Joanna Weiss of the Boston Globe writes:
If only the leader of the free world hadn't fallen off.
On Thursday, President Bush failed to flip the "on" switch to the scooter he had purchased for his father, so the self-balancing mechanism didn't work. The president tumbled to the ground, unhurt. And news photographers, lingering outside the compound with long lenses, picked up grainy images of a presidential spill.
What, his handlers flip all the switches for him, so he's forgotten how?
From a public policy perspective, this whole episode is really too bad. If the Chinese, for example, bought into the Segway instead of following our path to a petroleum-hooked car-topia, maybe aWol's war planners could slack off a little, since the Chinese would be consuming less of "our" oil.