Guess the lying President

[ramapo]

Here's a quote from a book I'm reading...

"...I had seen for years how effectively the president could lie about his policies, with the safe assumption that his lies would not be exposed. That assumption was based on his subordinates' loyalty to him, to their bosses, and to their own careers and on the effective strengths of their promises and oaths to keep secrets, no matter what was concealed or what the evident impact of the concealment was."

Sounds like something that could've come from Richard Clarke's new book or Paul O'Neill regarding Bush*.

Clinton told his share of lies although he's best remembered for the lie uncovered about that woman.

The passage could certainly apply to Reagan who lied about everything from trickle-down economics to Iran-Contra.

Nixon was a pretty good liar except he got carried away and his lies were exposed.

The subject of the quote is LBJ and is taken from Daniel Ellsberg's book "Secrets" which is his memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.

It just goes to show that politics is far more important than truth. But the truth does usually come out, sooner or later.

Perhaps we are witnessing the truth begin to trickle out about the current liar-in-chief.

[Bandit]

1. Do you believe anyone no matter what party ever reaches the level of

President, Senator, or Congressman without stretching the truth a bit? LIAR and Politician are synonymous IMHO. I'm sure Senator Kerry is quite guilty of a few fibs as well. Won't stop me from voting for him but I mean come onn. America is made up of LIARS and especially lawyers and politicians.