Bush stark raving mad in Crawford: his cruel "100 Degree Club"

[HamdenRice]

(Thanks to Seemslikeadream for posting the link in another forum.)

According to Sidney Blumenthal, Bush has a new, cruel, callous past-time with his bicycle: making his aides and guests run three miles when the temperature is over 100 degrees while he rides his bicycle along side and barks orders at them to run faster.

This was at the end of an article about Bush's policy toward Israel and Lebanon, but Blumenthal's flourish at the end about the 100 degree club and Bush's general absolute babbling insanity is even creepier than the murderous foreign policy the article discusses:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/08/17/bush/index1.html

<snip>

This week Bush broke from his usual long summer vacation at his Crawford, Texas, homestead for a press conference and meetings in Washington. The week before, while the Lebanon war was still raging, Bush invited Reuters correspondent Steve Holland to join him on an hour and a half bicycle ride in 100-degree heat. (Bush holds contests for his staff at Crawford to belong to his "100-Degree Club." When the temperature hits 100 degrees, they run three miles while the president rides his bike alongside them, urging them to run faster. "You can do it! Come on!" At the end, they receive T-shirts and pose for pictures with Bush.) "Bush does not ride quietly, constantly shouting out in his Texas twang the names of trees and geographic features and yelling at himself to pedal faster," Holland wrote. As Bush rode up a hill, leading an entourage of sweating Secret Service agents and the reporter, he shouted to no one in particular: "Air assault!"

[Taverner]

1. The madness of King George

[Demeter]

53. This Sounds So Much Like Imperial Rome: Nero, Caligula, etc

it's frightening!


Query: Why Do These People Put Up With This Abuse? Proof that you have to be SERIOUSLY MENTALLY, PSYCHOLOGICALLY, OR MORALLY ILL TO BE IN THE GOP!!!

[Prophet 451]

61. Could be a good sign

Nero, Caligula and Commodus (the three truly nutcase Emperors) were all assassinated.

Isn't there a provision for removing a lunatic from the Presidency?

Then again, that would put VP Serial Killer in charge so maybe that's no so good.

[Crankie Avalon]

69. Funny you should mention Imperial Rome...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1927115&mesg_id=1927241

[nashville_brook]

112. maybe all these FALLS are really him being PUSHED

by unamused "100-degree'ers.)

[indepat]

57. If true, signs of stark raving madness

[LaPera]

76. If not? ----------- A spoiled, mean, angry, sick little shit at best.....

A vindictive simple-minded little tyrant!

[fooj]

107. We've got a winner here...

You hit it spot on!

[mtnsnake]

2. Indicative of an insecure coward who's trying to fool everyone into

thinking he's got what it takes, when he really has zero.

[Marie26]

29. But he can ride

his bike in 100-degree heat, yell & order the "grunt" reporters around, and yell "air assault" when he goes over a hill! Doesn't that prove he's capable of being a great military leader? It's so pathetic.

[FlaGranny]

55. Proves to me that he has

masochistic and sadistic tendencies.

[goclark]

3. Now that is really "sick," why has that not been on my TV? nt

[HamdenRice]

7. Why haven't the reporters who have been subjected to this

reported this? Note that this was written by Blumenthal, but experienced by Holland. Why didn't Holland write something about the fact that the president is bat shit insane? Or maybe he did -- I'll google it.

[JHB]

56. Holland's article is about riding on a bike alongside *, not running

Holland's article below. He doesn't mention anything about t-shirts & photos, or a "100 degree club". Whatever Blumenthal's source is for that, it's not Holland's article.


http://today.reuters.co.uk/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=reutersEdge&storyID=2006-08-07T080835Z_01_NOA729254_RTRUKOC_0_WITNESS-BUSH.xml

Standing in the shade of a tree while one of his dogs, Miss Beazley, barked, Bush said he does not try to think out solutions to world problems while riding, instead using the rides to clear his head.

"I push it away. On single track you generally have to stay focused on the trail. And as you know these aren't leisurely rides, these aren't nature rides," Bush said.

