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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (17581)	8/5/2004 3:44:51 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 173976

Politicians will stretch the truth. They'll exaggerate their accomplishments, paper over their gaffes. Spin has long been the lingua franca of the political realm. But George W. Bush and his administration have taken "normal" mendacity to a startling new level far beyond lies of convenience. On top of the usual massaging of public perception, they traffic in big lies, indulge in any number of symptomatic small lies, and, ultimately, have come to embody dishonesty itself. They are a lie. And people, finally, have started catching on. - Ron Reagan esquire.com I don't believe that you would be within that group that has started to catch on. jttmab

To: JakeStraw who wrote (17581)	8/5/2004 3:47:46 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Bush could show up on video canoodling with Paris Hilton and still bank their vote. - Ron Reagan Now, this is the group that you belong to. jttmab

To: JakeStraw who wrote (17581)	8/5/2004 3:54:11 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 173976

Does anyone really favor an administration that so shamelessly lies? One that so tenaciously clings to secrecy, not to protect the American people, but to protect itself? That so willfully misrepresents its true aims and so knowingly misleads the people from whom it derives its power? I simply cannot think so. - Ron Reagan He obviously hasn't met you. jttmab

To: JakeStraw who wrote (17581)	8/5/2004 4:07:03 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 173976

But image is everything in this White House, and the image of George Bush as a noble and infallible warrior in the service of his nation must be fanatically maintained, because behind the image lies . . . nothing? As Jonathan Alter of Newsweek has pointed out, Bush has "never fully inhabited" the presidency. Bush apologists can smilingly excuse his malopropisms and vagueness as the plainspokenness of a man of action, but watching Bush flounder when attempting to communicate extemporaneously, one is left with the impression that he is ineloquent not because he can't speak but because he doesn't bother to think. - Ron Reagan Ah, something you and Bush have in common! Thinking, or lack thereof. jttmab