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Some are winners... ...and some are wieners.

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Lance Armstrong

Unprecedented six-time winner of the Tour de France, the world's most prestigious and competitive bicycle road race, after winning a "hopeless" battle against cancer.  Armstrong became the best at what he does through tremendous dedication and tireless effort.  He has done more than perhaps any other individual American to advance bicycling as a sport, pastime, and viable mode of pollution-free transportation in the United States.  Described as the greatest endurance athlete in the world, Armstrong is a true winner by any definition of the term.

George W. Bush

Forty-third President of the United States, elected by a minority of American voters, after battling the bottle.  Bush managed to get through college despite lackluster performance and excessive partying, and rode into politics on his daddy's coattails.  He is no servant of the people, but a puppet of the exploitive right wing, who proposes to undo much of the nation's economic, social, environmental, and diplomatic progress of the past seven decades.  Bush desperately tries to look like a winner, but he simply cannot comprehend what it takes to be one.


 
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