Posted on 05/09/2008 12:06:28 PM PDT by freerepublic_or_die
I do not think the President of the United States should be a liar, and believe that the overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens agree with me. For security reasons, the whole truth cannot always be revealed, but it is quite obvious that lies are seldom made to protect our nation. Almost invariably, the political fortunes of the prevaricator are at stake.
During my campaign for the White House in 1976, veracity was a very important issue, because of the known falsehoods having been told during the Vietnam War and the revelations of the Frank Church senatorial investigation that our government had, through the CIA, committed murder and other crimes. I habitually told my small groups of supporters, "If I even make a misleading statement, don't support me."
Although stigmatized as naïve and often having to suffer the consequences, I maintained this commitment to truthfulness during my term in office, and it paid off in many ways. One example was the trust aroused in me by President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menachim Begin, which was instrumental in orchestrating the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. I've observed at other times that the exploding consequences of a small lie can result in political catastrophe, as was shown in President Nixon's effort to conceal the Watergate break-in.
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Good Point You should also add that it’s apparently Ok to be a traitor.
Wow! Was this a shot across the bow of the Hillary campaign?
He embarrasses himself over and over again. I think by now more Americans than not have Jimmy’s number.
This article/propaganda is one long example of logical fallacies.
Professors could use this to show how true, logical thinking should be used to exhibit just how deceitful this kind of rhetoric really is.
STAGFLATION!!
Funny how you never hear liberals quoting their one-time heros like Jimmah and Slick Willie, as if they were revered or even wise. I guess that's because they aren't!
Hell the last quotable DEM POTUS was JFK, 45 years ago.
Funny how you never hear liberals quoting their one-time heros like Jimmah and Slick Willie, as if they were revered or even wise. I guess that's because they aren't!
Hell the last quotable DEM POTUS was JFK, 45 years ago.
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During my campaign for the White House in 1976, veracity was a very important issue,
Perhaps, though in no way could President Ford be accused of dishonesty. To the extent that we lied our way into war at Tonkin (I'm not completely accepting of that view), that was done by who? Of what party?
Dam* shame competency wasn't the issue on voters minds. Hope it is in 2008. Particularly on the mind of those conservatives unhappy with the GOP's choice of nominee.
They shouldn’t be either failures, nor sniveling weasel wussies. But you were, Mr. Peanut.
One of the most memorable quotes of the century came from a dem, only a decade ago.
I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN
Wonder if it will be well remembered a century from now.
Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, administrations of which can be described as fallacious(fellatious.)
He was so incompetent on the international scene, we've forgot his domestic scandals. Hamilton Jordan. Bert Lance. Billy and the Libyans. He was an all purpose incompetent.
LOL.
But they can be idiots, said Jimmah.
I've no doubt history will rembember Bill for impeachment and sex. He knows that too, and only wishes he'd gone to war against someone to build his legacy. But I wonder if history will remember his quotes, funny as they are. And at least marginally significant historically.
Nonsense! I’d much rather hold the idiot up while the good Dr. attempted to beat some common sense into the fool-one punch at a time.
This could take a while!
Harry Truman.
When President Truman retired from office in 1952, his income was
substantially a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72
a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally
licking them, granted him an ‘allowance’ and, later, a retroactive pension
of $25,000 per year.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating,
‘You don’t want me. You want the office of the president, and that doesn’t
belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it’s not for sale.’
Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the
Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing,
‘I don’t consider that I have done anything which should be the reason
for any award, Congressional or otherwise.’
Today, many in Congress
have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their
offices. Political offices are now for sale.
Was good old Harry Truman correct when he observed, ‘My choice early in life
was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth,
there’s hardly any difference. I, for one, believe the piano player job to be
much more honorable than current politicians.
Pot kettle black. The rest of the words are up to you.
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