That Joe Biden QOTD is laughable

Yeah, no sense in having pride in one's country.

But Biden is an idiot. Look at the video of his speech where he talks about how "it was worth it" to hear the survivors speak about their resolve. Really Joe, the deaths and the loss of limbs was worth it so you could hear some uplifting speeches? Maybe you should visit Walter Reed more often or talk with some Paralympians...

true.. especially when you consider they did cower, they changed a ton of things about the race,

The reality is that Boston responded no better than any other city would or did. And you could say arguably worse (when is #Bostonshelterinplace going to be trending).

to the people genuinely affected, I wish them nothing but the best. However, people love to get in on tragedy. I've seen a bunch of hobby joggers on twitter using this as a means to promote their blogs with a "remembering Boston" post. Gimme a break

luv2run wrote:

Yeah, no sense in having pride in one's country.

But Biden is an idiot. Look at the video of his speech where he talks about how "it was worth it" to hear the survivors speak about their resolve. Really Joe, the deaths and the loss of limbs was worth it so you could hear some uplifting speeches? Maybe you should visit Walter Reed more often or talk with some Paralympians...

If you've never seen this Biden speech, I highly recommend it. Biden's no idiot, and he's a huge supporter of our fallen troops. If you have a spare 20 minutes, it might be the best 20 minutes you spend all day.

Oh you know it wrote:

true.. especially when you consider they did cower, they changed a ton of things about the race,

The reality is that Boston responded no better than any other city would or did. And you could say arguably worse (when is #Bostonshelterinplace going to be trending).

to the people genuinely affected, I wish them nothing but the best. However, people love to get in on tragedy. I've seen a bunch of hobby joggers on twitter using this as a means to promote their blogs with a "remembering Boston" post. Gimme a break

Spot on. There's a lot of chest thumping and flag waving and not much introspection on how those 2 perpetrators should have been caught before the fact. No condemnation of Islam as a religion of hate and intolerance. We must be politically correct and tolerate all views as equal.

The WSJ did a story on some of the victims. Many are still undergoing surgeries and lengthy rehabs for their injuries. It's pretty easy for the uninjured to talk about "overcoming" and standing strong and all the other cliches. It's going to be a hard race to watch.

...because what better way to deal with a tragedy than to blindly attack everyone remotely connected to the perpetrators? I suppose you'd like a pogrom against Chechens, too.

"We will not yield."

Like thousands of runners stopping a mile before the finish line and never completing the race?

"We will not cower."

Like staying in our homes for days while authorities track down 2 guys?

"We will not stand down."

Like runners and spectators being told not to bring any bags with them anywhere?

"We are Boston."

No, you're not from around here.

Yeah, I hate this crap.

Ho Hum wrote:

...because what better way to deal with a tragedy than to blindly attack everyone remotely connected to the perpetrators? I suppose you'd like a pogrom against Chechens, too.

What is the root cause of all these terrorist attacks? Islam. It's a religion that treats women as property, teaches it's followers to kill anyone that's critical of muhammed, and routinely kills those that are gay.

Is it a root cause or just a connection? Islam was around for a long time before anyone decided to become a terrorist. And 99.999+% of muslims aren't terrorists, so treating them all as such is misguided and counterproductive.

distance guy wrote:

"We will not yield."

Like thousands of runners stopping a mile before the finish line and never completing the race?

"We will not cower."

Like staying in our homes for days while authorities track down 2 guys?

"We will not stand down."

Like runners and spectators being told not to bring any bags with them anywhere?

"We are Boston."

No, you're not from around here.

Yeah, I hate this crap.

amen

Typical political blah, blah, blah but the US hasn't had a politician who could consistently give a good speech since JFK (although Reagan had his moments), so it's par for the course.

Now it's all a bland formula of cliches all the time by every politician.

distance guy wrote:

Like staying in our homes for days while authorities track down 2 guys?

It was a few hours, not days.

distance guy wrote:

"We will not yield."

Like thousands of runners stopping a mile before the finish line and never completing the race?

"We will not cower."

Like staying in our homes for days while authorities track down 2 guys?

"We will not stand down."

Like runners and spectators being told not to bring any bags with them anywhere?

"We are Boston."

No, you're not from around here.

Yeah, I hate this crap.

+1 Maybe the above can be turned into a t-shirt.

I have to say I agree.

What happened this time last year was terrible.

It's the best thing to do to carry on in SPITE of any more threat from terrorist attacks - but I see how it becomes more of an opportunity to be banging ones' sternums, proudly hailing the chief, etc., etc., when, yes it's easy to do that from a long way off perspective, unaffected, uninjured.

From a Canadian's (British subject by birth) point of view who hopes those from Victoria, BC, Canada as well as everyone else on the road Monday next week will do well and at least get a chance to finish this time!!!

The world doesn't need another post 911 let's get 'em bandwagon gathering.

He obviously meant it was worth it to come visit the victims, not that it was worth them getting bombed. I'll never understand why people just love to take things outta of context just to fit their own beliefs.

bladerunner wrote:

Ho Hum wrote:

...because what better way to deal with a tragedy than to blindly attack everyone remotely connected to the perpetrators? I suppose you'd like a pogrom against Chechens, too.

What is the root cause of all these terrorist attacks? Islam. It's a religion that treats women as property, teaches it's followers to kill anyone that's critical of muhammed, and routinely kills those that are gay.

This. Islam has become a gutter religion. The Radical muslims are those who are tolerant of other religions. Mainstream Islam demands hate and death for non-muslims.

luv2run wrote:

But Biden is an idiot.

I think he probably has a much higher IQ than you do.