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Far be it from VanRamblings to kick a man when he’s down, but migawd, for the first time in the last four years, a beleaguered George W. is looking not only all of his 57 years, but positively weary and downright … old. Looks like the bike spill that he took while on vacation in Texas — when you pile up every other untoward event that has affected the U.S. President these past weeks and months — has really begun to take its toll.
As Talking Points Memo suggested yesterday …
I can’t help but wonder whether the spill the president took from his bicycle today won’t become iconic in the same way that the state dinner the first President Bush attended in Tokyo on January 8th 1992 in which he collapsed into the arms of, and then vomited on, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa became a symbol of his then-faltering presidency.
Matt Drudge reported an alleged uncharitable off-the-record remark made by John Kerry, quoting the Democratic Presidential hopeful as saying, “Did the training wheels fall off?” Although Kerry’s alleged intemperate remark — even if it is funny — may in the short term afford Bush an added degree of sympathy, the long-term implications of the Bush spill may be dire indeed.
