(Cross Posted from The Blog Roundup).
To paraphrase an old joke: How do you know when George Bush is lying? When his lips move...
It's actually become very difficult for me to watch Bush speak any more, because I know that almost everything he says is at best empty rhetoric, and at worst downright lies. The last debate was actually painful for me, not least because Bush's first response was a bare-faced naked, pants-on-fire whopper:
"I don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. That's kind of one of those exaggerations."
As anyone who's been paying attention to the news knows, what he's actually said in the past was a little less of an exaggeration:
"We haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know where he is," Bush said during the 2002 news conference. "I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run.
After that lie, it was all downhill for me. I finally had to stop watching the debate.
Yes, I understand that it's election time and of course all politicians sometimes spin or are "economical with the truth" on occasion, so what makes George Bush such an egregious example of this?
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