride. Bush refused. Don't know whether fear was the major reason.

eat on a bun or have made into a hat. That's his idea of being connected to the natural world. Most animals intimidate him due to their obvious higher intelligence. Very frightening to the boy.

He bought that ranch in 98 or 99 as part of his neo Reagan schtick. Pathetic. Here's a GREAT article on it. http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=6687

I believe he owns a few used for props, BTW!

mountain bikes and segways and other marin yuppie toys, but no horseback riding. It would be such an obvious photo op.

Like Reagan?

I mean, even Reagan was more appealing on horseback.

It would do his image a lot of could if he was seen riding -- so I must assume that he can't. Seeing as we know he owns them. I'm a shitty horseback rider, but if I owned horses, and I was president, I'd certainly take them out once in a while.

Unless they terrified me!!

But with not one photo of himself mounted on a horse, it's pretty evident that he won't get near them!

I'm not sure about the fix being in with BBV.

re 9/11, I have serious doubts that the BFEE LIHOP.

Chimpy might have actually believed there were WMD in Iraq.

But horsies? yeah. I'm sure they scare Chimpy shitless. No other explanation for not having figured out how to ride, by now.

over and keep me company when I am in my garden. They lean over the fence for the succulant grass weeds I give them when I am weeding, not to mention the occasional carrots I pull out and give them, when they are mature. Now they could easily breech the fence if they wanted to but they don't.

They like their nuzzles petted and give you an occasional horsey kiss. Understand that you have to be close to a really big animal who could kill you with one kick if spooked. Yet, they have been close to me when spooked by something and they just run away.

I have never seen pictures of Bush getting close up and personal with horses, which you'd think he would do for his cowboy image, even if he didn't ride them. I'm sure he's afraid of them and it's possible he has had a bad experience with horses before because horses know a jerk when they see one.

you'd be askeered too. After all, a horse is a whole lot taller than a Schwinn.

So why would he even go *near* a horse?????

What you've got with a horse is a very sensitive animal much larger than a grown man with sharp clubs at the end of its relatively long legs. If you can't respect that fact when you're around them, then you should damn well fear them if you have even an ounce of common sense. If a horse does not like you -- and horses can be very intuitive about the people around them -- then you would be wise to stay the fuck away from it.

I'm not convinced bush has an ounce of common sense, but he may well experience some vague instinctive discomfort when in their vicinity.

at a livestock auction and called a bull a 'cow'.

:+

There's never been a photo of him riding one (and you know how manly that would make him look) and he doesn't have any at his ranch.

He's supposed to be a cowboy, but no horse.

Ferrel potrays Bush as afraid of the horse who is grazing in the paddock behind him....pretty funny...can't remember where that video was hosted.

that's why he calls himself a "windshield cowboy: :puke: