to be a good tour rider, you have to be a good mountain climber. and he wasn t particularly strong in those two areas. to me he didn t have what it took in those early years. lance armstrong was then with the american motorola team. so, too, was new zealander steven swart. steven swart said that in 1995 when phil anderson had left the team, the riders complained that their european opponents were doping. did you talk with lance armstrong about the need to start using epo to be competitive? we had a discussion about it, yeah. what did mr. armstrong say? he said if we re going to do the tour, we ve got to perform. we need the results. what did that mean? i think he just didn t
the nation s gdp grew from july until september. it s really the broadest grade on how the economy is doing. if you talk to the president about this, he says it s more proof of the recovery. since it was last 1.3%. but his challenger is also using 2% in his favor. no surprise. mitt romney just gave an economic speech in ames, iowa at a small construction business that as it turns out received nearly $2 million from obama s stimulus programs. so let s go straight to gloria borgeer who i know is watching the speech. my question number one for you is this. i didn t hear a lot new in the speech. i m guessing you didn t hear much new in the speech either. so given that fact, isn t it a bit risky, though, to introduce new policy here with 10, 11 days to go? isn t this really about getting voters excited getting out to vote? it s about getting independent voters to really take a look at you as somebody who is reasonable. as you said, this is really not about new ideas. this is abo