"All right," Bush says. "Let's go have fun."

[soup]

President Bush took seven journalists on a ride around his Crawford, Texas ranch on Saturday. He spoke with them before the ride. Here are a few excerpts of that interview.



"There's something exhilarating about heading down a hill at 25 mph on a mountain bike," a mud-spattered Bush says after a ride at his ranch.

>>He has taken heat for his devotion to his bike. Twice, in the middle of the day, he was exercising when a crisis erupted: in 2001, a man wielding a gun was shot outside the White House, and in May, a plane strayed into restricted airspace above Washington. As the White House and Capitol were evacuated, Bush was riding his bike, as a Washington Post columnist put it, "blissfully unaware."<<
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/14/Worldandnation/Hitting_the_trail_wit.shtml




President Bush rides through wildflowers at his Texas ranch with Reuters photographer Jason Reed, center, and St. Petersburg Times Washington bureau chief Bill Adair, right. Bush says, "I become a reinvigorated person as a result of a good exercise session."

BLISSFULLY UNAWARE Transcript:
>>All right, let's go have fun. This will be great. Again, hang in there and do not force the President too hard. Be kind. Then afterwards we'll have a good visit.<<
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/14/Worldandnation/A_chat_from_the_bike.shtml

BLISSFULLY UNAWARE.
BLISSFULLY UNAWARE.
BLISSFULLY UNAWARE.
BLISSFULLY UNAWARE.
BLISSFULLY UNAWARE.
BLISSFULLY FREAKING UNAWARE.

[bahrbearian]

1. You don't have to answer tough questions on a bike. Avoidance.

[soup]

4. What qualities do you look for in the President of the United States?

Hmm. Well, I'd have to say 'BLISSFULLY UNAWARE' would be at the top of the list. 'LIAR' would definitely be second. and third? oh, let's go with a good bike rider. Yeah, that's about it.

:nuke: AAARGHHH.

[Redstone]

30. But he's not even a "good bike rider." How many times

has he fallen off the goddamn thing?

Redstone

[BrklynLiberal]

2. What a total and complete twit...and what is it wearing?

I cannot believe those idiots aren't embarrassed to be seen riding with him.

EDIT. Sure hope he gets eaten alive by them Texas skeeters.

[Verve]

6. His short sleeve buttoned down collared shirt with bicycle spandex

shorts looks interesting. It must be the new look for professionals on vacation who need to look like they are working. What fashion!

[kskiska]

41. Reminds me of those guys you'd see at the beach

wearing dress shoes and socks with their casual Bermuda shorts.

[City Lights]

7. Looks like he found it on pickle's side of the closet.

His shirt - you know the one - must finally be getting decontaminated.

[soup]

8. weird, isn't it? n/t

[maveric]

19. Is that a Paisley shirt?

Who dresses him in the morning?

[Stil]

3. I'm surprised

they have not padded the trail.

[soup]

5. LOL

:D Good one!

Too busy padding the bank accounts.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Bush Don't Care

[soup]

11. Truer words were never spoken. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. What a load of bushit!

:puffpiece: :puke: ME ME ME I I I. It's always about him and those "journalists" who fawn over him make me sick! :puke: What a self absorbed self serving elitist prick!

[mtnsnake]

12. The imbecile can't even tie his own shoes. He's wearing velcro sneakers!

Look in the first image. What an asshole.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. That was the first thing that jumped out at me...

I've always called them retard shoes...And my point has been proven...
:rofl:
Duckie

[Catherine Vincent]

15. I thought they only made those shoes for young kids that can't tie their

shoe strings? Who knew they made them for adults?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

21. I did.

When I first met Skip he owned a pair. They were the first thing I threw away when we moved in together.
Duckie

[kliljedahl]

22. They don't make them for adults.

SHEESH!!


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[tapper]

23. Not every adult is able-handed.

My dad is 86 and wears that type of shoe, because he needs easy-on, easy-off shoes.

