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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:04 AM
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Bush's motorcade has minor accident

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Bush's motorcade has minor accident

Associated Press


WASHINGTON - President Bush's motorcade had a minor accident Sunday when the ambulance that routinely trails the president in case of an emergency crashed into a support vehicle on the way back from Camp David.

Secret Service spokesman Jonathan Cherry said no one was injured and the motorcade did not stop before arriving at the White House. The presidential limousine, which travels near the front of the motorcade of more than a dozen vehicles, was not involved.

The accident occurred a few blocks from the White House. The motorcade's lead vehicles slowed down, but the ambulance did not stop in time and rear-ended a Chevy Suburban carrying high-tech communications equipment, damaging the back bumper and doors. The Suburban in turn hit a support van in front of it.

Cherry said all three vehicles had minor damage.
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mhr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:05 AM
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1. And This Is News Why - Unless He Is Incapacitated In Some
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 11:05 AM by mhr
Permanent way, who cares?
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Kierkegaard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:13 AM
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6. Well I guess it was news because
even though the accident had nothing to do with it, the Chump IS incapacitated. At least in an emotional/intellectual sense.
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:16 AM
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10. Those are OUR cars. These incompetents can't do a god
damn thing right! Most people in this country can't afford health care and the jug eared prick has an ambulance follow him around? Shit.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:55 AM
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20. You have to wonder if it was an inattentive driver (only takes one)
or one of the hard cars was overdue for a brake job. Those things are so heavily armored, the gross tonnage takes a real toll--they have to change the brakes CONSTANTLY or you will end up careening into something. I've seen it happen, and damn, the repairs for failing to do the preventive maintenance are staggering.
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Conservativesux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 07:38 PM
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38. Hopefully they gave the driver a pee-test to make sure he wasnt drunk
or drugging it up, like his boss * was doing for so many years.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:05 PM
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40. Those guys work for Treasury, for the SS
They are picked and scalded, tested to the max.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:01 PM
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21. It followed Clinton around, too.
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 02:17 PM
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26. He was worth saving and he wanted everyone to have health
care.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 02:18 PM
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27. Yeah! LOL
I actually was really concerned during his presidency that someone would get him. It would have torn me up.
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adriennui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 05:13 PM
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29. i love that phrase
"jug eared prick" it suits the chimp to a T. and it makes me smile.
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 07:32 PM
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36. I stole it from anothe DU'er. I will post a credit. n/t
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 08:38 PM
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39. Looked all over and can't find where I stole that line. n/t
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:17 AM
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13. Just some more crap to keep junior in the lime light and
have the audience believe he's in a hostile world doing hard work.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:21 AM
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15. can you believe all the stuff that
travels with him? An ambulance? A high tech suburban? What in f*ck is going on? What happened to the nearest hospital and the telephone to the home base? Getting him out of office will save us an incredible amount of wasted money. I don't want to save his pathetic little life.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:51 AM
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19. SOP. Clinton got the same treatment
The bubble around the President has to be entirely self-sustaining. A lot of the upgrades came about as a result of Nov 63 in Dallas, and there were major refinements after the attempt on Reagan. Not that all of that fancy stuff would have helped Kennedy, but they want to not have any excuses...

If I had either the health or communications responsibilities in that environment, I'd go for overkill, too.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:06 AM
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2. A great analogy to the Bush Administration!
A 3-car wreck!
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soup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:11 AM
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5. Hi! I like that.
reckless wreckage.

and *, safely ensconced in one of the more forward vehicles, just keeps going. Gotta stay the course.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:11 PM
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41. Sometimes, not so far forward!
That is why the vehicles all look the same, when they use the Suburbans. There will be three of them, sometimes more, and they switch around in a great big pack so you do not know which one the boyking is in. The windows are tinted so you cannot see in (the glass is real thick, too), they are all Hard Cars (heavy armor) so even if his is hit badly, they can swoop him up and drag him to another one to get away.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:07 AM
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3. Good thing that none of the Secret Service guys were hurt!
Remember, they protect ALL presidents!
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:17 AM
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11. That's a shame, there must be at least one of them who is
tempted to do the right thing.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:07 AM
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4. LOL, these folks can't even move safely thru traffic
and I guess Georgy missed church again.
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soup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:14 AM
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8. Do they actually move through traffic?
Or is it halted for the passage on a regular basis?

