The pretzel that toppled a President ...
 

Chevy Chase made a career out of impersonating Gerald Ford falling down, a trademark of his presidency.

But all kidding aside (although SNL won't leave this one alone) it is mind numbing to think that George W. Bush's life and this presidency might have ended with the twist of a pretzel.

How easily he might have hit his head and died in this fall.

Check out the bruise!

Frightening, at this time in history, to think of the President dying in a freak accident at home.

Re: The pretzel that toppled a President ...
 

I wonder how often things like this occur. Probably more often than we're told.

Presidentially? You think?

Bush has kept what I think to be a pretty open presidency. He seems pretty forthcoming about stuff like this. Of course, it'd be damn hard to hide that bruise too, so maybe that's why they came out with it...

I wonder how often Secret Service agents have walked in on Presidents and their First Ladies doing "the deed"... Or some other embarassing stuff like that - pinching a particularly un-soft loaf, maybe. Hehe. Seriously - how much are we not told about? These are good things to hear!

Seriously though, I'm glad he's alright.

This reminds me in a way of The Newseum, and an exhibit they had in 2000 about the press. The ads at the time mentioned how FDR fell during a speech, yet most of the general public knew nothing about it. Then they mentioned how much coverage Bob Dole's fall got in 1996.

How long did it take before we found out about Lewinsky? What, a year or so? That's a whole different ballgame, but I am fairly certain there are lots of things that go on at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW that we don't know about. From the mundane to the disturbing, I'd imagine.

I'm glad he's okay too, but I wonder if he was rooting for the Niners in that SF-GB game. ;)

What can i say? argh so close!

Didn't his dad pass out into a plate of Pad Gai in Japan? ;) True.

Pass out in, no. Chew, swallow, mix with bile, and regurgitate into the Japanese Prime Minister's lap, yes.

~mike

C'mon guys!
 

This is actually a great oportunity for wild accusations of cover ups and a chance for conspiracy mongering. IMHO W is the victim of ongoing spousal abuse, don't y'all remember the "lesion" which was removed a while back? Keep your eye on the ball folks these oportunities don't come every day.

The Secret Service should turn a completely blind eye to everything that happens. Their job is to protect the President, and reporting the guy's behavior and decisions is absolutely in direct conflict with that job.

This includes that SS agent who turned on Clinton. He may be an utterly reprehensible scumbag. But he's the elected President. He can't stop to think whether a politically unpopular decision or behavior may get him killed. He's in there on our behalf. Maybe he's got a weak personality and lots of personal failings. As long as he's upholding the constitution - whatever version of the constitution the courts see fit today, anyway - the SS has to protect him.

I agree with you. But I'd be willing to bet that an SS agent walked in on SOMETHING happening at least once. :)

Apparently (I'm probably wrong on this), the Presidential Bedroom is the only room in the White House without cameras. I'd say that's a good thing, 'cause you don't want your love for anal sex to cost you the re-election. However, I gotta wonder exactly how they guard it - i.e., can guards hear in there? What if I was in there and some dude had broken in and was trying to strangle me? How would they know? Just curiosity, mainly - one must prepare for one's run in 2016. :)

If I understand correctly, there is a panic button in each room that can be used to alert someone (I assume the SS) to trouble.

And getting in though the window etc i guess would involve circumnavigating some pretty tough stuff security wise anyway, electronic and human.

Yes. The White House perimeter is guarded by SS agents whose credo is "Shoot First. Ask Questions Later." No joke.

If they see you at night, BAM! They don't bother introducing themselves.

I wonder if there's multiple panic buttons. If I'm in the john, sure, I only need one. But a Presidential Bedroom, that merits at least 2. Big room, ya know? Don't want to have to jog to get to it.

Re: C'mon guys!
 

Conspriacy Theories, eh?

They say that beer and pretzels go great together during a football game. ;)

he he

I'd say the beer and pretzels conspired to get W through the weak sister weekend of NFL spectacle. The serious teams will play this weekend.

Anyone ever see that episode of "The State" that had the hot dog launcher guy in Germany? Well, here's my conspiracy theory...

Osama bin Laden has made an "investment", if you will, by purchasing Rold Gold pretzel company. This investment has paid off well, and he's managed to profit, as well as having what could be considered a <b>lot</b> of pretzels. Looking to leverage his pretzel position to wreak havoc on the United States, he explored his opportunities. The obvious choice was to poison the pretzels, but Dr. Zawahiri determined that this would be too easy to detect and defeat, and would end up costing them precious revenues that they were planning to use to acquire Nabisco (Osama really likes snacks). They finally settled on a "pretzel gun", if you will - this would launch pretzels at various western leaders and, with any amount of luck, hit them open-mouthed with such force as to cause a choking fit and quite possibly death. This would explain the recent "streamlining", if you will, of pretzels - notice how less and less twisted pretzels are being sold, and more pretzel sticks and pretzel nuggets are showing up on store shelves? Anyway, the pretzel nugget gun was, from Osama's base in Salt Lake City, aimed at Washington DC. On Sunday, al Qaeda struck with pin-point accuracy, and managed to launch two pretzel nuggets for direct hits. The first, designed to distract and confuse, hit President George W. Bush on his cheek. As he opened his mouth to yell "What in the cow pie was that?", another entered his mouth with enough velocity to knock him out. He regained consciousness some 2 hours later. The coverup has been effected because the Secret Service is both embarassed to admit that they let 2 pretzel nuggets through and worried about copy cat attacks. Expect to see a crackdown on pretzel eaters any day now.

hahahahahahahahahahahaha. you're a dork.

ha ha.

its good to see that you make such good use of your workday, david :)

seriously, where do you come up with this shit? i cant take any responsibility for this one.

:)

Take two things (George W. Bush's enemies - pretzels and Osama bin Laden), find a way to put them together, and let my imagination fill in the rest.

dham does not understand the meaning of "rhetorical question"

... :)

Actually, a rhetorical question is one that is said for its impact and does not expect to be answered. :P