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Lonely at the top?
Marc Fisher of the Washington Post had this to say on Tuesday about George W. Bush’s bike ride on the day the Cessna wandered into White House space:
When the wayward Cessna approached the White House last week, the president was out riding his mountain bike on the winding trails of Patuxent Research Refuge, 12,790 acres of woods and ponds where endangered whooping cranes live, migratory birds make their pit stops, and hikers, hunters and bird-watchers spend their leisure hours.
But don’t expect to follow President Bush’s example in the late afternoon or evening, or on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July or any other national holiday, because the same president who repairs to Patuxent for his recreation has saddled the refuge with budget cuts that have forced a sharp reduction in its public opening hours and other services.
Meanwhile, the AP reports , via the Boston Herald, that Laura Bush thinks the President should have been told about the Cessna and the evacuation of the White House:
“I think he should have been interrupted, but I’m not going to second-guess the Secret Service that were with him,” she told reporters shortly after taking off Thursday night on a trip to the Middle East.
Mrs. Bush’s 5-day tour of the Middle East is intended, in part, to “help repair the U.S. image overseas.”
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