Bush’s message to America: “stay fit.”
By on May 5th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Bush’s message to America: “stay fit.”
Just before climbing on his mountain bike Saturday, President Bush urged people “to get up off their couches and walk, jog, pedal and swim“:
“It doesn’t take much time to stay fit – 30 minutes, five days a week,” Bush said at a Secret Service training facility just outside Washington where he went for a bike ride.
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“I love exercise,” said the president, who was wearing biking shorts and lifted up his blue-and-white mountain bike to prove he was strong and fit. “I have found that exercise not only is a good excuse to get outdoors. It helps to relieve stress as well.”
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America’s message to Bush: F*ck off, ya tosser.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:16 amWhat’s next, the exercise video?
Tortur-cise your way to fitness in just 20 minutes a day?
May 5th, 2007 at 11:17 amshop, don’t read and stay fit!
May 5th, 2007 at 11:17 amAhhh… something I can agree with. Haven’t we all become civilized?
May 5th, 2007 at 11:17 amF-ck him
May 5th, 2007 at 11:22 amHow are the exercise facilities in Gitmo?
May 5th, 2007 at 11:23 amGet on yer bike, George! And don’t get off until you’re in Crawford for good.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:23 amI cannot express how much I HATE this man?
May 5th, 2007 at 11:26 amCaptain Obvious strikes again!
May 5th, 2007 at 11:26 amWhy is this story posted? Slow news day? At least for once he is telling the truth.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:27 amWhy is this story posted? Slow news day? At least for once he is telling the truth.
Comment by RobG
The truth — yes.
But might there be ANYTHING slightly more pressing going on?
May 5th, 2007 at 11:30 amTo hell with Bush.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:33 amBUSH… THAT’S GREAT YOUR ENDEAVOR IN PHYSICAL FITNESS NOW WHAT ABOUT PSYHCOLOGICAL INTEGRITY
YOUR ADMINISTRATION IS CORRUPT AS HELL, YOU DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT ANYTHING BUT YOURSELF AND ALL YOUR HIGH CLASS CROOKS
AND YOU SCREW THE AVERAGE AMERICAN EVERYWAY YOU CAN TO LINE THE POCKETS OF THE RICH SCREWING ALL CLASSES WITHIN THE MIDDLE CLASS, PARTICULARLY THE LOWER MIDDLE CLASS, MOST CERTAINLY THE AVERAGE MIDDLE CLASS AND THE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS.
Just the 1/10 of 1% at the very top and most important, those who contribute $100,000 to you. What about rigging the election and all the rest of your high class trash.
IN FACT, I CAN’T EVEN THINK OF ONE GOOD THING BUSH HAS DONE AND THE ONLY THING YOU DO IS BABBLE ON ABOUT TERRORISTS… FOR 5 FRIGGIN YEARS.
Bush your integrity is lies and screwing everybody else except your little tiny click of a bunch of CROOKS
May 5th, 2007 at 11:37 amMy message to this ultimate failure of a human being.
Go F*CK yourself. With barbed wire.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:37 amWhy is this story posted? Slow news day?
That’s precisely the message. There are so many more calamitous problems facing him and the country – and this is what he is talking about.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:37 amWhy does Botch were a bike helmet? WTF is he protecting? 8-))
May 5th, 2007 at 11:43 amAh suddenly it all becomes clear. Gas prices are over $3.25 a gallon because George wants us to ride our bikes more.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:49 amyeah, this campy PR stunt is going to really get people to like you and forget about the utter distaster you have wrought at home, in Iraq and around the world.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:50 amdixie blood
May 5th, 2007 at 11:50 amGreat point! The fluff between those Alfred E Neumann ears could make a great throw pillow. Nuttin else.
and then he crashed into a tree….
May 5th, 2007 at 11:54 amLadies and Gentlemen, your president. Another Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burns moment.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:55 amIsn’t that what Clinton also tried to do?
hm, what use … still BurgerKing& McDonalds beats them on this
May 5th, 2007 at 11:56 amHeh. It’s funny how you liberals get upset even when he makes a neutral comment like this. You really hate this guy, don’t you?