"They're fun exercise rides, and I try to maximize the time available and at the same time stay fit. In my case I know I need to be spiritually fit as well as physically fit in order to do this job."

Bush said he spent the previous evening thinking about the Middle East while sitting on the porch of his ranchhouse waiting on first lady Laura Bush to arrive. "I was thinking about the right strategy for the United States in the Middle East. I spent a long time thinking about it, went in and wrote some notes, I then shared my thoughts this morning with some of my inner circle," Bush said.

[daleo]

77. Spiritually fit?

I was under the impression that Christians considered a state of grace to be a gift from God, not the reward for a bike ride.

[LuckyLib]

81. Clear his head? It's vacuum packed and hermetically sealed

already! What a joke!

[oxbow]

92. Something about this Salon story doesn't add up

There's a lot of the same sentences in both stories, but Blumenthal says that Holland and the Bush staff were jogging, while Holland says they were riding bikes. Either Blumenthal is making stuff up or Holland is hiding what happened for some reason.

[JHB]

110. Here's corroboration from NPR

Careful: it's a serious charge to say a journalist is "making stuff up": that's one of our big complaints about the RW spin machine. But yes, Blumenthal seems to be conflating two different bike tales (neither of which undermine the central bullying-ness and nuttiness of Bush's attitiude):


A 'Pant-Out' with the '100-Degree Club'
August 8, 2006 · We couldn't bear to shut down the computer and go home without sending you this scoop. David Greene just learned it; you're the next to know:

President Bush spent his afternoon not buried in Middle East diplomacy, but daring his staff at the ranch to join what he calls the "100-degree club." The phrase literally sends shudders down staffers' spines. The president challenged White House employees to run three miles in the central Texas heat across the scrubby terrain on his property. Press Secretary Tony Snow, who sounded as nervous as everyone else, said he would offer a "pant-out" after the run... as opposed to a read-out.

Those finishing the three miles got a T-shirt from the president. Mr. Bush did the course on his bike (his bad knees prevent him from running these days), but rode back to join the runners as they came in. I'm told the president was friendly and encouraging in the most fatherly way -- as he pedaled around the sweaty troops. According to the Weather Channel, the temperature on this patch of Texas was exactly 100 degrees when the run took place. The heat index was 102.

-- David Greene

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5628308

[HamdenRice]

113. There are several corroborating stories

about the 100 degree club, Tony Snow being one of the latest victims. Blumenthal's phrasing is a little confusing as to what Holland specifically is doing, but it's certainly consistent with Holland's account of riding rather than running: "Bush invited Reuters correspondent Steve Holland to join him on an hour and a half bicycle ride in 100-degree heat. It's the staff that are part of the 100 degree club.

So there is nothing fishy whatsoever. Just google Bush and "100 degree club". There are many corroborating stories.

[oxbow]

122. thanks to both of you.

NPR and Blumenthal sure have some different things to say about Bush though! NPR describes him as a motivational, fatherly figure with a bad knee, Blumenthal as a slightly deranged, Caligula-like figure who is just plain weird.

[bluescribbler]

37. It's that damn librul media again

They're not going to report anything that makes out Great Leader look bad.

[goclark]

97. That should be all over the news and nothing

Welcome to DU!

[Efilroft Sul]

4. The dude's nuttier than squirrel shit. N/T

[bryant69]

5. Builds Character.

And of course reminds the reporter who is in charge.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[bowens43]

6. He is truly insane. No doubt about it.

[Missy M]

8. I'm convinced he is totally off his rocker.....

he shouted to no one in particular "Air assault!". What the hell does that mean. He should be in a padded cell.

[cspanlovr]

14. I'll bet he was passing wind, and just had to announce it.

[Missy M]

17. I wouldn't put it past him...

his mental capacity never got past grammar school.

[MrModerate]

9. It's called "hazing" and it's a favorite of . . .

Overprivileged frat boys.

[redacted]

104. and law school professors

Don't know how else to describe them.

