First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon

First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39766

By RealJustme - Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:42 pm

- Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:42 pm #39766

Not only did Boston reclaim its marathon today, but for the first time in 31 years, an American man earned the winner’s laurel wreath in the historic run from Hopkinton to Boston.

Meb Keflezighi sped to an impressive 2:08:37 finish to become the first American man to win Boston since Greg Meyer did it in 1983. He is the first American runner to win since Lisa Larsen Weidenbach won the women’s race in 1985.

The significance of an American winning the race a year after bombs marred the event and stunned the entire country was not lost on the 38-year-old from San Diego.

Keflezighi said through his translator "I am proud to an American and thank those who have supported me"

Re: First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39769

By johnforbes - Mon Apr 21, 2014 5:59 pm

- Mon Apr 21, 2014 5:59 pm #39769

So he can't even speak a sentence in English, but is called "an American"?

Really, "journalism" today...

Re: First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39770

By sillydaddy - Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:59 pm

- Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:59 pm #39770

His bio says he was born in Eritrea......came to the USA in 1987...attended high school in San Diego and has a degree from UCLA in communication studies. Translator???? I bet he was just fucking with the reporter. Even so, he's probably more American than Obama. LOL

Re: First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39773

By Clownkicker - Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:22 pm

- Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:22 pm #39773

When are you clowns going to learn?

RealTool even put up a troll avatar for you dimwits.
Just how blatant does he need to make it to get you to realize he's lying and jerking you around, as always.

Meb speaks better English than RealTool does with his sorry Spanglish.
johnforbes, as always, is suckered in to offer his stupid, useless, and insulting (to Meb) opinion.

Re: First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39777

By RealJustme - Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:05 pm

- Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:05 pm #39777

Meb speaks better English than RealTool does with his sorry Spanglish.

If I were an illegal Hispanic you would never attack me like that, I am truly hurt.

Re: First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39778

By Clownkicker - Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:25 pm

- Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:25 pm #39778

No one said you were illegal.

You're just illiterate.

I know you confuse those two because they sound the same to you and they both start with "ill".

Re: First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39779

By RealJustme - Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:34 pm

- Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:34 pm #39779

No one said you were illegal.

You're just illiterate.

I know you confuse those two because they sound the same to you and they both start with "ill".

Public education?

Re: First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39783

By Clownkicker - Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:49 pm

- Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:49 pm #39783

RealTool, how long do you think it will take your reactionary suckers here to realize you haven't even bothered to deny the lying and are now simply trying to distract from your moronic, fabricated original post?

Why do you hate good legal American immigrants so much?

Re: First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39784

By johnforbes - Tue Apr 22, 2014 5:56 am

- Tue Apr 22, 2014 5:56 am #39784

I was not running down the marathon winner.

Still, he probably came over along with Obama's illegal immigrant aunt and uncle.

Besides, nobody is named "Meb."

Re: First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39789

By RealJustme - Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:10 am

- Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:10 am #39789

Why do you hate good legal American immigrants so much?

I don't hate those that are different than me, that's a liberal trait.

Clown, once again I went way over your head, my satire was meant to point out that to have an American win the Boston Marathon we had to import a guy from a country bordered by Sudan and Ethiopia. We imported him, stuck a American sticker on him and call his wins "American victories". Meb is here legally and doesn't mind being used so good for him.

Re: First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39792

By Clownkicker - Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:10 am

- Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:10 am #39792

We "imported" nearly everyone in America, you moron.

But we didn't "import" a runner for the marathon, asshole.
You honestly don't seem to get how insulting that is toward someone who made it from nothing.
He was a child when he arrived over 26 years ago and he's as American as you now. Your characterizing his American success story as "being used" is despicable.

Your attempt to weasel out of your insulting, trolling lies by pretending they were satire is only making you look even worse, if that's possible. But isn't it funny that the only people you catch with your "satire" are conservatives who take it seriously and literally?
Why? Because hate and xenophobia come easy to them.

And of course johnforbes comes back pleading ignorance as his excuse for jumping on the bandwagon of ridiculing immigrants.
Not to worry, johnforbes, we already knew of your gross ignorance.

Re: First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39801

By RealJustme - Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:23 pm

- Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:23 pm #39801

But isn't it funny that the only people you catch with your "satire" are conservatives who take it seriously and literally?

What satire are you talking about?

Re: First time in 31 years an American wins Boston Marathon#39804

By johnforbes - Tue Apr 22, 2014 2:49 pm

- Tue Apr 22, 2014 2:49 pm #39804

If Clownhicker had followed my postings more closely, which of course he should, he would recall that my great great grandfather came to America from Ireland in 1880.

I wrote up a 60-page family history about that, and it included 140 pages of documentation such as census returns, death certificates, wills, etc.

Legal immigration with rapid assimilation built America.

Illegal immigration without assimilation (Spanish signs in hardware stores) is destroying America.