50 trips to Crawford in 4 1/2 years

[yvr girl]

(According to CNN Broadcast)

That's just crazy. I know technically, a President is never really off duty, but still. Bush has certainly MASTERED vacation time.

Anyone have any idea what it costs to fly a 747 from DC to Texas and back?

[CelticWinter]

1. i swear he spends more time

there than in the white house.......makes one wonder whats at crawford

[walldude]

2. Snow.. and it ain't on the ground.. n/t

[Bucky]

3. pickles

[MisterP]

11. 42% as of recent calculations (late '04)

[wurzel]

4. I wonder how much those trips cost us.

[rfranklin]

8. It costs $58,600 to fly for one hour...

Fifty round trips at about four hours per leg would be close to $12,000,000. Of course, this does not take into account the huge costs of security personnel and security improvements to the Pig Farm at Crawford.

[Stephanie]

5. Keep in mind that some of those trips were of one-month duration.

And that doesn't include his trips to Kennebunkport and Camp David.

[SpiralHawk]

6. One can get AWAY from IT ALL

at the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford.

Just the kind of cozy place for a Connecticut Yankee Preppy Cheerleader with an embarassing AWOL record, and a stolen and failed pResidency.

[MisterP]

13. the brand is the

LAZY W Ranch!!!

[Lisa]

7. and don't forget those embarrassing faux-Western extravaganzas

The ones with the on-site chuckwagon and the singing cowboys. I guess Bush doesn't realize that visitors like President Putin can barely conceal their laughter!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/05/25/us-russia.htm



"Just I had a hard time imagining how could a living person create such a masterpiece of cooking. A fantastic meal. And when I said so to the President, he said, indeed, this cannot be done except for in Texas."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/connection/20011115-4.html

[yvr girl]

14. I can deal with Camp David

At least it's close to DC. It was designed to be a weekend getaway.

[Rex]

9. What do you expect from loser garbage like Boosh?

No one REALLY want him to try and work at being POTUS, because they know his record...failure after failure after failure. I would bet good money Boosh is one of the biggest failures in American history.

[reverendpatrick]

10. A friend of mine just got back...

...from three weeks visiting his folks in Fort Worth.
He did a road trip to Crawford and other parts of west Texas.
He brought back a ton of pictures.
Man, that is one butt-ugly part of the world.
Depressed and isolated, lots of abandoned property.
NOT what I would call an ideal vacation spot!
Unless you own the place, I guess...

[Lisa]

12. Bush is probably snortling over how he was able to buy the land ...

I don't think that even he could have afforded it, if the area had been doing well economically and the farmers/ranchers had been prospering.