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Biking Toward Nowhere (Dowd ALERT!!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/17/opinion/17dowd.html ^ | August 17, 2005 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 08/17/2005 11:51:32 AM PDT by Maria S

How could President Bush be cavorting around on a long vacation with American troops struggling with a spiraling crisis in Iraq?

Wasn't he worried that his vacation activities might send a frivolous signal at a time when he had put so many young Americans in harm's way?

"I'm determined that life goes on," Mr. Bush said stubbornly.

That wasn't the son, believe it or not. It was the father - 15 years ago. I was in Kennebunkport then to cover the first President Bush's frenetic attempts to relax while reporters were pressing him about how he could be taking a month to play around when he had started sending American troops to the Persian Gulf only three days before.

On Saturday, the current President Bush was pressed about how he could be taking five weeks to ride bikes and nap and fish and clear brush even though his occupation of Iraq had become a fiasco. "I think it's also important for me to go on with my life," W. said, "to keep a balanced life."

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1 posted on 08/17/2005 11:51:33 AM PDT by Maria S
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Remember the picture rule people, I only click on a link that has her name for the benefits fo scrolling down.


2 posted on 08/17/2005 11:53:22 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading since 2004)
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How does the self important Ms. Dowd actually leave work at 5 pm with all of the killing going on in the world? How can she be so insensitive?
3 posted on 08/17/2005 11:53:59 AM PDT by frogjerk
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To: Abathar
Remember the picture rule people, I only click on a link that has her name for the benefits fo scrolling down.

You sound like you are expecting something? ;) How many posts do you think it will take?

4 posted on 08/17/2005 11:54:51 AM PDT by frogjerk
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To: Abathar

"Remember the picture rule people, I only click on a link that has her name for the benefits fo scrolling down."


I am sorry...I do not know how to post a picture of Michael Douglass' wife!!! I live to please, but...


5 posted on 08/17/2005 11:56:19 AM PDT by Maria S
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To: Maria S

Biking to nowhere....hmmmm I could write a neat short using that title about your life, Mo.

Must be hell to have nothing at the end of the day but bitter tirades against a life that ultimately will be forgotten since no one is there to remember.


6 posted on 08/17/2005 11:56:49 AM PDT by OpusatFR (Try permaculture and get back to the Founders intent. Mr. Jefferson lives!)
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To: Maria S

Oh MY God, why won't she stop!

Usually she's just a lib with the column whining about different lib issues every week, but for the last two months it has gotten so anti-Bush, I'm appalled!


7 posted on 08/17/2005 11:56:59 AM PDT by CarlEOlsoniii (McCarthy goes after Communists with a shotgun; I go after them with a rifle -Nixon)
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To: Maria S
I never cease to be amased that Dowd draws a paycheck. Her drivel is scarcely worth printing in The Weekly Reader...
8 posted on 08/17/2005 11:57:10 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ("...on Earth, as it is in TEXAS")
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To: Maria S

So, in other words, Maureen, the Dems still use the same lame-assed political attacks now that they did over a decade ago.


9 posted on 08/17/2005 11:59:11 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: OpusatFR
LOL! When I think of her, I'm reminded of the Morrissey tune I'm The End Of The Family Line.
10 posted on 08/17/2005 11:59:11 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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Oh Gawd She's Back!
11 posted on 08/17/2005 11:59:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: CarlEOlsoniii

At least the Bush family works and vacations in their own house. Clinton used all his wealth Lib friends to mooch from. Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard etc. How often did this whining B***h write about that?


12 posted on 08/17/2005 12:00:03 PM PDT by mortal19440
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To: Maria S

Such a puke!


13 posted on 08/17/2005 12:00:09 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Maria S
OK, you know the rules.

OH, btw how ya doing?

5.56mm

14 posted on 08/17/2005 12:01:17 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Maria S

Maureen Dowd epitaph: "I made no difference."


15 posted on 08/17/2005 12:01:29 PM PDT by American Quilter
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To: Abathar
Without rules, we are no different from the animals.


16 posted on 08/17/2005 12:02:34 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: Abathar
Remember the picture rule people, I only click on a link that has her name for the benefits fo scrolling down.

OK, Here you go...


17 posted on 08/17/2005 12:02:37 PM PDT by akorahil (consider this space filled with yet another witty and irreverent tag line instead of this...)
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To: wideawake

ROTFL!


18 posted on 08/17/2005 12:02:49 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Try permaculture and get back to the Founders intent. Mr. Jefferson lives!)
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To: frogjerk
How does the self important Ms. Dowd actually leave work at 5 pm with all of the killing going on in the world? How can she be so insensitive?

She should probably also point out how she constantly harassed Bill Clinton about how he could travel all over the world and vacation after the WTC bombing and the Cole bombing and the War in Kosovo.

This is the standard press story during August in R administrations. Just crank out the Word macros and fill in the latest crisis.

19 posted on 08/17/2005 12:03:34 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Maria S

I wonder if the NY Slimes would do a similar story about Kerry windsurfing while missing votes in the Senate and important business in MA? Doubtful


20 posted on 08/17/2005 12:07:45 PM PDT by wingsof liberty (Marines - the few, the proud, the best!!)
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