Congrats, Letsrun, congrats. The message board also received plenty of mention. What happens if this blatant Paul Ryan lie affects the presidential campaign? Could Letsrun.com bring down the 2012 Republican presidential hopes?
Congrats, Letsrun, congrats. The message board also received plenty of mention. What happens if this blatant Paul Ryan lie affects the presidential campaign? Could Letsrun.com bring down the 2012 Republican presidential hopes?
LR would be better served if they stayed out of politics. The posting of that article is stupid.
I can't wait to "see" how much crap the BrosJo get for this place now that it's being shown to a wider audience.
dooly wrote:
LR would be better served if they stayed out of politics. The posting of that article is stupid.
Sorry but it relates to running as is thus relevent for letsrun.com.
Now we know why the owners of this site are so stupid.
dooly wrote:
LR would be better served if they stayed out of politics. The posting of that article is stupid.
This is true, especially in light of the BS claim of Bill Walker that....
"I'm a registered Republican, but I'm voting for President Obama and Joe Biden. I think George Bush and the Republicans presided over the cause and the start of the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, and President Obama and the Democrats have done a good job getting the economy headed in the right direction, despite total Republican opposition. Plus I am repelled by the Republican Party's embracing those people who hate the President because of his race/color and who want to abolish a woman's right to abortion and deny people's right to marry whomever they want to marry."
This is seminar caller stuff you hear on talk radio all the time. The buzzwords and catch phrases are all straight out of the Alinsky playbook:
1. "... worst economic collapse since the Great Depression" - Same BS line Bill Clinton used in '92. Problem is, our current economic mess was caused by the federal government forcing banks to loan money to unqualified borrowers, which over time fostered the creation of those toxic assets we all heard about. This current ecomomic hardship was (A) created by Democrat policies, and (B) made worse by Obamanomics.
2. "Democrats have gotten the country headed in the right direction" - So perpetual 22% real unemployment, $4 a gallon gas, higher electric prices, $16 trillion in debt, a health care policy universally opposed by the American people, et al ad nauseum is "the right direction"?
3. "Republicans embracing those who hate the President per his skin color" - absolute BS, typical when-all-else-fails-play-the-race-card scuzzball politics. Black republicans might take issue with this claim, or are they not genuinely black?
4. Pro-Abortion, Pro-gay marriage, et al - Aren't these the big social causes being pushed by Democrats? Hardly the type of thing a registered republican would embrace.
And Bill Walker has the nerve to call Paul Ryan a liar?
A perfect example of the pot calling the kettle "black" ..... or whatever the politically correct version of that analogy might be.
dooly wrote:
LR would be better served if they stayed out of politics. The posting of that article is stupid.
It has to be good for business to have this story picked up nationally. I wish the mods would just be a little more tolerant and a little slower to delete so many interesting threads that might have appealed to a wider audience. Cripes, the deleted the kip litton thread the first time around and almost lost that national exposure.
Yahoo wrote:
The 63-year-old attorney, who has run four sub-three-hour marathons since college
I thought he said sub 2:30. Bill Walker's real marathon PR is in the 2:50s, you heard it here first folks
Bill Walker's interview was awesome. Well done, sir! You're my hero.
22% real unemployment? So we're just making this number up now, or what? Last I saw, so-called real unemployment was at 14%.
Anyone got a screen shot of it on the homepage of yahoo?
Free LRC tshirt if you do.
As for the interview, Bill is entitled to his opinion and we're going to print it. It was a straight Q&A done via email.
It's news to me that, "the Republican Party's embrac(es) those people who hate the President because of his race/color."
I doubt a guy who almost calls the Republicans racists has voted Republican anytime recently no matter what party he's registered.
There are tons of reasons people register for parties they generally don't vote for. When I lived in Flagstaff and Ithaca I was a registered Democrat because those places are super liberal and the Democratic primary in essence determined the office holder.
Wejo, what you don't understand is that the Republican Party has moved far to the right even since the 1980s and the fiscally conservative (but not insane), realistic, liberal values Republican today (call them Rockefeller Republicans) sees little reason to vote for a party that puts its own interests above those of the country and a ticket whose lower half has frequently cosponsored legislation with Todd Aikin with the words 'forcible rape'.
