Bush to Vacation at Tamarack Lodge (Idaho) testing his Biking Skills?

[KoKo]

Uh Oh....I hope he remembers his "training wheels" and has the Medevac Team with him and a helicopter on standby....:scared:
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Dan Froomking reports in Washington Post..

And what might he plan to do there? Well, the brand-new Tamarack Resort has 12 miles of sinewy bike trails, and even offers a cushy chairlift up 7700 feet to a peak from which mountain bikers can either a) "take a relaxing, scenic route down" or b) "test their skills on more technical, single track trails like Stage Fright and Stage Right."

I'm betting: b.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

[WI_DEM]

1. The chicken is running away from Cindy

[phantom power]

2. Yeah, think they could be any more transparent?

[naturalselection]

4. I wish there was some way

to find out if this was planned or a quick escape.

[KoKo]

9. The full article from the Idaho Newspaper says it's been in the works for

months. That's according to the Idaho Governor. Article says the scuttlebutt abour was that the Tamarack was putting in extra phone lines, etc. and has had 15 rooms reserved for the visit..but they didn't confirm he would be there...it was talk from the technicians in the coffee shop that had folks guessing that's where he would stay. His schedule is free on Wednesday...so that's why Tamarack was a good bet.

[LisaM]

3. He's taking a vacation from his vacation?

OK, I'm no prophet, but if absconds from the "Little Slice of Heaven" NOW, he is finished politically. Even Congress will stop fearing him.

[Bozita]

7. the Coward-in-Chief ... This is a MAN's man?

The standards must have dropped.

[madrchsod]

8. ya that`s what i did a few times.

my vacation was taking with a vacation from my unemployment that was paid for by someone else...but then i wasn`t the president, so we just went to the wisconsin dells for a few days.....

[Diane R]

5. Proving what a chicken he is...he cuts and runs

Idaho is the most republican state in the nation.

[Avalux]

6. I know why he's going to Idaho!!

Here's more popular there than any other state in the nation! :rofl:

From Survey USA - 10 states where approval rating is higher than disapproval rating for the shrub:

Idaho - 59 to 36
Wyoming - 58 to 38
Utah - 57 o 38
Nebraska - 55 to 42
Texas - 54 to 43
Alabama - 52 to 45
North Dakota - 51 to 45
Montana - 50 to 45
Oklahoma - 50 to 46
Mississippi - 49 to 47

[KoKo]

10. Yep....it's one of the few places he can go and feel "safe and comfey."

:D

[yellowcanine]

14. Yep - 590 of the 1000 people living there are for him.

[Edgewater_Joe]

11. Mountain Biking? Dangerous Mountains? Klutzy and Tanking Prez?

I'm not sayin' ... I'm just sayin' ... y'know what I'm sayin'?

[louis-t]

12. Might be some great new photo ops next week

Delusional nitwit + mountain bike = bruised, bloody faced, scraped up preznit. I hope it hurts.

[SpiralHawk]

13. What you're saying is what you're saying

no one will dispute that.

Klutzy and tanking pretzedent does death-defying (more or less) run down craggy mountain slope.

I'm sure he will prepare for danger by wearing a protective codpiece, as usual.

[pimpbot]

15. Time to call up the DU'ers in Idaho

Anyone live around this resort? It'd be awesome if the protest followed him around. He'd go bonkers and probably try and punch someone.

[IDemo]

24. Idaho patriots showed up for Cindy last night, and will again

Anti-war crowd 'stands with Cindy'

The Statehouse steps were packed with anti-war demonstrators Wednesday night as part of a national day of protest to bring American troops home from Iraq.

Staff Sgt. Greg Wilson, who said he recently returned to Boise from a tour with the Idaho Air National Guard in Kuwait and Uzbekistan, told the crowd that he would often see troops leave for Iraq and come back in flag-draped coffins.

"When it comes right down to it, we want to go home," he said.

The Boise rally and about 1,600 similar protests were organized by the left-leaning advocacy group MoveOn.org and other groups to rally support for Cindy Sheehan, the woman camping out near President Bush's Texas ranch to bring attention to the fate of her son, who was killed in Iraq last year. The rally was supposed to be a candlelight vigil, but organizers said they were prohibited from burning candles at the Capitol.

The rally came just days before President Bush is to visit Idaho for some vacation time Monday and Tuesday in Donnelly and a speech Wednesday in Nampa.

The Capitol steps were awash in crosses, placards and "America Stands With Cindy" signs, and at one point the crowd of more than 300 people broke into "America the Beautiful."

Air Force veteran Patience Varnagy, now a Boise school teacher, said her husband is serving in Turkey because the U.S. is stuck in Iraq and said the U.S. military is increasingly stretched thin.

"I feel we have no business being over there," she said.

Laura McCarthy, whose son Gavin McCarthy is serving in Iraq, carried a sign with her son's photo and the words, "Bring Home My Son Alive and Now."

"I just support Cindy Sheehan 100 percent," she said. "She could be sitting home waving her flag and consoling herself in lies like a lot of families are having to do."

Carl Keller, of Boise, said Iraq is looking more and more like the Vietnam War.

"I lost my best friend in Vietnam, and I guess I draw a connection there," he said.

The rally lasted about 45 minutes. Boise MoveOn team leader Rosemary Sneeringer said the turnout was much larger than she had expected.

"Cindy Sheehan wanted people to support our troops by asking our citizens, 'Is it better to honor our soldiers by keeping them in harm's way or by bringing them home?'" she said.

Liz Paul of the Idaho Peace Coalition announced an anti-war rally in Donnelly, the president's first Idaho stop, scheduled for Monday night. She said there also would likely be rallies in Nampa, where Bush is expected to make a speech Wednesday morning.

[Edgewater_Joe]

16. Protective Codpiece?

Man, the things you can do with egg shells!

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. Is he paying for this out of his own pocket?

:grr: Sure, when pigs fly! :mad:

[KoKo]

19. We pay for the security and the equipment to rewire the Tamarak Lodge

:D Otherwise I'm sure it's all on the "up and up." Probably the Tamarak donated the 15 rooms for a hand signed photo of the P-Resident with the Hotel Manager that can be hung in an appropriate viewing area in the Hotel...

[hatrack]

18. Wait a frickin' minute! He's taking a vacation from his VACATION?!?!

God, doesn't this guy EVER work?

On edit: did he maybe just now realize that West Texas is one dumbass place to go on vacation in August? And it only took him five years to figure that one out? Sheesh.

[Vinca]

20. It really pisses me off he's taking a vacation anywhere.

They hold troops over in Iraq past their tours of duty - people who NEED a vacation - while shit-for-brains rides his bike. Grrrrr.

[jpak]

21. Living in his Own Private Idaho

Rove has to be nuts to let him do this.

What a fucking coward...

[KoKo]

22. Kick...for some good gossip on" Bushie's Passion"...Mountain Biking....

:D

[clover]

23. will cindy's temp leaving end with this trip being canceled by *?nt

[KoKo]

25. Bush will be testing his "Mountain Biking Skills" .....here's some scoop

Dan Froomking reports in Washington Post..

And what might he plan to do there? Well, the brand-new Tamarack Resort has 12 miles of sinewy bike trails, and even offers a cushy chairlift up 7700 feet to a peak from which mountain bikers can either a) "take a relaxing, scenic route down" or b) "test their skills on more technical, single track trails like Stage Fright and Stage Right."

I'm betting: b.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/20...

[jessicazi]

26. There are, as mentioned in an article posted above...

a few protests planned for his visit. They (the protesters) are also planning on delivering a warrant for the citizen arrest of Shrub.

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