Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Ryan: Boastful or Lying?

Or is there a difference?
Mitt Romney's running mate told his hometown newspaper that he had scaled 'close to 40' of Colorado's 54 'fourteeners' mountains, each of which is at least 14,000ft tall.

Although Mr Ryan made this claim three years ago, it is now under scrutiny after he admitted on Saturday that he hasn't run a marathon in under three hours, as he had boasted last month on a radio show broadcast across the U.S.
In case you've forgotten, Paul "Rosie Ruiz" Ryan shaved more than an hour off his best marathon time, claiming to run in the "high twos" when, in fact, he didn't break four hours.

I am sure that certain Republican apologists will weigh in that this is small beer.

I disagree.

First off, every one that I know who has run a marathon knows their finishing time. If they ran more than one. they know their best time. Changing a four-plus hour time into a time under three hours isn't a matter of a foggy memory. It is lying.

And so is the one where Ryan claims to be some kind of whiz of a mountain climber. It speaks to his lack of character. It speaks to his contempt of both the public, who he figures will swallow down any lie he serves up, and to the press, who he thinks will just regurgitate it unchallenged.

Besides being a liar about his own athletic prowess, Ryan is pretty much a liar about being a deficit hawk. He didn't care about the deficit when he voted for Medicare Part D. He didn't care about the deficit when he voted repeatedly to fund the Iraq and Afghan Wars without a single move to pay for those wars.

No, Ryan only became concerned about the deficit when the Tea Party began parading around with their guns. He is the exemplar of a cowardly, soulless politician who waits to see which way the parade is going before rushing to get to the front of it.

3 comments:

Oldfool said...

Don't forget he is at the "midlife crisis age". All men have it and it is a bad time. Men should be locked up and cared for in their forties and early fifties. Or sent off on a sailboat. I took the sailboat. Did nothing for my country but didn't hurt it either. Best of all I did not do anything to embarrass myself or anyone else now.

bmq215 said...

Reminds me a bit of Sarah Palin's summit of an imaginary peak http://www.backpacker.com/sarah_palin_fake_mountain/blogs/1854

dinthebeast said...

She did, on the other hand, run a faster marathon than Ryan did. She was older than 40 and a mother of 4 and she was 2 minutes faster than Ryan was at 20 years old. Hint to Paul Ryan: before you brag about anything to the media, you might want to check whether you will compare unfavorably to Sarah Palin.

-Doug in Oakland