"blake murphy" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:38:14 -0700, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>
>> "Goomba" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>>
>>>> We don't make an issue out of it. We never ran a phony Texan with a
>>>> fake
>>>> accent and a fake ranch (he's afraid of horses) as a "man of the
>>>> people"
>>>> when he was really a blueblood from Connecticut. Only your guys fall
>>>> for
>>>> that crap.
>>>
>>> Does living there until age 3 MONTHS old REALLY qualify one as a
>>> Connecticut Yankee?
>>> Does that make Hillary a fake New Yorker??
>>
>> He was born in New Haven Connecticut. He lived in Connecticut until the
>> age
>> of twelve then spent a year or so in Texas then went back to Connecticut.
>> He also went to Philips Andover Academy as a youth. That is the bluest
>> of
>> the blue blood schools. His whole family has lived in Connecticut for
>> generations. Prescott Bush never left. Bush Senior was a carpetbagger
>> who
>> claimed a parking lot in Houston was his home. Bush Junior is the only
>> Bush who speaks with an accent. And any Texan will tell you it is a
>> white
>> trash accent they call "oil well."
>>
>> Paul
>
> he also bought his 'ranch' (where apparently he raises only brush) in
> 1999,
> shortly before the election in 2000, some say on the advice of karl rove,
> and plans to move from godforsaken crawford in sometime in 2009.
>
> i believe the texas expression is 'all hat, no cattle.'


Apparently the ranch has been sold already, actually last year. Whoever
owns it now is leasing it to the Bush's if what I read is correct. Bush now
owns 100,000 acres in Paraguay. A very odd purchase and one that leads to
many questions.

Paul