"My butt hurts"-John Edwards July 25, 2007

From the DesMoines Register...

"Dumont, Ia. — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards squeezed into a pair of Spandex bike shorts today and pedaled on the RAGBRAI route with champion cyclist Lance Armstrong.

After riding from just north of Dumont to Kesley, Edwards wrapped his arms around a several riders from Team Killer Bees for a photo, but declined be held aloft in their traditional sideways pose. "You'd drop me, then I couldn't be president," he joked.

Then he sat down in Kesley for a diet soda and a pork chop. "My second," he said.

The candidate was sweaty after about a dozen miles, but there was no evidence of helmet hair.

The Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, a weeklong bike ride across the state, runs today from Hampton to Cedar Falls...

"This is actually not hard, this is fun," Edwards said as he climbed a hill on County Road T16 on a black Trek road bike he borrowed for the day. "The biggest problem is my butt hurts"

What a coincidence John, so does ours everytime you betray your fellow Southerners by rebuking our heritage and claiming that the proud banner of our ancestors is divisive.

Clint, Missouri Bushwhacker

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