[waiting for hope]

10. Doesn't he think he may

perhaps be setting himself up for a lawsuit if someone gets seriously ill doing this? Oh, my bad, forgot he's the "Uniter" and "Leader of the Free World"..:sarcasm:

[Oreo]

18. He would just write a signing statement

that would get him out of the lawsuit

[sarge43]

22. Cheney got away with shooting someone in face.

No one would make a BFD about a case of heat exhaustion. If it made the MSM, the victim would be called a wimp and it'd be off the radar in 24 hours.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. What happens if someone passes out from the heat...

or ends up hospitalized with dehydration from craphead's cruelty? I guess he'd find that cute or something stupid. What a sadist.

[HamdenRice]

12. Why is it I think if someone died of heat exhaustion ...

He would actually be found to have committed suicide in his motel room?

[daleo]

80. That person would have to apologize

Just like the lawyer that Cheney shot.

[RedEarth]

13. Doesn't that sound like someone you'd like to drink a beer with....

good ol' george....leader of the free world

[bigbrother05]

15. Air Assault

He must have farted.

[Beelzebud]

16. Sounds like my 8 year old nephew...

[davekriss]

19. As a bicyclist who has ridden centuries...

...in 105 degree heat, and whose best time in a century was 5.5 hours, and who (used to) routinely ride 40-50 miles in a couple of hours after work every day, Bushboi can only manage 3 miles in an hour and a half?

Bushboi must be very good at doing what's called a "track stand" because, at 2 miles per hour he is essentially, like his mind, at a standstill. Wimp!

For the record, this just more evidence that Bushboi is actually a sadist, requiring that staff run alongside him in 100 degree Texas heat while belittling them with shouts to "run harder". But then we've known that about him for a long time, this ex-Governer who signed more death warrants (with glee!) than all the other Governers combined, or who put on a mocking, whiney "save me! save me!" voice when he learned about the desparate pleading of Karla Faye Tucker. He practically pulled the switch himself. Even fellow Christo-fascist Pat Roberston pleaded with Bushboi to stay the execution but, no, Bushboi believes not in the Prince of Peace, but in his own frog-crackered fantasies of power, control, and violence. Sick man, disgustingly sick.

When will he leave the White House?

[thereismore]

25. yes, he is a sadist. Remember, he stuck firecrackers up frogs' asses.

[Iwasthere]

116. Thats right!!!! Gleefully blowing them up, and he branded students butts

I keep bringing that up and get few responses. Personally i find that to be very sick behavior. Perhaps no one is bringing it up because they feel 'Boys will be boys' but there is a pattern here too.

[wicket]

35. I'm obese and even I can bike 3 miles in an hour and a half

Hell, I could WALK 3 miles in that time :crazy:

[JHB]

58. Actually, the hour & a half was for a 20-km ride.

n/t

[wicket]

66. Ok that makes more sense then

Hehehe :D

[spuddonna]

105. Yeah, but you also have to factor in all the falls...

He's probably falling every half mile or so, or running over the staff, or hitting trees, so that eats into the Incurious George Raceclock. Plus, they have to stop to get the first-aid kit out often to bandage his face since he seems to like to use it as a 'brake'...

:crazy:

[Lisa]

84. my boss used to compete as a cyclist and marathon runner ...

He still regularly goes on hundred-mile rides. Played for the Duke Lacrosse team, too. And he NEVER uses exercise as a way to humiliate/abuse us (or as a way to suck up to him either, as some of Bush's staff seem to feel they must do to get his attention).

My boss just finished a 2-year secondment to the United Nations, and came back just livid about the kind of damage which Bush is doing internationally. He was born an American, but insisted on doing his UN stint under his other nationality (he holds a joint citizenship) -- mainly because someone from the State Department phoned him up and hassled him about how he should feel obliged to support the White House.

I would really love to see a squad of progressive cyclists and runners (ideally in Bush's age group) breeze past him!

