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From: bk39@aol.com
"Fran Stine" wrote in message
news:2mtq2oFrgj0hU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Comments on Lance Armstrong by Patrick Goetz
> Jul 16, 2004 06:52 PDT
>
> I don't recall denigrating or demeaning the accomplishments of Lance
> Armstrong. What I said was:
>
> Fact: Lance Armstrong is a strong supporter of the Bush administration
> Fact: The Bush administration is responsible for murder, mayhem, and
> national bankruptcy.
> Fact: This makes Armstrong a defacto supporter of the policies of the Bush
> administration; consequently
> Fact: I personally find it morally questionable to support him.
>
> By supporting Bush, Armstrong lends credence to an administration that is
> creating extremely serious problems (455 billion dollar deficit this year
> alone, anyone? 700,000 million seriously pissed off Muslims?) that we're
> going to be dealing with for years, if not decades to come. So, far be it
> from me to cast a shadow on Lance's accomplishments; I'm just not going to
> throw a party for the MF.
>
That's total bullshit.
http://www.lancearmstrongfanclub.com/uktimesonline.html
"Once we settle down to talk at a long wooden table, we are swapping stories
about George W. Bush, his fellow Texan. We agree that our politics are
different to Bush's, but that the President is smarter, funnier and more
likeable than the caricature. Even Sheryl, whose politics Armstrong
describes as "way out Left", says that it's hard to meet Bush and not like
him. I had assumed, because he and Bush were Texans and I'd seen pictures of
them laughing and joking in the Oval Office, that Armstrong was a
Republican. But he says his politics are "middle to Left". He is "against
mixing up State and Church, not keen on guns, pro women's right to choose".
And very anti war in Iraq."
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