Walter Rhett: Can Anybody in Politics Get Anywhere Near the Truth?

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Today, we connect the dots on three terrible moral failings and major abdications of personal responsibility within our politics that no one has come forward to claim with a mea culpa.

Let’s begin by naming three whose moral vision have weakened the national standards by diminishing integrity and encouraging a growing culture of thinking that anything goes, means justifies the means, greed is good, simple is extreme, and lies should be the foundation of national life. Theirs is the moral toxic gas they refuse to destroy, even when confronted. And in a great irony, all three assert themselves to be sentries of the high moral ground of a nation for whom their own acts of deceit and concealment accelerate the fall.

Rand Paul, Dylan Davies, Niall Ferguson. please step forward. Look into the mirror of shame and national decline. Why did you misrepresent and lie?

Rand Paul, with the infallibility of every ideologue, refuses to submit to the judgment of a system he has declared illegitimate—except for its election of him to the Senate. His lie? Repeatedly presenting the work of others as his own, in speeches going back several years. The words were not his own (or his staff’s!). They were simply his sentiments. Is that so bad?

More at: http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2013/11/06/can-anybody-in-politics-get-anywhere-near-the-truth/

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1. rand paul, not ron paul.

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2. Thanks

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3. I thought the president was our best hope to fix this particular problem

I actually believed the entire spiel in 2008. But he's turned into another corporatist huckster. Makes me I don't detest him like I do every single Republican in the US, but I barely listen to him any more. Bush's reign was infuriating. Obama's is heartbreaking.