Exercising Good Judgment: Apparently it is not only good for your health, but a job qualification. Bush was apparently very interested in the SCOTUS nominees exercise habits: "When President Bush sat down in the White House residence last Thursday to interview a potential Supreme Court nominee, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, he asked him about the hardest decision he had ever made - and also how much he exercised. "Well, I told him I ran three and a half miles a day," Judge Wilkinson recalled in a telephone interview on Wednesday. "And I said my doctor recommends a lot of cross-training, but I said I didn't want to do the elliptical and the bike and the treadmill." The president, Judge Wilkinson said, "took umbrage at that," and told his potential nominee that he should do the cross-training his doctor suggested." Some people seem to think Bush is obsessed with exercise.

But not just Republicans like candidates to be in shape. Apparently John Kerry thinks Lance Armstrong would make a terrific politician, though he might not run as a Democrat since he's friends with fellow Texan Bush.