Just curious. Know that when *he came to town, everything was shut down and blocked for a period of time.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:14 AM
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7. Just another bu$h regime screw up!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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CC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:14 AM
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9. Can't let a little bad
weather get in the way of * mini vacation every weekend. Why would he care if they are put at risk for his desires.

Glad no one in the support cars was hurt. I still :grr: when we had over a foot of snow, the helicopter couldn't fly so they used MSP to add to the convoy so he could go and get back again.






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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:17 AM
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12. Was Laura driving?
:shrug:
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sellitman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:20 AM
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14. You beat me to it. n/t
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:24 AM
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16. Had to be!
Guess they did a cover up on the bodies strewn about. Nothing here move along.
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zann725 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:28 AM
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17. ...as long as the Presidential bicycle wasn't injured in the incident.
Or worse yet, CAUSED the accident.

That bike's had more accident's than this country's had hurricanes this year.
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:33 AM
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18. The motorcades have had a Keystone Cops quality for over
a generation now. The Great Ones should go by helicopter and quit endangering the general public with their shows of force.
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:06 PM
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22. Bush must have been driving.
I can see it now. Bush begging to drive.

Can I? Can I? Come on! I wanna drive!
OK, George. You can drive.
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Thor_MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:35 PM
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23. Had a minor accident?
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 12:37 PM by Thor_MN
I would argue that any * motorcade has a MAJOR accident that is riding in the presidental limo.




2008, the end of an error.
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 12:44 PM
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24.  The President was warned to stop playing with the lights and siren n/t
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 02:13 PM
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25. Why bother with a motor vehicle ambulance???
Wouldn't an air ambulance be better?
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 03:29 PM
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28. Not all-weather.
And the ambulance probably has a physician and advanced life support.
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President Kerry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 05:17 PM
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30. harder than riding a bike..
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 05:29 PM
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31. Wasn't Chimpy going to cut the number of vehicles in his motorcade...
...to save fuel? "More than a dozen" doesn't sound like any reductions have occurred.
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Conservativesux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:43 PM
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46. Chimpy says a lot of things that are untrue.....
Beside, those cars use lots of gasoline so his oil company buddies can get more taxpayer dollars...

Cant wait until 2008!
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TheDonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 05:41 PM
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32. where they all coming from a kegger?
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MetaTrope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 07:03 PM
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33. Oh, those media are such a tease
Michelle Malkin probably needed some quotes from liberals on how it was too bad Boosh wasn't involved.

Personally, I wonder if Jenna has taken up ambulance driving. Or ambulance drivers. :freak:
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 07:20 PM
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34. The accident is that W is even in a presidential motorcade in the
first place. I'll say.
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Conservativesux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 07:36 PM
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37. Nice one ! nt
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 07:28 PM
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35. Breaking: Keystone Cops To Receive Driving Lessons from H. Miers.
Washington D.C.-Dec. 5, 2005

A.P. Wire: In an effort to avoid future setbacks due to a lack of knowledge about white house protocol, the president's motorcade will attend a 6 hour defensive driving course at the Larry, Moe, and Curly School of Presidential Pretense at their earliest convenience. Pretzles will be served. Segway parking will not be available.
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:14 PM
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42. Bush motorcade involved in accident
My question is "were Pickles or the Chimp driving?" You know how he likes to dress up. Maybe he wanted to play at being an ambulance guy.


http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=f7303c6f-0abe-421a-009b-972a669dd63c&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:14 PM
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43. * driving? He falls off bikes. n/t
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:18 PM
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44. Your link is instructive!
Apparently the Monkey was using the LIMO to come back from CD. A more humble prez would just stick to the SUVs, which are a bit less obvious (not much, but usually they are past you before you realize what you just saw). Look at MEEEEEEEEEEE in my FANCY car!!!!!!!!!
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:41 PM
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45. I would love it if all the parts they needed for repairs had been
sent to Iraq. I know that's an unrealistic daydream, but still...
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