Bush Spent Two and a Half Hours on a Bike Ride Yesterday >

[Stephanie]

I was at work. How about you?


As posted in LBN:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1464064&mesg_id=1464064

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7821883 /

Bush not told about plane scare until after biking
Updated: 7:43 p.m. ET May 11, 2005

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush was not told for nearly an hour while he finished a bike ride about a breach in White House airspace on Wednesday that prompted the highest alert since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the White House said.

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Bush was about a half-an-hour into his ride at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland when an unidentified Cessna airplane came near the White House, sending the Secret Service scrambling to evacuate Vice President Dick Cheney and move First Lady Laura Bush to a secure location.

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McClellan said Bush was informed about the incident around 12:50 p.m. at the end of his ride. He left the reserve around 12:57 p.m. and returned to the White House at around 1:30 p.m., well after the security scare had ended.

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Bush had left the White House at about 11:03 a.m. and had arrived at Patuxent for the bike ride at 11:34 a.m.

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[demo dutch]

1. I was at work, where were you Mr. President! It's hard work isn't!

[OrlandoGator]

2. I work on Wednesday afternoons.

You'd think after F9/11 exposed Bush's 40+% vacation rate, he'd probably at least try to look busy once in a while.

[trotsky]

3. Wow, you'd think the most important man in the world

would have some work to get done. He told us how hard it was, didn't he? I bet it is hard, squeezing in 2.5 hours for a bike ride and STILL have time left for Xbox before a 2:30pm nap!

[CottonBear]

4. I was at work and then I left at 2:10 PM to attend a meeting

which lasted from 2:30 PM - 7:00 PM. Then I went home. Long day.

[opusprime]

5. Bush: The Vacation President...

Does this idiot ever work?

Cheney was in charge again, just like on 9/11.

I see that Bush didnt return to the WH until 7 minutes after he heard the news about the plane. I guess someone must have been reading to him, and he got scared.

[demo dutch]

No Cheney was racing away in his limosine! Laura was

left to hold the fort with Nancy and went into the bunker!
The Intl. Press will have a field day with this one!

[Ripley]

6. But according to a DUer he was just goofing off like Clinton.

But Clinton's choice was golf not trikes. :eyes:

Why do some trolls last so long?

[Bouncy Ball]

13. Good question, Ripley.

Because they tread the line very, very carefully.

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[Lars39]

20. Alert on patterns you see, and let the mods/admin sort it out.

It sometimes works.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

I wasn't going to mention it...

But I've been watching that conversation since yesterday.
Fascinating, isn't it?
And I agree with Bouncy Ball. They are very, very careful about what they post.

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[Lorien]

21. * has spent more time on vacation

than any President in history (43% was what I heard quoted on NPR last year).There's almost no other job in America-aside from maybe film celebrity-that allows for that much time away from work.

[Ripley]

23. And since when is it acceptable for such a lying pig to say...

"It's hard work." over and over and then basically spit in the fucking face of the American people by doing absolutely NOTHING. He doesn't read critical intelligence memos and he can't fucking give a "press conference" without being fed his talking points through a hump on his back.

How could anyone who defends this asshole be allowed to stay at DU? It is driving me crazy. :argh:

[Bouncy Ball]

34. Breathe....

just keep saying things about bush that compels the person to defend him and then keep alerting.

It'll be over soon enough.

[Ripley]

40. Heh!

Thanks for that. Some days it just drives me bat shit crazy. :D

[Bouncy Ball]

41. I hear ya.

That person has been around a while and I've noticed it for a while, too.

[orleans]

70. hey bouncy? who's the pooch? it's such a funny/cute picture....

is this poochie yours?

[FreedomAngel82]

45. Sometimes I wonder

if the celebrities work harder then W does.

[Lorien]

56. They do

I've worked for a major studio for years, and a typical live action shooting schedule can run 14 hours a day, easily. The celebrities I've met are people with an amazing amount of energy, but very little free time. Even if they do only one film that year, it's on average a three month shoot with brutal hours-more than * could possibly handle.

[BrainRants]

7. You'd think if Washington was under attack somone would interrrupt him.

It's "My Pet Goat" all over again...

MIHOP.

[rodeodance]

9. disgusting-they let Bush ride bike at a US enviromentsl center (Patuxent)

The worst enviromental record of any president and he gets to reaps the bounty!!!!!


http://www.fws.gov/patuxent/vcdefault.html

the largest science and environmental education center in the Department of the Interior. This unique U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service facility is located on the 12,750 acre Patuxent Research Refuge.

