He makes some great points.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/10/who_do_you_believe--mitt_or_yo.html
It is clear to anyone in either party that in last week's debate Romney cast aside all of his principles and reversed himself on everything he has said he believes. As Hendrik Hertzberg worded it in the New Yorker:
"By the end of ninety minutes, Romney had retrofitted himself as the defender of Medicare, the advocate of Wall Street regulation, the scourge of the big banks, the enemy of tax cuts for the rich, and the champion of tax relief for the middle class. All these claims are spectacularly false."
Well, they are, aren't they? Pause with me a moment to recall the campaign before the debate. If someone had handed you that paragraph and asked you which candidate it described, would you have said it fit Obama, or Romney? The Romney who walked into the debate hall was on record for most of the previous eight years as the opponent of all the items on the list. And his running mate Paul Ryan has been even more outspokenly opposed.
Romney/Ryan have taken lies and flip-flops to levels never seen before in presidential politics. We are not talking about spinning the facts and a little fiction here or there, as there has always been on both sides.
Instead, it is demeaning deception, blatant lies, and outright flip-flops. Romney/Ryan really degrade the Office of the Presidency, and the American people.
Romney has a clear history of blatant lies throughout political career unlike anything ever witnessed with candidates for major public office. He has no core. An empty suit. And Ryan is disgracefully playing along.
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Originally posted by moon1969It's getting hard to tell who it is they are lying to. I guess over time, everyone.
Romney/Ryan have taken lies and flip-flops to levels never seen before in presidential politics. We are not talking about spinning the facts and a little fiction here or there, as there has always been on both sides.
Instead, it is demeaning deception, blatant lies, and outright flip-flops. Romney/Ryan really degrade the Office of the Presidency, and the ...[text shortened]... for major public office. He has no core. An empty suit. And Ryan is disgracefully playing along.
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Originally posted by EladarSorry. I generally don't like unadorned links and I should say why I post a link. I was referring to last night's debate in my post and was not generalizing from it to politicians as a species. Of course you may not agree with Politifact, and there is more analysis to be done. But in general, humans do speak falsehoods and half-truths and politicians speak more often than most.
Yah, so what are you trying to say with that link?