Everybody lies?
Sep. 16th, 2008 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillThat's what they say about politics: everybody lies. Everybody spins, everybody exaggerates, everybody implies...
But you know, when they're caught--they mostly back off. They look uncomfortable, they try to explain, they drop the subject and talk about something else.
Except now they don't. No, really, they don't. Even when their claims have been debunked by everybody from ABC to NPR, they don't.
McCain is still claiming that Barak Obama supported explict sex ed in kindergarten (1), even though we all know it was a program to teach kids how to avoid sexual predators. Palin is still claiming she said "thanks but no thanks" on the Bridge to Nowhere (2), even though we all know she pushed for it, didn't get it because Congress killed it, and certainly didn't return the money.
Do McCain and Palin think we're so ignorant we haven't heard the news? Do they think we're so stupid we won't remember the verdict on these assertions? Do they think we're so morally dead we don't care?
If they want to make this an election about character--perfectly reasonable, as they're certainly not ahead on the issues--I wish they would show some.
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(it looks like the adding links thing is not working, so here they are "naked":
(1) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502406.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
(2) http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/13/1394679.aspx
But you know, when they're caught--they mostly back off. They look uncomfortable, they try to explain, they drop the subject and talk about something else.
Except now they don't. No, really, they don't. Even when their claims have been debunked by everybody from ABC to NPR, they don't.
McCain is still claiming that Barak Obama supported explict sex ed in kindergarten (1), even though we all know it was a program to teach kids how to avoid sexual predators. Palin is still claiming she said "thanks but no thanks" on the Bridge to Nowhere (2), even though we all know she pushed for it, didn't get it because Congress killed it, and certainly didn't return the money.
Do McCain and Palin think we're so ignorant we haven't heard the news? Do they think we're so stupid we won't remember the verdict on these assertions? Do they think we're so morally dead we don't care?
If they want to make this an election about character--perfectly reasonable, as they're certainly not ahead on the issues--I wish they would show some.
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(it looks like the adding links thing is not working, so here they are "naked":
(1) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502406.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
(2) http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/13/1394679.aspx
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Date: 2008-09-17 03:48 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, this seems to work. "Pipelines don't affect caribou", for example, seems to pass as "there's a source for this, it must be true"; the source was George H.W. Bush, who put it in a speech - as far as anyone seems to know, he made it up.
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Date: 2008-09-18 02:18 pm (UTC)I still think there ought to be something we can do about it. I don't expect Republicans to care, but the "everybody lies so why care?" message they're spreading is a creeping poison and it seems to be working.