[Bridget Burke]

32. "Hiking trails are for pedestrians only." (from your link)

There's another trail used for a tram--specifically NOT for hiking. Was the tram trail closed down for Bush's Field Trip--or the whole environmental center?

The place is a wildlife refuge with a research component. The public is welcome for education & hiking, but recreation is not the main purpose.

[FreedomAngel82]

47. Interesting

So they had to plan this way in advanced for him to be there did they not? So they could make preprations for him coming. Interesting. So he obviously doesn't go there often does he?

[funflower]

65. His Secret Service detail knew but didn't tell him for almost an hour.

[BobRossi]

8. re: Shrub riding bike...

"Jeff" was comming over for a 'Man-Date' so shrub had to work up a sweat in preperation.

[trof]

10. "Let's see...Bolton nomination, Iraq, Social Security, DeLay debacle...

$2.50 gas, global warming/climate change, North Korea nukes, spiraling deficits, what should I do today? Hmmm."
"Hey, Andy?"
"Yes, Mr. President?"
"Alert the Secret Service Bike Posse and have Louis get my Schwinn out. I feel like a ride. Tell Laura I'll be back in time for supper."

[rodeodance]

12. Patuxent Research Refuge--National Wildlife Visitor Center

He polutes this enviroment.


Patuxent Research Refuge
National Wildlife Visitor Center
Trail System

This trail guide is provided to help you plan your hiking and wildlife viewing activities. Each trail is Eagle in Flightlisted with a brief description of the area through which it passes. Patuxent is a research refuge where the air, land, and water are managed specifically for wildlife. To better protect our wildlife and its habitat, we ask our visitors to abide by posted signs and regulations. If you have any questions, we will be happy to assist you. Enjoy the wildlife and habitat. Take only pictures and memories, leave only footprints.

Note: Trails and grounds at the National Wildlife Visitor Center are open sunrise. - 5:30 P.M. daily except for holidays. The National Wildlife Visitor Center building is open 10:00 A.M. - 5:30 P.M. daily except for holidays.

[Bouncy Ball]

11. I was working on a pretty long document that will

serve as the basis for a course for teachers this summer.

When I took breaks, I was sending out emails and checking my voice mail.

Also doing some last-minute edits on a paper due in my graduate-level class last night.

And that was a slow day.

Glad to hear he can just randomly go on two and a half hour long bike rides in the middle of the work week.

Now someone want to tell me how he's "working" on those bike rides? Or when he's "clearing brush?"

He's the most non-working president I have ever seen. Probably that the US has ever seen.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

14. He's sort of like the late Jim Varney..."Ernest," the "Hey Vern" guy.

I see Bush in his little shorts with his little towel on his little bike, free from all worries and pedaling carefree through the countryside while the world burns from HIS lit match, and I think of Ernest.

[FreedomAngel82]

48. He was great

I loved his Ernest movies when I was younger.

[Bethany Rockafella]

16. Everyone knows that Bush is just the puppet in the White House.

He does what he is told. It's been a free ride for him thus far.

[alarimer]

17. I worked from 8 am to 8 pm

With no time for a bike ride!

[carnie_sf]

18. Good to know

he's doing all that hard work. Maybe he was out checking on his lumber company.

[indepat]

22. Vulgar curiosity makes me wonder the taxpayer cost of such bike rides

[greenbriar]

24. they still cant do math...I only see an hour and half ride

or is there a time change?



Oh and by the way, I was teaching 150 kids

[Stephanie]

29. Hour and a half ride, plus 1/2 hour transportation time each way

So out of the WH two & 1/2 hours. And, looks like he still needs to shower, so tack on another hour for shower and lunch. When does he work?

[progressivebydesign]

25. He's so damn useless... he's still on that schedule from before.

Remember before 9/11? The press reported (back when they weren't afraid to report the truth) that Bush woke up, ate breakfast, worked out, ate lunch, played video games, took a nap, worked out, then had dinner, then went to bed after watching TV. THAT is the schedule of our great leader! He doesn't give a fuck. He's gotten away with everything his whole life. He's a fraud.. he's not a leader, not a politician, not a born-again Christian (he went thru that program in D.C. that teaches politicians how to look like one), not a moral leader... he's an overaged frat boy playing a role to help his family get rich. Cheney is running the Country.. always has. Bush was flown all over here and hell during 9/11 because 1) he's a coward 2) Cheney told him to stay the fuck outta the way while he and Poppy worked.

[FreedomAngel82]

49. Exactly

Does he really play video game's?! I don't care if someone plays video game's and is an adult (I do sometimes) but he's supposed to be the leader of the free world!

