Mexico's Fox mocks Bush in memoir

[tuvor]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Vicente Fox, known for his candid talk when he was Mexico's president, speaks his mind when describing several world personalities including US President George W. Bush in his memoir that went on sale in the United States this week.

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Fox also calls Bush a "windshield cowboy" -- meaning someone more comfortable driving his truck around his ranch than riding a horse.

That was emphasized when Fox offered Bush to ride a horse during a later visit to Fox's ranch.

Bush "demurred, backing away from the big palomino," Fox wrote. "A horse lover can always tell when others don't share our passion for climbing aboard an animal that weighs five hundred pounds and doesn't necessarily stop when you put on the brakes."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071006/en_afp/usmexicopoliticsliterature

[Cha]

1. "Drugstore cowboy" would work, too.

bush would rather be taking his meds than most anything.

[petersjo02]

2. I suspect that palomino was a pony

if it only weighed 500 lb. Riding horses range from 800 lb up. If Fox describes this horse he offered Bush as "big," you can bet he weighed more than 500 lb.

[spanone]

3. all hat.....

phony as the day is long

[UTUSN]

4. & was it a coinky-dink that as soon as the first round of news items on this topic

went by, the next round in the MSM regarded how suspicious it was for FOX's ranch to be so luxurious and where did he get the cash?!1 Although this first link below says it isn't moreso than the pads of others in the ranks of the fabulously rich Mexican upper class.

:tinfoilhat:

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/28/america/mexico.php

.... Questions began to surface about whether Fox had used his position to enrich himself after Quién, a celebrity magazine, published photographs of the newly renovated ranch. It was a ramshackle affair with modest furnishings before he took office.

Fox's ranch is not luxurious compared with the estates of many wealthy and influential Mexicans, but the transformation raised suspicions in a country where power often goes hand in hand with corruption. Other former presidents amassed immense fortunes in office, historians say. ....

Though Fox was a highly paid executive at Coca-Cola, he is said to have drained his savings while he was a congressman and state governor for the conservative National Action Party. One sign of this was the run-down condition of his family farm, Korrodi said. ....


http://www.quien.com/portada/los-fox-su-vida-despues-de-los-pinos

(scroll down for pics of the REAL, not Shrub's, ranch)



http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2007/9/16/some-friend-ws-mexican-amigo.html

Some Friend, W's Mexican Amigo
September 16, 2007 12:06 PM ET | Bedard, Paul | Permanent Link

At the White House, the president has got to be muttering "some friend" when he pores over the new autobio from his old buddy Vicente Fox, Mexico's former leader. That's because Fox raps his border pal as stubborn and "the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life." Revolution of Hope, out next month, is a well-written, well-researched book about Fox's political career and presidency, which coincided with George W. Bush's. While he expresses a kinship with W, he breaks with the prez on the war and slams the GOP's immigration platform. He blames Bush's stubbornness on Iraq for bad international relations, calls his Spanish "grade-school level," and admits he didn't think Bush would ever become president. "I can't honestly say that I had ever seen George W. Bush getting to the White House," he pens.

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[defendandprotect]

5. Has MSM looked at Bush's new Paraguay digs . . . or our new Taj Mahal like Embassy in Iraq?