Kerry Uninjured in Fall From Bicycle

AP- via Yahoo News ^ | 05-02-04 | AP

[petercooper]

CONCORD, Mass. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) took a spill from his bicycle while riding Sunday afternoon but was not injured, a campaign official said.

AP Photo

Kerry was riding with Secret Service agents through Concord, about 18 miles north of Boston, when his bike hit a patch of sand and he fell, campaign officials said.

"He's fine. They took the bike into the bike shop and he went home," said campaign spokesman Michael Meehan.

Kerry was in Massachusetts — he has a home in Boston — enjoying a break from the campaign trail. It was not immediately clear on what road in Concord he was biking.

Kerry, 60, rides his bicycle as often as he can and sometimes brings it with him on the campaign plane.

[VOA]

Kerry was riding with Secret Service agents through Concord, about 18 miles north
of Boston, when his bike hit a patch of sand and he fell, campaign officials said.

Yep, it's never Kerry's fault or incapacity.
Sounds like his bike took control and headed straight for that patch of sand.

Probably even placed there by the many Republican/conservative
partisans in Concord, Mass.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Does he have a serious neurological disease?

Yes. He's a democrat.

It can be fatal if not caught in time and aggressively treated with large doses of facts, discernment and insight.

Thank God it's not genetic, but it does appear to be contagious. Kerry should be in isolation.

His prognosis is very poor.

[isthisnickcool]

[mhking]

Kerry Uninjured in Fall From Bicycle

Damn! The dog didn't push him hard enough!

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[EllaMinnow]

LOL!

[VOA]

"I don't fall."

The quote I heard with the snowboarding incident was "I NEVER fall down!".

What a wanker.

[cyncooper]

Are you really as dense as you seem?

I don't recall Dubya saying "I never choke" and then choking.

Kerry has thundered "I NEVER fall" and has then gone on to fall--not once, not twice, not thrice, but 4 or 5 times by my reckoning, with press in tow and no obvious reason why (even though he tried to blame an innocent Secret Service guy).

Now, you just run along and play. The grown ups are talking here.

[bert]

It's like falling off a bicycle, you never forget.

[Balata]

LOL!

[VOA]

I live in Boston, and listen to Howie Carr's radio show. He's been talking about Kerry's
bike all week. It costs 7 grand.

I'm no biking expert...
but that bike in the photo doesn't look like it could possibly cost $7,000.

UNLESS...it is a "Transformer" and can be turned into that black Suburban
owned by "The Kerry Family".

[John Lenin]

Seperated at birth?

[AD from SpringBay]

Not his fault, I'm sure. Must have been one of those SOBs that protect his sorry self from the right-wing hatred bred spawn of the Biblical south.

[TomGuy]

LOL

That even shows the buttock Purple Heart wound scar.

[Salamander]

The libs now believe that W has a "seizure disorder" that he's medicated for, twice daily and that's what the "pretzel" thing was all about.

http://prisonplanet.tv/articles/april2004/042504bushseizure.htm

This "revelation" allegedly comes from "White House insiders".

Sure.

[Jenya]

"It costs 7 grand
I have seen professional touring bikes that run about $3,000 plus
How in the world can a bike cost $7,000?"

http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=12556

Kerry family's deep pockets on display this election cycle
By Howie Carr, BOSTON HERALD
Friday, April 30, 2004

How much would you pay for a bicycle? Is seven grand too much?

Not as much as John Kerry, I daresay, now that we know, thanks to a front-page story about his butler in The New York Times, that he owns a Serotta bike.

The Serotta, see, is custom-made, with the ``holistic (whole-cyclist) approach to bicycle fitting.''

Translation: It's very expensive. How expensive, you ask. Serotta's ``price points'' are between $1,800 and $5,000 - just for the frame, mind you, if you want extras, like gears and titanium spokes, tack on another $2,000 - which raises the question: what do you suppose Kerry's point is?

Consider that Kerry's second wife owns a Gulfstream V jet, the Flying Squirrel, worth $35 million, and also bought him a personal powerboat, the Scaramouche, worth at least $800,000. So do you think Liveshot's wife's first husband's trust fund bought a bike on the low end, or the high end?

I'll go out on a limb and say Liveshot's bike is worth five large.

And that it actually belongs, not to the solon himself, but to his ``family.''

Repeated calls to Kerry's campaign spokesman over the last two days were not returned. So I looked up Serotta bikes on the Web and came up with a list of local dealers, most of whom operate in such Beautiful People enclaves as Manchester-by-the-Sea and Amherst. Nearest to Kerry's $12-million mansion were dealers in Belmont and a city the Web site described as ``Sommerville.''

Naturally I first called the Serotta dealership in Belmont. I asked the guy the money question. Is Liveshot a customer?

``Why yes he is,'' said the gent, who did not wish to be identified.

Let me guess - Teresa let him spend 5 grand on the type they use in the Tour de France, perhaps the Coeur d'Acier model, given its French name.

``We wouldn't comment on customers,'' he said, frostily.

Enough on the $5,000 bicycle. Now let's move on his fleet of gas-guzzlers. Pardon me, his family's fleet of ozone-layer destroyers.

Before he tracked down his second heiress in 1995, Kerry had a '91 Jetta. In other words, 10 years ago his car was worth less than his bicycle is today. And some people say being a gigolo doesn't pay?

Kerry still owns his old '85 Dodge convertible. The excellent New York Times story on his butler Wednesday said that Kerry's man Jeeves had ``inherited'' the car, but guess what - Kerry just re-registered the Dodge. Its plate is Purple Heart 3, which means he didn't have to pay for the registration.

Granted, he has every right to do that. But still, couldn't he have volunteered to pay the extra $75 . . . for the children? Then there's the 2002 Chrysler 300 sedan. Its current plate is USS 2.

Of course, Liveshot's not the only family member who likes special plates. Down on Nantucket, garaged at the $9 million mansion on Hulbert Avenue, his 65-year-old wife has a yellow '97 Land Rover Defender with the plate: MOZMBQ.

As in Mozambique, don't you know, the widow Heinz's country of origin. The '94 Jeep Grand Cherokee - its license plate is HZ 57. Her third vehicle, the 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser, has a regular license plate.

Then there's the stepson, Christopher. Apparently he, too, didn't get the memo about only buying Made-in-the-USA vehicles. He's tooling around the island in a gray 2002 Porsche 911.

We're all learning so much in this campaign about the kind of lifestyle that is created when a gigolo marries a gold-digger.

Aren't you getting sick of Kerry? Fortunately, there's one way to assure that you won't have to see him this weekend. Just shop at Wal-Mart. Not even his butler would lower himself that far.

[Arpege92]

"Maybe he was trying to chew gum while he was riding. That CAN complicate things."

ROTFLMAO

[Ruth A.]

The headline alone made me laugh and then I saw the picture. That's a Gomer Pyle wave if ever I saw one. The man is skinny. I need to know did the doctor give him a release after the shoulder surgery to be biking? After all, that's why he needed the surgery in the first place, right? {wink, wink}

[Arpege92]

"Does he have a serious neurological disease? He seems to fall down a lot."

Naaa....they just removed the training wheels from his bike too soon.

[ambrose]

I thought he never fell.

[in the Arena]

He tried to wave at 2 photographers at the same time.

He was trying to wave with both hands, but his right hand voted against waving, then the left hand couldn't make up its mind and when it tried to retract its wave after already waving, the vast sand wing conspiracy attacked him.