Bush Leads Aides on Sweaty Ranch Run

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - The temperature topped 100, sweaty degrees at President Bush's ranch on Wednesday - a fine day for a three-mile run.

Forty White House staffers, members of the military and Secret Service gathered at a starting line and took off running. Their secret hope was to be inducted into the ``President's 100-degree Club.''

``You have to run for three miles. No walking. And then you get a T-shirt,'' White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said about the event, which has become an August tradition at the ranch.

It was grueling. The runners poured water over their heads as they ran, each at their own pace. All 40 made it.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6852720,00.html

[MaineDem]

1. Yawn

Do people actually care about what the dim son does on "vacation"?

[spotbird]

22. Anyone who passes the boy king

is shot.

[napi21]

2. Did he take Cheney with him? I'd LIKE THAT!

I could make a few more suggestions, but even I'm not that nasty!

[tanyev]

3. They want to play with heat stroke, that's their problem.

[rodeodance]

28. sheer stupidity!

[saigon68]

37. He could take them 'fishing"

[maxsolomon]

4. volunteer to risk heat stroke to impress the narcissist in chief

you know, he's really only impressed with himself.

[Virginia Dare]

5. Once a stupid frat boy, always a stupid frat boy in Bushworld..n/t

[thunder rising]

6. Nobody said Frat Boy finished. It just said the aides and staffers lined up!!

Forty White House staffers, members of the military and Secret Service gathered at a starting line and took off running. Their secret hope was to be inducted into the ``President's 100-degree Club.

And I guarantee you those SS guys are everything Gush (I mean Bush) ever wanted to be ... except they are not rich and powerful.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. Boy...

Ain't nothing makes your dick seem bigger than it is, than watching someone in convulsions and cardiac arrest from heat stroke.

At my old Karate school, we used to have summer weekend workouts. We used to back it all down a bit during the really hot days, and we were fucking maniacs. I mean, like canceling the big run kind of backing it down. Making people throw up and fall over doesn't mean you are having a great workout. Just that people are throwing up and falling over.

Which is not an optimal conditioning regimen.

[Stephanie]

8. That's nice, torture boy.

[Bitwit1234]

9. I thought right after bush stole the white house

they made an announcement that bush couldn't run anymore because of his knees and that's why he was riding a bike. Was he miraculously cured.

[Stephanie]

10. it doesn't say that HE ran

he just forced his staff to do it. in a normal workplace that might be viewed as harassment.

[Mist]

11. Hell, no, * didn't run. From the Guardian story:

Bush cheered them on at the halfway point and then rode in his pickup truck back to the finish line in time to shake hands with every runner and present each with a light blue T-shirt emblazoned with: ``The President's 100 Degree Club.''

[Stephanie]

15. I'm surprised he didn't shoot at them with a bb gun as they ran by.

That's exactly what he used to do to his little brothers, when he was about 16 and Neil was about 9.

[Orsino]

30. "Bush 'Leads' Aides..."

...who work for a living, through dangerous conditions for no purpose and no reward other than a ceremony, while sitting in relative comfort.

Yes, that sounds like * "leadership."

[saracat]

29. it stated he had bad kness and didn't jog anymore! he rode a bike

and chopped trees in the AM.The run was just to torture other people!He made them run in 100 degree plus heat because he could.What a fine CIC! :sarcasm:

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

12. Bush doesn;t run anymore

His doctors made him stop, because of his knees. That's why he took up mountain-biking.

I smell a rat.

[Demeter]

13. It's An Intelligence Test

Needless to say, NOBODY passed!

[fed-up]

16. BINGO!!! nt

[AlCzervik]

14. Bush unable to operate a bicycle anymore.

[BearSquirrel2]

32. Anymore???

Anymore????

[Fovea]

17. What, no gladitorial games?

Oh, that's right, Cheney wasn't there.

[David Zephyr]

18. Gag me! Poor idiots that had to run downwind & behind his smelly ass.

:puke:

[acmavm]

19. If these fools do this shit because Chimpy commands it be done, then

they're bigger fools than he is. Let him run without the Secret Service. I bet he wouldn't leave the house if they told him to stuff it.

[TwilightGardener]

20. What an asshole. WTF is the point of this? The thrill of making

people humiliate themselves for King George's pleasure and amusement? I can't wait until this sick fuck is gone.

[orleans]

21. what a bunch of LOSERS! L L L (run away!) n/t

[truthisfreedom]

23. He challenges his aides to give up a billion brain cells in what that amounts to a "Jackass" stunt.

Why am I not surprised?