[Straight Shooter]

20. Does anyone have any question whatsoever what kind of father he is?

Makes me shudder to think of having to grow up with someone who displays that sort of mentality.

[Lisa]

85. imagine how unpleasant life would have been for a son

It's probably just as well that he only had daughters. In his mind, women really don't figure for much (he's repeatedly said that they are "whiners", and even after the girls were born, he argued that Yale had "gone downhill" when it went co-ed after he attended). So he ignored them.

I fear that he would have been frustrated, vengeful, and even jealous of a male child. The fact that his idea of supervising his younger brothers, when he was growing up, was to shoot them in the buttocks with his air rifle when he felt they needed some discipline! (At his age, my father -- also the eldest of several brothers -- was changing diapers, cooking dinner, and attending parent-teacher conferences.)

[hippiechick]

21. Wow, that's totally masochistic.

What a psycho we have on our hands. :scared:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

23. imagine the crazy stuff we haven't heard about yet.

[Greylyn58]

62. Does tend to make you wonder

doesn't it?

If this is the kind of crap that we are just beginning to hear about, what other kinds of insane behavior have we not heard about from this idiot?

Mad George, his mis-administration and all his minions must go...

[oc2002]

24. meh.. its a Texas thing. yah, they like to boast about how hot it is in TX

nt.

[TomInTib]

39. Talking about it and going out and riding a bicycle in it are two wholly

different issues.

We have a farm in the next county (Bosque) and I have never in my life seen an adult in their right mind on a bike in August.

Well, except for the imports who like to dress up like Lance Armstrong and ride those real cute racing bikes.

[shimmergal]

48. No hotter there than here in southern Nevada

but I never see _anyone_ pulling that kind of insanity here in our usual 110-degree summer heat.

[Marie26]

26. He's losing it completely.

I honestly think that he will have a complete nervous breakdown soon, if he hasn't already.

[vkobaya]

108. Not quite yet!

I don't think he is completely gone yet. When it happens ...
Okay, got to admit, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, and that
batshit crew will still be in denial but the rest of the world
will know it. He's getting there though as witnessed by the
complete debacle at the G-8 Summit a couple weeks ago. Then
again, I thought he was totally incapacitated even before
January 20, 2001. I hope the rest of the adminstration is
smart enough to give him a dummy red button or we are in deep
shit.

[leftofthedial]

27. dude belongs in an institution

he's a degenerate

[Bjornsdotter]

28. Bat shit crazy

...the whole family is nuts.

Cheers

[underpants]

54. Completely

and utterly gone.

[Thoreau-Ly]

65. Not Only That

But you can't make shit like this up.

I mean, it's like, Holy Fucking Bejesus, you have got to be kidding me!

Wow. It is stunning how far America has fallen in a mere 2,035 days. Simply stunning.

[Bjornsdotter]

94. Exactly

It's scary because it is so far out there, no sane person would do stuff like this.

Only the insane and a person with a dictator complex...oh wait * is both.

Cheers

[ejbr]

30. I'm sorry. I am truly sorry, but

I have to admit that I would simply have to kick his fucking ass and deal with the consequences.:yoiks:

[Mandate My Ass]

31. subjecting his staff to torture and humiliation at the same time

That POS has a future at Gitmo. :eyes:

[thereismore]

32. Sent to KO. nt

[paparush]

33. Can anyone say.... 'INTERVENTION' ??

[napi21]

34. Let me tell you about what has happened to several football players

who's coach decided it was perfectly OK to practice in the extreme heat. YOU read it and interpret what my message is.

In fact, stories of Florida athletes getting sick from heatstroke -- a condition dangerously compounded by dehydration -- are disturbingly common. Last month, two young football players in Tampa, 11-year-old Jamell Johnson and 12-year-old Bobby Stephens Jr., died in the same week after practicing in extreme heat.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/health/orl-water06aug15,0,6541161.story?coll=sfla-news-science

Those kids were 11 & 12 years old! Earlier in the same article is a story about a byciclist who was training for a Ironman Competition and collapsed and almost died!

