Horseman Rides to Texas to Talk Hunger with *Bush

[kainah]

Horseman rides to Texas to talk hunger with Bush
By JENNIFER McKEE
Gazette State Bureau

HELENA - Doc Mishler, a Gospel-quoting itinerant horseman from Choteau, must have cut an odd figure last weekend as he hung out outside an exclusive barbecue in Crawford, Texas, thrown for the president's top fund-raisers.

Mishler, 67, who hasn't raised a penny for President George W. Bush's re-election efforts and had no invitation to the shin-dig, never got his chance to talk to the president, but he said that's OK.

Mishler spent the past year riding his trusty mare Faith and his stallion Chief Spirit from Choteau to Crawford, raising money and awareness about global children's hunger. He wore out four pairs of Wrangler jeans and three pair of cowboy boots on his long journey. Now that he's in Crawford - home to Bush's ranch known as the "Western White House" - Mishler has no intention of leaving before he gets his chance to chat with the president.

"I'd tell him, 'You can't love God and not feed the hungry children, Mr. President,'" Mishler said. "We all need to graduate from the Old Testament, where kings run around killing people because they think God told them to."

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http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/08/18/build/local/45-mishler.inc

[jpgray]

1. This man's quote is dead on. Go Montanans! (nt)

[Dover]

2. Bush will take it as a sign...one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse

The horseman of famine...or is it greed?

War, Famine, Pestilence and Death

[Rocinante]

3. Somebody who tells the truth

would be better off keeping his distance from the divine chimpy god. I'm sorry to say.

[cprise]

4. Give that cowboy a cigar!

"We all need to graduate from the Old Testament, where kings run around killing people because they think God told them to."

OMG!

[brook]

5. ...and a brandy to go with it!

He hit the nail on the head there!

[Enraged_Ape]

6. It's well known that Bush is afraid of horses

Intuitive as these animals are, they know who the little sniveler is and what he's all about.

"We all need to graduate from the Old Testament, where kings run around killing people because they think God told them to." That is just awesome.

How much would it cost to get the Budweiser Clydesdales out to Crawford?

[ugarte]

7. Amazing they didn't shoot him

Of course they still might.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. LOL doesn't he know psuedo cowboy is scared to death of horse?

chimp is all hat and no cattle or horse ranch

[ewagner]

9. Thanks for the awareness

This story just makes my day! Look at the juxtapositions

Lone, destitute rider outside of multi million $$$ fundraiser

Hunger vs opulant BBQ

Christianity in Action vs Pseudo-christianity

this is just TOO GOOD