Kennebunkport, Maine – President Bush’s presidency is stuck in low gear. On Sunday, his fishing boat was stuck on stop – the Secret Service had to bail him out when his boat anchor got wedged in rocks along the Atlantic Coast.
Relaxing before his meeting with Russian President Vlad imir Putin, the president went fishing with his father, former President George H.W. Bush, and daughter Barbara.
They dropped the anchor less than 100 feet from shore at Biddleford, Maine, but when they decided to leave, they couldn’t.
Their fishing guide tried unsuccessfully to pull up the heavy anchor. Soon after, a member of the president’s security detail called divers aboard a nearby Secret Service boat.
The anchor was untied, and the elder Bush backed the Fidelity III out of the way. After a diver went into the chilly water and retrieved the anchor, the president nonchalantly resumed fishing.
Later, as he waited for Putin to arrive, Bush was asked about his fishing experience.
“Lousy,” he said.
But that didn’t stop the president from going back out on the water. After Putin arrived, the elder Bush piled his son and the Russian president into the speedboat and took them for a spin.
