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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (26961)	9/8/2012 2:49:26 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Ryan's the most honest man in Washington DC.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (26961)	9/8/2012 2:59:13 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Ryan: Don't interfere with legalized medical pot Heh, you're for the other guy. This is funny. DENVER (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan says the federal government shouldn't interfere with states that have legalized medical marijuana. The Wisconsin congressman tells KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs that he personally doesn't approve of medical marijuana laws. But he says that states should have the right to choose whether to legalize the drug for medical purposes. In response to a reporter's question, Ryan said: "It's up to Coloradans to decide." The interview was taped while Ryan campaigned this week in Colorado Springs and aired Friday. Colorado is one of 17 states, plus the District of Columbia, that allow medical marijuana. The Obama administration at first signaled that it wouldn't interfere with state-sanctioned marijuana distribution. But the Justice Department has since angered marijuana activists by shutting down dispensaries in California and Colorado. news.yahoo.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (26961)	9/8/2012 4:40:35 PM
From: gamesmistress	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Ryan could never catch up to Biden in the lying department. Then again Biden seems to have doing it most of his life. He was accused of plagiarism in law school, he plagiarized a whole speech of the British politician of Neil Kinnock. He claimed he had a "blue-collar" background (he doesn't), he keeps claiming his wife was killed by a drunk driver (she wasn't, the other driver was not drunk, and wasn't even at fault). But what the hell, it's a great story, so what does it matter if Biden maligns some poor shmoe's reputation? Every time the guy opens his mouth he "misstates" or flat out lies about something. Like this: sayanythingblog.com or this: Great Moments in Vice Presidential Lying By Jonah Goldberg September 2, 2012 11:27 A.M. As the feeding frenzy over Paul Ryan’s lies-that-aren’t-lies continues, I thought a little flashback might be in order. It’s hardly a rebuttal to the calumnies against Ryan, but that’s already been covered by others (See Steve Hayes’s excellent new piece here). Admittedly, Joe Biden wasn’t vice president in 1988; he was merely running for president as a U.S. senator. This is from my cover story on Biden from a few months ago. . . . Biden also seems driven in no small part by a staggering intellectual insecurity. The figurative evidence room is full of examples. The most notorious comes from Biden’s 1988 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. He had been hounded about his law-school record and plagiarism problems (among other things, he copied five pages from a law journal for a 15-page paper and then claimed it was a footnoting error), and he was asked a question about his academic record by a resident of New Hampshire. He responded: “I think I have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect.” He went on: I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship. In the first year in the law, I decided I didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class and then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school, and, in fact, ended up in the top half of my class. I won the international moot-court competition. I was the outstanding student in the political-science department at the end of my year. I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits — only needed 123 credits. And I would be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours. Most of these statements were outright lies. Biden graduated from college with just one degree, not three. Yes, he did win a moot-court competition, but he graduated 76th in his class of 85. He wasn’t the outstanding political-science student. And why is he still talking about how many credits he graduated with? Who does that? Here’s the video, for those interested. youtube.com