And of course let's keep to the subject here, which is that his question led to the demonstration that Paul Ryan had lied by over an hour about his marathon time. It's not about the party of someone who posted a question about the subject.
Give us a break wrote:
dooly wrote:LR would be better served if they stayed out of politics. The posting of that article is stupid.
This is true, especially in light of the BS claim of Bill Walker that....
"I'm a registered Republican, but I'm voting for President Obama and Joe Biden. I think George Bush and the Republicans presided over the cause and the start of the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, and President Obama and the Democrats have done a good job getting the economy headed in the right direction, despite total Republican opposition. Plus I am repelled by the Republican Party's embracing those people who hate the President because of his race/color and who want to abolish a woman's right to abortion and deny people's right to marry whomever they want to marry."
This is seminar caller stuff you hear on talk radio all the time. The buzzwords and catch phrases are all straight out of the Alinsky playbook:
1. "... worst economic collapse since the Great Depression" - Same BS line Bill Clinton used in '92. Problem is, our current economic mess was caused by the federal government forcing banks to loan money to unqualified borrowers, which over time fostered the creation of those toxic assets we all heard about. This current ecomomic hardship was (A) created by Democrat policies, and (B) made worse by Obamanomics.
2. "Democrats have gotten the country headed in the right direction" - So perpetual 22% real unemployment, $4 a gallon gas, higher electric prices, $16 trillion in debt, a health care policy universally opposed by the American people, et al ad nauseum is "the right direction"?
3. "Republicans embracing those who hate the President per his skin color" - absolute BS, typical when-all-else-fails-play-the-race-card scuzzball politics. Black republicans might take issue with this claim, or are they not genuinely black?
4. Pro-Abortion, Pro-gay marriage, et al - Aren't these the big social causes being pushed by Democrats? Hardly the type of thing a registered republican would embrace.
And Bill Walker has the nerve to call Paul Ryan a liar?
A perfect example of the pot calling the kettle "black" ..... or whatever the politically correct version of that analogy might be.
Thank you. By far, the best post I have read on this site in a while.
wejo wrote:
Anyone got a screen shot of it on the homepage of yahoo?
Free LRC tshirt if you do.
As for the interview, Bill is entitled to his opinion and we're going to print it. It was a straight Q&A done via email.
It's news to me that, "the Republican Party's embrac(es) those people who hate the President because of his race/color."
I doubt a guy who almost calls the Republicans racists has voted Republican anytime recently no matter what party he's registered.
There are tons of reasons people register for parties they generally don't vote for. When I lived in Flagstaff and Ithaca I was a registered Democrat because those places are super liberal and the Democratic primary in essence determined the office holder.
Wejo, Thanks for staying on top of this. I know a lot of people probably don't care what Paul Ryan ran his marathon in but a 3:55 marathon versus a 2:55 marathon is a HUGE difference and I think that all us runners are glad we know the truth.
The free tshirt for the yahoo screen shot has been claimed.
you do realize that many republicans are liberal on social issues, right?
if the party won't have them any more, the democrats will welcome them.
I actually like that wejo is the businessman and rojo is the emotional wild card. Good show brojos, good show sirs.
"It's news to me that, "the Republican Party's embrac(es) those people who hate the President because of his race/color."
You may not see it if you don't think that way or associate much with those that do, but republican political strategists are definitely courting those that do in order to garner enough votes to win the election.
Birtherism, muslim, socialist, european style governance, kenyan, arab, not a real american . . . all of these things are code that elicits an emotional response from racists.
These things just don't go away, and the reason they don't is because it strikes a cord with certain supporters of the republican party . . . and the ends justify the means, right?
You may think it is a fring part of the party that responds to this stuff and that they are not embraced by the mainstream, but they are not denounced either.
McCain stood up but he lost and the party is not going to do that again.
wejo wrote:
The free tshirt for the yahoo screen shot has been claimed.
Damn. As the starter of the thread, I was hoping to get that. When I went to check my Yahoo email today, it was at the top of the "News" section. It probably appeared there because my browser at work knows my most visited website during the day might be Letsrun.com.