I read this and almost cried. This story should be splashed all over.
How gullible are you? 'W' wants to know
Most people assume that all politicians shade the truth. Most people are right.
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But what if, as Huck Finn might have said, it just ain't so? What if one party addresses voters in ordinary politician-speak, while the other abandons truth-telling altogether? Because that's what's happening during the 2004 campaign. Democrats John Kerry and John Edwards apply standard spin to their formulations for the nation's future, while their Republican rivals have dragged political discourse to unprecedented depths of mendacity.
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During the vice-presidential debate, for example, Dick Cheney accused John Edwards of being a no-show in the U.S. Senate. "I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session," Cheney said dismissively. "The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight."
It was a palpable hit, the authoritative older man dismissing his rival as a feckless puppy. Except it was also a shameless falsehood. Cheney presided over the Senate exactly twice in four years. Within an hour, photos of Cheney and Edwards together at a Washington prayer breakfast were all over the Internet. Edwards had also escorted Sen. Liddy Dole, R-N.C., to be sworn in by Cheney. The two men once appeared on the same "Meet the Press" broadcast.
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Then there's President Bush himself, who's setting records for duplicity during this campaign. Yes, Kerry exaggerated when he said the administration forced Gen. Eric Shinseki to retire for telling Congress it would take hundreds of thousands of soldiers to occupy Iraq. They actually undercut him much earlier, when his advice was still private. That's how you know Bush was fibbing when he said all the generals backed his excellent invasion plan. Shinseki didn't.
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Read the whole article it's worth it. It might have you ripping out your hair tho since it's so good you won't understand why it isn't on every front page of every paper that is endorsing Kerry.