The rational response to someone who lies like this is to drum them out of politics. Would you personally associate with someone who lied to your face like that? Why? Why do we have lower standards for the highest office in the nation than we do for who we'd go to dinner with? It's irrelevant that mccain is not the frontrunner. The point is that we so thoroughly expect to be lied to that it's barely an impediment.
David Brin has written some about this, such as in this predictions registry article. Today I am less concerned with a predictions registry (although such a thing would be extremely useful) than I am with a straightforward statement registry. A simple web site that catalogs every public statement made by every public official of any note, and which shines a light on all the lies and self-contradictions. I don't know what good I think it would do, because in general people clearly don't care that they are constantly being lied to. But like I said, if there is to be any hope at all, something has to be done to bring accountability to government.
As a good example of how far gone we are, consider the read the bills act. This is an attempt to get congress to know what laws they are passing. Seriously, that's what it is. And yet it's laughable. It will never, ever happen. What kind of government do we have if our legislators do not even have time to find out what laws they are passing? I don't know, but it's sure as hell not a representative government. The american revolution began over far smaller indignities that we face today.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
paulp on McCain the liar
It has been a while since I cited paulp, probably because he hasn't posted much lately and when he does it is usually a bunch of words I don't even know, but I figured I'd mention this post that talks about the McCain bullshit that I've commented on.
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"The American revolution began over smaller indignities than we face every day."? Really? That's not even a stretch, that's a fucking lie.
He's more ot less right in the rest of the article, but what a way to undo all the good you've done with that line. It's an idiotic remark.
I disagree.
And as for idiotic remarks, here's one:
"what a way to undo all the good you've done with that line"
sorry dude, i didn't bother to re-read and type-set everything i wrote into the comments section of your post for clarity. you know i'm really trying to be as grandiloquent and bombastic as possible so that i'm considered in the upper eschelons of the blogosphere's intelligentsia.
Thanks for being a fucking prick for no reason. It's really mature, and very constructive to your argument; two things I know you hold in high regard, but that you mysteriously don't exhibit here. I wonder why that is. Oh right, it's because you're being a fucking prick for no reason. See? I am writing poorly, you're right, I even had to reiterate my point to show that you're being a fucking prick for no reason.
and oh yeah, get rid of that annoying word verification requirement for posting comments. it doesn't work half of the time and it's really infuriating.
My response isn't about your wording. I don't know why you'd think I'd be giving you shit about that. I think the idea of dismissing everything he says because of one line that you find overblown is fairly idiotic.
that's odd because i wrote, "He's more or less right in the rest of the article..."
Doesn't look I dismissed everything he says at all. In fact, it looks like I only dismissed the line I found idiotic.
and seriously, get rid of the word verification, i can't tell you how many times it hasn't worked and i've had to try and retype everything i've already typed.
"what a way to undo all the good you've done with that line."
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"Doesn't look I dismissed everything he says at all. In fact, it looks like I only dismissed the line I found idiotic."
does not compute
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