Tim Blair

What a stupid and childish statement.

If I remember correctly, Kerry ate dirt/sand a few weeks ago while on his $5000 bike. For an extra $3K he could have gotten training wheels i guess.

Bush....fell about 16 miles

That's a long way to fall. It proves just how tough he is!

Bush gets my vote simply for not wearing color coordinated lycra outfits and accessories when he bikes. (Have we seen Kerry in a speedo with monogrammed beach towels, yet?)

Stuff the election, let the two do short-track ice skating.

"Did the training wheels fall off?"

Are you serious? What, is Kerry twelve years old?

Kerry really said that?

As opposed to your various comments directed at a certain corpulent film director, which represent the very epitome of class and maturity.

pch: Tim is a humorist. Kerry is a candidate for the highest office in the free world.

How is it that someone who is presumably grown-up enough to turn on the computor machine needs to have this explained to him?

You're right. Kerry should have referred to Bush as a major-league asshole. That would have been far more presidential.

Rode sixteen miles home? Whatta guy.

Imagine if Kerry had taken the same tumble. The screams of abuse at his SS detail, the Botox spread all over the hillside.....

****Kerry should have referred to Bush as a major-league asshole. That would have been far more presidential***

....and technically accurate. PCH, your boy's going down in November. The last thing America needs in these times of challenge is President Flipper. Start coming to terms with it now, okay?

Yeah, I guess Kerry will come up to Bush later and jokingly say, "Hey, can I borrow your training wheels?"

That would put him on the same level as Bush, who called Clymer a "major league ass....et" at a press meeting later.

Seriously: if you're having that much difficulty seeing the difference between these statements and their circumstances, and how much vulgarity every President has used when he thinks the mikes are off, as opposed to epithets intended deliberately for public consumption—argh. Never mind. It's too late at night to take this to a fourth paragraph.

the fourth paragraph:
bush ran a 20 minute 5k (3 miles) a couple years ago
that's impressive
yes - politicians trade insults, but it's a lotta fun catching them out, brian
we pay for them after all

It's one thing to make a remark you believe is not for broadcast ("major league ass....et").

When cameras are NOT rolling it's easy to drop your guard and say stupid ADULT things. I can easily imagine Pres. Bush's comment to have been made by an adult. I'm sure all of us hear variations of this at work from time to time. Adults do say these things.

It's an entirely different matter to make a comment like Kerry did IN FRONT OF THE CAMERAS.

"Kerry told reporters in front of cameras, 'Did the training wheels fall off?'... "

It's such a juvenile remark, it's hard to believe it's being uttered by one of my state's senators. Someone else made a comment about Kerry's age. I'd say this kind of remark would be expected from a 9 - 12 year old. Not from someone who may become our president. Not by an adult in front of cameras and reporters.

Well, now we know what Kerry really thinks of Bush. I am so looking forward to the rest of the campaign. I wonder when Kerry will start putting his thumbs in his ears, waggling his fingers, and saying "I know you are but what am I" at debates. That'll go down real well in Middle America. (PS, pch, at least "major-league asshole" is an insult a grownup would say.)

One thing people don't realize is that Bush crashed on his mountain bike, whereas Kerry went down on his road bike. Anyone who knows anything about mountain biking vs. road biking is aware of the fact you crash a LOT more frequently on a mountain bike...in fact you are EXPECTED to hit the dirt at least occasionally. In twenty years of racing and riding road bikes I crashed three times. In the past six years of mountain biking I've fallen literally hundreds, and I'm a pretty skilled rider (block long wheelies, manuals, twelve foot drops, etc.)

But Paul, the Bush Administration LIED about how easy mountain biking was before charging into it recklessly with no plan and now he's crashed!

It's Vietnam all over again. OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!! QUAGMIIIIIIIIIIIRE!

Hey, pch, quit calling yourself the name of my favorite road.

Check this out from Drudge too, the Bush twins are posing for Vogue.

You guys are right. This is obviously just a juvenile joke. It couldn't possibly be a reference to Bush's recent comments about training wheels and Iraq. Nah, that'd go over people's heads.

Nice catch, still childish.

Byron_the_aussie sez:

"Imagine if Kerry had taken the same tumble. The screams of abuse at his SS detail, the Botox spread all over the hillside....."

The application for a Purple Heart....

Jeez, how stupid is Kerry? He thinks you can put training wheels on a mountain bike? Before you go mountain biking?

Of course, I realize that Kerry doesn't actually own a moutain bike. The family does, but he doesn't.

Yo, Robert! Tell me how you compare falling off a $5000 bike on a flat road with creating a new government in Iraq.

Hint #1: Training wheels for bikes really exist and people really use them.

Hint #2: Training wheels for a government is a metaphor.

Then again Kerry will decided tomorrow that he was young when he made that remark and shouldn't be held accountable. Followed by a reversal and then back again...........etc
Flip, Flop We go!

I'll bet there'll be some editorial about Bush giving his address while cut up. Something like:

"A battered and bruised President Bush attempted to outline his plans to finish the job in Iraq. Yet, the injuries seem to be symbolic of the damage that has been done to the war effort."

Mountain biking is all about Mud, Blood and Glory.

No Blood, no Glory.

Which means that the Prez did rather well.

Did Bush say "fuck you" to his Secret Service guy after he got up"

I didn't think so.