Paul Ryan's marathon

rojo wrote:

I don't like voting for the lesser of two evils but again I'm not voting based on VPs. I dont think I could ever vote Biden in for anything - I'd have to just abstain from voting or write in someone.

Exactly. Not sure what is about Biden ( okay maybe he reminds of my father in looks...) and his demeanor is less than flattering...

Again, I am not impressed by him or Obama. Just giving my 2 cents.

Well put. Most people could get a lot farther in this world with that focus on the ego. He strikes me as a very motivated hard charging man.

rojo wrote:I'm not voting based on VPs.

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rojo wrote: I dont think I could ever vote Biden in for anything

Did anyone see the shout out in The Atlantic for the Letsrun.com message board regarding the Paul Ryan marathon fiasco?

www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/09/sarah-palin-ran-a-faster-marathon-than-paul-ryan/261895/

Fiasco??? Only if MSNBC says it is. I doubt if the participants on Letsrun will decide the election. The real farce is in the White House.

OBAMMY wrote:

Fiasco??? Only if MSNBC says it is. I doubt if the participants on Letsrun will decide the election. The real farce is in the White House.

Your handle says all we need to know about you.

Finally we agree on something, Conundrum. You ARE talking about Barry Chooma Bong Hussein Obama, right??

Brett Baer just led with the Ryan story on Fox News at 8:30 PM CST: Ryan was forced to "walk back" his brag about a sub-3 marathon after Runner's World questioned his claim.

Ha ha ha.

Grandma's marathon. Net downhill. Gonna have to add a few more minutes to his time.

It was a blast when I qualified for the US Olympic 5000 meter trials using my Paul Ryan times!

Romney stinks on many levels, but this turd Obama has had 4 years and has done shit...move on and accept the fact that Obummer will be shown the door after 4 years. He's a completely limp and listless leader. It's not so much a vote for Romney as it is a vote to get this buffoon out of the White House.

This is very simple, albeit quite nauseating. Like many other insecure average athletes/runners, Paul Ryan tried to impress his interviewer and pump himself up with a fictitious marathon time, one that he could have only dreamed to achieve. No one forgets their marathon PR to the minute! To lie about it by over an hour is an abomination! I am 65 yrs. old and cannot run any longer due to arthritis of the hip, after having completed 23 marathons from 1978-2000. After having total hip replacement surgery, I now am an avid road cyclist and swimmer(serious endurance athletes just change sports as their bodies age and break down) When e-mails became a very popular means of communication, I, without much need for thought, immortalized my marathon PR in my email address, which remains : Edenran257@aol.com (1984 Penn Relays Marathon, PLEASE look it up). Ryan's lie confirms that he has a serious character flaw and cannot be trusted being, if elected, " a heart beat away from the presidency". Furthermore, how naive and stupid is he, that he would not know, that we (T&F statistics freaks, that we are), would not fact check him! Breaking 3:00 hours in a marathon, for those of you who might not be aware, is "the common man's gold medal". It certainly was mine. Paul Ryan is a lying phony who happens to be running for VP of the United States. Do not vote for him or the even bigger hypocrite who chose him as a running mate!

The take away from the Ryan situation is that you can spin politics, but you can't spin run times. Lesson learned.

Not sure I trust the guy who refuses to release his tax returns either.

Tony Baloney wrote:

Romney stinks on many levels, but this turd Obama has had 4 years and has done shit...move on and accept the fact that Obummer will be shown the door after 4 years. He's a completely limp and listless leader. It's not so much a vote for Romney as it is a vote to get this buffoon out of the White House.

Just for fun, let's hear some of the sh\it Obama has done. Come on, don't be shy. No copying and pasting like Sagarin.

Scooter McResearcher wrote:

@random lawyer

I would think that any bill pre-2010 would have been introduced under a democrat controlled house and senate. This got buried in a Dem. controlled sub-committee and in fact was sponsored by a hose republican.

I feel that, even though I was wrong, and thank you for letting me know how it works, the website seems to be misleading and not trustworthy per se.

Thanks to Random Lawyer for the clarification and back-up.

Scooter McResearcher, I did concede that the site was partisan and yes, in retrospect should have picked some more objective sites. But here's a link from CNN, which draws upon a variety of links--and while even news sources have their biases, they aren't overtly partisan:

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Overall, I do wish that both the Romney and Obama campaigns would focus on why we should vote for their candidates, less than why we shouldn't vote for their opponents. Take me seriously or not--I'll live either way. (I don't always even take myself seriously.)

I really just want to see a discussion of the candidates that focuses at least as much attention on what's right with Candidate A vs. B as what's wrong--not to eliminate any discussion of negatives, since we need to know both the ups and downs, but not to focus exclusively on the negatives. Unfortunately, both parties have spent more time than I'd like on the latter. But it seems as if that's what they believe (correctly?) that voters respond to.

So my effort here is to make a case FOR my candidate rather than focus on the case AGAINST Romney (others have done that). I get your challenging the website I chose--I want to build my case on solid ground, so appreciate your questioning the choice. But also share info that makes your candidate someone worthy of my vote.

Haven't we all gotten involved in this long thread because of a running-related issue! But it's bringing out a lot of talking points! It intrigues me when a candidate feels the need to inflate her/his accomplishment. Says something about both the candidate and voters' expectations/demands. If it gets us thinking about what we value and want in a candidate, it's a good thing. If it just turns into name calling and one-upsmanship, not so much. And can a candidate show any vulnerability? I look back at, for instance, Muskie in 1972, tearing up, or more recently, Hillary Clinton's tears. Both ended up losing their races--so do we want someone we can regard as above us, superhuman? And so candidates then give in to temptations to show themselves as greater heroes than they are? Maybe we need to find our own source of power/heroism so that we don't look for our leaders to carry that burden? But it's late, and this discussion all too irresistible...

Cheaters are people my friend wrote:

Tony Baloney wrote:

Romney stinks on many levels, but this turd Obama has had 4 years and has done shit...move on and accept the fact that Obummer will be shown the door after 4 years. He's a completely limp and listless leader. It's not so much a vote for Romney as it is a vote to get this buffoon out of the White House.

Just for fun, let's hear some of the shit Obama has done. Come on, don't be shy. No copying and pasting like Sagarin.

US government budget deficits:

2007 - $161 billion

2008 - $459 billion

Obama elected

2009 - $1.413 trillion

2010 - $1.193 trillion

2011 - $1.300 trillion

2012 - $1.327 trillion (projected)

note on 2009, the Obama defenders will try to claim this belongs to Bush since the FY 2009 budget was supposed to be passed by October, 2008. But it wasn't passed until 2009 and Obama signed it. Of course the largest driver of the increase in the budget deficit in 2009 was the stimulus, which also went into effect during the Obama presidency.

I can't fact check this but, fortunately, Paul Ryan just redid these numbers for us:

2009 - $390 billion

2010 - $500 billion

2011 - $511 billion

2012 - $515 billion (projected)

Way to go Paul!

In all seriousness, the increased deficit comes mostly as a product of (1) a recession (which decreases tax revenues) made severe by the 2008 financial crisis and (2) the extension of the Bush tax cuts.

Logical man - that is not logical at all. Maybe Irony Man might be a better handle for you. But we are ALL liars according to you...right? So it doesn't matter.

Logical Man wrote:

"And by your post it would seem that you are one with an unfortunately strong proclivity toward lying."