When one bicycle enthusiast yelled out, Thanks for wearing a helmet! Mr. Obama suggested that before donning the helmet, he remembered one of the cardinal rules of politics: never allow yourself to be photographed wearing nerdy headgear.
I had an internal debate, he said. Because I knew that the A.P. was going to take a picture, and they were trying to portray it like Dukakis wearing that tank helmet. But I wanted to make sure that the children who saw that picture knew that even the Democratic nominee for president wears a helmet when he goes biking. (Hearty applause.)
Now, obviously the rest of my apparel was apparently not up to snuff, because I got a hard time from all sorts of blogs, he said, Who said I looked like Urkel.
