THE ONION: "Bush Dragged Behind Presidential Motorcade For 26 Blocks"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

While I seriously doubt that anyone here doesn't know that The Onion is a satirical Web Site. it's a satirical Web Site. No preseidents were harmed during the filming of this episode.

:eyes:

Bush Dragged Behind Presidential Motorcade For 26 Blocks

December 4, 2008 | Issue 44•49

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_dragged_behind?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

KANSAS CITY, MO—President Bush sustained serious head injuries, massive internal bleeding, and a broken left leg Monday morning after being accidentally dragged behind the presidential motorcade for a period of 15 minutes. According to Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan, Bush's necktie became caught in the trunk of the motorcade's second vehicle at 4:13 p.m., shortly before the driver accelerated. The president was dragged down 175th Street for 26 blocks and through four stoplights, leaving a trail of blood more than a mile long. Upon hearing shouts emanating from behind his vehicle, the driver abruptly applied the brakes, causing the third car in the motorcade to run over the president's left leg at a speed of approximately 25 miles per hour. President Bush is resting comfortably in Bethesda Naval Hospital.

[Bolo Boffin]

1. Awww.

I thought this was going to be about the inauguration, and Bush was like those tin cans you tie to a wedding car. I guess it's too early for the Onion to be satirical about that.

[lurky]

2. Last week they had him passing a 3 pound kidney stone.

Tough couple weeks for the president, huh...

[uppityperson]

3. I'm Really Gonna Miss Systematically Destroying This Place

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/im_really_gonna_miss

Oh, America. Eight years went by so fast, didn't they? I feel like I hardly got to know you and methodically undermine everything you once stood for. But I guess all good things must come to an end, and even though you know I would love to stick around for another year or four—maybe privatize Social Security or get us into Iran—I'm afraid it's time to go. But before I leave, let me say, from the bottom of my heart: I can't think of another country I would've rather led to the brink of collapse.

Boy, oh boy, if these Oval Office walls could talk. Seems like it was only yesterday that I started my first term despite having actually lost to Al Gore by more than a half million votes. Hmm. We were all so young and peaceful then. Gosh, gas was still under $2 a gallon! On my watch it peaked at more than twice that. Never getting it up to $6 or ideally $7.50 will be one of my few regrets when I leave office.

It's just gonna be so hard packing up my things and heading off into the sunset come January. I wish I could go on forever giving massive and disastrous tax cuts to the wealthy, taking the country from a surplus to a deficit—nearly $500 billion this year, likely to pass $1 trillion next year, fingers crossed—and just generally doing irreparable damage to the very underpinnings of our economy, but, well, I'm afraid the Constitution says I can't. And not even I can overrule the Constitution. Though Lord knows I tried! Initiating blanket wiretaps without warrants, suspending habeas corpus for prisoners in Guantanamo, infiltrating an unknown number of nonviolent civilian antiwar groups without permission… such wonderful memories. I'm going to cherish them forever.

My fellow Americans, I only hope that every time you have your civil liberties encroached upon by the Patriot Act, you'll think of me....(more)