President Bush in Beijing: Biking, beach, bikinis

So you thought President Bush would visit Beijing for the Summer Olympic Games and just sit in the stadium?

Wrong.

He used part of Saturday just as he does back home, whether in Washington, at Camp David or in Crawford, Texas. He went for a bike ride -- on an Olympic course, no less.

And, oh, yes, he stopped by a practice session of the women's beach volleyball team. That meant a visit to the bikini-clad athletes at an imported Beijing "beach," as USA Today noted from Beijing.

For Bush, it was a break in a trip through Asia marked by public criticism of China's human rights policies, private huddles with advisors about the crisis in the former Soviet republic of Georgia over the breakaway South Ossetia region and a meeting Sunday with President Hu Jintao of China.

-- James Gerstenzang

Photo: Gerald Herbert / Associated Press

Comments

[ole lar]

Why does Bush have his hand on the tush of the comely Olympian in the photo-op? Could it be that beside being God's own drunk, he is also a apediphile?

[Stan Davis]

A pity NBC gave him such a forum. Disgusting glimpses before turning the channel.

[Cathleen Schilling]

Oh for goodness sake!
First,what was the volleyball player thinking when she offered up her behind to the President of the United States?
Oh I get it - along with his other outstanding feats he probably considers himself a member of the Women's Olympic Volley ball team so he gets the privledge of slapping the butt of a team member.
Please Please -I'm begging you - Mr. President go to Crawford immediately and stay there - don't go anywhere or say anything until Jan 20 2009.

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