President George W. Bush, the first president to attend the Olympic Games on foreign soil, has reported that he hopes to tame the biking trails of Beijing while in China this month. Three years ago the President got a taste for the Games by going on an hour-long bike tour with hopefuls from China’s Olympic Mountain biking team on their Olympic mountain course. Bush joked with the Associated Press that he was planning to enter one of the Olympic bike events, but First Lady Laura Bush reminded him that “they don’t give medals for last place.”
I don’t know how it works at the Olympics, but I for sure know they don’t give medals out for scoring last place on the G-8 climate scorecard, which is just what the U.S. did according to a study last month via the Huffington Post. I’m glad George is promoting the joys of biking in one of the most polluted cities on the planet, but how about a little help from the GOP on the climate change front back at home?
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