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Sun Aug-14-05 12:34 PM
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"All right," Bush says. "Let's go have fun." |
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President Bush took seven journalists on a ride around his Crawford, Texas ranch on Saturday. He spoke with them before the ride. Here are a few excerpts of that interview. "There's something exhilarating about heading down a hill at 25 mph on a mountain bike," a mud-spattered Bush says after a ride at his ranch.
>>He has taken heat for his devotion to his bike. Twice, in the middle of the day, he was exercising when a crisis erupted: in 2001, a man wielding a gun was shot outside the White House, and in May, a plane strayed into restricted airspace above Washington. As the White House and Capitol were evacuated, Bush was riding his bike, as a Washington Post columnist put it, "blissfully unaware."<< http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/14/Worldandnation/Hitting_the_trail_wit.shtml
President Bush rides through wildflowers at his Texas ranch with Reuters photographer Jason Reed, center, and St. Petersburg Times Washington bureau chief Bill Adair, right. Bush says, "I become a reinvigorated person as a result of a good exercise session."
BLISSFULLY UNAWARE Transcript: >>All right, let's go have fun. This will be great. Again, hang in there and do not force the President too hard. Be kind. Then afterwards we'll have a good visit.<< http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/14/Worldandnation/A_chat_from_the_bike.shtml
BLISSFULLY UNAWARE. BLISSFULLY UNAWARE. BLISSFULLY UNAWARE. BLISSFULLY UNAWARE. BLISSFULLY UNAWARE. BLISSFULLY FREAKING UNAWARE.
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Sun Aug-14-05 12:36 PM
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1. You don't have to answer tough questions on a bike. Avoidance. |
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Sun Aug-14-05 12:48 PM
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4. What qualities do you look for in the President of the United States? |
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Hmm. Well, I'd have to say 'BLISSFULLY UNAWARE' would be at the top of the list. 'LIAR' would definitely be second. and third? oh, let's go with a good bike rider. Yeah, that's about it.
:nuke: AAARGHHH.
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Sun Aug-14-05 09:32 PM
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30. But he's not even a "good bike rider." How many times |
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has he fallen off the goddamn thing?
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Sun Aug-14-05 12:43 PM
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2. What a total and complete twit...and what is it wearing? |
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Edited on Sun Aug-14-05 12:44 PM by BrklynLiberal
I cannot believe those idiots aren't embarrassed to be seen riding with him.
EDIT. Sure hope he gets eaten alive by them Texas skeeters.
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Sun Aug-14-05 12:49 PM
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6. His short sleeve buttoned down collared shirt with bicycle spandex |
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Edited on Sun Aug-14-05 12:52 PM by Verve
shorts looks interesting. It must be the new look for professionals on vacation who need to look like they are working. What fashion!
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Mon Aug-15-05 09:15 AM
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41. Reminds me of those guys you'd see at the beach |
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wearing dress shoes and socks with their casual Bermuda shorts.
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Sun Aug-14-05 12:50 PM
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7. Looks like he found it on pickle's side of the closet. |
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His shirt - you know the one - must finally be getting decontaminated.
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Sun Aug-14-05 12:53 PM
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Sun Aug-14-05 04:16 PM
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19. Is that a Paisley shirt? |
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Who dresses him in the morning?
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Sun Aug-14-05 12:45 PM
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they have not padded the trail.
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Sun Aug-14-05 12:49 PM
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:D Good one!
Too busy padding the bank accounts.
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Sun Aug-14-05 01:03 PM
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11. Truer words were never spoken. n/t |
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Sun Aug-14-05 12:59 PM
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10. What a load of bushit! |
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:puffpiece: :puke: ME ME ME I I I. It's always about him and those "journalists" who fawn over him make me sick! :puke: What a self absorbed self serving elitist prick!
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Sun Aug-14-05 01:03 PM
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12. The imbecile can't even tie his own shoes. He's wearing velcro sneakers! |
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Look in the first image. What an asshole.
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Sun Aug-14-05 01:12 PM
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13. That was the first thing that jumped out at me... |
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I've always called them retard shoes...And my point has been proven... :rofl: Duckie
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Sun Aug-14-05 01:24 PM
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15. I thought they only made those shoes for young kids that can't tie their |
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shoe strings? Who knew they made them for adults?
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Sun Aug-14-05 04:16 PM
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When I first met Skip he owned a pair. They were the first thing I threw away when we moved in together. Duckie
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Sun Aug-14-05 04:16 PM
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22. They don't make them for adults. |
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Sun Aug-14-05 04:44 PM
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23. Not every adult is able-handed. |
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My dad is 86 and wears that type of shoe, because he needs easy-on, easy-off shoes.