Now, wouldn't you think Shrub's Dr's would advise him against this practice??? They wouldn't want to mmmm....endanger the life of the POTUS, now, would they????

[formercia]

36. Not all is lost, the cavalry is about to arrive

Watta ya mean Joe's not here? He is the 'chosen one'. Didn't you know the 'chosen one's name is Joseph?


http://www.perkel.com/politics/gore/lie.htm

Joe "It wasn't supposed to happen like this" Lieberman.

[datadiva]

38. Can he get any more bizarre?

Oh yeah, he can.

[ananda]

40. Bush :: Caligula

Mad Emperor :: Crazed Limbaughtomized Lunatic

This thread has the same discussion, and one poster shows how Caligula did almost the same thing, here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1927115

-------
This scene is straight out of history, by the way: Roman Emperor Caligula

Edited on Thu Aug-17-06 07:58 AM by Crankie Avalon

...once made a group of his generals run alongside him while Caligula rode in his chariot. For about twelve miles, if I recall correctly. One of the men even died of exhaustion. At the end of the ride, all the generals had collapsed along the way except for one--Galba. Caligula asked him if he would like a lift back in the chariot or if he would prefer to walk. Galba (who later became Roman Emperor himself for a brief interval) responded, "As you please, Caesar."

Caligula rode off without him.

[HamdenRice]

43. Sorry for the dupe thread -- didn't see that one nt

[Skidmore]

41. The cult olf *...creation of an alternate reality

Isolation from the real world, giving nicknames, subjecting people to humiliation and strenuous and relentless physical regimes, and rewarding for compliance with unreasonable demands. These people are incapable of dissent because he's behaving just like a cult leader. Wonder if he learned his technique from Rev. Moon.

[HamdenRice]

42. A couple of corrections/additions

Apparently, this is not a "new" pasttime. It has been going on for several years. Google Bush and "100 Degree Club" and several newspapers have run a version of this story recently.

As for his riding at 3 mph (running speed), he doesn't; apparently he rides circles around the runners while ordering them to run faster.

[AnnieBW]

44. Rush Limpballs

Hey.... maybe that's how Rush Limpballs can lose some weight? Go biking with his idol in 100 degree heat!

[Arugula Latte]

45. I think that's a great idea!

"Come on, Fat Boy! Git those knees up! You're gonna need a lot of Oxycontin after this! heh heh heh"

[shain from kane]

49. Sweat the drugs out of him. He won't be able to get high or get it up

for a month.

[shain from kane]

46. Wait until he starts riding that motorcycle.around the pig farm. No one

on foot will be able to keep up with him.

[MrScorpio]

47. Jesus, the country is in the hands of a mad man

Greg Stillson come to life

[Jed Dilligan]

50. WARNING: Graphic

Now that you have this information....

























Imagine his sex life.

[Missy Vixen]

71. I'm sure he's the love machine

NOT.

>Imagine his sex life.<

He has plenty of time to torment people in 100 degree heat, because that's off the table, and has been for a long time.

IMHO, YMMV,
Julie

[JHB]

87. No imagination needed

All indicators point to "none worthy of the name"

[JohnnyLib]

51. Frat parties in the 60s, stupid macho shit, lotsa fun--

oh, wait, we were 18 and it was the 60s and we weren't in charge.

[HamdenRice]

52. Presidentin is Hard Work! --- NOT

Thanks to a link in the other thread about this (the "Deranged Dick" thread), we learn a little more about these rides.

The Reuters article shows that Bush is basically trying hard to avoid working. It's pathetic. Notice how verbal slips give him away:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=reutersEdge&storyID=2006-08-07T080835Z_01_NOA729254_RTRUKOC_0_WITNESS-BUSH.xml


Standing in the shade of a tree while one of his dogs, Miss Beazley, barked, Bush said he does not try to think out solutions to world problems while riding, instead using the rides to clear his head.

"I push it away. On single track you generally have to stay focused on the trail. And as you know these aren't leisurely rides, these aren't nature rides," Bush said.