Doesn't excuse *, of course. (Don't know why anyone who does have reasonably agile fingers would want them - I tried a pair once, and they don't fit as snugly as regular sneakers with shoestrings.)

[phusion]

24. To be fair, those are clipless pedal shoes...

Used for clipping into a pedal. They are almost all velcro.

http://www.nashbar.com/results.cfm?category=84&subcategory=1041&storetype=&estoreid=&init=y&pagename=

:)

[confludemocrat]

14. Bush's "windsurfing" while his (and our) world crumbles. PR disaster.

This is utterly stupid, pretending to have fun when the whole world is watching him try to ignore a noble woman of courage and while his craziest of the crazies who are his supporters are up-in-arms.

In other words he is leaving the PR on this to the certifiable hard right wing. Bush comes across as more out of touch than ever.

[Casablanca]

16. The Comfortably Dumb President

For a comfortably numb nation.

[SledDriver]

17. Did they PhotoShop-out the training wheels?

Still hasn't changed his blouse too I see.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. Alfred E. Neuman he IS

[insane_cratic_gal]

20. If only he wouldn't wear his helmet

"There's something exhilarating about heading down a hill at 25 mph on a mountain bike"

Given his record for falling off things.

[YDogg]

25. I ride ...

... and unless I've been missing something, 25 mph is pretty fast for going downhill on a mountain bike. Sounds like another lie to me. Surprise, surprise.

Not that you can't get up to 20-25 on flat land on a basic mountain bike, but how long a hill is he talking about? Somehow I don't see him hurtling along at that pace and then flying down a hill. Especially not dressed like such a goober.

[Spike from MN]

35. I noticed that too and I call BS.

Completely bogus. And from the pics, these are the tough MTB trails he's riding on? WTF?!? Where's the singletrack? Looks like he's riding on nothing more than a friggin' fireroad. I could ride my road bike on that. Without even wiping out, mind you. You don't need a mountain bike for riding that stuff. Proves it's all about image and nothing more. But we already knew that.

[Freedomfried]

26. Wanna see a "DORK", thats what a "DORK" looks like!

[Inland]

28. It's white-sock-with-sandals dorky. nt

[Twist_U_Up]

27. I wonder if he enjoys wrestling ?

I could make him blissfully un-aware of his surroundings and give him a good work over <ah hem> work-out.

I would love to get him on the rasslin mat for ohhh 2 minutes

it would be blissful

[Redstone]

29. The word you're looking for is "oblivious."

Redstone

[wtmusic]

31. Won't join in here

He has been caught by the bug like millions. So he's "blissfully unaware". So fucking what--he's exercising and he's in pretty damn good shape.

That doesn't mean he's not a war criminal. That doesn't mean he shouldn't talk to Cindy. Do not let hatred make you blind.

[Kire]

32. Mountain Bike One, they call it

that's what I heard

[Kire]

33. He's addicted.

"I become a reinvigorated person as a result of a good exercise session."


only addicts say that

[progressivebydesign]

34. "now watch this ride"... n/t

[Ian_rd]

36. Embedded in Iraq, embedded in Crawford ...

... our Government is mastering state control of our media while allowing them to think they're free.

[Buns_of_Fire]

39. If he hits a good enough bump, he'll be IMbedded in Crawford

George, George, George of the White House,
Strong as he can be.....
Watch out for that tree!

(Sorry. Today's my day to channel Jay Ward.)

[Buns_of_Fire]

37. What? No Presidential Seal on his helmet?

Tsk, tsk. The image boys are slipping.

[Buns_of_Fire]

38. Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer

He's a demon on wheels...

He's comin' at you so you better look alive
He's busy revvin' up the powerful Mach Five!...

Go, Speed Racer!
Go, Speed Racer!
Go, Speed Racer, GO!

*sigh* Oh, WHY doesn't some enterprising news outlet play a video clip with that song playing in the background?

[KG]

40. he's riding with the St Pete Times DC bureau chief, and btw, the times

hasn't written a word about Cindy Sheehan. coincidence? heh.