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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/25/campaign.wrap/index.html

"I say a lot of things -- millions of words a day -- so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement," she (Hillary Clinton) said.

This alone is sufficient reason to question Clinton’s suitability as President – she just said she was a motormouth – spewing out words so fast (millions a day?) that she’s liable to misspeak at any time during her flood of verbiage. Do we need a president who unintentionally lies, “misspeaks”, and obviously is so busy talking she can’t hear? It’s bad enough having presidents who deliberately and with forethought lie to us; to have one who doesn’t even know she’s lying until well after the fact is a daunting thought.

To speak just one million words a day, Hillary Clinton would have to say 694.44 words every minute of the day. That’s 11.57 words every second. Let’s assume she sleeps 6 hours and spends half an hour brushing her teeth and with her mouth full of food so she can’t say anything at all (we’ll allow her to speak with her mouth partly full). That means she’d have to say 952.38 words every waking minute, or 158.73 words every second. I don’t think there is any human being who can speak a million words a day, let alone “millions a day”.