"They're fun exercise rides, and I try to maximize the time available and at the same time stay fit. In my case I know I need to be spiritually fit as well as physically fit in order to do this job."

<Notice he does not say he tries to maximize the efficiency of his exercise; he is trying to maximize the time -- namely, keep playing for as long as possible.>

Bush said he spent the previous evening thinking about the Middle East while sitting on the porch of his ranchhouse waiting on first lady Laura Bush to arrive.

"I was thinking about the right strategy for the United States in the Middle East. I spent a long time thinking about it, went in and wrote some notes, I then shared my thoughts this morning with some of my inner circle," Bush said.

<Most political leaders, intellectuals and professionals work out problems with pen and paper or through discussions with aides and coleagues. Nixon was famous for scribbling late into the night on a legal pad, working out elaborate stragegies -- like the lawyer and strategist he was. Kennedy and Clinton used free for all, no holds barred discussions. Bush sits and thinks and on his porch while waiting for Laura, believing the little intellectual turds he squeezes out by himself are some kind of gems of genius, which he passes on to his staff the next day -- next day even though world events are moving a breakneck speed.>

...

Bush keeps his eyes on the road, and one of his rules is that he generally does not want anyone to ride in front of him in order to enjoy at least the sense of solitude.

"The reason why is, is that when I'm riding and seeing straight ahead with my I-Pod plugged in, I feel like I'm alone," he said.

<Classic pretend/avoidance strategy. If he has headphones on and can't see anyone around him, everything magically goes away. Generally, in normal people, the idea that if you close your eyes, the world goes away, is grown out of at the age of about 2 years old.>

[hedgehog]

72. He wants to be alone, but he has to have an audience.

I can't even begin to fathom the man.

[Supersedeas]

59. Is "Air Assault" supposed to be some kind of sick ass joke???

[SammyWinstonJack]

64. Considering the source, probably. Kinda like that "looking for WMDs"

in the Oval Office skit the little sicko did. Beside the obvious, there is something seriously wrong with him.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

88. Bush pretending his bike is an F-16

I wonder if he wears his flightsuit and makes "kh-kh-kh-kh-kh" machine gun sounds with his mouth as he strafes the countryside.

[Overseas]

60. We need to get some video of that and circulate it !!

Wish there was a way to get it on film. The footage could help more Americans understand Bush's true nature and why many of us have been calling for his and Cheney's impeachment.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

75. "Bush constantly shouting out"

It would be the funniest video of all time.

[izzybeans]

63. Sounds like my three year old son on his new huffy.

He yells at his own feet too. Occassionally he'll yell "Power Rangers Mystic Force" out loud at random. I see "Air Assault" as no different. Developmental studies suggest that this type of imaginary play is good for them. Let Bush have his play time he'll need it in order to further his cognitive development. Pretty soon he'll master more complex games that require rule following, just like my three year old son.

[liberalitch]

67. Your kid will probably master it faster......

[yorkiemommie1]

68. Barking mad is what he is

and freakishly cruel.

[Cell Whitman]

70. This is the type of thing that cult leaders do

this is so cult like it is scary. It goes along with loyalty oaths and Kool aid drinking 'dry runs"...

here's a comment from a former member of the Moon organization on the kind of things Moon would do..

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/8/9/13513/46197

Moon got off on it sometimes. Once I saw him toss a coin into a pool then Pak pointed to a small group of “leaders” saying “Who will first get the coin for Father?” In full suits, they all immediately jumped in. He liked to do those kinds of things. Moon’s children were real assholes taking advantage of members.

from another former member:

http://www.allentwood.com/essays/lordofflies.html

During Travis tour at Belvedere and during my visits there throughout the spring and summer our doubts about Moon and the Unification Church were crystallized by a series of macabre demonstrations of Moon's essentially psychopathic relationship with his followers. Shortly after Travis' relocation to Belvedere, Moon spoke at a Sunday church service at National Headquarters at 1611 Upshur St. in Washington D.C. The entire Maryland group was there. As One World Crusade Commander of Maryland I was given a coveted seat on the front row next to Unification Church President Neil Salonen. During his harangues, Moon hit me several times on the shoulder. When he finished his speech, he motioned me forward and asked me to kneel in front of the congregation. I thought he was going to ask me to confess my sins publicly. As I knelt, he kicked me in the hind quarters and then demanded of the audience whether they would follow him if he treated them like this. The immediate response was a deafening "yes" with clenched fists raised toward the ceiling.