May 5th, 2007 at 11:56 amWTF? Why is a chimp riding a bike news? Circuses have been doing this for decades. Ooops, I forgot that the WH is a 3 ring circus: tortuRING, suffeRING, and perjuRING. Should we add slaughteRING, coweRING, whimpeRING, pandeRING or stutteRING also?
May 5th, 2007 at 11:59 amApparently ButtBoy #23, 72% of Americans hate “this guy”.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:00 pmlooks kinda like dubbie needs to work on his “core” a bit…
May 5th, 2007 at 12:02 pmat least if he’s going to preach about fitness…
Meanwhile:
Military sexual trauma — the new face of PTSD
Military sexual assaults — and requests for help — are on the rise
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18494197/wid/11915773?GT1=9951
May 5th, 2007 at 12:03 pmROTFLMAO I couldn’t wait to see the comments on this one. Figured there would be some ticked off Bush haters here this morning. Do you suppose the feeling is mutual? ;)
May 5th, 2007 at 12:03 pm…Slow news day? At least for once he is telling the truth.
Comment by RobG — May 5, 2007 @ 11:27 am
and THAT’s what makes this a NEWS story!!!
May 5th, 2007 at 12:04 pm.
Bottoms up & bottom boy is right. Hating the ground Bush walks on is not getting you anywhere. Take a deep breath & get some exercise.
That said, Clinton was a better pres than Bush and did exercise better too.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:05 pm…says to most rested president in American history – who vacations nearly as often as he “works.”
May 5th, 2007 at 12:06 pm#27: Yeah, right. Whatever. Like they have time for sex there.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:07 pmAt least he’s right about something.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:08 pmWhatever. Like they have time for sex there.
how blind and narrow minded and stoopid can one get?
May 5th, 2007 at 12:12 pmComment by upright left
Who cares? Mr. 28% will be rated in history somewhere between Grant and Hoover. They had their “upright left’s” as well. See you at the next Grange meeting, dinosaur.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:12 pmWhile it is certainly commendable that George W. Bush believes in keeping fit, what is far less praise worthy is that he does not seem the least bit interested in exercising, as Hercules Poirot would put it, his little gray cells. For someone who graduated from Yale and Harvard [with a little help from his friends?], he is astonishingly bereft of the world around him, as evidenced by the remark he made after Sept. 11, 2001, when he made that less than felicitous statement that the United States was going to embark on a crusade against the Muslim world. As a bumper sticker aptly states, military solutions are problems, which our glorious leader heartily endorses.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:17 pmComment by barfly — May 5, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
Hit a nerve there, eh, barfly? :)
May 5th, 2007 at 12:18 pmThis thread is all about hate. Just want to point that out. The man is promoting good health and exercise. That’s a good thing. But even that draws the hate from the progressives. Hate. That’s the progressive way.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:25 pmHere’s a little message for you kevin. Go love yourself in the mirror.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:36 pmNope #37, it’s about Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burns. Nice spin though Kevin, Jake, Patrick1 whatever you trolls are calling yourselves these days. Nothing says hate like attacking a country on made up intelligence, right Kevin. Boy, you 28% er’s sure are out in force this morning to protect your liar and thief.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:38 pmTopper hates me now and thinks I’m one of 3 people. Hate is the progressive way.
Oh. and didn’t most of the intelligence come from Clinton’s admin. That’s why most of the Dems voted for the war.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:46 pmHaHaHa!!! Still blaming everything on Clinton huh Kevin. Ain’t that fresh. Good luck using that line in 08. Got to love those 28%er’s.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:59 pmWhen he says “Good excuse to go outdoors” I’m sure he means “Good excuse to go to my ranch in Crawford and clear brush while important stuff goes on in DC….hehehehe”
May 5th, 2007 at 1:04 pmI’m not blaming. Reminding.
