Bush: ‘Now I own a lot of corn’ (Chicago money men love him)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-060106bushcbot,1,2514494.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

As President Bush told the story later during his luncheon speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, he got a heap of corn to take back to his Texas ranch during a visit this morning to the Chicago Board of Trade.

A trader had greeted him with "Hook 'em, Horns," the slogan of the national champion University of Texas Longhorns football team. So, the president said, he responded by giving the hand sign of the Longhorns back to the trader.

"So I hooked 'em,' Bush said. "Now I own a lot of corn."

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He stood between the corn futures and corn options pit for a little more than 15 minutes as trading was suspended—a very unusual event. Still, the pit area retained its noisiness as traders in their multicolored jackets shouted to get the president's attention or that of the news media.
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In a private meeting with CBOT officials before he joined the organized chaos of the trading floor, Bush was awarded a red, white and blue trading jacket with a black trader's badge that read "GWB." CBOT officials also presented him with a crystal statue of the board's building.


the money suits squeeled like teenage girls at the sight of smirk; they were thrilled

Feed it to the brush? The pigs are long gone from the pig farm, and the guy who was leasing land to run cattle isn't doing that any more....

Interfering with commerce once again. Disruptive little piece of shit.