"The bike came off underneath me."

[Heidi]

Sorry if this is a dupe folks, but *'s explanation of how he lost control of his mountain bike outside of the G8 venue Wednesday is one of the nuttiest things I've read (this week, anyway).

"When you ride a mountain bike, sometimes you fall, otherwise you are not riding hard. The pavement was slick and the bike came off underneath me."

-- President George W. Bush, after riding his mountain bike into a British cop outside of the the G8 venue in the UK, on Wednesday, June 6.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_objectid=15713158%26method=full%26siteid=94762-name_page.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Words cannot describe the shame and embarrassment I feel

that that goof was made president.

[iconoclastic cat]

2. Dipshit.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. That drunken jackass.

[sam sarrha]

4. a comment he made indicated he was having a 'Yellow Jersey' Episodic event

he crashed his bike in a fantacy.. he is crashing the country in a fantacy... for real

i hope he doesn't wear a helmet.. we may have a better chance of surviving

[enigmatic]

5. That sounds like a classic JRA excuse...

JRA=Just Riding Along

Any bike mechanic will tell you that 90 percent of people who bring their bikes in for fixing use that excuse; it's a bad cliche..

[punpirate]

6. The last time the bike...

... "came off underneath me," I was doing something really fucking stupid, and I was thirteen at the time....

Putz.

[WCGreen]

9. Well, that's about matches his demeaner, 13 or 14

year old boy brat

[punpirate]

12. Believe it or not...

... the guy who wrote the book Bush on the Couch (Franks was his name, I think), said that Bush's world view was stuck at the level of a narcissistic thirteen-year-old, rigid absolutes, an irrational belief in the infallibility of authority, etc.

M'self, I think this quote simply illustrates an overtired point--Bush can never admit a mistake--the reality is that he wasn't watching where he was going and he pile-drivered a bobby on duty, but his reasons were all about rain and the bike... not him.

Bush likely learned the passive voice at a very young age.

:P

[Gormy Cuss]

25. Yes, this fits. It was the bike's fault. n/t

[elshiva]

7. Stop making excuses and get the hell off that bike before

you kill yourself and some one else in your path!!!

[Deja Q]

8. Okay, send the bike to gitmo then. It's obvious it didn't want your ass, *

:eyes:

[Heidi]

10. Adult training wheels.

[KT2000]

11. We need to pass a bill

that forbids him from riding a bike in a foreign country. It is just too embarrassing for all of us.

[havocmom]

13. Make him leave Bikepath One at Camp David or the Pig Farm

He's already killed enough innocent people.

[Heidi]

14. Kick for the morning crowd. (nt)

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. What an IDIOT!

:banghead:

[Dukkha]

16. I wonder how he does with chewing gum?

Have you taken it on any sweet jumps?

Flippin IDIOT!

[tjdee]

17. That's funny, if I fall, I don't slam into a person.

Usually, if I have a mishap with a bicycle (and this is going back many years, as apparently I don't "ride hard" like Bush), I manage to get *away* from people/trees/animals before I wipe out.

If I were being meaner, I'd even suggest he ran into the cop to break his own fall.

[progmom]

18. idiot idiot idiot idiot

how embarrassing that he represents us to the world.

[bettyellen]

20. hey you

did you get my re-uest? i h-ve to run out now. prollly be b-ck for the l-st /2 hour.
:Hi:

[progmom]

23. i was just selecting the perfect version

it will be Tony Bennett. And I will play it for the 2nd set - at 12:20-ish...will you be around?

[Allenberg]

19. I thougt there was a little Gerry Ford to him...

[Heidi]

21. Either a little Gerry Ford or a whole lotta gin. (nt)

[Mutley]

22. "The bike came off underneath me."

Um. Was he in mid-jump or something? Because otherwise, * came off from on top of the bike. Jackass!

[Misunderestimator]

24. CAME OFF?!? LOL

:rofl: What a fucking idiot he is.