Bush 'leads' aides on sweaty ranch run - (he was in his pick-up truck)

[Kadie]

Bush leads aides on sweaty ranch run
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
32 minutes ago

snip...
Forty White House staffers, members of the military and Secret Service gathered at a starting line and took off running. Their secret hope was to be inducted into the "President's 100-degree Club."

"You have to run for three miles. No walking. And then you get a T-shirt," White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said about the event, which has become an August tradition at the ranch.

It was grueling. The runners poured water over their heads as they ran, each at their own pace. All 40 made it.

"The air temperature was 104, but with the humidity it felt like 109 degrees," Perino said.

snip...
The president gave the runners a pep talk at the starting point of the midafternoon run — two laps on a paved road that winds near a helicopter landing zone. "He told them not to push it too hard, but to give it their all," she said.

Bush cheered them on at the halfway point and then rode in his pickup truck back to the finish line in time to shake hands with every runner and present each with a light blue T-shirt emblazoned with: "The President's 100 Degree Club."

more...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070815/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_ranch_run_1

[lovuian]

1. He is a sick sick sick man and too see these men

do this makes me sick

[Kolesar]

5. Is there fragging in the SS?

[JeffR]

2. Typo in there

Surely the shirts read, "The President's 100 IQ Club."

[NYC Liberal]

3. That high? nt

[JeffR]

6. Hmm. Yeah, you're right.

One too many zeros, at least.

[poverlay]

4. Many corrupt, psychopathic rulers throughout history have loved such sport: Caligula, Nero, Hitler,

etc. etc...

Running 3 miles in 100+ weather is NOT a healthy activity for any but the most well trained.

[Arugula Latte]

16. You just KNOW that sick bastard was hoping one of them would drop from heat stroke

and then if s/he eventually died, well, boy howdy, now that's a good time down in Crawford! Heh heh heh!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. What a sick fuck. Next he'll be asking them to wear their underwear on the outside

to show him they wear clean underwear.

[tanyev]

8. Ooooh, a T-shirt!

Those are so hard to come by. No wonder they would all risk death by heat stroke.

[Kadie]

15. I'm sure * told them not to sell it on e-bay.

:eyes:

[tbyg52]

9. Did he drag any of them behind it? nt

[Kadie]

14. .

He probably wouldn't have noticed if he had.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Who's more twisted ...... Il Dunce or the dunces that do this shit for his entertainment???

This is just some sick shit.

Buncha fucking dumbasses.

[karlrschneider]

11. Too bad he didn't run over an IED

(Inoperative Electronic Device)


:eyes:

[Old and In the Way]

12. Were they ordered to do this?

Why didn't the boyking join in the fun? Is this how he gets his jollies? With everything going to hell around him, he seems to have time for some ritualistically bizarre behaviour. I'll bet he's a very strange man away from the public eye.

[jackstraw45]

13. Once a frat boy....

...always a frat boy.

:eyes:

[Glimmer of Hope]

17. No kidding. What a childish little twit.