pr goofs marathon question

Don Quixote

Don Quixote

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seems that his memory was off...

COLUMBUS — Paul Ryan is an athlete, no question about it — we know he does the rigorous P90X exercise regime daily. But is he a marathoner?
On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show Aug. 22, it sure sounded like he was, at least in his youth.
Hewitt asked the vice presidential candidate whether he is “still running.”
Ryan answered that he “hurt a disc” in his back,” so he doesn’t “run marathons anymore.” Instead, he said. he just runs 10 miles or less.
The conservative radio host then asked him what his personal best time is. For a marathoner this is a badge of honor, but Ryan couldn’t recall exactly.
“Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something,” Ryan said.
Hewitt was surprised, saying, “Holy smokes.”
Ryan replied: “I was fast when I was younger, yeah.”
But it turns out, he’s only run one and it wasn’t under three hours or even under four hours.
The Ryan campaign told Runner’s World magazine that the House Budget Chairman ran one marathon in 1990 when he was 20 years old. That was the Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota. The running magazine reports he finished in 4 hours, 1 minute, and 25 seconds.
Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck provided ABC News with this statement from the Republican vice presidential candidate:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/paul-ryan-trips-over-marathon-question/
 
seriously, Douche Quixoite, what difference does it make? Such a meaningless thing to worry about. But remember when you supported a president who lied in court?\
You are a serious hack. Come back when you have something worth worrying about, you fucking asshole
 
Funny how Obama fucking prints false shit in his book, but the lefty media never calls him on it. LOL you guys are so fucking lame
 
lol.....some reporter spent hours tracking down how fast Ryan ran 22 years ago.....meanwhile none of them have bothered investigating anything about Obama 22 years ago......
 
How could you vote for people who are lying their asses of? You will though...and don't try the Obama lies too bullshit because if the Democrats had a convention like the GOP you'd be on it like white on rice.
 
Obama DOJ got busted lying. Tons of Obama staff are tax cheats also, but let's worry about PR's marathon time two decades ago.

Liberals: how do they work?
 
Ryan's been in the spotlight a week - and has yet to tell the truth once.

It's like Dubya all over again.
 
tinfoil said:
seriously, Douche Quixoite, what difference does it make? Such a meaningless thing to worry about. But remember when you supported a president who lied in court?\
You are a serious hack. Come back when you have something worth worrying about, you fucking asshole
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This is why it matters...

Does Ryan deserve a bit of mockery for this? Sure. But if there's anything really telling about Ryan's character here, it's the fact that when he misrepresents himself, he doesn't do it in a small way. Ryan didn't just shave five or ten minutes off his time, the way some of us might if we were bragging about an old athletic accomplishment that no one could check up on, he shaved off a full hour, giving himself an extremely respectable, elite amateur time. This doesn't quite rank up there with Kim Jong-Il carding eleven holes-in-one on his first round of golf, or Pat Robertson leg-pressing 2,000 pounds at age 76, but it's in the same ballpark.

Keep this in mind when Ryan talks about his tax and budget plan and promises with a straight face that it will slash the deficit, benefit the middle class, protect the social safety net, and supercharge economic growth all at once: lying is easier when you tell a big lie. This is Ryan's oeuvre. His mistake was letting himself be lulled by Hugh Hewitt's blandishments and forgetting that even 20-year-old marathon times, unlike his rather spectacular economic claims, are pretty easy to verify.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/09/paul-ryan-superman
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I don't trust Romney and Ryan, but this topic is retarded. You should feel retarded for making an issue of a silly lie that is of zero consequence.

Should I trust Obama after he prints a book and claims to have relationships with women that never existed?
Should I trust Hillary after she claims she was taking enemy fire on a tarmac?


find something that really matters, you retards
 
Lying is not something I consider to be something someone of good character does...but that's just me I guess. I have no problem imagining you talking about Gore and the internet and that was a lie, he never said it, this is real.
 
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Haiku said:
Lying is not something I consider to be something someone of good character does...but that's just me I guess. I have no problem imagining you talking about Gore and the internet and that was a lie, he never said it, this is real.
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he said he didn't remember....no lie here...move on and whine about something else
 
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