so let me get this straight (yesterday's scare in DC)

[fryguy]

yesterday's "terror" scare in DC was severe enough to raise the threat level to red, evacuate the Capitol and White House, move Cheney to a "secure location", and scramble fighters and Blackhawk helicopters to intercept it . . . yet it wasn't important enough to disturb * while he was taking a bike ride in the middle of a work day?????? :wtf:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20050512/ts_nm/security_bush_dc_1

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush was not told for nearly an hour while he finished a bike ride about a breach in White House airspace on Wednesday that prompted the highest alert since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the White House said.

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[mmonk]

1. It's all bullcrap

Someone needs to call them on it.

[DrDebug]

2. Ze leader wantz hiz privazy! n/t

[JHB]

3. They tried, but he couldn't hear them over the playing cards slapping...

...the spokes. And he likes to ring its bell -- that can be pretty loud too.

[KarenS]

4. cracking up here !!!

:rofl:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

16. I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world.

Not for a hundred million, billion, trillion dollars!

[bklyncowgirl]

5. "Mr. President, COOL WHEELS, and by the way we need a shootdown order."

At least he wasn't reading "My Pet Goat".

[MemphisTiger]

6. Being president is HARD work, Dubya had to cycle off some stress

maybe next I'll go clear some brush when the real attack happens

[mopaul]

7. why bother mr. bush with such things

sort of proves the whole thing yesterday was a hoax, or they'd have been all over bush like ugly on an ape.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Akshully what it proves is who's *not* in charge

Funny how the boyking always seems to be somewhere else when the action starts.

[Bark Bark Bark]

9. They Had To Let Him Finish

Imagine the scenario:

Li'l Dubbie: "Ehn! Ehn! Damn, ridin' a bike's HARD WERK! Ehn! Ehn!"
SS Agent: "Mister President! Mister President! We have to...LOOK OUT!"
Li'l Dubbie: "W-what? Oh my gosh! Aaaaaaeeeerrrrk!"
SS Agent: "Call an ambulance! The PRESIDENT HAS FALLEN OVER!"
Li'l Dubbie: "Owie! Owie! I scraped my kneeeeeee!"
SS Agent: "Ssssh. Sssssh. It's all right. Big boys don't cry... Who's my big boy?"
Li'l Dubbie: "I-I-I am."
SS Agent: "That's right, sir..."

[Loki]

10. Why bother when he's not the "real" president.

n/t

[Skittles]

11. that's what I was thinking, Loki

why even bother telling that dipshit?

[Loki]

17. Great minds think alike Skittles

:toast:

[Skittles]

18. us female Dems in Texas ROCK!

:hi:

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. Then he should be removed from power

the USA needs a real President. We are falling apart because of his severe lack of judgment. Once again he proves his incompetence. And once again the WH proves that this is all bullshit.

[Divernan]

12. And his wife was IN the White House at the time!

Has he left instructions not to be interrupted with his bike riding, even for family emergencies? By the by - has anyone heard where the twins are summering? have they zipped back to Old Urup? They did like the South of France.

[DemonFighterLives]

14. Would the frump a lump be considered family?

As long as Condi and Jeffy are safe.

[DemonFighterLives]

13. Ever wonder why real news can't escape the vacuum?

Rove thinks he is the master of obfuscation.

[Career Prole]

19. He couldn't stop...he learned last year

when the training wheels came off that if you slow down you tip over.

"Keep pedaling, son! Keep pedaling!"

[SharonRB]

20. I know -- that's what got me, too

Our local progressive talk show in the a.m., Nancy Skinner, was talking about this today. It's what she find the most interesting thing about the whole day, and I have to agree. Makes a stronger case for the fact that he's just a figurehead.

[lectrobyte]

21. figurehead? Nah, Reagan was a figurehead. He looked the part, and

he could read the teleprompter and make you believe that he believed it. I'm not sure what * is, but I know figureheads, and he's no figurehead.

[SharonRB]

28. LOL -- maybe puppet head would be a better term!

Then they can auction his head on a popsicle stick off on eBay with the MJ Puppet Theatre puppets.

[underpants]

22. Hey fryguy, guess what-Pilots released no charges never a threat

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1465235

[fryguy]

24. figured that

hence the terror was in quotes in my OP - never actually thought this was a real danger more than it was an errant pilot and the GOP and Faux needing to generate a new "news" story to deflect attention away from all the real problems . . .

[bleedingheart]

23. he finds it hard to pedal his tricycle if he is upset.

[Generic Other]

25. He was always perfectly secure

[UTUSN]

26. Plus, the OTHER Bozos, the Ones in the Plane Now Won't Be Charged?

(besides the ones in the other planes). They JUST got lost, but our media pals were spewing, non-stop, that whoever was in the plane DID NOT HAVE AUTHORITY to take the plane.

[leftofthedial]

27. they never tell the bushturd about PR campaign events

unless he has to read something to the sheep