Posted on 07/22/2005 8:27:34 AM PDT by guitarist
The (over)exercise of power
A week ago, when President Bush met with Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III to interview him for a potential Supreme Court nomination, the conversation turned to exercise. When asked by the president of the United States how often he exercised, Wilkinson impressively responded that he runs 3 1/2 miles a day. Bush urged him to adopt more cross-training. "He warned me of impending doom," Wilkinson told the New York Times.
Am I the only person who finds this disturbing? I don't mean the fact that Bush would vet his selection for the highest court in the land in part on something utterly trivial. That's expected. What I mean is the fact that Bush has an obsession with exercise that borders on the creepy.
Given the importance of his job, it is astonishing how much time Bush has to exercise. His full schedule is not publicly available. The few peeks we get at Bush's daily routine usually come when some sort of disaster prods the White House Press Office to reveal what the president was doing "at the time." Earlier this year, an airplane wandered into restricted Washington air space. Bush, we learned, was bicycling in Maryland. In 2001, a gunman fired shots at the White House. Bush was inside exercising. When planes struck the World Trade Center in 2001, Bush was reading to schoolchildren, but that morning he had gone for a long run with a reporter. Either this is a series of coincidences or Bush spends an enormous amount of time working out.
There's no denying that the results are impressive. Bush can bench press 185 pounds five times, and, before a recent knee injury, he ran three miles at a 6-minute, 45-second pace. That's better than I could manage when I played two sports...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Thanks for that link! He really is a snotty, ill-behaved, unpleasant little boy, isn't he? Master Chait should grow up sometime.
Michael Kelly must be spinning in his grave.
So true, so true. Gosh, I miss him.
By the way, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! (I just noticed your new tag!) Congratulations!!
Thanks, I should change it now; it was the 20th!
Am I the only one interpreting "He warned me of impending doom" as referring to something of, er, greater presidential concern than clogged arteries?
Did you see my new and improved version at post 33?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1448387/posts?page=33#33
Yes, I did, (nice job!) and I thought the Chait face on that body was pretty revealing. (Okay, maybe a little TOO revealing, if you know what I mean, LOL!)
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