Posted on 08/14/2005 2:19:18 PM PDT by jmc1969
President Bush is getting plenty of bike time during his ranch vacation and next weekend he even gets to hit the trails with seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.
Armstrong told ABC's "This Week" today that he'll travel to Crawford next Saturday to ride mountain bikes with the president around Bush's ranch.
"It's a dream scenario for me," Armstrong said. "Now that President Bush doesn't run anymore, he rides his mountain bike fanatically. People wonder why he stays at the ranch so long, it might be the mountain bike trails."
It also must be a dream scenario for Bush to ride with Armstrong, a fellow Texan and cancer survivor who last month won his most recent Tour de France. Bush has become an avid biker in the last couple of years, after a knee injury forced him to give up his jogging routine.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
He said it alright. He's made no secret of his leftist leanings as you can see here (scroll down page to "Political possibilities").
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my Tour de France 2005 list.
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Where's Hank. Come on, tell us what you really think of cycling.
We should give kudos to the AP for posting a straight story that did not mention Cindy Sheehan.
Google the others - they're bad (especially Dallas Morning News).
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