May 5th, 2007 at 1:05 pm#43
Take some personal responsibility troll. The intelligence was fixed by the neocons. Whether you like it or not. Enjoy. The day you come up with proof is the day Bush stops drinking for good.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2005/050811-iraq-intell.htm
“But what was said to be an effort to protect the United States became a tool by which the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Pat Roberts (R-KS) ensured there was no serious investigation into how the administration fixed the intelligence that took the United States to war in Iraq or the fabricated documents used as evidence to do so.”
May 5th, 2007 at 1:10 pmThe Bush alternative to Universal Health Care.
More advice: Don’t get sick.
May 5th, 2007 at 1:21 pm“Stay fit” because Karl Rove’s fat ass hasn’t. Dick Cheney’s had how many heart-attacks? Everyone needs to look like Condi “Jungle Love” Rice, and throw up after you eat.
May 5th, 2007 at 1:26 pmHeh. It’s funny how you liberals get upset even when he makes a neutral comment like this. You really hate this guy, don’t you?
BottomBoy — Your voluntary choice of on-line monikers says it all. No doubt “Deliverance” is your favorite film of all time, and Ned Beatty your favorite actor.
May 5th, 2007 at 1:33 pmRemember the last time you checked in baggage at an airport? The weight limit for checked bags for Continental Airlines is 70 pounds. So, their employees are expected to be able to handle such items without undue difficulty. Most mountain bikes weigh between 20 and 35 pounds. If the bicycle is one of the more expensive ones, made with lightweight materials, the weight is likely to fall at the lower end of the range. And W is bragging about this?
May 5th, 2007 at 1:35 pmStay fit and shop:
May 5th, 2007 at 1:42 pmhttp://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/03/936/
Over the past decade, an old word once used in the Maoist gulags has come back to China. It is “gulaosi†– and it is used to describe the men and women who are literally being worked to death producing clothes, electronics and toys for you and me.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/04/wbaez04.xml
May 5th, 2007 at 1:44 pmJoan Baez banned from singing to US troops
Makes sense!
May 5th, 2007 at 1:46 pmBut for some Reason, when it comes out of the mouth of
George W. Bush, i want to start drinking booze, smoke cigs, and hang out with Keith Richards.
“I love exercise,†said the president, “because it doesn’t take any thought whatsoever. That’s why I’m so good at it!”
May 5th, 2007 at 1:50 pm#52: So, are you making fun of all the people who enjoy exercise because it takes our thoughts away from all the “finer things”? Many people enjoy exercise just because it lets you not to think about anything.
May 5th, 2007 at 1:54 pmMany people enjoy exercise just because it lets you not to think about anything.
Comment by BottomBoy
That must be your crowd….
May 5th, 2007 at 2:11 pm#53 I shouldn’t dignify your comment with a response. But you use a common logical reasoning fallacy called the straw man. You attack a position I am not taking and erroneously attribute it to me.
I am going to spell out my point so you don’t misrepresent it any longer. President dinkledorf doesn’t think. Get it? We agree exercise doesn’t require much if any thought and so he is good at it.
What did you do to get your name, “BottomBoy?” How does one come by such a title? Did it take an accomplishment or did you just dub yourself in a moment of blazing clarity?
May 5th, 2007 at 2:12 pm#54: Indeed I do. I enjoy exercise because it lets me stop thinking for a while.
May 5th, 2007 at 2:26 pm#54: Indeed I do. I enjoy exercise because it lets me stop thinking for a while.
Comment by BottomBoy
So….you’re exercising now….?
May 5th, 2007 at 2:29 pmI am not a liberal BottomBoy, do not hate Bush, and find this article fairly useless. What I can tell you is that many conservatives are not happy with this administration of Straussian Theo-cons.
