The next president of the United States is a...cyclist

Does the fact that Kerry is a bike rider trump his telling huge lies about
the "murdering US troops" in Vietnam? When they held that mock trial he got
actors to read lines for the cameras. Sorry, once a liar always a liar.

You might note that he has only voted 28% (only about one out of 4 votes!)
of the time he's been in the Congress and his record is even farther to the
left than Kennedy.

Riding a bike doesn't change that at all.

"Robert J. Matter" wrote in message
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http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/daily-news/article.php?id=3655

Monday 9th February 2004

The next president of
the United States is
a...cyclist

Dubbed 'JFK the Second',
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has
claimed victory in the latest US state
caucus to choose a Democratic
challenger to President George W
Bush. Kerry is pro-Green and is now
far ahead of the other five candidates
and could sweep Bush from office in
November's presidential election. The
ultra-fit Kerry takes part in lots of
sports but has impressed many with his
marathon bike rides in tough
conditions.

Kerry isn't just a 12-mile RAGBRAI rider (fellow
democratic contender Howard Dean pedalled just
a short distance in the famous US ride, the
Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across
Iowa) he's a long-distance specialist.

The 60-year old senator from Boston rides many
charity events. In August, he finished the 110-mile
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge as 37th of 3000
riders.

Senator Edward Kennedy was amazed when on
one freezing winter day his friend turned up at Chez
Kennedy, blue from the cold.

"It was the end of the coldest ride I have ever had,"
Kerry told Sports Illustrated magazine.

"It was a [charity] ride from Boston to the
Kennedy compound in Hyannisport -- about 80
miles or so. [Three-time Tour de France winner]
Greg Lemond was riding [with us] and he said it
was the worst conditions he'd seen for bicycling.
But, you know, it was a challenge. I liked that.
There was no way I was going to quit."

Burley's international sales manager Val Hoyle
witnessed Kerry's stamina and doggedness at first
hand:

"That day was the coldest for a charity bike ride I
can remember. We were all freezing and most
people, even experienced riders, didn't finish the
ride. But John Kerry was adamant he would finish,
and he did. I was really impressed by that."

A soccer player (he learned of the JFK
assassination whilst playing a game) and endurance
windsurfer, Kerry had an operation for prostate
cancer last year and his doctors put his rapid
recovery down to his strength and fitness.

Kerry has cycled in the oddest of places, including
down Berlin's Kurfürstendamm during the Cold
War in the 1950s, where his foreign service officer
father was stationed.

Kerry's bikes have also been sold at charity
auctions, along with bikes from Greg LeMond,
Michael Jordan and Robin Williams. If Kerry
becomes president, the bike sold at the Celebrity
Bicycle Auction in Washington D.C. last year to
benefit World T.E.A.M Sports could become a
valuable collector's piece.

Kerry has been endorsed by Congressman Earl
Blumenauer, the "Congressman on the bicycle", a
noted environmentalist.

In the first 100 days of a Kerry Administration, the
cycling senator will rollback President Bush's
"assault on clean air and clean water and work to
strengthen our nation's environmental laws," said
Blumenauer.

"As a member of Congress dealing with the
consequences of the Bush Administration
everyday, the choice of a candidate for president
was simple. John Kerry is one person running
who is best qualified to be our President...[He] has
the best record of environmental leadership,
period."

Kerry has strong Green credentials. He wants to
create a cleaner and greener America. In a speech
given at the University of New Hampshire in
October 2003, Kerry said:

"Protecting the environment isn't just the cause of a
campaign. It's been the commitment of a lifetime.

"George W. Bush is ... the kind of politician who
would cut down a tree and then climb on its stump
to give a speech about conservation. The
difference between us and George Bush is one of
vision. Where we see a pristine wilderness or a
scenic coast, George Bush sees an oil field. Where
we see a beautiful mountaintop, George Bush sees
a strip mine. Where we see a pristine old growth
forest, George Bush sees toothpicks. And where
we see an opportunity to join the global community
to fight global warming, George Bush sees a
chance to curry favor with his buddies in the oil
business.

"Under President Bush, America's environment has
become threatened, endangered, and imperiled.
I'm running to keep clean the water we drink, the
air we breathe, the yards and parks in which
children play and laugh, and the communities in
which we live. This is our commitment - and we
won't back down.

"I will be "the true environmental President," but
when I say it, its not just rhetoric - I have the
record to back it up.

"As soon as I step into the Oval Office, I will
transform the White House into a hub of inspiration
and innovation and lead America on the great
endeavor of creating a cleaner and greener nation."

http://www.johnkerry.com

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:39:15 GMT, "Tom Kunich"
wrote:

You might note that he has only voted 28% (only about one out of 4 votes!)
of the time he's been in the Congress and his record is even farther to the
left than Kennedy.


Farther to the left is usually good, when riding on the public roads.
Ride too far to the right and the SUV drivers clip you.

-Luigi
www.livejournal.com/users/ouij
Photos, Rants, Raves

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:39:15 +0000, Tom Kunich wrote:

...and his record is even farther to the
left than Kennedy.

