G8 Leaders Make Bush Sick

Join the crowd, Mr. President:

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany — President George W. Bush came down with a stomach ailment Friday at the Group of Eight summit in Germany and was resting in his room.

"I'm not sure if it's a stomach virus yet or something like that," Dan Bartlett, counselor to the president, told reporters. "He's just not feeling well in his stomach."

Although ill, the president did meet for an hour with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, but the meeting took place in Bush's private room.

"President Bush was slightly unwell this morning and will return to work as soon as he can," Sarkozy told reporters.

The President doesn't want to repeat his dad's act who famously barfed in the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister during a State Dinner in Tokyo. However, if former French President Jacques Chirac had been at this G8 meeting, I wouldn't have minded seeing Bush hurl one into his lap.