President Obama: "I don't jog, I run."

O-blame-O wrote:

http://obamalies.net/list-of-lieshttp://obamalies.net/obama-lies-directory

Nice try, but that looks like a miss. Admittedly I only checked a few, but each of those was either inaccurate or incomplete. I assume the rest are more of the same.

Reality Checker wrote:

checkthefacts wrote:

There are detailed records of presidential vacations, etc. Look it up yourself.

Done. From August, 2011...

"So far, President Obama has taken 61 vacation days after 31 months in office. At this point in their presidencies, George W. Bush had spent 180 days at his ranch where his staff often joined him for meetings. And Ronald Reagan had taken 112 vacation days at his ranch.

Among recent presidents, Bill Clinton took the least time off -- 28 days.

To be fair, a presidential vacation away from the White House is not the same as a vacation for the average person. The president is still in contact with his advisers and on call for any emergency."

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-20093801.html

I did not need any vacations. I had my fun in the Oval Office. Heck, if I took a vacation, Hillary would go with me. At least when I was at work, I could get away from her.

Bush's ranch is not Disneyland, nor is it Martha's Vineyard. He was as well equipped to do work there as he would be at the White House, and he spent the same number of hours working per day when he was there as he did when he was in Washington. But yeah, go ahead and just count them as vacation days, the useful idiots will believe you, so who cares about facts? Bush's "vacations" were "work from a different location". Obama's vacations are vacations.

Nonsense wrote:

Bush's ranch is not Disneyland, nor is it Martha's Vineyard. He was as well equipped to do work there as he would be at the White House, and he spent the same number of hours working per day when he was there as he did when he was in Washington. But yeah, go ahead and just count them as vacation days, the useful idiots will believe you, so who cares about facts? Bush's "vacations" were "work from a different location". Obama's vacations are vacations.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bless his heart. So while he was taking full advantage of being a "disadvantaged minority" by playing the system for benes like a free Ivy League education, he also had to "learn how to act and sound black"?? Who the f#ck would go to the effort of looking and sounding black anyway? What does that even mean - walk around with your underwear hanging out of your trou, speaking ebonic?

Let's say barACK! had the same political views as a Clarence Thomas, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Alan Keyes, Herman Cain, Alan West, etc. Would he be celebrated in the media and adored by most of the world as the chosen one? Thomas & co. are the ones worthy of real respect. They swim upstream against the soft bigotry of low expectations. In other words they oppose the idea that blacks are too f'in stupid or lazy to take care of themselves and therefore require government "assistance". Look at the average black family in America 60 years ago. Hard working, 2 parent, close-knit family with solid values and determination to pursue their dreams. 50 years of "social justice" and now the average black family is a damn train wreck. Not saying things didn't need to change & racism didn't need to end - but we've gone so far past that in the wrong direction that you leftist dbags have helped destroy the very culture you supposedly want to help. Irony is it wasn't the racist Republicans who had to be dragged kicking and screaming to allow equal rights for blacks 50 years ago - it was you idiot Democrats. Not that I'm taking up for Republicans. Both parties pretty much suck..

Nonsense wrote:

Bush's ranch is not Disneyland, nor is it Martha's Vineyard. He was as well equipped to do work there as he would be at the White House, and he spent the same number of hours working per day when he was there as he did when he was in Washington. But yeah, go ahead and just count them as vacation days, the useful idiots will believe you, so who cares about facts? Bush's "vacations" were "work from a different location". Obama's vacations are vacations.

Bush spent a record 33% of his presidency on vacation. But he was "working" you say?...

" It raised the possibility that bin Laden would hijack planes and noted patterns of activity consistent with such a plan, as well as information acquired in May 2001 indicating a group of bin Laden supporters was planning attacks in the United States with explosives. “Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it’s going to happen soon,” the government’s top counterterrorism official, Richard Clarke, stated.

What did George Bush do after receiving his second serious warning of imminent danger to the nation whose protection and defense he had sworn to uphold? According to reporter Ron Suskind, Bush replied to the CIA briefer, "All right. You've covered your ass, now," and spent the rest of the day fishing.

Apparently nothing at all could cut short this president’s month-long August vacation.

Obama was just a fool college kid in his early 20's

trying to impress a woman when he said he wasn't a "jogger".

The question today (three decades later) is he still a fool?

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."

-Muhammad Ali

And everyone who saw "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanemo Bay" knows that Bush had some R&R time while

down on the ranch in Crawford.

wejo wrote:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303901504577461660023302338.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

When Obama lived in NYC in the 80s that's what he told a co-worker as captured in David Maraniss's biography out today: "Barack Obama: The Story."

Anyone know anything about Obama's running career? Until this book review I didn't realize he ran. When I think of sports for the President I think of basketball as a big #1, golf, and bad bowling.

