Bernie Sanders, 4:37 HS miler, says he can go the distance in presidential run

Another politician with fake running credentials. Where will the lies end?

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Waht do you mean limiting it to politicians? I have yet to meet anyone (except elites) who didn't lie about their HS times. The one exception is women, who have no clue as to what they ran, timewise.

paulryan2 wrote:

Another politician with fake running credentials. Where will the lies end?

voting yes on raising the debt ceiling has nothing to do with raising federal spending, but rather not defaulting on existent federal spending commitments.

until the Obama years of Republican intransigence, raising the debt ceiling had never been politicized. you do not make the United States of America go into default.

Hey, that's nothing. Paul Ryan once ran a two-fifty something marathon.

Oh, wait, maybe he didn't. It was more like four hours and something marathon...

4:37 is legit...waaaayyy better than Paul rYan, or what any other politicians have (supposedly) done

most jews I know, including myself are secular, meaning our jewish identity relates more to heritage-race, and having a safe place to live and a right to exist

[quote]MarathonMind wrote:

HARWOOD: I read that you ran track in school. Was athletics important to you as a kid?

SANDERS: I came in third in my junior year in the New York City public school one mile. I think my best was 4:37, which is not superstar, but it's pretty good.

Take that assertion with several grains of salt.

da jewz wrote:

most jews I know, including myself are secular, meaning our jewish identity relates more to heritage-race, and having a safe place to live and a right to exist

Extreme and unwarranted paranoia from the safest, richest, most privileged, ethnic group in the nation - a hallmark of their culture.

You know who ought to be worried about having a safe place to live and a right to exist? Blacks, Muslims, Hispanics, poor whites, American Indians.

Homunculus wrote:

Looks like the NY Times found some of his results. 15:18 for 2.5 miles as a freshman in 1956 and third in the mile in 1957 behind the winner's 4:37, but no time for Bernie.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/insider/1956-bernie-sanders-running-hard.html?_r=0

Did the New York Times ever dig up John Kerry's results in the Boston Marathon? Why?

Found Kerry's results here. On the 15,000 post John Kerry Lied About Running Boston thread.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&thread=596519&id=596770#596770

Seriously tired of America's preoccupation with a candidate's religious beliefs, especially this requirement of Christianity. Everyone is more concerned about all the drama and flare of a candidate than actually trying to understand what their policies are/could be (beyond the rhetoric of a campaign trail).

He'll Never Win wrote:

He will never win. He is an atheist and no one likes atheists. 88% of the country will vote against him simply because he is an atheist, if the recent PEW poll was correct. Even people who don't practice a religion hate atheists.

Deal with it.

I'm a Christian and I don't hate atheists at all. I think most other people of faith feel the same way.

Personally, I think Bernie is the best candidate out there. He seems to be the only one who genuinely cares about all Americans and has the policies to match.

For president, I'd rather have an atheist who gets it right than a Christian who gets it wrong.

Pretty accurate assessment of how good a 4:37 mile is.

ryan foreman wrote:

He will not win. The only reason he will not win is because too many American think he can't win.

Here is the amusing, yet sad, thing about Sanders' campaign. If American voters were to take a blindfold test of politicians. That is if they were to just see an overall platform, but not know who the candidate is that is running on that platform, Sander's platform would win over Hillary and all Republican candidates.

I'm quite serious about that.

There's not a chance. He does use a lot of populous phrasing in his speeches, but he has too extreme of views to ever win a general election.

I don't know...There's a real chance that Hillary could continue to implode. And the Republican field is a crowd of clowns. Seriously - those people are tailor-made for satire. I'm reminded of this bit from 30 Rock every time they step up on stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGgCxJzjc-U

ryan foreman wrote:

Here is the amusing, yet sad, thing about Sanders' campaign. If American voters were to take a blindfold test of politicians. That is if they were to just see an overall platform, but not know who the candidate is that is running on that platform, Sander's platform would win over Hillary and all Republican candidates.

I'm quite serious about that.

Sanders might win the blind vote - IF I didn't run.

I would offer free food, free rent, free video games, free cars, and force corporations to alter the weather and make it rain beer. This platform would rob Sanders of all of his support.

I'd love to see Bernie win the primaries and be on the ticket for the main event. Hillary will probably be indicted, so he has a good shot.

Anyhow, if Bernie wins the Dem spot - then ANY Republican will win the White House.

BTW - 4:37 HS mile s*cks. As I'm sure many above already mentioned.

Fat hurts wrote:

He'll Never Win wrote:

He will never win. He is an atheist and no one likes atheists. 88% of the country will vote against him simply because he is an atheist, if the recent PEW poll was correct. Even people who don't practice a religion hate atheists.

Deal with it.

I'm a Christian and I don't hate atheists at all. I think most other people of faith feel the same way.

Personally, I think Bernie is the best candidate out there. He seems to be the only one who genuinely cares about all Americans and has the policies to match.

For president, I'd rather have an atheist who gets it right than a Christian who gets it wrong.

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