Posted on 05/22/2004 8:50:32 PM PDT by miltonim
President Bush took a hard tumble off his bike on Saturday, suffering minor cuts on his chin, upper lip, nose, right hand and both knees.
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Once cleaned up, Mr. Bush was offered a ride from the secret service, but declined instead hopping back on the bike to finish his ride.
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he paused to allow photographers to document the damage.
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John Kerry, who crashed his $8,000 bike earlier this month, told reporters in front of cameras, 'Did the training wheels fall off?' ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtondispatch.com ...
From the article.....And if it were a Republican that made that comment, would the media waste one second in deciding whether to put it on the record?
PING
I had noted that also before... Serry's are really nice bikes. I would LOVE one! Campy components and all!
The media did NOT think 42's personal life was such a big deal... why it was just sex, afterall... & of course it was okay to cover up so the dear Mrs. C would not find out... garbage.
He was almost a hero for being such a hunk that attracks the chicks mentality
thanks for ping prairie.
Our dear pres has now joined the "road rash" group ..and he may have been a member before.
It is a badge of toughness!
PS: Perhaps the newbie is here to learn?
True Believers can never learn - they are caught up in an endless and bovine recapitulation of what they already admire about themselves.
HA HA!! He looks JUST like an Easter island head! ha ha!
well, let's see...
there was a deal Clinton strongarmed, in which some 40-odd top-of-the-line CNC VMCs with the requisite computers and software were transferred from Boeing to the "civilian aerospace industry" of the PRC.
Of course, there is no such thing as a "civilian" aerospace industry in Red China. All Chinese aerospace is fully nationalized, and there is no separation between their civil and military activities.
Of course, Clinton, through Ron Brown, had to adjust the national security based export restrictions on defense-application technology to allow this transfer to occur.
Of course, those machines, by the way, had been used in the production of the upgraded B1 bomber and the MX missile system.
Of course, a coalition of ex-Boeing workers had almost settled a deal with Boeing for that same equipment, offering more money for it than Clinton allowed Boeing to ask from the ChiComs.
Of course, none of this had anything to do with the millions of dollars contributed illegally to his reelection war chest and to his legal defense fund by the ChiComs through various front organizations < /sarcasm >
That's ONE.
Don't get me started on the Loral deal.
User8:
1. I caution you to moderate your use of profanity. I personally don't get offended by it, as I learned to swear like an irritated dock-hand at my mother's knee, but it IS against this site's posting TOS.
2. I do not dispute that there are examples of questionable backroom dealings in all forms of politics involving all politicians.
3. I DO dispute your implied equation of all such dealings as roughly the same degree of corruption as Clinton selling national security secrets, assets, and technology to an enemy nation for his own cash reimbursement. Even the so-called "October Surprise" is nowhere near so foul, even if it turns out in the fullness of time to be factual.
4. I shall not supply links - from lengthy experience in internet and real-world discourse I have learned that most thinking folks credit information they themselves have had to dredge up far more than that which is handed to them - I suppose this is the information equivalent of valuing what you earn or buy more highly than what you do not.
an end note - Though I am among the least trigger-happy of the VKS, I am beginning to think that you may indeed turn out to be a DU infiltrator. I am alerting some folks to this growing suspicion.
Please... disappoint my nascent expectations.
Admin Moderator, my esteemed FRiend Mr. King, and all you Viking Kittens: Meow?
And like that......
.......He's gone......
AM,
that was fast! How many megavolts on that one?
*POOF*
amazing what sudden and catastrophic joule heating does to rancid rodents, isn't it?
and I never tire of the spectacle.
THAT... is one enviable tagline!
Sure.
Do you want a sugar cookie, chocolate chip cookie, ginger snap, or a snickerdoodle? :)
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