Bush Sheltered During Tornado Alert

(CBS/AP)  President Bush and first lady Laura Bush were moved to an armored vehicle on their ranch Friday when a tornado warning was issued in central Texas, the White House said.

The vehicle was driven to a tornado shelter on the ranch, and the president, Mrs. Bush and their two Scottish terriers sat inside until the weather cleared, deputy White House press secretary Scott Stanzel said.

The storm passed while they waited in their vehicle and the Bushes didn't have to enter the shelter, reports CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning at 2:34 p.m. CST after a severe thunderstorm with a history of producing tornadoes was reported 13 miles south of Clifton, Texas, and moving northeast. Clifton is 20 miles northwest of Crawford.

Stanzel said he did not know how long the Bushes and their dogs, Miss Beazley and Barney, had to stay in the vehicle, but that it was not "terribly long."

The rush to the tornado shelter interrupted Bush's day at the ranch where he cleared some cedar and was kept abreast of plans to execute Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

He received calls to wish him a happy new year from outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is visiting Miami, also called Bush to talk about Iraq.

Stanzel said Bush spent time on the rainy, windy day contemplating the new plan for U.S. policy in Iraq that he plans to announce in the new year. Bush hosted a National Security Council meeting at his ranch on Thursday.

Do they really think that an armored vehicle will protect you if a tornado were to hit you directly? It is think kind of thinking that leads to trouble. But then this is our government thinking again....

[randalds]

I guess that when Rove told Bush to build this phony ranch in the country so he'd look more like "a man of the people" he forgot to mention that there are actually dangerous thing in the rural areas. Who knows what will happen when Bush finds out that there are also coyotes, mean jack-rabbits and scary spiders out there too!

[randalds]

As usual the growth on her side's expression seems to be a combination of the painful would-be intelligent look and the old really gotta go look.

Posted by defirststate at 12:13 AM : Dec 31, 2006

That's the look he always gets whenever he actually tries to think. Unlike many other bodily functions this one does not come naturally to him so he always looks like he's straining the same way as when he trying to take a hard dump. To him both are equally as difficult and painful.

[lily_ayanami]

I'm surprised that this hasn't happened before, considering it's in tornado alley.

[creeper00]

Being reminded of the strange odyssey of Air Force One on 9-ll put me in mind of OJ's Bronco. The instinct of cowards seems to be to flee.

It's too bad the president didn't keep going till he got to Paraguay.

[knyghtwolf]

The tornado freaked him out because he finally ran into a bigger windstorm than himself. I agree, he needs to be brought up on charges by the world court, but do you think it will ever happen? He is going to either have to live with the title of our countrie's worst ever president or be put on trial and given the same sentence as Sadam Hussein. He is literally on the same path with Corporate America in the quest of destroying our world for their personal gain....I guess you need to ask yourself this ONE question? When is enough going to be enough?

[randalds]

Remember the Public Service Ad with an egg frying to represent a person's brain on drugs, picture the ad and look at him. It all comes together.

Posted by defirststate at 12:13 AM : Dec 31, 2006

Amen bro. The two of them are the drugs, the eggs, the frying pan and the whole *** thing. Addiction to pharmaceuticals might be the only defense Bush and the wife have at their eventual trial.

BTW, why do right-wingers always assume we're kidding when we talk about Bush going to trial for his crimes when we are deadly (for him at least) serious? We are not. This is no joke. This has gone far beyond political differences. Far beyond the usual "Rah Rah Rah, my team won and yours lost" garbage of the usual elections and into the realm of out and out murder, that there is no turning back. Bush is a murderer and a war criminal. A growing majority of people want to see Bush pay for his crimes with prison time or worse.

[defirststate]

The dogs are safe!


Look at Laura Bush in this picture is she on Morphine?
bluestardad

Wouldn't you be if you had to sleep with that?
RandalDS

I think she's on XANAX Randal
bildooreilly

Both Xanax and Morphine may be part of her pharmaceutical cocktail, but she might need anti-depressants in addition to the anxiety and pain medications. They must have hooked up during her drinking days, and his. He got the better bargain.

As usual the growth on her side's expression seems to be a combination of the painful would-be intelligent look and the old really gotta go look.

Remember the Public Service Ad with an egg frying to represent a person's brain on drugs, picture the ad and look at him. It all comes together.

[cantshutup]

g bush makes me feel very angry, scared and ashamed...

living in bushies world is similar to what a tormented child feels when he wishes his tormentor would just disappear...

[cantshutup]

I agree trid2bnrml...I wish all the people who died and suffered in New Orleans could have had the same opportunities for safety that bush and his *** dogs did!!!!!!!!!!!!

The decider is only interested in protecting his own arss!