Bushes Fly To Connecticut for Daughter's Graduation

[Dover]

May 24, 2004, 7:27AM

Bushes fly to Connecticut for daughter's graduation
By JULIE MASON
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- President Bush returned Sunday to the town where he was born, visiting Yale University to celebrate his daughter Barbara's graduation.

Barbara Bush, 22, will collect a degree in humanities from her father's and grandfather's alma mater today. The president and first lady Laura Bush traveled to Connecticut from Texas for a private dinner honoring the graduate.

Dinner Saturday night was in Austin, where the first parents feted Barbara's twin, Jenna, on her graduation from the University of Texas. Jenna was awarded a degree in English.

The president started his day with a 20-plus-mile bike ride on his Crawford ranch, one day after taking a spill during a 17-mile bike ride and suffering facial abrasions and cuts and bruises to his right hand and both knees.

A day of healing left the abrasions on his face looking angrier and more prominent than the day before. Climbing up the steps to his Marine One helicopter, the president appeared to be holding the handrail more gingerly than usual.

Bush is to give a speech tonight on the war in Iraq, keyed to the June 30 handover of power there. White House officials had hoped the major networks would televise.

Spokesman Trent Duffy said the president's nasty spill from his bike and the messy scabs on his face had so far not changed those plans.

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[StClone]

1. Pictures

Where are the lovely pictures of Bush abraded mug. Damn Liberal Press!

[lumpy]

9. No photo ops.

Masked Marvel costumes are no longer available.

[UpInArms]

2. Eeeewe - "messy scabs"?

This should be quite the speech!

A day of healing left the abrasions on his face looking angrier and more prominent than the day before. Climbing up the steps to his Marine One helicopter, the president appeared to be holding the handrail more gingerly than usual.

Bush is to give a speech tonight on the war in Iraq, keyed to the June 30 handover of power there. White House officials had hoped the major networks would televise.

[pinto]

3. I feel better now.

lfol...

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. The dinner for Jenna

was at a place called the Moonshine Patio Bar & Grill. How appropriate, especially for a family full of 'reformed' alcholics. The Moonshine's specialty is their alcholic beverages served in mason jars. Gee how quaint.

[llmart]

5. Here's a big "WHO CARES"

Wow! A degree in humanities. Wonder what her GPA was? She really took the hardest course she could didn't she? Maybe she can at least teach her stupid parents what the word "humanity" means.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. Yale campus and commensement was packed with anti-bush* protesters!!!

no "free speach zones"....:bounce:

[BiggJawn]

7. So he follows up a bike wreck with a 20-mile ride the next day?

Who does he think he's trying to be? Tyler Hamilton?

Look, Chimpy, try winning a 100-mile-plus stage of the Tour De France with a busted clavicle and then we'll consider your application to the "He-Man Bike-Rider's Club"...

Until then, let's just call it one more of Karl's stupid ideas...

Dumb fucking idiot...At least now he has an excuse for being stoned in public: "The President is taking pain-killers prescribed by his doctor for his injuries from Saturday's bike crash..."

Actually....This could be a pretty good speech tonight. Bush on Drugs, TeeVee cameras....Hell, wouldn't want to miss him declaring the start of Armageddon, would we?
:-)

[gratuitous]

8. I thought Chimpy didn't want to disrupt the ceremonies

Another flip-flop. George W. can't even tell the truth about something so inocuous as whether he's going to be at his own daughters' graduations.

By the way, the official story on Chimpy's face plant was that he hit some topsoil loosened by recent rains. Kos has the precipitation totals for the Crawford area from the last week: Not a drop. Significant rainfall on May 12, but really nothing since then.