Travis told me of a similar incident that took place while he was at Belvedere. In front of the entire training group of 70 young converts Moon hit Young Whi Kim, president of the Korean Unification Church, across the buttocks with a wooden cane with such force that the cane snapped in half. At Belvedere Moon also directly supervised the "War Games" in which One World Crusade Commanders and State Representatives took part in a massive variant of tug of war. Two groups of 50 would try to drag each other bodily across a certain line and back 40 yards to "prison camp.". Moon stood on the tip of a boulder in the path of the line. On a signal from Moon the teams would charge across the line and engage in a no holds barred battle to subdue and capture their adversaries.

Travis saw one guy with a broken arm, somebody else with a separated collarbone, and bloody noses were on all sides. Moon conducts these games between different nationality groups to stimulate competition and to reinforce a sense of pride in victory and shame in defeat.

[Mad_Dem_X]

73. Our So-Called president

What a tool. What an embarrassment to the country. I keep hoping I'll wake up one morning and discover the past five and a half years have all been just a horrible nightmare.

The Dems HAVE to win big in November, or I'm going to go insane.

Edit: spelling

[mnhtnbb]

74. Clearly signs of a sadistic coward. Why doesn't George run, too?

Or better yet, take his butt over to Iraq and do some biking in that heat!

[geardaddy]

78. Fountain of youth

<snip>

"What I would give to be 16 again!" Bush yelled out at one point as he mashed the pedals of his Trek bicycle through a wooded area.

<snip

"The reason why is, is that when I'm riding and seeing straight ahead with my I-Pod plugged in, I feel like I'm alone," he said.


That just sounds like he's not mentally developed past puberty.

[earth mom]

79. It's true. The whack jobs are running this country!

Most of us have been saying that for awhile now.

WAKE UP AMERICA!

How about IMPEACHMENT before it's too late?!

:nuke:

[Nothing Without Hope]

82. I'm wondering if Joe Scarborough daring to air a program asking

"Is Bush an Idiot," featuring extensive footage showing his mental deficiency, plus this story, are indications that Bush is getting so weird and dangerous that there will be more truth reported about it. Let's hope that the truth gets out and not only does the impeachment process gets rolling to remove this dangerous madman from office- it will have to remove Cheney too for his crimes - but that Congress members start rethinking their "strategy" of blindly rubberstamping everything this sadistic incompetent does.

VIDEO of "Is Bush an Idiot?" Joe Scarborough show:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/08/15/scarborough-is-bush-an-idiot/

OLDER VIDEO showing Bush's clear mental deterioration since being governor of Texas:
http://www.adbuzz.com/bushbuzz.htm

He is, apparently, deteriorating mentally. But from all reports, he has ALWAYS been a sadist and a total incompetent who has never been held accountable. He gets his ego strokes from the damage he does to others and from constant praise from sycophants.

[young_at_heart]

83. You'll never see this on any news program

I thought the programs would comment in 2000 about him blowing up frogs as a kid but they never did.

[autorank]

86. A big increase in "crazy Bush" stories...plus "stupid Bush" ...

It's all good. Let the truth roll right down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Beltway and beyond.

Let the people know that they've been ruled by a fool, those who did not know this already.

It's time for him to take a walk. He's incompetent and unstable.

[MUSTANG_2004]

89. Similar to another Texan nut

LBJ was similar. At his ranch, he once told a gaggle of reporters that he'd give an interview to the first one to catch a pig.

Some people get off on robbing people of their dignity.