[rooboy]

24. Dear Leader swims the Yangtze yet again. How wonderful. n/t

[hedgehog]

25. "The President likes the heat" Maybe he's getting acclimated

for his future permanent residence!

OK - he has bad knees so he can't run, but shouldn't he have ridden his bike if he was going to make other people run?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. My secret hope is to be inducted into the "I Elected A Democratic President In 2008" Club.

100+ degrees (in November!), sweating like the proverbial pig, I see myself emerging victoriously from my polling station after doing my part to end the reign of terror of George W. Bush.

I will then eagerly tune in to the NEW Democratic President's Weekly Radio Address as he rolls up his sleeves, gets to work, and rebuilds out great nation.

MY SECRET HOPE, baby!

[defendandprotect]

27. Physically fit -- Mentally unstable . . . . ?

And we're paying for all this "fun in the sun" -- ????

[bluedog]

31. He DID not run all the way!!

the president gave the runners a pep talk at the starting point of the midafternoon run — two laps on a paved road that winds near a helicopter landing zone. "He told them not to push it too hard, but to give it their all," she said.

Bush cheered them on at the halfway point and then rode in his pickup truck back to the finish line in time to shake hands with every runner and present each with a light blue T-shirt emblazoned with: "The President's 100 Degree Club."

Bush traded in his running shoes for mountain bikes several years ago after pain in his knees kept him from jogging. At 61, he is a devoted mountain bike rider, regularly leaving the White House for rides on Saturday mornings or after church on Sundays.

Besides, he had already gotten his exercise for the day.

After his morning briefings, he cut down a few trees and took a spin on his bicycle. Earlier in the week, he worked outside building mountain bike trails.

"I would expect that there would be some brush cutting to do," Perino said. "I don't know how many people are going to be able to stand it. The president, obviously, likes the heat, so maybe everyone else is just going to have to suffer through it."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070815/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_ranch_run_1;_ylt=AossgU1k6TS9eF1APCRTT_EE1vAI

[BearSquirrel2]

34. One of us ...

two laps on a paved road that winds near a helicopter landing zone.

Yes we all know that the President is really just a "good ole boy" like us who likes to chop down brush next to his helicopter landing zone.

[Ilsa]

39. "He told them not to push it too hard, but to give it their all," she said.

Sounds like more Bush-speak.

They all desserve heat stroke for being idiots.

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[guitar man]

35. only if

you go run 3 miles in 100 degree heat. You're a 'bot, should be "no sweat" for you. :D

[rocktivity]

36. ..

:boring:
rocknation

[YankeyMCC]

38. Since I get so much less vacation time from my job

does that mean my job is more important than the Prez of the US?

[peaches2003]

40. Should have been stopped

Where the hell was the WH doctor who travels with Bush. He should have stepped in and stopped this idiocy. This is abuse of the employess by the boss like in any other workplace. Oh sure, they could have said no, but everyone knows what happens when an employee chooses not to do what amuses his employer. They ALL should have refused and left him standing there alone. Bush is on a childish power trip and somebody should have stepped in and stopped it. Bush is not only a fool, but an egomaniac. How the hell does Laura stay married to this creep?

[David__77]

41. Revolting.

I would dislike this just as much from a progressive.

[Dulcinea]

42. "I ran in the scorching heat, & all I got was this lousy T-shirt!"

Now who's dumber, the DictatorTot for instigating this, or these wetbrains for agreeing to it?

I run every day too, but I have the good sense to run early in the morning! It's in the triple digits here in Atlanta, & anyone who runs in this heat is batsh!t crazy.

[Sheltiemama]

43. It's called hazing.

I read this story in the paper today. Something is seriously wrong with this man. And I say this as a sorority alumna who was not hazed and would have walked away had anyone even tried to haze me. My father is extremely anti-establishment, so that was my youthful rebellion.

[Javaman]

44. a person could get heat stroke and die in heat like that...

I'm just saying...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

45. They should go to Iraq and try it

I'm sure it's more than 100 there today.

[Az_lefty]

46. stupid asshole. you lead by example..

not from the cab of an air conditioned pick-up.

[Corgigal]

47. and this is the guy

some voters thought they would like to have a beer with? Is everyone flipping crazy? What a dick, who happens to be a bully and should never have been allowed to be near anyone with any type of power. I guess he "ran" the only people on this planet who listen to a damn thing he says.

[Canuckistanian]

48. "Sweaty Ranch", is that what he calls it?

Not a very catchy name, but it's probably accurate.

[jmowreader]

49. This year it was actually pleasant

IIRC, last year he rode his bicycle in circles around the victims, yelling taunts at them.

Can't we put this down as an atrocity? Oh, that's right: nothing Bush does is an atrocity.