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Flashback: 'I'm Thrilled He's Here,' Bush Says As Putin Visits His Texas Ranch
Washington Post ^ | November 15, 2001 | Peter Baker

Posted on 07/19/2018 6:26:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Vladimir Putin, wannabe cowboy and newly minted close buddy of President Bush, eagerly wanted to ride a horse in Texas, so he may have been disappointed to learn that Bush zips around his ranch in a Ford pickup.

That's what was awaiting the Putins as they landed at the Bush ranch outside Waco in midafternoon. The Bushes, in ranch gear and carrying umbrellas to shield their guests from the rain, met the casually attired Putins when they arrived by helicopter for an overnight and barbecue at the Bush home.

"The president brought the rain, for which we're always grateful in the state of Texas," Bush said, looking for a silver lining in the clouds. "I'm thrilled he's here. There is no better gift than rain."

Putin is the first foreign leader to visit the president's 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel Ranch. Bush said: "I want to show him some of my favorite spots."

The former KGB colonel who spent the better part of a career spying on the West has devoted the first two days of his first real U.S. tour applying for a membership card. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he said it is time to build a "qualitatively new relationship" and bury the "dead weight" of the Cold War. He promised what the West wanted to hear on economic reform at home and political cooperation in Afghanistan, while skating around the major differences still dividing the two sides on missile defense.

"The question is whether the United States and Russia need each other," Putin said earlier today at Rice University in Houston. His answer was an unwavering yes. "We have to sense the pulse of history."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bush; bush43; doublestandard; flashback; georgewbush; hypocrites; mediabias; putin; rino; stayouttadabushes; stayouttathebushes; trump
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Saw this on twitter.
1 posted on 07/19/2018 6:26:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Not a word in support of the President by the globalist Bush clan. Disgusting.


2 posted on 07/19/2018 6:30:29 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: EdnaMode

Wow. That’s disgraceful. Shameful. And an absurd sign of weakness by an American President.


3 posted on 07/19/2018 6:30:56 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: EdnaMode

I never realized Bush committed high treason.


4 posted on 07/19/2018 6:32:58 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: txrefugee

They are all hypocrites.


5 posted on 07/19/2018 6:33:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode

Everything is always all right when literally any other President but Trump it does. Be it Bush and his glowing words for Putin and how he lovingly gazed into his eyes and sensed his honest soul, or Obama’s travel bans and detention of kids... it’s only Trump does something that the Democrat partisans working in the mainstream media suddenly decide to go absolutely ape sh** over it.


6 posted on 07/19/2018 6:33:34 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: EdnaMode
"We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul. He's a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country and I appreciate very much the frank dialogue and that's the beginning of a very constructive relationship," - George W. Bush

Tippie Toe Jebbie says clap.

7 posted on 07/19/2018 6:35:21 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: EdnaMode

Didn’t Bush say he saw into Putin’s soul and knew he was a good man (or some such hoopla)?


8 posted on 07/19/2018 6:35:44 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: TADSLOS

Jeb was going to ask some pointed questions to Putin that time but fell asleep on the couch before he could say anything after pleased to meet you.

Jeb wants to patent a new drink:

Five Hour Low Energy.


9 posted on 07/19/2018 6:38:23 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud , non citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: EdnaMode

Our relations with Russia were going well until obama got elected.

obama aligned with muslims == CAIR, muslim brotherhood, etc.

obama, hillary, huma, etc. .... yeah, it’s easy to see what happened with our relationship with Russia.


10 posted on 07/19/2018 6:42:00 PM PDT by boycott
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To: EdnaMode

You mean Bush was thrilled the “Master Soviet Spy” Vladimir Putin was at his Ranch.

Interesting.


11 posted on 07/19/2018 6:43:02 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: EdnaMode

Didn’t GWB sell the ranch and lives in Dallas now? A Democrat city to his liking


12 posted on 07/19/2018 6:52:43 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: EdnaMode

I never wanted to admit that Bush was stupid. But inside I knew he was. This last election we the people stood up and voted for who we wanted instead of the lessor of two evils. And look what happened!


13 posted on 07/19/2018 6:57:36 PM PDT by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go jst inraight to the comments.)
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To: EdnaMode

TREASON!!!!


14 posted on 07/19/2018 7:03:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode

The CIA/Bush family drove me out of the Republican party. I supported “W” throughout his presidency because I saw the alternative clearly, but the experience left me outside “Republican” thought.

I’m only Constitutionalist now.


15 posted on 07/19/2018 7:08:33 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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To: MV=PY
… I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.

We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul, a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country. And I appreciated so very much the frank dialogue. There was no kind of diplomatic chit chat, trying to throw each other off balance.

There was a straightforward dialogue, and that’s the beginning of a very constructive relationship. I wouldn’t have invited him to my ranch if I didn’t trust him. …
From the 2001 press conference. This was in response to a rhetorical question by Putin himself, to wit “Can we trust Russia?”
16 posted on 07/19/2018 7:17:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s it, thanks!

I see there’s a new thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3672358/posts


17 posted on 07/19/2018 7:23:35 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Olog-hai

Oops. Now this thread is self-referencing. Kinda like Being John Malkovich:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Fuxkinhug


18 posted on 07/19/2018 7:29:11 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: EdnaMode

Imagine that!


19 posted on 07/19/2018 7:58:52 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: EdnaMode
It would be funny if Trump and Putin made a surprise side trip to look in on Bush at his ranch in Crawford.

"Howdy there Putie-Put!"

20 posted on 07/19/2018 9:11:01 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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