Although the Obama camp liked to portray him as a greater basketball player, he wasn't even a starter on his high school basketball team. I doubt he was much of a runner, either. If he had run decent times, his publicist would have released this information a long time ago.

George W. Bush was actually a much better athlete than Obama ever was. I remember Bush was able to do 5 reps on 185 lbs on the bench press and could run under 7-minute pace for a 5k, which I am certain is far better than Obama is capable of doing.

Huh?? wrote:

Uh, his record is fairly impressive.

one and done wrote:

And he can't run on his record. With 23 million people unemployed, underemployed or out of the workforce, voters are frustrated with canned speeches. Believe it Flagpole, the Obama era is over this November.

His record is far from impressive. The best thing he has done was to allow the military to do its job and go in and take out bin Laden. Besides that, his job performance has been nothing short of a record of failure. The economy is still bad and he has yet to show leadership on anything. Also, his trademark Obamacare is sure to be found unconstitutional in a Supreme Court decision to be released shortly.

Yeeaawwe!!!!! wrote:

Something only a narcissist would say. We knew that about him already. What else you got?

Oh. so you come on letsrun because you are a jogger? Hey this guy right here jogs everyday.

Personally I go for a run everyday and I am not afraid to make that distinction. But I guess I'm a narcissist.

Not you. You are a big time jogger. Hope you do well in your next jogging race!

There is no "running" thing. THe author of the book only brought it up to illustrate obama was not interested in hanging out with his business world coworkers or at least that he struggling in that world.

oh sorry that's right... these are the reading comprehension questions you missed on the SAT

Wejo is the only person who brought it up as an athletic thing.

are you implying the social justice should not have happened. segregation should have stuck around. blacks should have sat in the back of the bus.

hey look, before the slaves were brought over from africa they had nice family structures there too.

it is going to take adjustment time going from being an enslaved minority to having freedom and trying to get real standing and opportunity in this country.

and where do you get this thing about democrats not wanting civil rights?

Hail Columbia wrote:

Obama was just a fool college kid in his early 20's

trying to impress a woman when he said he wasn't a "jogger".

The question today (three decades later) is he still a fool?

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."

-Muhammad Ali

And everyone who saw "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanemo Bay" knows that Bush had some R&R time while

down on the ranch in Crawford.

i am not quite shure what you are saying, but i hope you are saying obama has grown up over the last 30 years. there is nothing to imply he has not.

i still wouldnt call him a fool based on his love letters. he was deeply considering his position in the world. thats what 20 year olds are supposed to do. he was using his time at college effectively.

additionally, i hate how the whole world uses random quotes to justify opinions. you can go on facebook everyday and see people backing up there opinion with one quote from one person who said something one time.

i love ali and he was a poet, but that doesn't mean what he says was always right. there is a whole field of logic for backing up arguments, some sentimental bullshit quote does not do it for me.

sorry this goes out to many friends on facebook too. "live for today.. tomorrow might never come!"

if you honestly thing the republican congress has acted in the country's best interest, you are fooling yourself. this whole term all they have done is try to put a stop to a number good ideas obama has tried to champion. their whole mentality was to not let anything happen under obamas wash. they are cutting off their nose to spite their face. they are trying to make obama look bad at the expense of the country.

obama has shown leadership. he can't pull all the weight if repubnlicans are not going to do their job

Double Dog wrote:

The economy is still bad and he has yet to show leadership on anything. Also, his trademark Obamacare is sure to be found unconstitutional in a Supreme Court decision to be released shortly.

You contradicted yourself there, DD.

Calling your bluff wrote:

luv2run wrote:

Considering all the other lies... he made up in that book, I would take the comment with a big grain of salt.

Name 3.

1) His claim that a lack of playing time on the HS team was due to his race.

2) That black kids in his HS had a hard time dating because of color.

3) Some of the women did not exist (they were composites or made up).

4) That he met with important people at his one private sector job when in fact he was pretty much a fact checker stuck in a small office/closet.

If you want more

What made the bowling even worse was Obama's reference to Special Olympics. Prick...

Double Dog wrote:

His record is far from impressive.

Well, here's one source's top 50 Obama presidency accomplishments. If you get through these, let me know and I'll send along more. I don't want you to get too overwhelmed right away.

Other side of the coin wrote:

Double Dog wrote:

The economy is still bad and he has yet to show leadership on anything. Also, his trademark Obamacare is sure to be found unconstitutional in a Supreme Court decision to be released shortly.

You contradicted yourself there, DD.

No contradiction - he sure as hell didn't show leadership on Obamacare. If he had, he would have made sure that met the constitutional requirements. He also didn't sell his plan to the American people, who were clearly against it.