I do think all people should read up on Leo Strauss and his political philosophy of the noble lie borne partly from the works of Plato’s Republic where Philosopher-Kings were to rule the masses thru systematical and very intentional lies, a form of dualism, Perle, Wolfowitz, Bolton..etc are students of this Orwellian political hack. These people are not conservative and use religion as a tool to mislead the masses.
The relgious right, who for the most part meant well, helped to bring these Empirical thinkers into power. I truly don’t think the relgious right realizes this. Coulter, as you can read, is yet another of these liars, who talks endlessly about Godless people, when, in fact, the Godless neo-liberals are the neo-cons she drumbeats for.
May 5th, 2007 at 2:34 pmHe needs to go exercise his brain…
May 5th, 2007 at 3:10 pmIt’s the smartest thing he’s ever said.
In all other matters, he’s still a corrupt douchebag.
May 5th, 2007 at 3:53 pmI wish Chimpy would run into a tree and never recover. Yes, I hate this man.
May 5th, 2007 at 3:53 pmI enjoy exercise because it lets me stop thinking for a while.
Comment by BottomBoy
Yeah, finding quarks and tachions must be tough.
May 5th, 2007 at 4:01 pmWish I had as much free time as the Presnit of the US…
May 5th, 2007 at 4:06 pmOOOh Charles “Chimpy” Atlas there can lift a 12 pound carbon frame, top of the line mtnbike….what a show of strength….
My granny could lift that bike.
:/sacasm:
May 5th, 2007 at 4:35 pmWhenever I see the Blunderer-in-Chief riding his bicycle, I can’t help but think this man hates being president and desperately wants to be 13 again, so he can go back to picking on Li’l Brer Jeb and blowing frogs up w/ firecrackers.
May 5th, 2007 at 4:36 pmThis is an important message. The obesity epidemic is creating a boom in type II diabetes in this country. Eat healthy and exercise. Right on, Mr. President.
May 5th, 2007 at 4:36 pmAt least he’s not racing against some poor maimed vet of his failed and illegal war with two prosthetic legs…..
May 5th, 2007 at 4:36 pmEveryone needs to look like Condi “Jungle Love†Rice, and throw up after you eat.
Comment by JTitor — May 5, 2007 @ 1:26 pm
You didn’t mean that to be the racist slur that it sounds like, did ya, titor? :)
Comment by Alejandro — May 5, 2007 @ 1:42 pm
Sweat shops exist, therefore we shouldn’t shop, eh Alex?
May 5th, 2007 at 4:39 pmThis is an important message. The obesity epidemic is creating a boom in type II diabetes in this country. Eat healthy and exercise. Right on, Mr. President.
Tell that to Cheney, Rove, Kissinger and all the other health conscious rethuglicans…
May 5th, 2007 at 4:40 pmBut for some Reason, when it comes out of the mouth of
George W. Bush, i want to start drinking booze, smoke cigs, and hang out with Keith Richards.
Comment by kevkev — May 5, 2007 @ 1:46 pm
“Liberals … simply hate George W.Bush… In fact, I’m pretty sure that if, in his inauguration speech, President Bush had said, “We must unite to combat global warming,” liberals would have, from that moment on, referred to it as “so-called global warming.”
“Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right”
May 5th, 2007 at 4:49 pmBernard Goldberg
Buttboy, #23
What, just because he started a war for made-up reasons, and he ended up killing more Americans than Osama bin Laden, and more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein, there’s no reason to hate this guy, is there?
May 5th, 2007 at 4:56 pmTell that to Cheney, Rove, Kissinger and all the other health conscious rethuglicans…
Comment by Kay — May 5, 2007 @ 4:40 pm
Didn’t you know that the liberals are laying off Kissinger right now? He has said some things lately that are useful to you all. He’s not currently considered a target. Try and keep up. ;)
May 5th, 2007 at 5:15 pmI’m excersing right now, if ya know what I mean :-)~
May 5th, 2007 at 5:22 pmWhy does Botch were a bike helmet? WTF is he protecting? 8-))
Comment by dixie blood — May 5, 2007 @ 11:43 am
Should have been:
Why does Botch wear a bike helmet? WTF is he protecting? 8-))
I would be nice if he WERE a bike helmet!! Gore would be Prez!!!
