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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (14221)6/6/2002 6:35:48 PM
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Would you find me a politician who never broke a campaign promise? Just one? ... Let's be real. War or national emergency in particular are perfectly justifiable reasons to abrogate ANY campaign promise.

Sigh. Again:

1) As you say, it isn't a virtue to break campaign promises. A homily with which I'm in agreement, but on a subject I have not discussed. I am not talking about breaking a campaign promise. I haven't talked about this.

2) I am also not talking about reasons that might justify breaking a campaign promise.

What I am talking about is lying to the American people by telling them that he had, before the election, stipulated conditions under which he would raid SS when no such event happened.

He has lied about it more than once, goofily and inconsistently.

Since he retailed this lie, efforts have been made to find out from the WH when and where, under what circumstances, these exceptions that existed in his mind were shared with the American people (to many of whom this was an important issue in the election) before the election. These efforts have failed. Because everyone knows that when the voters to whom the SS issue was a deal-breaker went to the polls, they all went without having been informed that Bush planned those exceptions.

And now he's lying about having told them before the election.

That is a coverup, and it is a character issue. It isn't perjury, but it's "I never had sex with that woman" on TV.

Except that a president's position on SS is more important to a lot of voters than a president's blow jobs.
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