I'm OK with presidential or vice presidential candidates fudging the truth about the unemployment rates, about their roles in raising or not raising taxes, about their or other candidates' sexual deviancies -- whatever. I'm not OK with this. After a painful media idol-a-fest over Paul Ryan's apparently extraordinary level of fitness, it turns out he's inflated himself just a tad. Or by >25% -- a 4:01 marathon somehow became "under 3 hours."
To whom does that lie appeal? Ryan must be after Gary Johnson's five or six voters.
Really unbelievable. I have mispoken when giving my marathon times. After all, it's really the last two significant figures that matter (in my case somewhere between :45 (aspirational) and :15 (a bad day). The outrage is that when the interviewer said wow, he didn't correct himself. Instead, he said, "I was fast when I was younger." As a just under 4 hour marathoner myself, I know I am not fast, even now. Just stubborn. So, he was either lying or delusional or both. Neither is a good sign.
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