Bob Cesca: 'George and Lance: A conversation'
Posted on Tuesday, August 23 @ 08:09:30 EDT
By Bob Cesca, The Huffington Post
Saturday, August 20. Lance Armstrong joined George W. Bush for a 17-mile bike ride on Bush's Crawford estate. The following is an excerpt of their conversation.
GEORGE W. BUSH: Do you like riding bikes, Stretch?
LANCE ARMSTRONG: I do. In fact, I won the Tour de France seven--
BUSH: That's Tour De Freedom. Hey Stretch! Guess what?
LANCE: What's that, Mr. President?
BUSH: My ranch is 1,600 acres. We can ride for 17 miles without leaving my property.
LANCE: That's amazing.
BUSH: You betcha. Check it out: I could give away 600 acres to homeless people and I'd still own 1,000 acres of land.
LANCE: Okay.
BUSH: But I wouldn't give away an inch. See, my advisers made it so that I can own a 1,600 acre multi-million dollar estate and still seem like a man of the people. 'Sides, homeless people are mostly insaners.
LANCE: They are?
BUSH: They are what?
LANCE: You just called homeless people "insaners".
KARL ROVE VIA EARPIECE: Abort! Abort! Change the subject! The yellow rubberbands, go!
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