[progressivebydesign]

26. Back to his old schedule, I see! Useless.

Remember before 9/11? The press reported (back when they weren't afraid to report the truth) that Bush woke up, ate breakfast, worked out, ate lunch, played video games, took a nap, worked out, then had dinner, then went to bed after watching TV. THAT is the schedule of our great leader! He doesn't give a fuck. He's gotten away with everything his whole life. He's a fraud.. he's not a leader, not a politician, not a born-again Christian (he went thru that program in D.C. that teaches politicians how to look like one), not a moral leader... he's an overaged frat boy playing a role to help his family get rich. Cheney is running the Country.. always has. Bush was flown all over here and hell during 9/11 because 1) he's a coward 2) Cheney told him to stay the fuck outta the way while he and Poppy worked.

[Cleita]

27. I was really taken back that he wasn't told because he wasn't

in any danger. Yet, Laura, back at the White House could have been in danger if it was a real terrorist attack attempt. But who cares about wife number one. :sarcasm: Nancy was there too, but she's just an old hag ex-First Lady.:sarcasm: It is so reminicent of Hitler. When the allies landed at Normandy, the Fuehrer was asleep. Since his aides didn't want to disturb his sleep, the invasion was well under way before he learned of it.

[wicket]

28. Do you see the book he's reading?

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/white-house/index.php#speedreading-with-the-president-103168

On our bike rides, we pretty much confine our reading to our heart-rate monitors. Not so the President, who as the photo at right reveals, enjoys more literary fare. What's particularly interesting about the photo, which was taken today, is that the book the President's clutching is Tom Wolfe's celebration of the sex-soaked, booze-drenched lives of college students, I Am Charlotte Simmons. In February, NYT's Elisabeth Bumiller reported that Bush had already read the book and was "enthusiastically recommending it to friends." Now, three months later, he's apparently still deeply engaged with it. So maybe it's like his official daily reading, the Bible. The good parts are worth reading over and over.

:rofl:

[Stephanie]

42. So he's reading fiction in the car!

Can't he even do a little work in transit, like most people would?

Do you know anything about the book?

[wicket]

53. I don't know anything about the book

I just think it's funny that shrubby claimed to have already read it in February, and now he's reading it again- maybe it really has taken him that long to finish the book- big words and all! :rofl:

[Stephanie]

55. I bet you're right that he did not finish it

And it's taking that long for him to read it.

[FreedomAngel82]

50. LOL

Someone should try telling fundies that Bush is reading that book and tell how it's his favorite. ;) Imagine their reactions when they read this book. This really shows a lot about his character I think. I remember hearing that when Bush was younger at the RNC (I think he was first married to Laura or either married for a while and had their kids) and Poppy was the nomination for president and they asked junior what he and his father liked to talk about and they said pu&&&. Does anybody know about that? I'd love to show a video of that to some W faithful I know.

[Bozita]

30. His workday ended at 11:03 am -- he's working longer hours than pre-9/11

[VOX]

31. Our pResident -- Hardly working.

In so many ways. :grr:

[zbdent]

33. The President was never in any danger.

However, Bush was in grave danger . . . he could have fallen off his bike . . .

[Octafish]

35. For Bush, that IS work. Hard work. Working hard. Hard to work.

The little turd from Crawford
hasn't worked a day in his life.
And he's proud of that.

It's no mystery why Gov. Bush is the worst "president" ever. Remember, the story of the writer who stayed at the house in Kennebunkport? He reported that he wanted something to read and the only book he could find was "The Fart Book."

[Stephanie]

37. I did not know that!

Googled the Fart Book and found some interesting Amazon reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0880321318/002-5751192-7524029?v=glance



And this, the story you mentioned:


One of the major themes in Kelley's book is the family's weakness for liquor and drugs. Alcoholism, she writes, runs deeply in the family and among its victims, according to one Bush family friend, was Prescott, a "major-league alcoholic", who was in the habit of checking himself into his men's club and country club to go on benders. And Kelley writes that George W Bush is not the only one in the first family who enjoyed illegal substances. While a student at Southern Methodist University in the 1960s, first lady Laura Bush was known "as a go-to girl for dime bags of marijuana".

But, as one of W's Yalie frat brothers tells Kelley, it's not the substance abuse in Bush's past that's disturbing, it's the "lack of substance ... Georgie, as we called him, had absolutely no intellectual curiosity about anything. He wasn't interested in ideas or in books or causes. He didn't travel; he didn't read the newspapers; he didn't watch the news; he didn't even go to the movies. How anyone got out of Yale without developing some interest in the world besides booze and sports stuns me." New Yorker writer Brendan Gill recalls roaming the Kennebunkport compound one night while staying there looking for a book to read - the only title he could find was The Fart Book.

