NationStates Jolt Archive

from the LA Times:

President Bush took a spill during a Saturday afternoon bike ride on his ranch, suffering bruises and cuts that were visible later on his face just two days before he was to deliver a major prime-time speech on his Iraq policy.
The president was nearing the end of a 17-mile ride on his mountain bike, accompanied by a Secret Service agent, a military aide and his personal physician, Richard Tubb, who treated him at the scene, said White House spokesman Trent Duffy.

"It's been raining a lot and the topsoil is loose," Duffy said. "You know this president. He likes to go all-out. Suffice it to say he wasn't whistling show tunes."



rain in the past month: 4 inches
in the past week: 0

just saying, are we sure we can trust this guy?...

John Kerry fell off his bike 3 weeks earlier


man...we get stuck with the klutzes...whatever happened to the good old 1870's? When REAL men like Grant were Presidents?

LOL, at least its not Gerald Ford again. He never came upon a stairway that wasn't life threatening.

Well, he is old. You have to make allowances.

Besides, last summer, I was riding a mountain bike through some forested hills near Sheffield, and I hit a knot in a root, going over the handlebars. For a few minutes there, I abandoned my dreams of fatherhood. :lol:

These things happen.

im not making fun of him falling, im saying the topsoil's got to be pretty weak if it takes 0 inches of rain to make it loose

mountain biking can be rough, i know a dude that flipped his handle bars and broke his neck. give bush some slack, its too bad kerry didnt fall in front of a train though :twisted:

We need Old Tippecanoe Harrison back... He died so quickly didn't get a chance to screw up, therefore making him the greatest president of the US.

Every other president screwed up something....

Actually when I think about it Fillmore is a clsoe second.

It's been raining for a looooooooooooooooonnng time here in Idaho. It's a change for the better.

mountain biking can be rough, i know a dude that flipped his handle bars and broke his neck. give bush some slack, its too bad kerry didnt fall in front of a train though :twisted:

the point isnt that he fell, its that he lied about it raining. argggg

mountain biking can be rough, i know a dude that flipped his handle bars and broke his neck. give bush some slack, its too bad kerry didnt fall in front of a train though :twisted:

the point isnt that he fell, its that he lied about it raining. argggg

where DID you find this rain report of yours?

well, i went to weather.com and typed in mcgregor, texas, which is about where the ranch is. i added up the rain for the week and at the botton it gave me the month to date precipitation, which was 3.97 in. i found a better site though:
for the week: http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KPWG/2004/5/22/WeeklyHistory.html?FULLALMANAC=KACT

for the month:
http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KPWG/2004/5/22/MonthlyHistory.html?FULLALMANAC=KACT

here it says it rained twenty six inches, but most of that rain came in april. mia cupla.

do you ride? well 26 inches of rain will loosen the soil ALOT, so i doubt he lied...maybe it didnt rain last week, but in the woods it still impacts the trails. we should all just be glad he didnt fall off his bike and land on a cactis rear-end first.

do you ride? well 26 inches of rain will loosen the soil ALOT, so i doubt he lied...maybe it didnt rain last week, but in the woods it still impacts the trails. we should all just be glad he didnt fall off his bike and land on a cactis rear-end first.

but it rained 4 weeks ago, and its been in the 80's and not cloudy most days since then

well, the trail conditions are the key to why...but he is old...maybe its really a terrorist plot? :shock:

well, the trail conditions are the key to why...but he is old...maybe its really a terrorist plot? :shock:

I giant pretzel tripped him up?

mountain biking can be rough, i know a dude that flipped his handle bars and broke his neck. give bush some slack, its too bad kerry didnt fall in front of a train though :twisted:

the point isnt that he fell, its that he lied about it raining. argggg

Thats his job though.

well, the trail conditions are the key to why...but he is old...maybe its really a terrorist plot? :shock:

I giant pretzel tripped him up?

and we put mustard on pretzels...and heinz makes mustard!!! oh God it all makes sense now! it all makes sense!