Two of my favourite photos
Posted on 08/20/2005 4:14:06 PM PDT by Wolfstar
PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: Following is and excerpt from the AP story published just a few minutes ago on Yahoo about the President's bike ride with Lance Armstrong. (Click the link on the headline below to read the whole article.) The two Texans have been friends for years, although Armstrong's politics are Left of center.
Armstrong, Bush Ride 'Tour De Crawford'
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
3 minutes agoWACO, Texas - It's no yellow jersey, but President Bush on Saturday presented Lance Armstrong with another shirt to show off his biking experiences — a red, white and blue T-shirt emblazoned "Tour de Crawford."
The leader of the free world and the world's biking master rode for 17 miles on Bush's ranch for about two hours at midmorning. Bush showed Armstrong the sites of the ranch that he calls "a little slice of heaven," including a stop at a waterfall midway through the ride.
They were accompanied by a small group of staff and Secret Service agents and a film crew from the Discovery Channel, Armstrong's Tour de France sponsor, which had exclusive media access for the ride. Footage was shot for a program on Armstrong to air next week.
At the end of the ride, Bush gave Armstrong and the rest of the riders the T-shirts, which said "Tour de Crawford" on the front in Western-style rope script and "Peloton One" -— a reference to the densely packed group of riders in a race -— on the back. Bush also gave them red, white and blue riding socks with the presidential seal on the inner ankle.
After the presentation, Duffy said, they posed for pictures and the president announced, "OK, let's go swimming." Armstrong and the rest of the group were invited to stay for lunch.
THE WEEK AHEAD:On Monday, August 22nd, the President will make remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention that's being held in Salt Lake City, Utah; open press. He will remain overnight in Donnelly, Idaho.
Tuesday, there are no public events. However, he will remain in Donnelly for some fishing.
Wednesday, August 24th, the President will make remarks on the war on terror in Nampa, Idaho. And then he'll return to the ranch that night.
DUMB MEDIA QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK: From the press gaggle conducted by assistant WH press secretary Dana Perino on Thursday. Note how the print and broadcast media seem annoyed that they don't get to cover the bike ride. Of course, most of them haven't seen the sunny side of a bike ride since they were kids (if then), and would be unable to keep up with GWB and Lance Armstrong. And they all hate the Texas heat. But they're annoyed anyway.
Q What are the coverage plans for Lance Armstrong's visit on Saturday?
MS. PERINO: It is closed press. The White House will release a photograph. Discovery Channel has an exclusive to tapes and video.
Q So Discovery Channel is doing filming?
MS. PERINO: Yes.
Q I can't hear a thing. That was Lance Armstrong?
MS. PERINO: Lance Armstrong will be here on Saturday to --
Q That's closed press?
MS. PERINO: It is closed press.
Q No pool, nothing?
MS. PERINO: No pool.
Q They're going to be biking entirely within the confines of the ranch. Is that true?
MS. PERINO: That's my understanding, yes.
Q And Discovery Channel has an exclusive what? How are they doing that?
MS. PERINO: To shoot some video.
Q Can you repeat what -- I couldn't hear Dick. Your understanding is what about the biking?
MS. PERINO: He asked if they riding within the confines of the ranch boundaries, and I think that's true.
THEME -- SALUTING DICK AND LYNNE CHENEY: On September 11, 2001, a scene Hollywood has enjoyed portraying many, many times met real life in deadly earnest as a Vice President of the United States rose to face and help manage an immense national crisis.
In contrast to typical Hollywood characters, however, the real Vice President on that dark day was anything but the politically correct figure tinsel-town always chooses for it's fictional VP. Dick Cheney was -- horrors! -- a graying, balding, sixty-ish, overweight, white male Republican from deepest fly-over country. He was also a former heavy smoker with a history of heart trouble. As such, he was anathema to the Left.
Yet on 9/11, Dick Cheney was rock-steady, calm, and able to draw on one of the most impressive resumes ever brought to the vice presidency. It was as if his entire life had been forged -- indeed, spared several times -- to prepare him for his service to the nation that singular day. We should all humbly thank God for giving us this quiet, reserved, resolute, great man in our time of greatest need. He is one of the most historically significant vice presidents in our history other than those who went on to become presidents.
