I’ve told a fib or two in my day. Mainly stuff like “what a cute kid”. And I’ve changed my opinion on issues. And, in business, I’ve made promises I couldn’t deliver on. When that has happened, I’ve taken my lumps from customers.
Lots of liberals accused President Bush of “lying”. “Bush lied People died” they chanted. But I’ve never read or seen any account of an actual lie by President Bush. Policy differences aren’t lies. Bad intelligence isn’t a lie.
Yet, with our current President, lies happen like snow. He literally cannot tell the truth about anything.
And he gets away with it.
Victor Davis Hanson documents 13 lies. He could have documented hundreds. I’ve written dozens of “Casual Lies” posts, and I’ve never had any of my liberal readers correct any of them. I’ve been called names, but never corrected.
The man lies, about everything.
And that bugs me a lot. It bugs me that liberals I respect, like my Dad, seem to ignore or tolerate it. It bothers me that other political “leaders” don’t call him on it. It bugs me that the media doesn’t call him on it.
But what really bothers me is that we now live, apparently, in a country filled with people that find such blatant, obvious, lying okay and a normal part of their political process.
Something ain’t right in this country… I’d like to think we don’t deserve Obama, but deep down, I suspect we really do.