Paul Ryan's Marathon Lie

[MrSplitshot]

Wow...a dude stretching the truth about his athletic abilities...there's a shocker.

I can drive a golf ball 300 yards and my high school football team would have won state if I hadn't torn my hamstring.

Luckily President Obama doesn't stretch the truth about his athletic abilities...you can take whst he says about his basketball ability to the bank. He saves his lies for campaign promises and distorting facts. LOL

[waterdog101]

now I don't think Ryan will lie, he will tell the same story three or four different ways before he would lie about it.

[Tim_T]

I'm a doctor, I'm a lawyer, I'm a movie star......... I'm an astronaut and I own this bar!

No matter which side of the aisle, this is there pseudo theme song!

"I'd lie to you for your vote"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFpuupelHLg

[RoadToad]

Wow...a dude stretching the truth about his athletic abilities...there's a shocker.

I can drive a golf ball 300 yards and my high school football team would have won state if I hadn't torn my hamstring.

Luckily President Obama doesn't stretch the truth about his athletic abilities...you can take whst he says about his basketball ability to the bank. He saves his lies for campaign promises and distorting facts. LOL

You can dismiss it as "a dude stretching the truth about his athletic abilities" or call it a candidate for high office telling a casual lie because he thinks nobody will check. And of course as usual any criticism of either Republican candidate always draws the same old "well look at Obama" response, I guess because these two can't stand up on their own merits. Well that's fine for those of you who didn't vote for Obama in the first place, and decided long ago you weren't going to this time, but guess what? Romney is still behind in the polls and has to win voters over. "Look how bad Obama is" isn't going to do that. All he's managed to do so far is shore up his support from the right. He still has a LOT to do to win over people who voted for Obama last time, or else, mark my words, it is going to be FOUR MORE YEARS.

[MrSplitshot]

Do you really want us to start listing Obama lies?

As I have said repeatedly here, Obama will get re-elected. I stand by that comment and hope that I'm proven wrong.

[RoadToad]

Do you really want us to start listing Obama lies?

No, I don't need anybody to, I can do that myself. My point is that I'd like for somebody to respond to criticism of Ryan or Romney some other way than by spouting off about Obama. Really, all that does is validate the criticism in the first place.

[SLP]

Unless I can be pretty certain someone is intentionally lying I tend to give most people the benefit of the doubt.

The way I took it when I first read about this is that he likely didn't really remember the time and just made a guess. I used to run track in school and I know there came a point as I aged where I really couldn't recall my times any longer. I don't think he was intentionally lying to make himself look better, but just mistakenly thought he was in the neighborhood of what he used to run.