Posted on 06/08/2012 6:29:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
By now, nearly everyone paying attention knows that Barack Obama has lied countless times over the years in order to further his academic and political career. He is, in fact, a "composite." And what we do know is just a hint of what there is yet to know, given that all his academic records are sealed.
Our president lied about his mother's lack of health insurance. He lied about his father's early life. His publisher's brochure described him as "born in Kenya" for years, until he began running for president. There are countless other examples of his prevarications that fluff out his phony résumé. It is almost certain that he did not write Dreams from My Father by himself and that his relationship with Jeremiah Wright was cultivated to serve his political future...until it didn't. And now, even Michelle is unable to keep the fabricated facts of her husband's life straight.
And then there is Elizabeth Warren, the darling of the Boston/Harvard left, the self-described Cherokee without a shred of evidence to prove her claims of Native American heritage. Her claim made her a diversity hire at two prestigious schools. She even submitted a couple of recipes to a Native American cookbook, Pow Wow Chow, that she borrowed from Pierre Frainey. She chose those recipes poorly; Oklahoma Cherokees probably did not dine on cold omelets with crabmeat!
Bill Clinton's moral lapses and crimes against women are legendary and too numerous to list, yet he still has adoring fans who would vote for him in a minute if he was on a ballot -- any ballot. Hillary does not score much better on the truth and morality scale: Whitewater, managing her husband's "bimbo eruptions," her fabricated helicopter landing in Bosnia amid sniper fire, etc.
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The reason why “we” (speakiing collectively) elect people of low character is that becasue it can be assumed they will give those who elect them what they want, whilst an honorable man will be bound by honor and not by cronyistic exchange of mammon....
Honorable men (and women) look to the rule of law and not to the rule of men, so they are less desireable to thsoe who elect them, unless “they” indeed are of equally strong character.
The voting public is offered a choice, vote for this guy, or that guy.
They are not asked, "name somebody you wish to have represent you in office."
Therefore, most of the time, we simply elect the (what we believe to be) lesser of the odorous.
I do not see the politicians' character faults being laid at the feet of the voter.
Because the American people’s character is reflected in who they elect. If all we care about is that we get ours, we will elect politicians that make false promises, and politicians of low character will take advantage of the low character of the American people.
Sure you do, the MSM do it all the time when it’s a Republican.
Anything from the msm always initially goes into my "do not believe anything stated by unbelievable characters" basket until thoroughly vetted, then it usually goes into the round file.
One of the key problems is that we want the impossible and not everyone recognizes that the impossible is indeed impossible. Therefor, the only people who can get elected are people who promise the impossible.
There are only two types who promise the impossible, those who don't know and those that do. The first group is smaller and consists of the likes of the ignorant, Cynthia McKinney, and the naive, Dennis Kucinich. The latter group are the liars and they consist of all the rest of the politicians save the tiny minority who are mostly honest but terribly unpopular outside their districts.
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