I told you so -- president is scared of horses

I've been telling people this for years, but apparently it's news to some even well-informed people. The president is frightened almost to death by horses. He won't get near them, even if there's a fence between him and the horse. Now Vincente Fox confirms this.

Here's another fun detail from Vicente Fox's upcoming autobiography: He says that despite President Bush's cowboy image, the man is actually scared of horses.

Fox tells the story of the two men meeting in Mexico in early 2001, in which he invited Bush to ride a large horse. Bush nervously backed away. "A horse lover can always tell when others don't share our passion," Fox wrote.

Fun fact: Bush's Crawford ranch, purchased in 1999 in order to help create a down-home image for his presidential campaign, does not have any horses.