The brief international flurry of news last week surrounding President Bush's iPod was one of those fun and entertaining news stories that gets tongues a-wagging and then goes away quickly, leaving its principals pretty much the same as they were before the story hit.
Bush exercises with an iPod filled with country music and classic rock, just like millions of other baby boomers, which is, in many ways, comforting.
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