The Ultimate Liar is the one who can say what he says and without regard to film or direct quotes, can firm-faced deny words that are recorded for history to review. Not many people can do this. It takes a certain narcissistic personality trait to do so.
What baffles me even more is the insane people who are feverishly backing this “Straight Talk Express” towards the pits of hell. There is one thing that I cannot stand in my relationships (and would call the president/citizen thingy a “relationship”) is lying. If a person feels like they must lie to me, then they are not considerate of my feelings, but are purposefully trying to get me to agree or submit to something against my better judgment.
I asked the “Old Soldier” (my dad) about this once… “Is it ok for our president to lie to us, for ANY reason?”
The answer was, “I do not believe that my president has or would lie, so the question is bogus.”
The proverbial finger in the ear response, that, even after these 6 years since the conversation took place, I still cannot fathom the attitude. I’m sure he feels the same way today.
But, when I can show McInsane’s own words, proving that he simply bald-face lies… with abandon, how can his supporter’s still deny it or defend him?
How can a person’s own integrity allow such a thing? I cannot get it? I do not understand how someone can lie to themselves and believe it. Amazing!
Ariana Huffington has a post up this morning which goes in to some detail on this subject. Some people like her, others don’t. But, it is foolish to try and parse one’s words now-a-days (with the video media 24/7) and try to say you meant something totally different than your plain meaning when you said it. McInsane said in response, “Consider the source”, as if Ms Huffington’s words are lies. But this isn’t about Ms Huffington’s words, it is McCain’s words, so easily regurgitated for all to see (and recognize the lying asshole for what he is):
At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, I was talking to a man and his wife, both prominent Republicans. The conversation soon turned to the new president. “I didn’t vote for George Bush” the man confessed. “I didn’t either,” his wife added. Their names: John and Cindy McCain (Cindy told me she had cast a write-in vote for her husband).
The fact that this man was so angry at what George Bush had done to him, and at what Bush represented for their party, that he did not even vote for him in 2000 shows just how far he has fallen since then in his hunger for the presidency. By abandoning his core principles and embracing Bush — both literally and metaphorically — he has morphed into an older and crankier version of the man he couldn’t stomach voting for in 2000.
McCain’s fall has been Shakespearean — and really hard to watch for those, like myself, who so admired and even loved him. His nobility and his true reformer years have given way to pandering in the service of ambition.
But a large portion of the electorate hasn’t noticed the Shakespearean fall. How else to explain The 28/48 Disconnect — wherein only a die-hard 28 percent of voters still approve of Bush, but 48 percent say they’d vote for McCain, who is running on the “more of the same” platform?
The thing is, these voters clearly still think of McCain as the maverick of 2000, a straight shooter who would never seek the embrace of a man he couldn’t bring himself to vote for, nor accept the regular counsel of Karl Rove, the man behind the vile, race-baiting attacks on him during the 2000 campaign.
And the main reason for The 28/48 Disconnect is the mainstream media’s ongoing membership in the John McCain Protection Society. They too continue to party — and report on McCain — like it’s 1999.
I heard Scarborough chastise Maddow over this issue, insisting that everyone already “knows” McCain, so the concentration SHOULD be on Obama and Clinton. They are intentionally protecting him from his past, when it is quite clear that IF he were actually running on the issues of his past, he may have a chance. He has sidled up to George after the butt invasion Karl put on him in 2000 and it is despicable to me.
Look at the slack they cut him after his infamous stroll through a Baghdad market was revealed as an utter sham. James Frey was eviscerated for far less. Or the slack they cut him after his repeated confusion of Sunni and Shia. Or the slack they cut him when his promise to run a “respectful” campaign ran aground on his sleazy attempt to connect Barack Obama and Hamas.
Every time McCain screws up, the media jump all over themselves to make it better, as if grandpa had said something embarrassing at the dinner table and it needed to be smoothed over as quickly as possible.
The latest example came late last week when the Straight Talk Express hit an oil slick and skidded off the road. Click here for the blow by blow, but, in short, McCain implied that Iraq is essentially a war for oil, then tried to take it back, explaining that he was actually talking about the first Gulf War, then, when pressed, denied that he was actually talking about the first Gulf War.
And, by and large, the media gave him a pass. Chris Matthews called the original war for oil comment “an astounding development,” but most everyone else was too busy picking over the bones of the Wright/Obama carcass to give it much play.
The media is doing everything in its power to make this a horse-race, when it is clearly evident that it is them (the MSM media) who wants McCain as the Rep contender. The majority of Americans do NOT want more Bush. The MSM KNOWS this, but do not think they are going to tell you this… they do make money off of these horse-races, don’tcha know?
The John McCain the media fell in love with in 2000 isn’t on the ballot in 2008. And the proof has all but jumped up and grabbed the media by the throat: the ring-kiss of “agents of intolerance” Falwell and Robertson; the decision to make permanent tax cuts he twice voted against, saying he could not “in good conscience support” them; the campaign finance reformer replaced with a candidate whose campaign is run by lobbyists and fueled by loophole rides on his wife’s jet; the hard-line stance against torture replaced by a vote allowing waterboarding; the guarded-by-a-battalion stroll through the “safe” neighborhoods of Baghdad; the use of Karl Rove as an advisor… and the embracing of the disastrous policies of a man he so abhorred he would not vote for him.
What will it take for the Swift Boat Media to realize that John McCain jumped the shark a long, long time ago?
Oh, Arianna. They know it. But their handlers must continue the meme that their owners want pushed on this gullible electorate. It is up to you (and me) to continue our efforts to wake these sheeple up.
Read her entire article.
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