Politicians have been defined by lying since the dawn of man’s ability to speak. From the word go, politicians play fast and loose with the truth to get people to give them money and vote for them when the time comes.
We are in America during a ‘presidential primary’, a time when politicians of the same stripes, normally tasked with supporting each other, instead are encouraged to feed their opponents to the wolves as much as possible.
Republicans are certainly doing it (they never stop, actually) and the Democratic party sure is doing it.
Vigorously.
A main difference between the GOP and Democratic parties currently is that the GOP had no per-arranged candidate this time. They haven’t had one since Bushyboy completed his second term in office (forever making it such that the slowest car on race day can be president if the money and media are right)
The Democratic party has Hillary Clinton as a pre-arranged, pre-elected president who was just supposed to ride to victory without so much as a peep of dissent.
Oh well. So much for that. Bernie Sanders, thank God, decided to run and has been a huge crowbar in the Clinton machine. This is what the system is like when it works, by the way.
The Clinton machine has been dragging Bernie through the mud in a professional manner — this is what primaries are: battles. All sorts of crap has been flung about Bernie and I am not about to begin cataloging it, most because 90% of it is just so goddamned yesterday.
There are complaints that Bernie has……..LIED.
Lied lied lied. He got 3 fucking Pinocchioz!!!!1!!ONE! (which were walked backed but that isn’t what this is about)
When I heard that Bernie Sanders was going to run for president, my decision was made in a nanosecond.
Since then I have been actually somewhat uncomfortable with the glowing ideas of some of his supporters and the ‘pre-dirt-digging’ of the Clinton machine that Bernie was somehow a super-honest POLITICIAN. I was happy with him and impressed and all that, but his being a professional politician — like Hillary — was not fitting with my long-standing observation that all politicians are liars and politics is the art of lying. Modern American Status Quo politics is lying to prevent changes to a corrupt system.
So now we are hearing that Bernie lied about something here, something there.
That’s fine. The wailing about it from the CLinton camp is really funny because POLITICIANS ARE LIARS.
It’s like wolves complaining that Bernie the wolf ate meat: it’s what wolves do. They eat meat. Political wolves all eat meat and then grandstand about their opponent wolves being killers and carnivores.
Wolves are ALL carnivores. Politicians are all liars.
And NONE of them get into the White House without being able to hit the truth in the head and shove it in the trunk of a car and drive it off a cliff.
I don’t know what lies John F Kennedy told. I don’t study this stuff. But he made it to the White House. I see some places he was fairly honest “politically” but I don’t know details. He made it to the presidency so that makes him a potential liar in my theory.
LBJ. Lied about things in Viet Nam.
Nixon. Hoo-doggies. Told the truth once when he was 4.
Ford — famous for being clumsy, pardoned Nixon, which was like lying. He pardoned a criminal.
Carter — maybe the most honest politician I can think of off the top of my head. I recall he was taken to the shed over some comments in an interview. He took the white house so there’s that.
Reagan: what a fucking liar. Just say no. Marijuana… a massive lying motherfucker.
George Bush I” Head of CIA for a year. Totally has to be a complete liar. Also a republican. All republicans lie when they aren’t full of shit. His kids are all liars.
Bill Clinton. Ho ho ho, Hee hee hee, ha ha ha. Man… if he told the truth his tongue would burst into flames. And I liked Bill.
George W Bush: This POS lied so fucking much I still have $20 that says his name isn’t George.
Barack Obama. Clean Coal. Protected the Bush Administration’s lies. This won’t be popular but it’s not incorrect.
Now, really, I am supposed to vote for Hillary just because Bernie told some lies?
Are you for real?