Anchor a drag on Bush's boat

President George W. Bush
watches as fishing guide
Billy Bush tries to pull
up the stuck anchor during
a fishing trip Sunday,
July 1, 2007 in Kennebunkport,
Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Bush really does fuck-up everything he tries to do.

The Secret Service bailed out President Bush on Sunday when his boat anchor got wedged in rocks along the Atlantic Coast.

Relaxing before his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the president went fishing with his father, former President George H.W. Bush, and daughter Barbara.

They dropped the anchor to fish less than 100 feet from shore at Biddleford, Maine, but when they decided to leave, they couldn't, according to an Associated Press photographer who took pictures of the incident.

A fishing guide along on the trip tried unsuccessfully to pull up the heavy anchor.

Soon after, a member of the president's security detail called divers aboard a Secret Service boat that had been following.

What a maroon!

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