The vice presidency is a largely ceremonial office endowed under the Constitution with only two official duties, president of the Senate and replacement if the POTUS becomes incapacitated or dies in office. Thus, Vice President Cheney could have left Washington on that day, but he didn't. He could have gone to the secure bunker deep under the White House and stayed out of the decision-making loop, but he didn't. He could have worried more about his own political and personal future, and his own family, but he didn't. Instead, he stayed in the White House, manning the National Presidential Emergency Operations Center, working closely with the President, and coordinating the response in the nation's capitol. The Vice President on that day was incredibly brave, selfless and heroic. No matter what the moonbat Leftists say about him, Dick Cheney deserves every respect and honor our nation can bestow.
Secretary of Defense Richard B. Cheney was awarded our nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. He may not be eligible to receive it again (don't know if they award it more than once). So, as the 4th anniversary of 9/11 rapidly approaches, the Dose takes this moment to thank Vice President Cheney and his wonderful wife, Lynne, for their long service to our great nation.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Excerpts from "The Wisdom of Choosing Dick Cheney," by Gerald R. Ford and Bob Dole, Op-Ed piece, The New York Time, Monday, July 31, 2000 (entire Op-Ed can be found at the Ford Library with this link: www.ford.utexas.edu/library
...we are delighted by the selection of Dick Cheney to help implement Mr. Bush's inclusive vision. Ironically, the shrill reaction of some Democrats to the Cheney nomination only confirms the timeliness of Governor Bush's pledge to restore civility to Washington.
Like Dick Cheney himself, most Americans evince a basic fairness. They know decency and character when they see it. They also recognize a manufactured controversy when it spills across their television screens. Political labels aside, such voters share a bipartisan disdain for the sterile name-calling that has crowded honest debate off the political stage. And debate, after all, is what a campaign should be all about. The honest airing of our differences, not the poisonous rhetoric that demeans even as it disillusions.
If experience counts for anything -- and it ought to -- the Bush-Cheney slate is one of the most abundantly qualified in memory. As the youngest ever White House chief of staff, Mr. Cheney displayed the qualities instinctively recognized by Governor Bush and most fair-minded voters: a towering intelligence and probity, razor-sharp judgment, and a seriousness of purpose that is the antithesis of modern political spin. Yet there is much more to Dick Cheney than his resume. We know him as a man of conviction, whose principles include respecting others with whom he differs. He has adversaries but no enemies.
Mr. Cheney also represents an unconventional choice, if only because of the transparent merit which motivated his selection. This alone makes him a refreshing alternative to the usual electoral calculations. He was selected less because he could help Governor Bush get elected than because he could help a president Bush govern. And to do so in a way that will help restore popular respect for tarnished institutions.
it would also stand to reason that on that famous trail and with the varying terrain, the President would be in the lead....and I am not a cyclist, just a reasonable person....
Can you remember when Phancy said she was going
Hi, OWF. Good to see you here. It's an interesting photo. In case you missed it, Discovery Channel had exclusive rights to the video due to their contractual relationship with LA. No other reporters or photogs were allowed in, except for the WH photographer who took the one shot released by the WH. Note Armstrong's Discovery Channel jersey. Word is they will air the video later this week on Discovery. We'll all need to keep a sharp eye out for the program listings so we can give each other a heads up.
Yes, I thought I remembered that.
Enjoy!
Good day, snugs. I so enjoyed our teamwork yesterday. If you look closely, you'll see both men are on the exact same stroke of their legs in that shot. They are riding parallel to one another. Anyone who has even a passing knowledge of Lance Armstrong knows he could easily best GWB if the point of their ride was to race. I just hate it when reporters have to make snide, stupid comments even about something like the bike ride.
It will be interesting to see how Discovery Channel plays it. Do you get DC?
I'm only going to scan my pings from the last week, so I might have missed that.
I think she must be there now .. I seem to remember "weekend" in her comment .. hope we hear from her from there.
Hey Snugs I think only for Discovery Channel America maybe they would show it maybe month later after it premire
Reporters! I just don't even watch TV anymore because they just get stupider every day! Can't help shaking my head in total amazement at how lame they are and how obviously snide they are at anything concerning this President!
My favorite memory of the 2000 campaign wa Cheney appearing on ALL the Sunday shows, one after another, right after he had been named as the vice presidential nominee.
It was a remarkable tour de force, with Cheney smacking down stupid press questions left and right. By the time he got to Wolf Blitzer's program, Wolf said this: "Hello, Mr. Cheney, this is Wolf Blitzer. Do you remember me from when I covered the Pentagon?" LOL! Ol' Wolfie sounded one millimeter away from flat-out groveling. It was a beautiful day!