May 5th, 2007 at 5:32 pmIf we weren’t working two jobs to afford to stay afloat, we’d have more time to “stay fit.”
May 5th, 2007 at 5:43 pmIt’s so sweet of the silver-spoon-born boy-king to admonish everyone to stay fit. The one who never had to work a day in his life.
Heh. It’s funny how you liberals get upset even when he makes a neutral comment like this. You really hate this guy, don’t you?
Comment by BottomBoy
I do yoga everyday and also usually take the stairs rather than elevator or escalator up to five and sometimes nine floort, so I have no problem with his message this time. However, hasn’t this administration been behind the deregulations that have allowed tainted food, including the poisonous pet food from China, on the markets?
May 5th, 2007 at 6:33 pmAs for hatred, aren’t you here to express your disdain for liberals?
If I had to go to a secret service training center to take a walk……well I might think McDonalds looks better.
May 5th, 2007 at 6:42 pm1) Hitler
2) Stalin
3) Bush …
any arguments ?
May 5th, 2007 at 7:15 pmBush is Right. With his Energy and Middle East Policies in effect, Americans need to learn how to walk, jog, pedal and swim.
May 5th, 2007 at 7:18 pmCan’t TP find some evil stuff the President is doing. I mean, he is evil, right? He is advocating American’s to stay fit. I believe the posters here would find some way to object if President Bush advocated for everyone to vote.
May 5th, 2007 at 8:39 pmRe: Stephan’s list and “hating” Bush:
Every evil leader in history has probably had some redeeming feature: Hitler was a dog lover (that’s supposedly true), Stalin loved his mother (I made that up), Idi Amin saved a million trees in Ethiopia (also made up), Saddam preserved and protected Iraqi antiquities (true—though, thanks to Bremer and company, now all but undone), and Bush loves (and encourages others) to exercise. BFD!
Does that make these people any less evil? Of course not.
People don’t hate Bush because he’s intellectually challenged (and that’s being kind), vapid, disconnected from reality or even easily led by the nose (just ask any neocon). They hate him because he’s EVIL! What’s more, they not only hate him, they fear him (one follows the other). You never know what this idiot is going to come up with next, but you can always assume the worst.
May 5th, 2007 at 8:41 pm“F-ck him” for thirty minutes a day and everyone will be happy!
May 6th, 2007 at 12:57 pmlisten, i hate dubya as much as the next guy. but we’re meant to get all up in arms because he’s encouraging america to get off its lard-filled duff and get some exercise?
May 6th, 2007 at 1:31 pmAt least who ever posted this didn’t add in the traditional satrical tone that accompanies these types of posts.
however, they’re certainly aware of the TP faithful coming in and telling bush to fuckoff for riding a bike around 30 mins of the day rather than mourning the death of a soldier.
the fact is, america has a horrible perspective on health and physical fitness. i want our leadership to take more of a stand on these types of issues.
what will become of the TP faithful when they no longer have the venerable GW to beat up on?
May 6th, 2007 at 3:01 pmRead between the lines, folks. What Bush is REALLY saying is, I want everyone to be fit when they are drafted, that way, they will be ready for war in Iran.
May 6th, 2007 at 5:39 pmOoooh, now I get it. The war in Iraq was just an exercise, a good excuse to get the troops out of the house. To keep the cash flow running and the morale for war up. Tough luck, Dubya, too much exercise can kill ya.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:44 amI actually disagree with the man most times, but I thought the exercise thing was pretty cool. Wouldn’t you know, not everyone thought so:
Religious Right Raises Hell Over Bush Exercise Regimen
May 7th, 2007 at 8:31 amhttp://www.crystalair.com/content.php?id=13200705005
I guess the BDS crowd is going to stop going to the gym now.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:41 am