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Anti-war protesters begin their march in Kennebunkport, Maine, on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006, heading toward the Bush compound. President George W. Bush is vactioning at his parents' house while the protest was going on. The president is spending a long weekend at the family oceanside home and plans on attending a relative's wedding.



Anti-war protesters walk down the main street of Kennebunkport, Maine, on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006, heading toward the Bush compound. President George W. Bush is vactioning at his parents' house while the protest was going on. The president is spending a long weekend at the family oceanside home and plans on attending a relative's wedding.



Anti-war protesters rally outside the Bush compound, seen at top left, across the cove shrouded in fog, in Kennebunkport, Maine, on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006. President George W. Bush is vacationing at his parents' house while the protest was going on. The president is spending a long weekend at the family oceanside home and plans on attending a relative's wedding. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)



Anti-war protesters march towards the Bush family compound on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006 in Kennebunkport, Maine. President Bush is visiting his parents for the weekend as part of his summer vacation.

(AP) President George W. Bush came to his parent's century-old summer home on the Maine coast for a little relaxation, a distant cousin's wedding and some family time. He got all that, along with a boisterous reminder nearly on his bucolic doorstep of the unpopularity of his Iraq policies.

What local police estimated were about 700 anti-war demonstrators marched Saturday to within half a mile of the Bush compound before being turned back at a security checkpoint. Called Walker's Point after the family of former President Bush's mother, the stone-and-shingle retreat covering a craggy promontory is owned by the current president's parents.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/26/politics/main1936836.shtml?source=RSS&attr=Politics_1936836

(Sounds like he and Poppy are avoiding "alone" time)

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Over his four-day Kennebunkport stay, the president has declined the usual golf game with his dad in favor of taking his mountain bike about a half-hour away to a federally owned stretch of woods. Accompanied by companions recruited from a bike shop and elsewhere, the president indulged in early morning, hourlong rides two days in a row, out of view of the cameras.

He has engaged in at least Bush one family tradition, fishing from his father's speedboat, Fidelity III. Joining him Thursday and Friday were his daughter Jenna and the former president. On Saturday, though, the elder Bush went for a spin on the water without his son.

Billed as a 'family vacation' it is anything but. Took the required photo-op boat ride with Poppy and then has pretty much spent the rest of the time alone. He is a real weirdo. Went to the wedding but skipped out and didn't attend the reception, didn't go to a relative's funeral, didn't go to a family christening, didn't play his usual golf w/ Poppy and turned down another boat ride. This mountain bike riding of his has become an obsession, not a casual hobby or exercise. Must be his power to harrass others riding with him and the thrill he gets from 'winning' the race. Why did he bother to go to Maine at all? He's becoming a recluse.

drunk and alone, cast aside by his 'friends' for the useless, used up puppet he is.

Vlad the Decider rotting alone in the keep. "The royal boys aging with the royal port".

I can see it so clearly.

Hell, even the dogs avoid the has-been-who-never-was.

:spray: :rofl: :rofl: :thumbsup:

"What shall we hang, the holly or each other?"

:rofl:

There'll be pork in the tree tops by morning!

backstage girl, contradicta, who thinks she's already married to him.

BTW - I LOVE "Vlad the Decider"! :thumbsup:

would say if Clinton was seen without Hillary and if he missed a funeral or a christening of a family member.

Party Girl Jenna is there. Who needs more family to party with?

managed to get close to his great-grandfather's home.

Power to the People!!! :bounce:

Baby Bush would have been beside himself.

... podium/lecturn?

and rub his face in the carpet like "Bulldog" can:

:puke:

How can his parents' home be in Kennebunkport, Maine? :silly:

so Babs can pop this baby out!

So we always just kept him outa sight, clearin' brush.

And he still almost got hisself throwed.

Poppy couldn't stand to be with Jr. and vice versa for 4 hours in a golf cart.

Poppy is disgusted with the job he's doing.

