The media has been reporting that President Bush fell off his bike in Scotland, sustaining only a minor scrape or two. But just to show you how the liberal media protects Democrats, they aren't reporting that Dick Durbin was the one who took the training wheels off the President's bike. And now you know...the rest of the story.
Just to remind you, Bush II fell off one of those little Segways a few years ago.
He seems to be remarkably able to clear lots of brush off his Crawford TX ranch, though. I wonder where all that the brush comes from. It must be the filthiest place in all of Texas.
I can't figure out why he can't seem to be able to ride a horse. After all, he is supposed to be a rancher. When I was 13 years old and a boy scout, I literally had a horse eating out of my hand at boy scout camp. I rode it, too. What is it with Bush that he doesn't mount a horse?
Didn't he fall of a bike a few years ago and scrape his nose or something? And didn't he choke a pretzel a few years ago as well?
I heard he got hurt this time because the half-pipe was just over crowded, not because of poor skillz on his part!
The Democratic Party in Congress should demand an immediate investigation to discover who the damn fool is who keeps giving The Precious Leader a helment when he goes bike riding.
To be honest, I think the falling off bikes thing is kind of charming. Humanizing, really. Kind of like Clinton being a poonhound, it makes em seem almost human.
Ha, good one, Ed.
I just want to point out this is his third bike accident. Third. I mean, what gives? Gerald Ford would be proud.
And lest we forget, this is the same man who passed out choking on a pretzel.
It's like he's trying to fill the void left when Chris Farley died.
Ed, the "falling off a bike" thing follows something of a pattern. Bush fell off one of the "segway" devices a few years ago. He--a rancher--has never been seen on a horse. And now he fell off a bike.
There's something strange going on here
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I can't imagine why anyone would have taken that "I'm a cowboy on my ranch" nonsense seriously in the first place. It ranks up there with John Kerry's "I'm just a common man" pose. One of the most amusing things about modern politics is watching phenomenally wealthy sons of privilege try to out-Bubba one another in the media. But I don't see what any of this has to do with him falling off stuff, which I find to be quite contrary to such posing and hence more humanizing. But still pretty damn funny.
You know, it's frustrating for our bicycle company when we can't even get the US President to stay on one of our bikes long enough to get a decent endorsement promo! Lance is too expensive, but we thought the President would be a great second choice. Boy, were we wrong!
Of course, its not a new phenomenon though. There was a story told about Teddy Roosevelt...He was taking a group of reporters on a tour of his ranch and said he hoped they didn't mind, but he had to pitch some hay into his barn loft. When they got to the barn, there was no hay to be seen, so T.R. asked his ranchhand where it was. The ranchhand replied, "Its still up in the loft, where you pitched it for those reporters this morning."
Ed, just to let you know, we've seen something similar in Germany. I've mentioned that we have a "vacation apartment" in a western suburb of Munich. A few years ago, we were in the Marienplatz--the square in front of the "new" city hall (Neues Rathaus)--and we observed a festival that was basically "wir sind eins mit der dritten Welt" (we're one with the third world, and that was exactly what the banner said). Of course, none of the attendees had been in the third world, and it's highly unlikely that they would ever go there. It reminded me of my college days in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
One thing that I found odd was--I'm sure that you've heard of Lyndon Larouche. A nutty American politician. We encountered some of his supporters in Munich a few years ago who were trying to drum up support for him. That made me wonder: why would an American politician try to drum up support in Germany?
I'll admit that I'm free-associating. For a reason that I do not understand, American politicians seem to believe that they need to fake the "common man" bit. I don't know why. I don't want the leader of my country to be a "common man." I'd like to have the leader of my country to exhibit a bit of intelligence and a little humility. I would prefer that the leader of my country not to be a cheerleader, which is what Bush II is. I frankly don't care that he is a child of privilege. He is and he will always be one. But from a political standpoint, as far as I can tell, he is nothing more than a cheerleader.