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Bush's spill puts scooter in spotlight
Boston Globe ^
| 6/14/03
| Joanna Weiss
Posted on 06/14/2003 9:03:57 AM PDT by RJCogburn
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:05 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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It would have been brilliant publicity: the leader of the free world, tooling around the family compound on a newfangled Segway scooter.
If only the leader of the free world hadn't fallen off.
On Thursday, President Bush failed to flip the ''on'' switch to the scooter he had purchased for his father, so the self-balancing mechanism didn't work. The president tumbled to the ground, unhurt. And news photographers, lingering outside the compound with long lenses, picked up grainy images of a presidential spill.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush41; bush43; fathersday; kennebunkport; segway
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Bush does a Gerry Ford...or is it Chevy Chase?
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:03:58 AM PDT
by
RJCogburn
To: RJCogburn
Okay, this is really funny...regardless of politics:-)
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:04:53 AM PDT
by
ellery
To: RJCogburn
I dunno. The photo series I saw showed the President taking a nose-dive, but never falling to the ground, and then nimbly recovering his standing balance. Am I correct on this, folks?
Leni
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:06:42 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
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To: RJCogburn
I was suprised frombehind at O'hare by two cops on those scooters. They are no good near normal people who aren't expecting a dork on a broom with wheels.
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:09:00 AM PDT
by
Thebaddog
(Fetch this!)
To: MinuteGal
Doesn't matter if he landed on his feet or not, the leftist swine are trying to make a big deal out of it.
They never learn. The great majority of people really like G.W.
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:09:21 AM PDT
by
LibKill
(MOAB, the greatest advance in Foreign Relations since the cat-o'-nine-tails!)
To: RJCogburn
do we have a picture of this scooter?
To: RJCogburn
''The slick corporate campaign by Segway repeatedly assured the Legislature that adults would be able to operate this safely,'' said state Senator Jarrett Barrios, co-chairman of the Committee on Public Safety. ''On hearing the news of our president's fall, I don't know what to think.''
I'm thinking that Mr Barrios has never had an accident on a bicycle, especially when just learning how to ride one.
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:10:04 AM PDT
by
lelio
To: RJCogburn
This proves we need a new scooter-control law to make our world safe for all the children everywhere so that we can all live in a more peaceful world full of hapiness and love . LOL!
To: lelio
said state Senator Jarrett Barrios, co-chairman of the Committee on Public Safety. ''On hearing the news of our president's fall, I don't know what to think.'' boy, I wonder what his party affiliation is...
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:14:08 AM PDT
by
ilgipper
To: RJCogburn
First off, no one has posted a picture where Bush hit the ground. The Segway tilted forward and the President hopped over it. He never fell to the ground.
Big Freaking deal. It's just another hit piece that started with Reuter's.
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:14:26 AM PDT
by
Shooter 2.5
(Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
To: LibKill
It does matter to me. I love to play "gotcha" in matters large and small with the evil, lying, lazy liberal media.
Leni
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:15:06 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
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To: Thebaddog
They are no good near normal people who aren't expecting a dork on a broom with wheels. LOL!
Mel's Angels.
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:15:10 AM PDT
by
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:16:33 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: Shooter 2.5
Didn't Clinton bust his butt late one night while presumably partying with Greg Norman in Florida? As I recall, he tore something in his knee and had to have some work done on it. Clinton cannot walk in a house without falling, but you never heard much about that. There was no report on how much WJC had had to drink or smoke or snort that night either.
Bush did make a good, if not graceful, recovery though. All in all, Bush & Segway will benefit from this episode. Someone will have to remond GW to turn the thing on though.
To: All
Jeez, the Bushbots are touchy. It is an amusing story.
Here in Manchester, NH, where these things are made, one can see people every now and again riding on about. It is virtually impossible to fall off one.
The inventor, Dean Kamen, has invented a wheelchair that will go up and down stairs on its own.
Lighten up!
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:22:54 AM PDT
by
RJCogburn
(Yes, I will call it bold talk for a......)
To: Backwoods Southern Lawyer
Didn't Clinton bust his butt late one night while presumably partying with Greg Norman in Florida? As I recall, he tore something in his knee and had to have some work done on it. Clinton cannot walk in a house without falling, but you never heard much about that. There was no report on how much WJC had had to drink or smoke or snort that night either. Clintoon DID take a header (no pun intended), and according to Buzz Patterson in "Dereliction of Duty," it was because Clintoon was drunk off his a$$ at the time.
The resulting chaotic Presidential entourage trip to the hospital was a mess.
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:24:12 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: RJCogburn
i need to be honest - who in the world would be caught riding one of those down the street?
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:24:46 AM PDT
by
Norse
To: cynicalman
To: RJCogburn
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:27:32 AM PDT
by
RJCogburn
(Yes, I will call it bold talk for a......)
To: RJCogburn
But the company also wants to make the so-called Human Transporter a standard fixture on sidewalks across the nation.Who wants this should try maneuvering a less-wide handcart on the sidewalks of Manhattan.
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posted on
06/14/2003 9:29:44 AM PDT
by
decimon
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