The guy's won 7 Tour de France's... Aren't we all impressed?

This story amused me, not for the story itself, which was fine but rather for White House Spokesman, Trent Duffy's comments. "Recognizing what the world has known for years the President said, 'He's a good rider,'" Duffy said. Raise your hand if you think that Mr. Duffy won't be doing press work for awhile. I'm going to go a bit out on a limb here and say that President Bush has known for sometime that Mr. Armstrong is an exceptional, once in a generation kind of athlete. Instead, the official response is that President Bush is late to the party and that he thinks Armstong is a luke-warm "good".

I'm also not sure how wise it was to steadfastly refuse to speak with Cindy Sheehan and then take a 2 hour bike ride with a star athlete who's one public political ideology is that of opposition to Iraq. I like that Bush is sometimes willing to say, "Public impressions be damned" but there are times when his people can be just plain idiotic about certain things.