According to Kelley, the Bushes aggressively maintain their all-American family image by scrubbing government files of embarrassing facts, stonewalling journalists, and terrorising critics. "Some people felt that George's past did not seep out and embarrass him and his family," she writes of the White House's current Bush, "because he was protected by a coterie of former CIA men with an allegiance to his father." An Austin, Texas political consultant named Peck Young told Kelley that when a woman claiming to have been a call girl from Midland showed up in Austin with "intimate knowledge" of W during his oil wildcatting days, she was approached by what she described as "intelligence types" and left town abruptly. According to Young, the men "made her realise that it was better to turn tricks in Midland than to stop breathing".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/salon/0,14779,1304379,00.html

[Octafish]

43. LOL! Well-read people who understand the world's greatest crime family.

Thanks for the excerpt, too, Stephanie! It's hard to believe this is what passes for an American political dynasty. Wonder who they had to kill to get that designation?

[Karenina]

67. I must need new glasses

That sychophant in royal blue, butt to camera... is that just a shadow?
Right below the hummer headlight there... He should at LEAST follow the fine example of *fearless leader and wear black... :evilgrin:

[FreedomAngel82]

51. Oh wow!

I want to buy her book. It's on my "to buy" list. What's really surprising to me is nothing with the Bush men but with Laura. She was the go-to girl for marijuana? Wow.

[radar]

36. Like a gerbil or hamster...

...Running on that treadmill wheel thinga-ma-bob.

[im10ashus]

38. At work.

Where all hard working American's were. I wish I had a few hours off in the day to go for a leisurely bike ride. What an asshat our "leader" is.

[Hamlette]

39. I want him to recreate full time, his work product scares me. n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

44. Interesting timing isn't it??

Does he go bike riding every day in Maryland at that time?

[fob]

46. That fucker* always seems to have well publicized ALIBIS when

shit goes down!

[NightOwwl]

52. And he's in bed by 9:00pm every night - except 9/11.

He had to stay up until the ungodly hour of 10:00pm. I don't know about you, but I couldn't sleep that night. But the resident moron was in dreamland by 10:30pm.

[Stephanie]

54. Yes, and it was *awfully funny* when the SS woke them up

and they had to rush to the bunker in their slippers! Aw geez, those were some good times! Remember, Laura? And you didn't have your contacts or anything?

I myself did not sleep for days after 9/11. I live a mile directly north of the WTC. Tried to sleep but just laid on the couch, fully dressed, with the TV on, in case something else happened. Days, weeks, months of pure terror and grief. Anthrax in NY. Bomb threats, evacuations. Fear of the subway. Missing flyers everyplace you looked. Smoke.

But according to Bush it was "a fabulous year."

[NightOwwl]

57. That's awful...I can't imagine what it must have been like for you.

I'm in California, so I could only watch what was happening. You had to live it. I hope things are better for you now.

[Bluebear]

58. They sure woke him to "save" Terri Schiavo

Goodness.

[Stephanie]

60. They don't like to disturb him just because America is under attack -

They only interrupt his leisure activities if it's going to be to his political advantage.

[Enraged_Ape]

59. Bush is the biggest milk-baby wimp in America

It is an absolute shame that this embarrassment is our "President".

[journalist3072]

61. Does that asshole masquerading as President ever really work?

On 9/11, the bastard is reading a children's book in a Florida classroom.

On 5/11, riding a damn bike, and his people don't even tell him about the so-called threat.

[Stephanie]

62. He's out of the loop.

He's just the spokesmodel - he doesn't have an actual role in the organization.

[journalist3072]

68. The understatement of the year!!!!! Kick!

[Stephanie]

69. Do I get a prize?

If I get to pick, can I choose a new president? One who works for a living?

[journalist3072]

71. Have at it! For the sake of our country, go & choose a new Prez!

[Individualist]

63. Where was Condi

Is her Secret Service name Bike?

[Stephanie]

64. I just have to kick

After seeing that thread about the press conf.

[texanwitch]

66. Bush just got caught doing what he does everyday, not working.

He's just like the son of employer I had several years ago, it was understood that the son was not in charge, he just had the title.

You went to his cousin, who really ran the company.

This son would attend meetings and other functions but he had no control over the company, period.

If he said anything you just said OK but would ignore what he said.

Bush is not in charge, never been in charge, why would they tell him anything.

Uncle Dick is in charge, he is just the same as the cousin who really ran the company I worked for.

I doubt Bush can tie his own shoes.