Lance a politician?!!?

[rjamortega]

http://msn.foxsports.com/cycling/story/3821938

From most beloved to most hated. Oh well, after all those years of hard work I suppose he deserves a nice cush job of doing nothing.

[Heads_On_Pikes]

I'll give you one guess who started all the Lance the politition talk. See the hint below. :D

It wasn't Lance himself, but it was a cycling fan from Massachussetts who never falls down while sking and whose mouth runneth over whenever he is in his motherland of France.

[Riddley]

When I first saw this I thought it meant, stick a sharp spear in to politicians and thought,"OK a bit drastic but not unknown".
Then I see it Lance Armstrong prepared to risk his reputation.
Don't be an idiot LA, sports commentary is the way to go!! The money is better, and the hours are shorter and you really don't have to know what you're talking about.

[Heads_On_Pikes]

It's all about John Kerry. Lance has Sheryl Crow, that's a full-time job in it's own right. ;)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/24/AR2005072400334_pf.html

[soundcrd]

While I admire all Lance has done, I'm not a big fan of the yellow wrist bands. They've become more of a status symbol than anything. You're only cool if you support cancer reseacrh, and the only way you could possibly do that is if you wear the yellow wrist band. Why, not wearing one is almost unpatriotic!

[Democritus]

I respect the fact that he's an incredible cyclist. That's just about the only nice thing I can say about him. He's the worst kind of person I can imagine. So I suppose he'd fit right in with politicians.

[No+redamer]

I like Lance Armstrong, but I think that there is too much hype going around about him. What he has done to fight cancer is great and I respect his endurance, but I think that there are people who do just as much and who never receive this kind of respect.

This is just an issue of Lance Armstrong becoming some kind of 'fad', I would be willing to bet that the majority of the people wearing those yellow bracelets don't even really care about cancer. Sure, they don't want to get it, or have it confront any of their friends or loved ones, but what have they done to fight cancer?

Back to the subject though, I don't think it's a great idea to think that because Lance Armstrong did something incredible in France, that he could pull the same thing off at home, in the realm of politics. If anyone out there would be willing to vote for him right now, my faith in democracy would plummet.

[Ed Sane]

Does anyone know his education background, and his own personal politics?

I read alot of talk about how it isnt right for him, but no reasoning...

[gopman]

When I first saw this I thought it meant, stick a sharp spear in to politicians and thought,"OK a bit drastic but not unknown".
Then I see it Lance Armstrong prepared to risk his reputation.
Don't be an idiot LA, sports commentary is the way to go!! The money is better, and the hours are shorter and you really don't have to know what you're talking about.

That's not really an argument, because it applies to politics too.

[rjamortega]

I respect the fact that he's an incredible cyclist. That's just about the only nice thing I can say about him. He's the worst kind of person I can imagine. So I suppose he'd fit right in with politicians.
I am guessing with as much as I've read about LA that he is really a pretty self-absorbed person, which probably goes for most world-class athletes.
Yeah, he'd fit right in where the same goes for at least 9 out of 10 politicians.

[Buckstops]

One thing I can't not point out in good conscience is that the video clips I saw of Kerry talking about it were pretty clearly spawned by questions. Kerry didn't exactly come out and say "hey, I think Lance should be a politician," some reporter shoved a microphone in his face and asked what he would think of Lance as a politician. Any politician would have given a similar answer to the one Kerry gave.