Transparent Lies

There are a few transparent deceptions being practiced by the Bush Campaign that we've pointed out before.

We've discussed the $87 Billion vote. We've discussed the "sensitive" war comment. And so have many many others, including people who's reach far exceeds our own.

And yet President Bush and Vice President Cheney continue to make the "sensitive" war comment and the $87 Billion vote a significant part of their campaign speeches. I do wonder sometimes how voters feel about that? I mean the President and the Vice President distorting the issues right in front of them. Neither of these is exactly a secret (although neither of these statements has gotten the analysis it deserves from the media either). Why does the Bush campaign think it can get away with it?

Here's another one, that we may have touched on before, but Michael Barone's column today reminded me of it.

In an August back-and-forth, Bush got Kerry to say that, knowing what he does today, he still would have voted for the Iraq war resolution. Then last week, he said it was "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time"

Here's how this is explained. Senator Kerry felt that the President should have had the authority to bring Iraq to the table and to negotiate. President Bush took that authority and misused it by taking us to war too quickly. Simple right?

Still, I'd look for this to show up in campaign speeches as another example of a "flip-flop."

I will say that Kerry might have better worded that statement so as not to parrot a statement made by Howard Dean during the primaries, a statement he criticized at the time (a fact which Mr. Barone also points out, although with considerably more glee).