The curious part to this is both fell violently sick on the second day of the summit at the resort. Even the Secret Service got involved and had some type of suspicion that something had occurred. Adding to this....other members of the US delegation became ill...with one member who today suffers permanent hearing loss from the episode.
The odds? Well....normally, you'd just laugh this off, but the numbers of people involved and the hearing loss episode...well, this kinda makes it one of those that might be somewhat true.
Food poisoning? It's hard to get food poisoning in Germany. In fifteen years.....I only knew three folks who ever got food poisoning from a German establishment (all three were Tex-Mex German restaurants, if you were curious). It just doesn't happen much in Germany.
Seafood that was not prepared correctly? I'd give that one a ninety-percent chance. That's always possible.
A sour upset cook with an agenda? Yeah, there are far left-wing German cooks out there but why risk your entire career on some political agenda?
Some Russian KGB plot? Well....yeah, thats a remote possibility.
So we are left with this curious episode of the Bush visit to Germany. Had Bush died...President Cheney would have assumed the Presidency....so do you really think you've improved anything? I'd rather be hoping it was bad fish prepared the wrong way, and just bad luck that someone didn't catch it. If we were that close to getting Cheney....then Biden is just a quarter of a step away from the Presidency and some cooking nut could accomplish the same deal. Frankly, not something that I'd like to dream about.
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