The Daily Background

We know about the haze of secrecy surrounding Cheney’s shooting accident, but oddly enough, new details have apparently emerged concerning a simple bicycle accident of the President that happened last summer. Evidently, it wasn’t so simple after all. Editor & Publisher:

It may not have been as serious as Vice President Dick Cheney shooting a friend in the face, but new details that have emerged about President George W. Bush’s bicycle accident in Scotland last July show that he, too, might have caused serious damage.

The Scotsman, a leading newspaper in Scotland, reported Sunday that it had obtained a police report on the early July accident when the president crashed into a Scottish police constable while cycling in the grounds of Gleneagles Hotel during the G8 summit.

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According to the newspaper, however, the police officer (known in the report only as “Constable X”) ended up on crutches and was off work for more than three months.

Ouch. Read on for more details.

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