Please keep us all posted as to when that program will be on Discovery. I would sure hate to miss it. I might just have to tape that one for a keeper! :o)
Dick Cheney may be a naturally reserved man; maybe even someone who's naturally shy/introverted but has overcome that shyness. (It's how he impresses me.) But he is downright brilliant and knows more about politics and the inner workings of DC than any 20 senior talking heads all rolled into one. During the debates, he absolutely filleted both Joe Lieberman in 2000 and John Edwards in 2004 without even working up a sweat.
Two of my favourite photos
WELCOME BACK OHIO!!!
More info concerning the President's 'ride' with Armstrong:
'OLD BOY CAN GO,' TOUR CHAMP ARMSTRONG SAYS OF BIKE RIDE WITH BUSH
[DrDeb: That 'old boy' can LEAD too!!]
CRAWFORD, United States (AFP) - Seven-time Tour de France champion and proud Texan Lance Armstrong said of his two-hour bicycle workout with US President George W. Bush that the "old boy can go".
Bush, a keen mountain-bike rider, led Armstrong on a two-hour 17-mile (27-kilometer) bicycle tour of his sprawling Praire Chapel ranch here Saturday amid searing summer temperatures.
"That old boy can go ... I didn't think he would punish himself that much, but he did," Armstrong told ABC News of their ride together, the network reported Sunday.
You can read the rest of the article at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050821/en_afp/uscyclingbush_050821215653;_ylt=Ap.Q_6T8WSzroSo6EpEGkK4XO7gF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGVna3NhBHNlYwNzc3JlbA--
POOL REPORT: BUSH AND ARMSTRONG
In the extended entry is a read-out from Trent Duffy on the president's bike ride with Lance Armstrong at the ranch this morning:
POOL REPORT #1, 8/20/05:
Armstrong arrived at the ranch about 9:20 a.m., was greeted by the president, then went to the guest house, to the right of the president's house, and changed into his biking gear. The president, Armstrong and maybe 8 others (Trent was vague on the actual number) began biking at 9:30 a.m., for 17 miles. Halfway through they stopped at a waterfall, got off the bikes, and looked around.
The break lasted about 10 minutes; the president talked to Armstrong about recent rainfall in Texas. The two walked back from the waterfall, with the president telling Armstrong to be careful because Armstrong was walking down rocks.
The ride finished at 11:30 a.m. At the end, the president gave everybody commemorative red, white and blue riding shirts with Tour de Crawford on the front and Peleton One on the back. Bush also gave everybody red, white and blue riding socks with the presidential seal on the inner ankle. Then he said, "Okay, let's go swimming.'' The group apparently then jumped into the pool before lunch.
The president was dressed in his Pearl Izumi riding shirt, the same as last week. Armstrong wore his regular biking gear, and was in blue and white and shirt. Both Bush and Armstrong rode Trek bikes, type not known.
There will be a photo release from the White House of the ride. As the picture was taken, Bush said, "He's a good rider.'' There were no reporters present, although the Discovery Channel shot footage of the ride for a three-hour special on Lance Armstrong to air Aug. 26 or 27 or both.
Trent says Bush was in the lead on the ride. Others in the group included the Secret Service and Paul Morse, the White House photographer. Joe Hagin took the picture.
Armstrong and Bush have ridden together before, but Trent says he doesn't know when. They have not ridden together on the ranch. They've been friends for a while; Trent didn't know how long.
Now they're eating lunch, no menu provided.
Elisabeth Bumiller
NYT
cell 202-XXX-XXXX
UPDATE:
Trent Duffy confirms that the president, Armstrong and the group did indeed swim in the pool after the bike ride.
[DrDeb: I wonder if he wore the SPEEDO that he received as a gift a few weeks back? Where's my fan?!]
http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/archives/005138.html
I'm off to work out . . . will return later!
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and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
3 though its waters roar and foam
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Selah
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God will help her at break of day.
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he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
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he breaks the bow and shatters the spear,
he burns the shields with fire.
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I will be exalted in the earth."
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What that say Snugs I try read writing that Ronnie on top signing it I don't know about other LOL!
OHHH did you guys hear one of the Freepers just report that reported bomb threat at one of coffee shop in Crawford TX
That bad
See protesters don't have no sense of humor LOL!
He seems rather young and virile to me. :)
And thanks for the welcome back. A fun and draining week for me.
Now to adjust to the quiet........ sigh.............
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