Bush To End Nation’s Fixation With Economic Woes By Hanging Upside Down for 60 Hours

WASHINGTON - President Bush said he would help the country stop focusing on Wall Street’s precarious financial situation by hanging upside down in Central Park for 60 hours without a net starting tomorrow. 

“I can’t think of any better way to get our minds off money, money, money,” Bush said. 

Bush denied that he got the idea for the stunt, which he calls “an endurance challenge,” from magician David Blaine, who is currently hanging upside for 60 hours in New York’s Central Park.  “But I don’t deny there are similarities,” the President noted.

Fitness experts doubt that Bush will be able to match the much younger Blaine’s 60 hour record for hanging upside down. 

“That’s OK,” Bush said, “because he won’t be able to match my 2,777 day record of governing ass backwards.”

Sep 24

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