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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:15 PM
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Hillary says she uses Millions of words every day to defend her Bosnia "misstatement" (the math)
Edited on Mon Mar-24-08 08:22 PM by Johnny__Motown
This is a shameless waste of a thread but I want to call out the exaggeration that she used to defend another exaggeration.


Millions of words in a day....




24 hours in a day, times 60 minutes in each hour times 60 seconds in each minute gives us 86,400 seconds in a day.


24 X 60 = 1,440
1440 X 60 = 86,400

If you spoke ten words a second every second of the day you would still only use 864,000 words in a day. So to use Millions (plural) you need to speak at least 2 millions words in a day or nearly 30 words a second every second of the day.

Yes, it is a worthless "gotcha" that isn't worth the electrons it took to send across the internets. I just can't help myself sometimes.

I apologize to the Clinton supporters for this, I know how you hate math.

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TheDonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:16 PM
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1. She's a fast talker for sure.
LOL at the math problem.
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ThatBozGuy Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:30 PM
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8. Math is hard
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:16 PM
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2. It isn't about the hate
Math has been proven to be sexist.

Sad, I know -- especially for 2008.

:cry:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:20 PM
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3. hilary is so use to lying that one more "misspoke" or
six doesn't make any difference to her. And, she's hoping to cover up that this was in a written statement and doesn't ol' youtube got 'er goin' on about it?
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Andy823 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:56 PM
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16. Yep, but you have to admit
She has finally found something she is "really" experienced at! :think:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 09:32 PM
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19. 35 years..I'll
wager!
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 09:28 PM
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18. "I've told so many lies it's hard to keep up with them."
It's amazing she told the truth about it, in a lying kind of way.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 09:35 PM
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20. She's lying again to cover up the fact that it's
recorded in a written statement..next, she's hoping no one will check that.
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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 12:14 AM
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23. That is a good point, not quite a misstatement if it was written down and approved of ahead of time
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:20 PM
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4. Millions of people use banks everyday ....
.... so is it O.K. to rob a few of them ....

because if getting a kiss and poem from a little girl
is misstatement about being shot at .... I figure robbing
a bank is the same as "using it."
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:24 PM
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5. Raise your hand if the words "dodging sniper fire" have ever just slipped out of your mouth
Happens to me all the time....you know, I talk to so many patients and co-workers each day that it just randomly comes out sometimes: "Hi..I just wanted to ask you a few questions before the doctor comes in to see you. Any problems since you last visit? Nausea/vomiting, diarrhea, rashes, dodging sniper fire?"
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Bigleaf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:26 PM
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6. Seriously. What a fucking joke this is? How do people defend this?
mispoken = LIAR
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:28 PM
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7. I've defended her here on many an occasion, but if this is the best "excuse" she has
I'm very disappointed.
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:32 PM
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9. Oh no. She didn't really say that?
I'm just trying to wrap my mind around that one.

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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:33 PM
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11. That is how KO reported it... I believe the quote is accurate
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:44 PM
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14. That is so weak. She is toast.
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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:47 PM
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15. Abrams read the same quote too, I am now convinced it is accurate
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Medusa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:32 PM
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10. But words are important, right Hill?
:rofl:
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DUyellow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:34 PM
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12. when she said that, i was thinking the same thing.
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 08:41 PM
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13. Here's a question for HRC "given that you have spoken sooo many words
during this primary race, are we to take this current explanation to mean we shouldn't believe anything you have said so far--or could you at least tell us what percentage we are to believe"?
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 09:22 PM
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17. Only the big words actually matter.
The smaller words don't count.
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FightingIrish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 09:35 PM
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21. McCain has a senior moment and Hillary has diahrrea
of the mouth. what a great way to undo eight years of rampant stupidity.
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4themind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 09:36 PM
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22. Not even the guy from those old "micro machine" commercials
Edited on Mon Mar-24-08 09:39 PM by 4themind
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 01:36 AM
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24. Yeah, I laughed as soon as I heard her say that. "millions" was obviously ridiculous.
Gotta wonder about her memory, though, if she manufactured such a memory from nothing. Not sure she should be near the football, if she's prone to Walter Mitty delusions of grandeur and adventure.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 01:39 AM
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25. It's actually only hundreds of thousands of words,
since all of them are doublespeak.
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 01:40 AM
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26. The more I think about Hillary's making up the sniper fire story....
... the more I think it may grow a bit. I can't imagine it would go over too well w/ military personnel to hear a potential CIC making up tales like this.
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Life Long Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 01:45 AM
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27. And Bill shakes millions of hands (Rev. Wright photo).
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