Oh, Heaven forbid! Further to the left than Kennedy! You should read
some of Kennedy's speeches some time.

This is a new ploy, though. The terrible, awful Kennedy?

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I wonder who the last President was who just went places on his own
without a security detail. Must be 19th century.

Nope. Try as recently as Harry S. Truman and that's not counting JFK's slipping
away from the USSS detail. ;-)

Regards,
Bob Hunt

"Kevan Smith" wrote

You don't think U.S. troops murdered civilians in Vietnam?

Not as an everyday thing done by everyone, the way Kerry seemed to portray
it.

Pete

"Pete" wrote in message
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"Kevan Smith" wrote

You don't think U.S. troops murdered civilians in Vietnam?

Not as an everyday thing done by everyone, the way Kerry seemed to portray
it.

So he was justified in protesting the war. That's all we needed to know.

R

"Rocketman"

wrote:

"Pete" wrote in message
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"Kevan Smith" wrote

You don't think U.S. troops murdered civilians in Vietnam?

Not as an everyday thing done by everyone, the way Kerry seemed to portray
it.

So he was justified in protesting the war. That's all we needed to know.


If that is your sole criteria for protesting any war, let's see. The American
Revolutionary War was wrong, no combatant nation in either World War was
morally right, the Bantu are morally equivalent to the Tutsi in that conflict,
the peasants should have never deposed the Tsar, and the defenders of the
Warsaw ghetto in 1939 should have never resisted the "Final Solution". Every
combatant in every war ever fought was wrong, period. I'm glad that's cleared
up. It's always so nice to find simple answers to complex questions.

Regards,
Bob Hunt

[Monday 9th February 200

The next president of the United States i
a...cyclis

Lance Armstrong is going to be our next president. Cool! Of cours
considering cycling as a qualifing factor for a good president conside
that Pee Wee Herman was also a cyclist


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"Rocketman" wrote in message
news:hzMYb.214432$U%5.1242949@attbi_s03...
"Pete" wrote in message
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"Kevan Smith" wrote

You don't think U.S. troops murdered civilians in Vietnam?

Not as an everyday thing done by everyone, the way Kerry seemed to
portray
it.

So he was justified in protesting the war. That's all we needed to know.

If that's all the info you need to know about Kerry, I have a bridge for
you.

Justified? Anyone in this country can protest anything they want. That's one
of the things the military protects. You don't need 'justification'.

But I'd put a big, huge caveat behind Kerry actions.
An awful lot of verterans, Vietnam era and otherwise, feel very betrayed by
Kerry.

-Volunteer and go off to war. OK
-Come back early. Maybe OK. He was wounded (supposedly very minor-no lost
days)
-Protest the war? OK. That one of the things he (and everyone else in the
military) is and was fighting for, the right to speak your mind
-Make a very public showing of tossing 'his' medals over the Capitol fence.
Well, they're his. He can do what he wants.
-Display those same medals on his office wall. hmm..Don't reap the
recognoition if you didn't want them before
-Associate with Hanoi Jane. Taking a leadership position in an organization
funded by her. Sorry...I canNOT get behind this. No way, no how.
-Accuse the entire military of various war crimes. Nope.
-Use statements by fake veterans in his cause. Nope
-Speeches about wanting to put the military under UN control. Can't get
behind this one either. The UN has it's place, but I'd rather not have Syria
and Libya having a say in what the US military does or does not do.
-Now, he wants to portray himself as a decorated war veteran. I thought he
tossed his decorations away.
-Voting to back the president in going to war, and now berating him for
doing so. Which is it?

Protesting the Vietnam War is one thing. Breaking the bond with your
'brothers', people upon whom you depended for day to day survival, is
something else completely. Accusing those same 'brothers', *all* of them, of
"war crimes" is beyond the pale.

Granted, some of these things took place long ago. People change, times
change. But since we can't get into his mind, we can only go on what he has
said. And from what I've seen, it don't look good.

Lest you think i'm rabidly pro-Bush, let me absolve you of that thought.
Rather, I'm anti-idiot. Basically, of the (assumed) two choices we will
have, who will do the 'least worst' job. And I can't determine WTF Kerry is
all about!

One of the things I've seen and heard is not so much that Kerry (or
Dean/Lieberman/Edwards/Sharpton/Kucinich) is the best choice to be
president. Rather a large segment of the population wants "anyone but Bush".
Overheard the other day - "I'd rather have an illegal immigrant than GWB.
Anyone, no matter how well or unqualified".

To me....that's just plain silly.

Pete

"Kevan Smith" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:19:53 GMT, "Pete" from Road Runner
High
Speed Online http://www.rr.com wrote:

Protesting the Vietnam War is one thing. Breaking the bond with your
'brothers', people upon whom you depended for day to day survival, is
something else completely. Accusing those same 'brothers', *all* of them,
of
"war crimes" is beyond the pale.

Newsflash: the entire Vietnam War was a crime.

That may be. However, not everyone who went there, at evey level of command,
was guilty of My Lai level crimes, as Kerry has said.

Pete