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Related: About this forumDo politicians lie ... ?
and cost to the economy for this absolute asinine demonstration === $24,000,000,000, that is twenty four billion dollars
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Do politicians lie ... ? (Original Post)
MindMover
Mar 2014
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Siwsan
(26,268 posts)1. Usually when their lips are moving, if they are rethugs
I will never put my wonderful Congressman Kildee or Senator Stabenow in the liar category.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)2. A better question is "how often are they honest?"
Or how close to the truth are they?
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)3. Do voters care?
MindMover
(5,016 posts)4. Do voters care if politicians lie ... ?
So it is almost an expectation that they will lie .. ?
or is it, that is what we want to hear ... ?
or ...
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)5. Everybody lies...
Especially me. That's the honest truth.
rock
(13,218 posts)6. Take the two true sentences "Politicians lie." and "Cast iron sinks."
Connect them with the preposition "in", you get a sentence (from Hofstadter).
"Politicians lie in cast iron sinks?"
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)8. oh ya...
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)9. Lying? PATHOLOGICAL!
lame54
(35,293 posts)10. I'll answer it like this...
Do politicians lie?
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)11. Most, if not all, do (nt)