What amazes me is the lack of what I will call an “H.L. Mencken ‘conscience’” in the White House speechwriting department.
Mencken defined “conscience,” you see, as (paraphrasing closely) “that little voice inside your head whispering, ‘you might get caught.’”
Well, shouldn’t it occur to WHITE HOUSE speechwriters that their anecdotes about this or that “victim” will be gone over with thousands of fine-toothed combs? and therefore that the anecdotes had better be the truth, the WHOLE!! truth?
They have a mindset that was more suited to a time when there was no Internet. There was only the liberal TV media and liberal rags and they could safely dish out their pablum. But that wascally Al Gore, he had to go invent something to upset their applecart.
Their are actually two little voice teams. Sociopaths have the one that says, “I’m smarter than everyone, they’ll never catch on.”