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Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Some things just speak for themselves
Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) explains the Dem strategy for duping their supporters into thinking their reps. in Congress are going to end the Iraq war:
Aaron Blake at The Hill has the transcript:
Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) is seen in a video that has surfaced on the Web saying that Democrats “sort of stretched the facts” in the 2006 elections about their ability to end the Iraq war.
In a video , posted to YouTube on Thursday, Kanjorski reflects on the Democrats’ approach to the war in 2006 and said they pushed the rhetoric “as far as we can to the end of the fleet — didn’t say it, but we implied it — that if we won the congressional elections, we could stop the war.
“Now, anybody who’s a good student of government would know it wasn’t true” he said. “But you know, the temptation to want to win back the Congress — we sort of stretched the facts.”
The video was dated Aug. 28, 2007, by the person who posted it. The remarks are not placed in a larger context.
Just words? Just speeches? Sure sounds like it.
Here was Kanjorski’s explanation:
In a statement, Kanjorski said he was simply sharing “the frustration of my constituents that the war in Iraq continued.”
“I expressed my belief that some Democrats in 2006 overestimated the ability of a single house of Congress to end the war, particularly in the face of an intransigent President and Senate Republicans who are committed to continuing the war” Kanjorski said.
Yeah, because we Republicans just looove war, especially Republicans who have served in the military who also happen to be running for president. Heck, just last week, fake war hero Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) said that the worldview coming from longtime military men like McCain could be “dangerous” if he were to be elected to serve as CIC.
In reality, the people who are really “dangerous” to this country are people like Rep. Paul Kanjorski … Tom Harkin.
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Ha ha, those stupid voters! Can you believe they actually fell for it? What retards!
Hey, is this thing on? Hello, hello?
No Really??? Dems lying to the voters?? Wow who would have thought this could be true.
Actually tho, would we have the Surge victories right now, had the Reps won the 2006 elections. I don’t think so. We now have the Dems looking completely stupid with all the howls about how the Surge isn’t working if the Reps hadn’t lost those elections. I think Rummy would have stayed in charge longer, and the opportunity of the Surge could have well been lost. Some good did come from the Reps losses in 06. – Lorica
Ohhh and this is an outright lie too. They didn’t imply it, they said it. Elect a Dem majority and they would stop the war. – Lorica
Democrats lying? Well, I’m sure this will be all over NBC, ABC, CNN, CBS, and the New York Times, right?
I mean, PROOF of politicians planning to lie to the American people for their own political gain is something that even they can’t ignore. Right? Right?
I kid, of course.
ST says:
It’s even worse than that. Harkin’s position is that McCain’s family background makes him unqualified:
So now it’s legitimate to criticize a candidate because of what his father did, eh? Because that influences his view of the world…is that the point the esteemed Senator from Iowa is making??
OK. Fine. Game On!!
Barack Obama’s father advocated high taxes (up to 100%), nationalizing industries, and the communist side in the Cold War (LINK). And he ran out on his wife and son when young Barack was two years old.
Let’s see if Senator Harkin has any opinion about the ‘worldview’ that instilled in the Democrats’ front-runner. What does that tell us about how he was steeped, and what he learned?
I can’t wait to hear the answer….
In order to make clear what the phrase *stretch the facts* means…… fabrication, untruth, falsehood, fib, deception, invention, fiction, exaggeration, whopper, tall tale, falsification, taradiddle, dissimulate, perjury, prevaricate…………….all these are just fine if you have been enlisted into the defeatocrat potty. The antonym is truth, something that can’t/won’t be done when it’s inconvenient!
We can expect no less than this from the same group of people that had no problems with Bill Clinton’s perjury. – Lorica
Lorica, they “deal” with Clinton’s perjury by ignoring it. For them it doesn’t even exist. The impeachment was only the result of a bunch of sexually repressed white guys jealous of Bill.
So your comment is only valid if you are not a Dem. Were a Dem to read it, he would merely scratch his head and mutter “Perjury? He must mean Bush. These right wingers are so obsessed with trying to nail Bill that they can’t discuss anything else.”
On the other hand, that might go some way towards explaining their insistence on creating lies to attribute to Bush.
Steve, the reason I like to remind Dems of Clinton’s perjury is to upset the simpletons that defend him.
– Lorica
I think all the posters here have missed the elephant in the room .. not only did they say it, but the Democrats used the war for partisan purposes.
A recent study by two Harvard economists shows that public dissent in the United States has caused increased attacks against civilians and American soldiers in Iraq, so for the purposes of obtining partisan advantage, the Democrats in Congress found nothing wrong with putting American servicemen and Iraqi civilians in danger. And now, they joke about it.
This is shameful .. and unpatriotic.
I beg to differ Neo.
For those who bear responsibility and own the wherewithal to perform the required actions, the bounty has yet to reach a price worthy of solution.
Tick………… tock…………