Doesn't excuse *, of course. (Don't know why anyone who does have reasonably agile fingers would want them - I tried a pair once, and they don't fit as snugly as regular sneakers with shoestrings.)
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Sun Aug-14-05 04:48 PM
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24. To be fair, those are clipless pedal shoes... |
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Sun Aug-14-05 01:15 PM
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14. Bush's "windsurfing" while his (and our) world crumbles. PR disaster. |
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This is utterly stupid, pretending to have fun when the whole world is watching him try to ignore a noble woman of courage and while his craziest of the crazies who are his supporters are up-in-arms.
In other words he is leaving the PR on this to the certifiable hard right wing. Bush comes across as more out of touch than ever.
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Sun Aug-14-05 01:32 PM
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16. The Comfortably Dumb President |
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For a comfortably numb nation.
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Sun Aug-14-05 04:01 PM
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17. Did they PhotoShop-out the training wheels? |
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Still hasn't changed his blouse too I see.
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Sun Aug-14-05 04:13 PM
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18. Alfred E. Neuman he IS |
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Sun Aug-14-05 04:16 PM
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20. If only he wouldn't wear his helmet |
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"There's something exhilarating about heading down a hill at 25 mph on a mountain bike"
Given his record for falling off things.
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Sun Aug-14-05 04:49 PM
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... and unless I've been missing something, 25 mph is pretty fast for going downhill on a mountain bike. Sounds like another lie to me. Surprise, surprise.
Not that you can't get up to 20-25 on flat land on a basic mountain bike, but how long a hill is he talking about? Somehow I don't see him hurtling along at that pace and then flying down a hill. Especially not dressed like such a goober.
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Mon Aug-15-05 08:27 AM
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35. I noticed that too and I call BS. |
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Completely bogus. And from the pics, these are the tough MTB trails he's riding on? WTF?!? Where's the singletrack? Looks like he's riding on nothing more than a friggin' fireroad. I could ride my road bike on that. Without even wiping out, mind you. You don't need a mountain bike for riding that stuff. Proves it's all about image and nothing more. But we already knew that.
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Sun Aug-14-05 04:50 PM
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26. Wanna see a "DORK", thats what a "DORK" looks like! |
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Sun Aug-14-05 09:29 PM
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28. It's white-sock-with-sandals dorky. nt |
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Sun Aug-14-05 04:51 PM
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27. I wonder if he enjoys wrestling ? |
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I could make him blissfully un-aware of his surroundings and give him a good work over <ah hem> work-out.
I would love to get him on the rasslin mat for ohhh 2 minutes
it would be blissful
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Sun Aug-14-05 09:31 PM
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29. The word you're looking for is "oblivious." |
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He has been caught by the bug like millions. So he's "blissfully unaware". So fucking what--he's exercising and he's in pretty damn good shape.
That doesn't mean he's not a war criminal. That doesn't mean he shouldn't talk to Cindy. Do not let hatred make you blind.
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Sun Aug-14-05 09:49 PM
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32. Mountain Bike One, they call it |
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"I become a reinvigorated person as a result of a good exercise session."
only addicts say that
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Sun Aug-14-05 09:53 PM
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34. "now watch this ride"... n/t |
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Mon Aug-15-05 08:31 AM
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36. Embedded in Iraq, embedded in Crawford ... |
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... our Government is mastering state control of our media while allowing them to think they're free.
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Mon Aug-15-05 09:03 AM
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39. If he hits a good enough bump, he'll be IMbedded in Crawford |
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George, George, George of the White House, Strong as he can be..... Watch out for that tree!
(Sorry. Today's my day to channel Jay Ward.)
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Mon Aug-15-05 08:39 AM
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37. What? No Presidential Seal on his helmet? |
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Tsk, tsk. The image boys are slipping.
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Mon Aug-15-05 08:55 AM
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38. Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer |
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He's a demon on wheels...
He's comin' at you so you better look alive He's busy revvin' up the powerful Mach Five!...
Go, Speed Racer! Go, Speed Racer! Go, Speed Racer, GO!
*sigh* Oh, WHY doesn't some enterprising news outlet play a video clip with that song playing in the background?
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Mon Aug-15-05 09:06 AM
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40. he's riding with the St Pete Times DC bureau chief, and btw, the times |
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hasn't written a word about Cindy Sheehan. coincidence? heh.
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