Laura wants far away from him. (Is Jenna the daddy's girl of the two? Is Jenna the one that will gravitate toward daddy after the divorce?)

The bike rides are very escapist behavior.

The woman married the drunk after only knowing him for three months. It takes a while to get a wedding together, I wonder how long they had known each other before they decided to get married and set a date.
In another culture, I might have thought it was an arranged marriage. In our culture it is usually a rash, unwise, half baked idea showing poor judgment.
They had problems conceiving. Could that be because they didn't sleep together? I read on another discussion board that the twins were in vitro babies.
If he is a mean man now, he must really be a mean drunk. Imagine living with that.

A drunk who stops drinking usually has problems with the existing relationships because the people who like him when he is drinking, don't like the sober him.

People say the Clintons have a marriage for show, but I think the Clinton marriage is much more real than the Bush marriage.

There is Condi and Karen and possibly Jeff. Why should Laura stay with him? Maybe it's the comfort of the money for her and the semblance of respectability for him. Each gets what he/she wants if neither rocks the boat.

Life is too short. I couldn't live like that.

I'm sure the guy was/is a very abusive drunken husband. The guy used to disappear to Mexico for a few days when the twins were babies. Laura would be worried sick not knowing where he was, if he was alive or dead. Surely when she questioned him he'd beat the hell out of her.

told me Texans go south of the border for two things - #1. Tequila #2. ¨sport f**kin´¨

Papa Geyo's (spelling) in Nuevo Laredo, I'd have to agree. Some of the most fun I've ever had.

Great job to those who participated!!!!!!

:grr:

:D

seriously though, has this been posted yet today?

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/08/26/the_cheney_presidency/

The Cheney presidency

By Robert Kuttner | August 26, 2006

GEORGE W. BUSH has been faulted in some quarters for taking an extended
vacation while the Middle East festers. It doesn't much matter; the man
running the country is Vice President Dick Cheney.

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If Cheney were the actual president, not just the de facto one, he simply
could not govern with the same set of policies and approval ratings of 20
percent. The media focuses relentless attention on the president, on the
premise that he is actually the chief executive. But for all intents and
purposes, Cheney is chief, and Bush is more in the ceremonial role of the
queen of England.

Knuckster deserves to be hounded.
I wonder if poppy and him had it out?

We'll have to see the pretzel wounds next week.
:dunce:

Family Weekend ...... Where is laura?

This just like his reading list that Tony Snow told us had bush reading 60 books so
far this year.

Or his plan for victory in Iraq ...



Or that he is a Texas "rancher."

:loveya:

Wish I coulda gone, but I was stuffed up in Freeport, Maine, all day. :(

Jim Ward's 'bicycle-riding' impression of * is going through my mind right now. :dunce:

a federally owned stretch of woods.

Doesn't sound like FREEDOM to me.

of doing Cheney's bidding. Answering questions about actions and ideas thought of by someone else without Bush clued in as to what the long range plan is. He's coming apart at the seams, if Laura is nowhere there abouts.

What`s Bush doing on a seclude, multi-million dollar estate in Maine? I thought he was born under some sage brush in Texas right in the middle of a roundup. I know it`s true. Bar wiped the sweat off her brow with her apron, birthed baby Georgie, then went right back to stirrin` the cowhands` beans.

Seriously, this is the perfect place for Dubya. He can escape reality and pretend he`s just a likeable guy on a bike rather than one of the most despised (and dangerous) "leaders" in the world.

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that as about as many people as you can fit into the streets there.
we drove through on a trip to acadia national park 2 years ago. it is a tiny town, with really narrow streets. driving a suburban, and pulling a good sized popup camper, we felt like we were in danger of knocking over mailboxes.

Notice how they always say the protestors are anti-war?

Perhaps they are just anti-Bush!!

One of the best scenes in Fahrenheit 9/11, unfortunately none of the major newscasts showed it.

at the ranch? When does he work? This actually works out for the best, though. I feel much safer when he's not out there pretending to be a leader.