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Maybe this guy will start a

AmericanDreamer — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:17:45 +0000

In reply to Kudos AD! At least his lies

Maybe this guy will start a North Carolina Republicans for Obama group that takes off. Romney is on the ropes and sounds more desperate by the day. If North Carolina goes Obama this thing's starting to look like the sort of broad-based drubbing and repudiation this scorched earth GOP has been defiantly daring the so-far slumbering electorate to deliver. If there's enough time to generate a late-peaking tidal wave, who knows, maybe that Democratic House we so need will move within reach? Fire the House Republican majority.

Kudos AD! At least his lies

Aunt Sam — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:53:18 +0000

In reply to "Runner who first questioned

Kudos AD! At least his lies sometimes benefit us!

"Runner who first questioned

AmericanDreamer — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:24:52 +0000

In reply to Lyin Ryan or Feats of Atlast Shrugging

"Runner who first questioned Paul Ryan's marathon time speaks out", Chris Moody, Yahoo! News, today.

When Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said during an August radio interview that he once ran a marathon in less than three hours, North Carolina runner Bill Walker was impressed, but wanted more details.

The 63-year-old attorney, who has run four sub-three-hour marathons since college, posted a simple question on a message board for LetsRun.com, a national online forum for runners. "In an Aug. 22 interview by Hugh Hewitt, Representative Ryan said he had run a marathon in 'two hour and fifty something,'" Walker wrote on the message board. "Does anyone know the marathon and the year?"

In little time, hundreds of skeptical runners on the message board started questioning Ryan's claim that his best marathon time was "two hour and fifty something." The thread went viral. The day after Walker posted his question, Runner's World writer Scott Douglas started examining it. Turns out Ryan never ran a marathon in that time; a campaign spokesman was forced to walk back the comment.

And it all started with one question on a message board.

"I just wanted to know," Walker said in an interview posted Wednesday on LetsRun.com. "If he had really run a marathon in that range, I would be impressed because I know the effort that goes into a sub-three-hour marathon. But, if he was lying or really stretching the truth, I thought that would be significant since he had just been nominated to run for Vice-President on the Republican ticket."

Walker says he is a registered Republican, but will be voting for President Barack Obama in November.

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/runner-first-questioned-paul-ryan-marathon-time-speaks-155321505--election.html

Yeah Paul Ryan is made of

tmccarthy0 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:24:28 +0000

In reply to I have this to say to Ryan,

Yeah Paul Ryan is made of lies, I am pretty convinced of that fact. He couldn't walk the Longmire trails which is at the base of Rainier. Heh... but he'd like to say he's been to Paradise and beyond, he will probably tell people he's skied the glacier.. backwards! Heh..

I have this to say to Ryan,

NCD — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:30:45 +0000

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I have this to say to Ryan, real men climb volcanoes, & they measure them in meters.

There are no major volcanoes in Colorado, as TMMc said, try the Cascade Range for challenges, Shasta, Hood, Baker and Rainier.

NCD - Again, thanks to

Aunt Sam — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:51:47 +0000

In reply to Saint Courageous Budget Hawk

NCD - Again, thanks to Fallows - for me, as you noted, this clarifies it and pretty much debunks his attempt to walk it back.

1) Craig Gilbert, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, wrote the original story, back in 2009, about Ryan's mountain-climbing record. He has now written an update and amplification of exactly what Ryan told him then. Here are relevant parts from the original interview:

Ryan: "My mom was very outdoorsy ... We spent our summers doing backpacking trips in the (Colorado) back-country, you know, Snowmass Lake, Capital Peak, spent all our summers doing that ... went all over White River National Forest, just the whole Elk range. I mean I've climbed every fourteener in that range and the three around there ... So I got into climbing fourteeners when I was 12, with my brother, Stan. My mom got us into that."

Question: "How many fourteeners have you climbed? Or how many times?"

Ryan: "38. I think that's my last count."

Question: "Those are just climbing peaks that are 14,000 feet?"

Ryan: "I've done it 38 times. ... I've done 38, but I think the number of unique peaks is something like twenty... no, no it's like thirty or something like that. I counted it up a year or two ago."

Question: "Most of those in Colorado?"

Ryan: "All of them are in Colorado. So I think I've climbed like 28 (peaks), and I've done it 38 times, because I've done a number of them a few times. So I was, you know, kind of into that stuff."

Flower.. hahaha nice.

tmccarthy0 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:50:40 +0000

In reply to Just for fun...

Flower.. hahaha nice.

Thanks for this, flower, it

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:29:17 +0000

In reply to Just for fun...

Thanks for this, flower, it got sent to friends and family in Wisconsin and was enjoyed by all who received it

Paul Ryan is just a symptom.

rmrd0000 — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:43:52 +0000

In reply to Just for fun...

Paul Ryan is just a symptom. The disease is the GOP itself. They rolled out a new ad in Ohio with a disaffected former Obama voter tells us why she is voting for Romney. The only problem is that the "former Obama voter" in the ad is a GOP staffer who has worked for Republicans well before Obama's 2008 campaign". Caught red-handed, Republicans say the ad is not dishonest.

Ryan is just part of the new Republican norm.

There's nothing on Huffington

Aunt Sam — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:19:18 +0000

In reply to The lies just keep piling up.

There's nothing on Huffington nor any other site I've visited today - including TPM, Politico about the Fallows report. ?????