[efhmc]

99. He did love to torture the press. He, however, lived and worked on a

real family ranch, was a real Texan and created some real lasting work. (Domestically, at least.)

[RB TexLa]

120. catching a pig is fun

the reporters probably enjoyed it.

[MUSTANG_2004]

121. Very likely

But the same can probably be said for the 100 Degree club.

[Initech]

90. I've said it many times before, but it's official now:

Bush has L-O-S-T it!

[Avalux]

93. He never had it.

Complete and total buffoon. Can I wake up from this dream now??

[sweetheart]

91. running after false prophets

Well, given that the 28% are supposed to be biblically literate,
then surely they and their false prophet are cultically deceived.

[DemoTex]

95. Air Assault! Bu$h style. (GREAT PIC of the Commander-in-Chief)

[femrap]

96. Get the strait jacket! NOW!

Can't someone ask to have him evaluated by a psychiatrist?

[LongTomH]

98. The only people following Dubya now...............

......should be the guys wearing white coats and carrying butterfly nets! :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[bridgit]

100. what a sweet guy...

:sarcasm:

[peacetalksforall]

101. Can anyone name any courteous, classy, ethical Republican in this

Administration or the Republican Congress. Does anyone know anyone from their state who meets these three criteria?

I was struck by two stories told about him - both possibly mild in comparison with his Club behavior.

There is the story that he would shoot his brothers with a b-b gun. Something about them having to run down a hall past the door of a room he was in with his gun?

There is the story told about 'a possible candidate' whose staff was searching for photos so that they could secure them - a photo of 'a candidate' dancing naked on a table top in cowboy boots. Reported by Drudge in 1998 or 1999. I doubt that it was Gore, Bradley, Bauer, Forbes or any others who ran in 2000.

Now this one - add it to the pigs and all the other stories and his macho, strutting, snorting, bad joke behavior.

They have Allen, Hatch, Cheney, Poindexter, Ashcroft, etc. etc. Are there any honorable ones?

Not that dancing on a tabletop is unhonorable (if true) - but when clustered with some of the other stuff - it's another behavior to shake the head at because of his beligerant risk taker show off attitude.

[Catchawave]

115. Good question, I think of this a lot

especially wondering who the GOP will run in '08....is there any one out there ?

I can't think of one republican who stands apart from the Bush Administration.

[FlaGranny]

117. Hey, a relative of mine was once married to a guy

who would drop his pants, jump up on a table, and dance. He was a rather sadistic person, too - not that all table dancers are sadists, but I sure as hell wouldn't want him as president (not presidential material AT ALL). Unfortunately, I don't see much difference between him and Mr. Bush. They are more like 2 peas in a pod.

[Tom Joad]

102. His insanity is the support given to the demolition of Lebanon. This is a

minor, but peculiar, other symptom.

[IronLionZion]

103. Does he want his SS bodyguards to hate him?

Because I wouldn't want to piss off the guys I trust to guard my life.

[lovuian]

106. You get the idea he wants to have somebody sacrifice their

life ...just to get a picture with him and a tee shirt

He really doesn't look on human life as important...

[HuffleClaw]

109. he shouted to no one in particular: "Air assault!"

lord only knows what is going on inside that little head of his. i'm not sure i want to know. he really does have the mind of a child. a petty spoiled whiny child. and this is a real cheap and cruel frat kind of trick.

[nashville_brook]

111. had an alcoholic friend who had behaviors like that...

louding play-acting as if he were in combat with the Red Baron. he thought he was cute, but there was something more to it -- his dad was a disabled vet and perhaps he had an inferiority complex about being an art student rather than a war hero.

[IndependentVoice]

114. He has finally lost it...in a public way at least

[WI_DEM]

118. I guess were still waiting on the results of his mental exam

[RB TexLa]

119. I've been jogging about 3 miles in it, it's the best temp for a good

workout. 5:00PM, 100plus up the tollway service road and down Belt Line Rd, you also get the heat from the pavement and cars.