Posted on 08/19/2019 12:30:23 PM PDT by Perseverando
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!" wrote Sir Walter Scott in his poem "In Marmion" (1808, canto VI, stanza XVII).
On AUGUST 19, 1785, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Peter Carr:
"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual;
he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."
The Greek philosopher Plato wrote in Dialogues, Phaedo:
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
Machiavelli wrote in The Prince, 1513:
"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."
"Politics have no relation to morals."
David Broder wrote in The Washington Post article "The Reformer has Enemies ... and Only Lukewarm Defenders, May 16, 1994:
"A year ago last week, President Bill Clinton gave an interview to several of us from The Washington Post ...
At the end of the interview, he stood before the fireplace in the Oval Office and recited to us a passage from Machiavelli's 'The Prince.'
In a hoarse voice, he said, 'Listen to this: It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out ... than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies ... and only lukewarm defenders.'"
Born AUGUST 19, 1946,
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Not so great: it's primarily about Bill Clinton. It could be much worse; it could be about Hillary.
Heck to listen to some of these Democrats today, Obama was too conservative for them.
Clinton’s portrait has him making an odd finger placemat as If some sort of signal.
On September 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA):
“I have long opposed governmental recognition of same-gender marriages and this legislation is consistent with that position.”
This is consistent with Barack Obama’s statement when he ran for Senate in 2004: U.S. Senate seat in 2004, he told the Windy City Times:
“I am not a supporter of gay marriage ... I think that marriage, in the minds of a lot of voters, has a religious connotation. ...”
When running for President, Obama stated April 17, 2008:
I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian, it’s also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.”
President Obama’s abrupt switch to punishing States holding his 2008 views - views also held by President Bill Clinton - reveals that he either had an unanticipated epiphany or he was deceitful while campaigning.
When President Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, he stated:
“The word ‘marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.”
Good post. I had forgotten about who had said that.
I remember a quote, IIRC about Bill Clinton: “Bill Clinton would rather tell a lie, when the truth would serve him better.” Don’t remember who it is attributed to. Just looked briefly, but didn’t see anything.
Deceitful, everything about him was/is deceitful.
An excellent way of putting what happened with, “suing states that agreed with him in 2008.” Suing Catholic Nuns over religious freedom, he agreed with while campaigning for Potus. I am still so mad about him and what he and his cohorts did to our country, still feeling it.
I hate most politicians even more so on our “side”. Political parties are despicable.
Obama actually had 3 positions on Gay Marriage
1st He was for it
2nd He was against it
3rd He was for it.
I can maybe understand the last 2 positions happening.
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