So the President gets his annual fitness exams, is in superb health, and the DNC uses that as an opportunity to attack him.
Via Jeff Goldstein, who has some other thoughts.
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Come on, man.
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Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.
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Sojourner
My first thought was that it’s good the exercise has paid off. After all, when someone shot at the WH, Bush was in the gym and Cheney was at his desk. When some moron tried to fly his airplane in restricted airspace, Bush was out biking in Maryland. And when the warning about Bin Laden came in, he was clearing brush.
Good job, Shrub!
neil
It’s important to make the distinction that they are attacking his policies, not him personally. Normally there would be no ambiguity, but since the topic of the story they’re riffing off of is personal, there is.
Marcus Wellby
Ugh! This is why the Democrats are so f-ing useless as an opposition party. They should attack him on the amount of vacation that he takes (very “Old Europe” in his amount of vacation time), or for the fact, that unlike 99% of working Americans, he can take entire afternoons off to go ride his bike.
I know it unseemly to be critical of Dear Leader, but given we are AT WAR, would it not be appropriate to spend more time on the job than the average French union worker?
Jeff G
You see, it’s far more important to LOOK like you’re presidenting then it is to actually try to affect change in the world — even if all you’re really doing is getting a hummer from an intern and popping Champaign corks to celebrate the end of history.
And the President can’t possibly do any thinking on policy or strategy while on a bicycle or clearing brush.
Style over substance, man. Or haven’t you been following the zeitgeist since the late 60s?
SomeCallMeTim
, it’s far more important to LOOK like you’re presidenting then it is to actually try to affect change in the world
If you’re a f*cking moron, it probably is more important to the rest of us that you try to look like you’re presidenting than that you try to change the world; or at least it’s better if you choose to do the former instead of the latter. (Cf. Josh Bolton.) Because f*ck-ups f*ck up; you’d think that would be a rule so obvious even Republicans could wrap their hive mind around it.
Mark
The President of the United States doesn’t take month long vacations during a war. Simple as that.
Hey, he declared the war, he want’s us to take it seriously, so he better act like he takes it seriously himself!
The most logical conclusion, given the dearth of experience Bush has in managing anything, is that he’s clearly not the one running the show. I have never seen a shred of evidence that demonstrates otherwise. President Cheney, indeed.
Otto Man
Presidenting is hard work.
I think Bush deserves his 50th vacation in the past five years. And since it’s the 50th, why not make it a full month?
Another Jeff
Howard Dean would probably like to work out more, but those bad knees that kept him out of Vietnam (but not off the slopes of Vail) prevent him from doing anything.
Mark
Bravo, Another Jeff!
I expected you sycophants to use the Clinton strawman, not the Howard Dean version! I’m so pround of our wingnuts.
Howard Dean isn’t a president that’s conducting multiple wars.
Sojourner
He’s not even an elected representative.
Sojourner
If I thought that a hummer would help turn Bush into a policy wonk, I’d be willing to pay for some young thing to come in and do it.
But that would be a waste of money.
Another Jeff
The DNC put out the release. He’s head of the DNC.
You people are way too easy to piss off.
Stormy70
But that’s the glory of it. Makes for a spicy afternoon. ;)
Kimmitt
It was a back problem, not a knee problem. Smarter monkeys, please.
Sojourner
Who’s pissed? We’re laughing our asses off watching you guys bend over and grab your ankles everytime there’s a Bush administration scandal.
bago
You know, I can’t believe that nobody has mentioned thisyet.
The president, who works out 6 times a week, is considered overweight by his own government.
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