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To: jlallen who wrote (14190)6/5/2002 2:49:44 PM
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You didn't read the article. The point was not that he didn't live up to campaign promises. The point was that he lied after the fact about what his campaign promise had been. Knowingly lying is a character issue, whether it's "I never had sex with that woman," or "I never promised not to dip into the SS surplus." That is the lie. Not the campaign promise, the lie that he had said during his campaign that he WOULD dip into it if he felt it necessary.

We could discuss which was worse, a lie about sex or a lie about what he'd told the electorate, but what's the point, really?

I suppose you can say that falsifying campaign promises retroactively is okay because he isn't under oath, he is just lying, like "I never had sex with that woman."

True, it wasn't under oath.

But it's a character issue or an intelligence one, take your pick.
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