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WASHINGTON, May 20 – Laura Bush said today that her husband should
\n have been interrupted on a bicycle ride last week and told that an off-course
\n plane had prompted a frantic evacuation of the capital. Her comments
\n were the first in public from the White House to question the Secret
\n Service’s decision to keep President Bush in the dark.<\/p>\n
The president was not informed of the incident until 40 minutes after
\n the single-engine plane had been forced turn away, a decision that
\n gave ammunition to Mr. Bush’s critics who view him as out of touch. The
\n plane,
\n which violated the restricted air space regulations put in effect around
\n Washington, prompted the Secret Service to move Vice President Dick
\n Cheney, Mrs. Bush and Nancy Reagan, who happened to be visiting, to the
\n underground
\n complex of the White House.<\/p>\n
Thank goodness he wasn’t <\/b>informed! There’s no telling how he Much better to know that cooler heads were in charge, the grownups from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WASHINGTON, May 20 – Laura Bush said today that her husband should have been interrupted on a bicycle ride last week and told that an off-course plane had prompted a frantic evacuation of the capital. Her comments were the first … Continue reading
\n might have reacted, drunk on power and flush with endorphins and adreneline.
\n He might have actually thought Laura and the girls were in danger and
\n started
\n issuing
\n bizarre,
\n panicky
\n orders to the military, declaring martial law, grounding all aircraft,
\n who knows,
\n invading
\n some unsuspecting small nation against which he holds a grudge, real
\n or imagined.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n were at home, no need to call little Georgie who’d gone out to play
\n with his
\n friend. Frankly, the danger that Geroge is<\/b> going to be at home
\n one of these days, at a crucial moment in national
\n history, and convinced now that he is really in charge, scares the shit
\n out of us.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n