Click on the picture to see President Bush's home town football team.
Posted on 10/13/2004 12:03:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
CRAWFORD - And you think the country is polarized?
The folks at Security Bank, the Yellow Rose and the Red Bull (souvenir shops, not bars), and the Fina filling station where farm elders commune over coffee at dawn in the "Room of Knowledge," are strongly for President Bush, the Republican favorite son whose ranch put tiny, alcohol-free Crawford on the world map.
Mayor Robert Campbell, a Democrat, is for Sen. John Kerry, but that has not stopped him from trying to snare the Bush papers for nearby Baylor University when the president leaves office — in January, Campbell hopes. A local weekly newspaper, The Lone Star Iconoclast, also has declared for the Democratic challenger, paying a steep price in canceled subscriptions and hate mail.
The Crawford Peace House across the tracks is officially nonpartisan, but it is hardly partial to the commander in chief of the war in Iraq.
For a quiet country crossroads (population 735) near Waco, the place billing itself as "the hometown of our 43rd president" is not immune from the scorched-earth politics roiling the nation.
"What we did was like slapping their mother," said Nathan Diebenow, one of four — uh, make that three — staff writers on The Iconoclast whose collaborative Sept. 29 editorial, "Kerry Will Restore American Dignity," set off a furor here, quickly crashing the paper's Web site (iconoclast-texas.com) with 6,496 hits, far more than the normal 250 a day.
A fourth staff member listed on the masthead, David Anderson, associate editor, has dissociated himself from the editorial, said Michael Harvey, spokesman for the editor in chief, W. Leon Smith.
The newspaper, which endorsed Bush in 2000, faulted him for "a hidden agenda" that it said included involving the country in "a deadly and highly questionable war."
Smith, the Iconoclast's snowy-bearded majority owner and fervid Ronald Reagan admirer, said in his cluttered office in nearby Clifton that all three of the newspaper's outlets in Crawford had stopped selling it and that a reader boycott had cut newsstand and subscription sales to 482 copies a week from 920.
They've been spinning a long time and have it down to a fine science.
Red
"The Crawford Peace House..."
More coopting of the language. The left just kills me.
I'm gonna add "justice and harmony" to every single conservative title from now on. How about NewMax, paper of Justice and Harmoney?
I went to Crawford in August, which is a nice typical Texas wide spot in the road. Hopefully it's still the center of attention for four more years - it'll be an added plus that Bush's reelection will irritate the mayor, the newspaper guy and the Peace House people!
...and a parade on every July 4th.
Only a lib would consider a consumer's choice 'vicious'.
"What we did was like slapping their mother," said Nathan Diebenow, one of four — uh, make that three — staff writers on The Iconoclast whose collaborative Sept. 29 editorial, "Kerry Will Restore American Dignity," set off a furor here, quickly crashing the paper's Web site (iconoclast-texas.com) with 6,496 hits, far more than the normal 250 a day.
A fourth staff member listed on the masthead, David Anderson, associate editor, has dissociated himself from the editorial, said Michael Harvey, spokesman for the editor in chief, W. Leon Smith.
The newspaper, which endorsed Bush in 2000, faulted him for "a hidden agenda" that it said included involving the country in "a deadly and highly questionable war."
Smith, the Iconoclast's snowy-bearded majority owner and fervid Ronald Reagan admirer, said in his cluttered office in nearby Clifton that all three of the newspaper's outlets in Crawford had stopped selling it and that a reader boycott had cut newsstand and subscription sales to 482 copies a week from 920.
bump!
Click on the picture to see President Bush's home town football team.
Thanks for the pic and link! :^D
And that is capitalism at its best. :-)
And that is capitalism at its best. :-)
hiccup... oops
The power of the people bump!!!
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